Wow. As someone who owns and loves both versions of the Happiness album, that just made me really want to find 'On the Way Down From the Moon Palace'.
― campreverb, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
That Natural Calamity record has the LDR/Lynch thing down.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epvFaBeqii8
― campreverb, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
The Blue Nile - Let's go out tonighthttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vD6nh1chWYw
Spain - Untitled #1http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hVskAVD_LRc&feature=kp
― Moka, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Maybe too obvious, and not as affectively flat as LDR generally tries to be, but the This Mortal Coil versions of "Song to the Siren" and "Kangaroo" seem to set out a blueprint for lynchcore (at least for Lynch/Badalamenti's work with Julee Cruise):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByGMjdejD4
― one way street, Monday, 14 July 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
(More mid-80s, though, so possibly outside the ambit of this thread.)
― one way street, Monday, 14 July 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
American Music Club- Why Won't You Stay
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Monday, 14 July 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
("Mysteries of Love" did start out as a pastiche of "Song to the Siren" as a cost-cutting measure for Blue Velvet, though so I think the point stands.)xp
― one way street, Monday, 14 July 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
does "Joey" by Concrete Blond count?
― Darin, Monday, 14 July 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Del Rey says she's never seen a David Lynch movie in its entirety
*kills self*
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 July 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
King Crimson - Walking on air
Does it qualify?
― Moka, Monday, 14 July 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIdpkBzTZAo
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Billy Idol - 'Sweet Sixteen'
― It stops me from using my ghost powers and is a meatier from space (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 May 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
Totally outside of this thread's timeframe but I don't think there's a thread for 'old music Lynch would probably get around to using at some point if he weren't very likely retired from filmmaking' so here's a bit of proto-Hurley for y'all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4heEI86vye8
― Smoothie Newton (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
If we're going that far back, I would recommend Friday's Child by Lee Hazelwood, and Lee Hazelwood in general.
But if it needs to be late 80s / early 90s, try Slowdive's version of the Hazelwood song "Some Velvet Morning".
Also maybe the Sundays' version of 'Wild Horses'.
'On The Low' and 'Around My Smile', by Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, are from 2001, but they are even more Lynchian than anything Sandoval did with Mazzy Star.
― 3×5, Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
a-it took me forever to find this threadb-if anyone has spotify playlists for druggie summer LDR/Lynch weirdness, I'm in.
― campreverb, Sunday, 14 July 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
Wings Of Joy era Cranes would fit this right?
― MaresNest, Sunday, 14 July 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, and the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble are blatant Badalamenti/Lynchcore but I guess everyone knows that by now.
― Siegbran, Monday, 15 July 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
Much later than the timeframe of this thread, but I was once in a dark room with a slow-flashing strobe while LCD Soundsystem's 'Christmas Blues' was playing and it felt like Frank Booth or Jacques Renault might've been lurking in the corner.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Monday, 15 July 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
Spell's Seasons in the Sun album fits this aesthetic pretty closely. slightly sinister covers of '50s-'70s pop songs that were slightly sinister to begin with. admittedly, all of the originals (that I've heard) are more powerful and less self-consciously grimdark than Boyd Rice's reimaginings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2OzIXxff5c
― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Monday, 15 July 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
The Innocence Mission fits with this, though much more with their albums from 1995 onward ("Bright As Yellow" et al).
Cowboy Junkies' Whites Off Earth Now!!! fits with this as much as The Trinity Sessions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2MEOvKqqo
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 15 July 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
Also John Lee Hooker/Van/Booker T's 1991 "I Cover The Waterfront" and the Hooker/Miles The Hot Spot OST songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUkBGERTcdQ
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 15 July 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
how have I never heard The Hot Spot soundtrack before
― Brad C., Tuesday, 16 July 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
Lisa Germano and Calexico's one-off OP8 album from 1997 might be tangentially related to this specific aesthetic. I love it a lot and more folks need to hear it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7CC4G906hw
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 July 2019 05:33 (four years ago) link
Tarnation - Gentle Creatures fits pretty well (from ‘95, though)
― Mule, Saturday, 20 July 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link