I was wondering if anybody listens to music which could be compared to Twin Peaks or David Lynch? I don't mean you listen to it because it necessarily reminds you of twin peaks, I just mean that perhaps you could imagine the music being used in a Lynch type film 🙂
Bands/artists I enjoy which in hindsight I feel have lynchian undertones include:
Mogwai
Barry Adamson
Clint Mansell
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Scott Walker
Ed Harcourt
Dirty Three
What do you recommend?
Electronic ambient associations:
Biosphere - Substrata (1997)
Namlook & Laswell - Outland (1994)
Ambient Systems (VA 1995)
Arecibo – Trans Plutonian Transmissions (1994)
I have listened to Biosphere for a long time and love his stuff. Thanks for these other suggestions. I will give it all a good listen.
First one that comes to mind is
https://zechsmarquise.bandcamp.com/album/our-delicate-stranded-nightmare
Dig that cover art.
IMO, one of the actual bands which is the most in a TP/Lynch vibe is Timber Timbre, especially their album "Creep On Creepin' On", but all their others productions worth a check.
I wouldn't be surprised (and very pleased) to see them at the Bang Bang bar.
The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil, Words Disobey Me
Tom Waits - The entire "Bone Machine" album, $29, Blue Valentine
Wire - 40 Versions, 2 People In A Room, A Mutual Friend, The Other Window, A Touching Display
Portishead - Nobody Loves Me
Talking Heads - Blind, Swamp, The Overload
Both of Daughter's albums, If You Leave and Not to Disappear give me a Twin Peaks-y vibe, especially with some of the Roadhouse performances. They'd fit right in.
I also think some of Amanda Palmer's oeuvre, (both solo and as half of The Dresden Dolls) would fit well, particularly "The Gardener", "Half-Jack", and "Truce" (Fun fact: her first solo album is titled Who Killed Amanda Palmer?)
Those are the two that I've got off the top of my head. I'll probably come back with more at some point.
The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil, Words Disobey Me
Tom Waits - The entire "Bone Machine" album, $29, Blue Valentine
Wire - 40 Versions, 2 People In A Room, A Mutual Friend, The Other Window, A Touching Display
Portishead - Nobody Loves Me
Talking Heads - Blind, Swamp, The Overload
Appreciated the Talking Heads reference, SXTherapy. It was a quick and incredibly unlikely succession of hearing Stop Making Sense, reading The Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test, topped by seeing Blue Velvet that shook me out of my teenage, small-town dogmatic African slumber in 1987.
I have listened to Biosphere for a long time and love his stuff. Thanks for these other suggestions. I will give it all a good listen.
I go back to/love each as much as I do Substrata, Jocelyn. Could suggest a few more, if you find sustenance in "giving it all a good listen."
Definitely Portishead and in particular the Dummy album. Actually a lot of the Bristol trip-hop stuff from the early to mid 90's i.e. Tricky, Massive Attack
David Arnolds pre soundtrack work
Regina Spektor
Scott Walker
David Holmes non dance stuff
And for the more traditional stuff Lynch uses the Everly Brothers
Lots of individual tracks I could fill this up with too
Lots of Spiritualized stuff, but this is one of the most fitting...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x48FQheab-Q
Whem it comes to Twin Peak-ish music, two Swedish songs comes to my mind. You probably won't understand a word, but I'm hoping the overall feel will be that they would fit very well in the Twin Peaks universe.
The first one is this: "Två lyckliga dårar" (Two happy fools) by Lisa Ekdahl. I guess it's the arrangement that gives me Twin Peaks vibes.
https://youtu.be/joqHtA8uoLw
Then there is this one. "Som isarna när det blir vår" (Like the ice when it's springtime) by Orup. It's almost like a pastiche of the Twin Peaks intro. This is the only vid I could find of it on youtube, so don't mind the guys goofing around in the video, just listen to the music.
https://youtu.be/j9nbCe7QJhE
Both songs are made in the early/mid 90's. Enjoy!
I was wondering if anybody listens to music which could be compared to Twin Peaks or David Lynch? I don't mean you listen to it because it necessarily reminds you of twin peaks, I just mean that perhaps you could imagine the music being used in a Lynch type film 🙂
Bands/artists I enjoy which in hindsight I feel have lynchian undertones include:
Mogwai
Barry Adamson
Clint Mansell
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Scott Walker
Ed Harcourt
Dirty Three
What do you recommend?
Barry Adamson's "Something wicked this way comes" was used in Lost Highway. The party scene, when he get to know the Mistery Man. Don't you guys love that character??
Scott Walker's entire output could be put to good use, I'm sure. Everything from schmaltzy ballads, through Brel covers to his later, "difficult" stuff.
At the risk of committing an unforgivable heresy, though, I prefer Bowie's version of Nite Flights to the original.
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