711bet David Lynch’s Enchanting Sound Worlds

By David Renard711bet

David Lynch, the filmmaker whose death at 78 was announced Thursday, was known for his surreal visions that mix the macabre with the everyday. And as early as his very first feature, the 1977 midnight movie “Eraserhead,” sound played a huge role in achieving those unsettling effects — Lynch and the sound designer Alan R. Splet populated that film’s industrial urban hell with hums, low roars and rumbles, crackling electricity and grinding gears. (They also paused the action to present an unusual performance — more on that later — in a move that would become something of a Lynch trademark.)

The scores were crucial, too: Lynch’s long collaboration with the composer Angelo Badalamenti resulted in some of television’s most enduring music, for “Twin Peaks,” which aired in 1990 and 1991. For anyone who didn’t experience it at the time (when programming the VCR to catch an episode felt like life or death), it might be hard to believe what a mass phenomenon the show was — suffice to say that my mom was driving us around the suburbs with a Julee Cruise tape in the deck. Badalamenti’s “Twin Peaks” music played a huge role in defining the show’s distinctive atmosphere of stirring beauty and ominous darkness.

The soundtracks of Lynch’s movie and TV works also showcased existing songs,fhm63 casino often mined from American popular music of past decades, and they clearly were not casual choices — one resonated so strongly with Lynch that he took it for a film’s title. Like Kenneth Anger’s “Scorpio Rising,” which set transgressive biker imagery to 1960s pop, Lynch’s visual and musical juxtapositions could rearrange songs’ DNA, adding depth and new layers of meaning — just try hearing Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” the same way after watching “Blue Velvet.”

Here are 13 songs that helped us step inside David Lynch’s dream worlds.

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