TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
Rating: 
Original Review: As you would expect from a David Lynch film, the music from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is weird. I've never really experienced any Angelo Badalamenti music before, and after hearing this I'm not sure I want to again. The major thing of note is that on two tracks Badalamenti actually sings, the first time I have ever heard of a film music composer doing so on one of his albums. The two tracks, 'A Real Indication' and 'The Black Dog Runs At Night' are blues influenced, and Badalamenti's voice is what I would expect an Italian-American Joe Cocker to sound like. The rest of the score is also highly blues/jazz/rock orientated, with prominent electric guitars, drums and saxophones throughout. However, there is no conventional 'beauty' to the score - it is very much something to be experiened rather than enjoyed, although the 'Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' has a great sleazy, sexy, sultry trumpet solo, 'Best Friends' is slightly lighter in tone and features quite a nice piano/synth melody and, of course, the legendary 'Laura Palmer's Theme' from the original TV series is great.
Track Listing:
- Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (6:40)
- The Pine Float (3:58)
- Sycamore Trees (performed by Jimmy Scott) (3:52)
- Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do (7:17)
- A Real Indication (written by The Thought Gang, performed by Angelo Badalamenti) (5:31)
- Questions in a World of Blue (performed by Julee Cruise) (4:50)
- The Pink Room (4:02)
- The Black Dog Runs At Night (written by The Thought Gang, performed by Angelo Badalamenti) (1:45)
- Best Friends (2:12)
- Moving Through Time (6:48)
- Montage from Twin Peaks (Girl Talk/Birds in Hell/Laura Palmer's Theme/Falling) (5:27)
- The Voice of Love (3:55)
Running Time: 40 minutes 12 seconds
Warner Bros. (1992)
Music composed by Angelo Badalamenti. Additional music and lyrics by David Lynch. Orchestrations by Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch and David Slusser. Recorded and mixed by David Bianco and Michael Semanick. Album produced by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch.
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