Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK] [1992]

Posted on December 28, 2007 | Category: Various Artists

Review by Colin T. Gagnon “just a guy”

Before we start here, let’s get one thing straight: I do not listen to this type of music. I usually need to be in a very special mood to listen to this sort of dark, dreamy jazz, and my atypical reaction to this album is what makes me feel qualified to review it.

The slow to mid-tempo jazz on this CD represent some of the best film music I’ve ever heard, matched perfectly to the visual tale of Laura Palmer’s tragic descent into hell. It stands alone just as well.

The album opens with the almost disturbing, after-midnight Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and kicks right into the shady The Pine Float. The tracks don’t segue, but they flow together so well that unless you’re listening closely, you won’t notice the breaks between pieces. There are a few lyric songs here, too, the abstract The Black Dog Runs At Night, and the plaintive Sycamore Trees. Of special note, however, are Questions In A World Of Blue with vocals by longtime Lynch/Badalamenti corroborator Julee Cruise and A Real Indication with raw, beat-poetry vocals delivered by Badalamenti himself. The Pink Room takes us into the hell of Laura Palmer’s last days, and Best Friends lifts us back out. Moving Through Time is an incredible, surreal, almost minimalist piece. The famous Twin Peaks theme (falling) makes an appearance too as part of a montage.

All in all, a very tight CD. It has low points just as well as its high points (I’m not so fond of Sycamore Trees or Don’t Do Anything (I Wouldn’t Do), but I might be alone in that), but the good far outweighs the bad. This CD is a must for any fan of Twin Peaks or Angelo Badalamenti, and for anyone who’s simply looking to expand their music collection with something worth listening to.

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1. Theme from Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me
2. The Pine Float
3. Sycamore Trees - Jimmy Scott
4. Don’t Do Anything (I Wouldn’t Do)
5. A Real Indication - Thought Gang
6. Questions In A World Of Blue - Julee Cruise
7. The Pink Room - David Lynch
8. The Black Dog Runs At Night - Thought Gang
9. Best Friends - David Lynch/David Slusser
10. Moving Through Time
11. Montage from Twin Peaks: Girl Talk/Birds In Hell/Laura Palmer’s Theme/Falling
12. The Voice Of Love

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