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Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote Laura Palmer's theme (previously)
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Now it's dark...
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Laurens Walking from The Straight Story. Just lovely.
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I saw in the In Memoriam for the R&R HOF this year that we lost Julee Cruise as well.
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posted by The Great Big Mulp at 6:32 PM on December 12, 2022
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The Black Dog Runs at Night.
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posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 6:51 PM on December 12, 2022
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Booth and the Bad Angel, with James as the backing band
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posted by ultraviolet catastrophe at 7:15 PM on December 12, 2022
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posted by Faintdreams at 7:16 PM on December 12, 2022
posted by Faintdreams at 7:16 PM on December 12, 2022
He's great, as an actor, in this scene from Mulholland Drive.
posted by epimorph at 7:34 PM on December 12, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by epimorph at 7:34 PM on December 12, 2022 [2 favorites]
I came to post that "making the score" bit too, but as heard in Nicolas Jaar's groundbreaking Essential Mix where he starts the 2 hour set with the audio. One of my favorite Metafilter posts and a great bit from Badalamenti.
We all know Badalamenti's work from his collaboration with Lynch but I'm very curious what else he did. The 1992 Barcelona Olympic Theme, among other things.
posted by Nelson at 7:39 PM on December 12, 2022 [3 favorites]
We all know Badalamenti's work from his collaboration with Lynch but I'm very curious what else he did. The 1992 Barcelona Olympic Theme, among other things.
posted by Nelson at 7:39 PM on December 12, 2022 [3 favorites]
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posted by ducky l'orange at 7:52 PM on December 12, 2022
posted by ducky l'orange at 7:52 PM on December 12, 2022
Unsettling? I feel beautiful, first.
Dreamlike is the word I would use, with all the implications of beauty and nightmare that might contain. It really does depend on the context in which you encounter the compositions. Even the same one that you know full well from 1000 listens can take on something new with the right context.
The marriage of Badalamenti and Lynch is one of those rare things. I'm still haunted by Audrey's Dance from when I first saw that scene in the early 1990s. But I was at a party where that came in as part of the mix and it just felt like a jazz tune with no heavy overtones at all.
I have a lot of his stuff in my music library, and I return to it often.
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posted by hippybear at 8:08 PM on December 12, 2022 [4 favorites]
Dreamlike is the word I would use, with all the implications of beauty and nightmare that might contain. It really does depend on the context in which you encounter the compositions. Even the same one that you know full well from 1000 listens can take on something new with the right context.
The marriage of Badalamenti and Lynch is one of those rare things. I'm still haunted by Audrey's Dance from when I first saw that scene in the early 1990s. But I was at a party where that came in as part of the mix and it just felt like a jazz tune with no heavy overtones at all.
I have a lot of his stuff in my music library, and I return to it often.
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posted by hippybear at 8:08 PM on December 12, 2022 [4 favorites]
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posted by JoeXIII007 at 8:14 PM on December 12, 2022
posted by JoeXIII007 at 8:14 PM on December 12, 2022
Still coming to terms with this loss. He really was Lynch's most important collaborator in a lot of ways. I wrote a "quick guide" to my favorite works of his, which I will shamelessly recycle here in these comments.
1. Twin Peaks (O.S.T.)
Obviously. One of the few "soundtrack to the TV show" albums that works just as well as an individual piece of music. It was a hit even among those who didn't much care for the show.
2. Julee Cruise: Floating Into The Night
I wrote a long appreciation of the late Julee Cruise earlier this year, but this collaboration between Lync (lyrics), Badalamenti (music) and Cruise (voice) is one of the great lost pop albums. The World Spins.
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (O.S.T.)
The "Twin Peaks" movie was darker and more violent than its cozier television counterpoint (to the point where co-creator Mark Frost decided not to participate). Badalamenti understood, as always, his assignment and came up with a harsher and less sentimental score.
4. Tim Booth/Angelo Badalamenti: Booth And The Bad Angel
Nobody knew what to do with this collaboration with the lead singer of cult UK rock act James. "Rolling Stone" damned it with the faintest praise possible and America thoroughly ignored it, but it's maybe the best place to get to hear Badalamenti, without Lynch, working in a pop-rock context.
