Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

no shit! wow

donald bailey is credited with drums on FWWM too. someone should hire lynch to produce on a jazz album.

uh, yeah. grady tate IIRC is all over the julee cruise albums too. badalamenti was an arranger so he knows all these jazz dudes.

a lot of the music cues from the series (esp. 2nd season) are all synthesized, by badalamenti as often as not. not a ton of full-group arrangements.

i sort of feel like jazz heads would turn up their noses at that julee cruise stuff, since it's so obviously "jazz-esque" without being jazz. obviously way more stylized than say norah jones but has a similar relation to jazz as a variety of motifs and figures rather than as an approach.

the one-chord walking bassline "jazz" cues (audrey's theme or whatever) are way better in the 2nd season. that's when i really noticed the sick brushwork and had to find out who was behind it.

y'all have this: http://www.amazon.com/Twin-Peaks-All-Season-Music/dp/B000W4HFY8/

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yep, great album

badalementi going through the composing of laura palmer's theme for the extras on the gold box is amazing.

oh look, here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvSFOEfHJE

Wow! Thanks for posting that.

i was in the milwaukee airport waiting for my plane and heard the twin peaks theme over the pa system. very surreal.

I would be afraid if I heard that.

If I even start imagining Twin Peaks music when I'm doing night hiking, I get freaked out and have to give myself a pep talk.

at the time there was a small robotic santa flopping around on the ground, laughing maniacally.

ok yeah thats fucking terrifying

roxy thinking about hiking

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AkrZ09GYiws/SkpNuxZSb0I/AAAAAAAAJ8o/c1C9BJYZeKw/s400/twinpeaks100b.jpg

otm thats my friend cmac reflected in mirror

That video gives me chills! The Love Theme and the main title theme are probably the best pieces of music he ever made.

a hike sounds nice.

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8574/lodge.jpg

<3<3<3 the Badalamenti video upthread. Made my night.

Merry Christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3a4aPvhdCo

I got the box brand-new on Boxing Day for $40 after discount, postcards included. I'd love to get the whole set (the base 61, not the extras), but there doesn't seem to be any shortcut...So far, I've watched the pilot plus first episode. I think it was about fifteen years ago when I watched the whole thing in re-run on Bravo. It reminds me of the O.J. saga in one respect: before it went off the rails and was reduced to camp, there was something really dark and grim there. Some of the pilot even seems to anticipate Elephant.

i just bought series one on dvd today

guy in the shop told me that series 2 was banned in ireland until recently (?)

doubtful. it's certainly not banned in the UK, but it's not officially available on dvd here either. looks like S2 isn't available on Region 2 DVD (UK, Ireland, etc.) until early next year.

watching down the last 8 or so episodes of Season 2 at the moment and am very tempted to skip through all this Windom Earl/corny subplots business and just get to that glorious final episode. Anyone recommend this? I never bothered watching these first time around.

"These" meaning S2 except for first few and final episode back when they first aired.

as long as you don't skip this scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7QmBKOQfI

just rewatched that badalamenti video. so amazing.

Ah, what a great clip caek. Such a show.

just rewatched that badalamenti video. so amazing.

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gave me chills. sure would like to hear that cassette

i really hate windham earl as a character in this but without him we wouldn't have had the drooling automaton leo-as-henchman stuff which cracks me up.

baritone DGDGBE capo 2nd fret*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_06O8XnJQo

but the original ABadalementi sounds played on a fender baritone jaguar.

*almost the same tuning set-up as LZ "in my time of dying" fwiw.

Gordon Cole kinda kept me going through some of the rough parts of the second season. I love all the FBI characters the most, actually - Cooper, Cole, Albert, Denise Bryson (and Chester Desmond and Sam Stanley, too).

ok so

a friend lent me the dvds and im watching the pilot rn but the disc is scratched. i cant watch anything past chapter 5 but there doesnt seem to be any scene select - how much more am i missing? can i watch the next disc w/o too much trouble?

oh the fbi dude and the sheriff have just finished interrogating bobby - next scene is sum1 poking a hole in a cup w/ a pencil

hold strong, Lamp, I've got my DVD box & am on the case..

There's definitely some raw plot material you don't want to miss going forward. Not to be a purist, but there is some serious magic in the initial run of the first few episodes & u would be shortchanging yrself by fuckin w/ it too much.

Here is a solution to your dilemma.

Shasta, I watched that entire baritone guitar video waiting to see how that dude was gonna play "the weird part." He never did!

yeah, don't skip the pilot. for one thing, it's one of the best things in the series!

Well..if you're interested in not ruining the entire series, skip the end.

I mean of the pilot.

The DVD set has two versions of the pilot - the American version and the European version - and only one of them ruins the entire series. I don't remember which.

you don't want to watch the european version; you want to watch the US broadcast version.

yah i just d/l a torrent. i just finished the 1st season and im not really feeling it - like there are all these component parts that really interest me but the whole doesnt gel - also kinda ashamed that i was so into the cooper/audrey horn thing. kept forgetting she was supposed 2 b a high school senior

fwiw its the euro ending that "ruins" the series - except not really cuz it just moves the backwards talking dream sequence fwd a few episodes

The "pilot," released as such, does not contain the same spoilerish ending as the version of it which was released as a standalone film. One would just have to be careful to make such distinctions.

it reveals slightly more than the dream iirc

tbh i may not rc tho cause i only watched that version once and i was screaming the whole time

xps: lol clusterfuck of redunancy