The Music Of David Lynch - Benefiting The David Lynch Foundation

 

David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 15, 2025) was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Often called a "visionary" and acclaimed for films distinguished by their surrealist and experimental qualities, Lynch is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 and an Academy Honorary Award in 2019.

Produced in conjunction with Lynch, Beyond the Beyond: Music from the Films of David Lynch explores the use of music and sound in Lynch's films, as well as his own original music, and draws on the director's personal archives of photographs and ephemera from Eraserhead onward. 

The CD issued with the book features more than a dozen popular contemporary musicians who performed at the Ace Hotel’s April 2015 benefit for the David Lynch Foundation.

1 Angelo Badalamenti– Laura Palmer's Theme

2 Donovan– Love Me Tender

3 Chrysta Bell– Swing With Me

4 Tennis And Twin Peaks – In Dreams

5 Rebekah Del Rio– Llorando

6 Sky Ferreira– Blue Velvet

7 Jim James– Sycamore Trees

8 Karen O– Pinky's Dream

9 Angelo Badalamenti– Dance Of The Dream Man

10 Moby– Go

11 Duran Duran– The Chauffeur

12 Lykke Li– Wicked Game

13 Zola Jesus– In Heaven

14 Wayne Coyne And Steven Drozd– Soundscape From Eraserhead And The Elephant Man

15 Angelo Badalamenti– Twin Peaks Theme

16 David Lynch– Poem Of Unknown Origin

The Music Of David Lynch

Angelo Badalamenti – Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Deluxe Edition

 

Originally released in 1986, the soundtrack/score to the David Lynch movie "Blue Velvet" was one of  Angelo Badalamenti's earliest productions. A dark, atmospheric and dramatic score, it still holds up well today even amongst other contemporary releases. This deluxe edition release is one for the completists and die-hard Angelo Badalamenti fans. 

The Original Soundtrack

1-1 Main Title (From The Motion Picture Blue Velvet) 1:24

1-2 Night Streets / Sandy And Jeffrey 3:37

1-3 Frank 3:33

1-4 Jeffrey's Dark Side 1:48

1-5 Mysteries Of Love (French Horn Solo)

2:09

1-6 Frank Returns 4:38

1-7 Mysteries Of Love (Instrumental)

4:13

Montage

1-8a Blue Velvet

1:19

1-8b Blue Star

1:55

Sound Effects Suite

1-9a Lumberton U.S.A.

0:30

1-9b Going Down To Lincoln 1:43

1-10 Akron Meets The Blues 2:41

1-11 Blue Velvet

2:48

1-12 Honky Tonk Part I

3:09

1-13 In Dreams

2:48

1-14 Love Letters

2:39

1-15 Mysteries Of Love

4:25

Lumberton Firewood

2-1 Alcron Meets The Blues 1:05

2-2 Lumberton U.S.A. Radio Ad 0:16

2-3 Timpo 0:23

2-4 Ribbon Scissor 0:20

2-5 Going Down To Lincoln 1:41

2-6 Organs And Sirens (Take 2) 1:12

2-7 Sandy And Jeffrey 0:26

2-8 Dorothy Alone 0:19

2-9 Mount Frank's Eruption aka Frank (Film Version Without Clarinet) 3:36

2-10 Sloe Club Boys 0:25

2-11 High Gentle Memories 1:02

2-12 Stalking Out 0:22

2-13 Yellow Man 1:03

2-14 Sandy And Jeffrey (Version 2) 0:47

2-15 Ominously Yours II 0:54

2-16 Ominously Yours IV 0:41

2-17 Organ (Version 3) / Mysteries Of Love 4:11

2-18 Organ Toots And Sirens 1:17

2-19 Cue 61A 1:13

2-20 Cue 05 0:54

2-21 Cue 09 0:55

2-22 Cue 09A 0:29

2-23 Cue 13 1:38

2-24 Cue 16 0:24

2-25 Cue 21 & 24 0:46

2-26 Cue 27 1:54

2-27 Cue 36 0:34

2-28 Cue 46 1:14

2-29 Cue 48 0:48

2-30 Cue 50 1:04

2-31 Cue 56 1:22

2-32 Cue 65 Pt 1 0:51

2-33 Cue D 0:56

2-34 Cue 65 (Version 2) 3:05

Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Deluxe Edition

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive..music from the motion picture...music by Angelo Badalamenti

Director David Lynch's affection for kitschy lounge music and emotionally overwrought mid-century pop has long since proven to be more than trend or irony; indeed, it's often the uneasy spiritual axis of his films. The soundtrack of Mulholland Dr. turns on the usual Lynchian motifs (the brooding atmosphere of Angelo Badalamenti's ominous synth-and-orchestra cues tossed with a dash of Lynch's own off-center compositions), yet manages to evoke a sense of foreboding that's distinctly its own.

Badalamenti leads off with a curve, the nervous orchestra swing-romp "Jitterbug," before descending into a dark soundscape that becomes murkier and more avant-goth at every turn. Bubbling through that morass are pop nuggets variously cheesy (Dave Cavanaugh's lounge-ready "The Beast"), lugubriously bluesy (Sonny Boy Williamson's take on Willie Dixon's "Bring It On Home"), and alternately innocent ("I've Told Every Little Star") and liturgical ("Llorando"). Three tracks of the director's own (cowritten with John Neff) skulking Lounge Music from Hell ratchet up the tension even further; it's the perfect garnish for this darkly delicious film-music cocktail. --Jerry McCulley (Amazon review)

Mulholland Drive

Lost Highway...a David Lynch film...Original Soundtrack..featuring David Bowie

Say what you will about David Lynch's Lost Highway film, but the soundtrack is, bar none, amazing. With Lynch serving as executive producer, we get Mr. Trent Reznor producing one of the finest soundtracks ever put together. Not exactly rare, but certainly a "lost" gem. The music itself on the Lost Highway soundtrack is amazing and varied. David Lynch has always made excellent choices for his soundtracks, and this is no exception. The album starts and ends with different edits of David Bowie's 'I'm Deranged'. In between these two bookends, though, anything goes, from heavy/industrial rock (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein) to latin jazz (Antonio Carlos Jobim) to pop/rock (Smashing Pumpkins, Lou Reed). Of course there are also more 'soundtracky' pieces from Barry Adamson, Trent Reznor and Lynch's 'resident composer' Angelo Badalamenti.

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