5. The Straight Story (O.S.T.)
Lynch's least Lynchian movie, "The Straight Story" is an underappreciated gem and so is its soundtrack, which proved that Badalamenti could play by traditional Hollywood movie rules without diluting what made him special. After all, this is also the man who composed the score to "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."
posted by HunterFelt at 8:17 PM on December 12, 2022 [8 favorites]
1. Twin Peaks (O.S.T.)
Obviously. One of the few "soundtrack to the TV show" albums that works just as well as an individual piece of music. It was a hit even among those who didn't much care for the show.
2. Julee Cruise: Floating Into The Night
I wrote a long appreciation of the late Julee Cruise earlier this year, but this collaboration between Lync (lyrics), Badalamenti (music) and Cruise (voice) is one of the great lost pop albums. The World Spins.
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (O.S.T.)
The "Twin Peaks" movie was darker and more violent than its cozier television counterpoint (to the point where co-creator Mark Frost decided not to participate). Badalamenti understood, as always, his assignment and came up with a harsher and less sentimental score.
4. Tim Booth/Angelo Badalamenti: Booth And The Bad Angel
Nobody knew what to do with this collaboration with the lead singer of cult UK rock act James. "Rolling Stone" damned it with the faintest praise possible and America thoroughly ignored it, but it's maybe the best place to get to hear Badalamenti, without Lynch, working in a pop-rock context.
5. The Straight Story (O.S.T.)
Lynch's least Lynchian movie, "The Straight Story" is an underappreciated gem and so is its soundtrack, which proved that Badalamenti could play by traditional Hollywood movie rules without diluting what made him special. After all, this is also the man who composed the score to "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."
posted by HunterFelt at 8:17 PM on December 12, 2022 [8 favorites]
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posted by slimepuppy at 10:34 PM on December 12, 2022
posted by slimepuppy at 10:34 PM on December 12, 2022
I'm so glad to have heard his work.
posted by the Real Dan at 2:01 AM on December 13, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by the Real Dan at 2:01 AM on December 13, 2022 [2 favorites]
Tim Buckley wrote “Song to the Siren,” not “the Mortal Coil” [sic]. JFC, sorry to hear this news, but is there no more copy editing at WaPo?
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posted by crocomancer at 5:23 AM on December 13, 2022
posted by crocomancer at 5:23 AM on December 13, 2022
He also did the orchestral arrangements for This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave and the wonderful Only the Wind on Pet Shop Boy's 1990 Behaviour album.
posted by Kiwi at 5:25 AM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Kiwi at 5:25 AM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote Laura Palmer's theme
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Real compositional genius to be able to 1) Create a theme in real time from some spoken instructions on mood. 2) to be able to tell a "making of" story that is perfectly synced with a rendition of that theme.
posted by rongorongo at 5:35 AM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
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Real compositional genius to be able to 1) Create a theme in real time from some spoken instructions on mood. 2) to be able to tell a "making of" story that is perfectly synced with a rendition of that theme.
posted by rongorongo at 5:35 AM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
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posted by JohnFredra at 5:40 AM on December 13, 2022
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posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 6:07 AM on December 13, 2022
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 6:07 AM on December 13, 2022
Tim Buckley wrote “Song to the Siren,” not “the Mortal Coil” [sic]. JFC, sorry to hear this news, but is there no more copy editing at WaPo?
Unless it's been edited since you posted, it doesn't say that tMC wrote it, merely that he'd wanted to license that version, which has a much different feel than Buckley's.
posted by Candleman at 9:47 AM on December 13, 2022
Unless it's been edited since you posted, it doesn't say that tMC wrote it, merely that he'd wanted to license that version, which has a much different feel than Buckley's.
posted by Candleman at 9:47 AM on December 13, 2022
This hit me hard. Twin Peaks is my favourite thing ever.
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posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:22 PM on December 13, 2022
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:22 PM on December 13, 2022
Silencio.
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 9:41 PM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 9:41 PM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
David Lynch's Weather Report 12/12/22. "Today, no music." (More homage yesterday and today).
posted by Nelson at 3:56 PM on December 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
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