Not my favourite song of the season or even the episode, but the title and the video are actually more illuminating than the lyrics (Darwin's? evolution leads him to spew what looks like engine oil and morph into a contagious monster, the oil then spawning a strange hybrid tree.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0IBpUgbTTA
The song also seems to be a harbinger of "the one under the moon on Blue Pine Mountain" and echoes the disease and disaster that seem to be spreading in Twin Peaks.
The axolotl, a Mexican water salamander that has phenomenal recuperation abilities, is one of the two animals who represent the Aztec god Xolotl. (The other is a dog - rather appropriate since he is something of a Cerberus, though his function is to accompany the dead through the underworld rather than to guard its threshold.)
Xólotl is the god of lightning, fire and death. Of disease, deformity, monsters.... and twins.
His brother is Quetzalcoatl, the god of wind and learning. He is often associated with vortex shapes.
Oddly enough, one of my favourites so far. I'm not normally a fan of the "Joe Meek Compressor Soft Clipped Vocals" effect but it works well on this one.
According to wiki, the axolotl is one of the few amphibians that reaches adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis.
My favorite song of the season, but that is largely the overall effect of the final imagery.
Here are the song lyrics:
"I'm glowing bright, obsidian Axolotl, amphibian Un-elemental chemicals
Got me growing six black tentacles
A little nightmarish, a little maudlin
Good golly go get the kid some laudanum!
Salvation's more than I can afford
Who needs The Devil when you've got The Lord?
Oh my soul
Losing control
Who built this heart?
Oh my God.
Now Sister Maggie's coming in fleet-foot
Baby's got a belly full of black soot
I've got the feeling I'd better just stay put
Ah she'll love you better than any real man could
An accidental amphibian
I'm growing giddy as a Gideon
Another head for the chopping board
Who needs The Devil when you've got The Lord?
Oh my soul
Who's in control
Who built this heart?
Oh my God."
I really like this musical bit and thought it was extremely fitting, even without knowing all the technical stuff. IMO, it was more fitting musically speaking than a good deal of the other acts.
Nice find on that video.
Oddly enough, one of my favourites so far. I'm not normally a fan of the "Joe Meek Compressor Soft Clipped Vocals" effect but it works well on this one.
Well you know a lot more than me, about this sort of music at least. I wouldn't on my own listen to much of the music on TP but I'm musically promiscuous enough to give practically anything a go (except reggaeton, thank you very much). I'll go listen properly with me headphones on.
I've no idea whether the Xolotl god thing is in any way relevant and I'm pretty skeptical generally about Lynch and Frost embedding secret clues all over the place but I thought I'd throw it out there for a bit more fun and speculation while we wait for Coop to come back (fingers crossed!!!) on Sunday/Monday.
I think a lot - maybe all - the music is in some way related, and not just a Frost/Lynch list of personal likes. Not necessarily clues but enhancements. Even the Lissie song makes sense in context, since we're dealing with a backwoods sort of place.
Even Sharp Dressed Man was a kind of backhanded comment; most everyone there was wearing jeans.
Yep, "enhancements" is good.
I thought the Lissie song was pretty appropriate too. And I didn't hate it like a lot of people. Just the lack of sound/stage continuity was weird. Maybe the effect of amateurism made it look more like a genuine small-town roadhouse band.
Yep, "enhancements" is good.
I thought the Lissie song was pretty appropriate too. And I didn't hate it like a lot of people. Just the lack of sound/stage continuity was weird. Maybe the effect of amateurism made it look more like a genuine small-town roadhouse band.
I actually really like to Lissie song. It's just that her lip-syncing/acting left a lot to be desired.
I thought this last song, Axolotl, had a lot of similarity to the music in the "Canadian" room in FWWM with Laura, Donna, the 2 johns. (sorry, don't know the name of the scene or location off the top of my head.)
Ironically, this is the first song I actually liked this season, even though it totally falls in the expected sonic realm Lynch favors for Roadhouse bands.
I like the guy's vocal delivery and the melody into the chorus pulls my ear.
Meet Quetzalcoatl & Charizard... not quite as scary as the song makes out! 😉
Meet Quetzalcoatl & Charizard... not quite as scary as the song makes out! 😉
I dunno. Those are pretty freaky.
Am I the only one who thought "Aaasssss Yoooouuuuuu Wiiiissssshhhhh" as he fell/rolled down the hill in that video?
Meet Quetzalcoatl & Charizard... not quite as scary as the song makes out! 😉
Cute!
Am I the only one who thought "Aaasssss Yoooouuuuuu Wiiiissssshhhhh" as he fell/rolled down the hill in that video?
No, you are not the only one. I pretty much hear that in my head every time I see someone rolling down a hill or embankment. 🙂
I just didn't want to admit it. Nice to know I am in friendly, like minded company.
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