Track Listing

1. Theme from Twin Peaks-Fire Walk with Me
2. Pine Float - Julee Cruise
3. Sycamore Trees
4. Don't Do Anything (I Wouldn't Do) - Angelo Badalamenti, Thought Gang
5. Real Indication
6. Questions in a World of Blue
7. Pink Room
8. Black Dog Runs at Night
9. Best Friends
10. Moving Through Time - Little Jimmy Scott
11. Montage from Twin Peaks: Girl Talk/Birds in Hell/Laura Palmer's Theme/
12. Voice of Love - Angelo Badalamenti, Thought Gang

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55811 in Music
• Released on: 1992-08-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English, Icelandic
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.com
The music for Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch's brooding feature film follow-up to the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks, again uses the talents of Angelo Badalamenti to create a chilling backdrop to Lynch's dark psychosexual thriller. Film noir is once again the touchstone for this perfectly pitched score, and these 10 tracks stand repeated listening in their own right. This is in part due to the use of some top notch jazz players such as Buster Williams, Grady Tate, and Vinnie Bell, as well as vocalist Jimmy Scott's haunting delivery on "Sycamore Trees." Sax, vibes, upright bass, and percussion set a smoky atmosphere, and the eerie synthesizer and string arrangements augment the general spine-tingling melancholy and menace. Singer Julee Cruise also appears, lending angelic repression to "Questions in a World of Blue"; Lynch contributes compositions and percussion throughout this exercise in bleakness and love gone awry. --Derek Rath

Customer Reviews

A Classic of Diversity
It's been nearly seven years since the FIRE, WALK WITH ME soundtrack first appeared, and as other rave reviews here attest, it has if anything increased its appeal. What makes the album especially unique is its diversity. Film scores are usually all of a kind, and Angelo Badalamenti ­ who became a household name with his music for the TWIN PEAKS series on TV ­ could have followed that course. But except for the obligatory Julee Cruise song "Questions in a World of Blue" (good, but not in the same class as "Falling" or "The World Spins"), he avoided that temptation. Instead, he plays with musical genres and perhaps even invents new ones. The opening theme (also known as "She Would Die for Love") and "Don't Do Anything (I wouldn't Do)" are among the best film noir jazz and cool jazz pieces ever written; they would be right at home in night club repertories. But where else have we heard anyting resembling "Sycamore Trees" (which helped revive the career of Jimmy Scott)? Or "A Real Indication" (sort of a cross between rap and a parody of beat poetry from the 60's)? "Moving through Time" plays like a reinvention of chamber music, with jazz instrumentation but classical structure. Everyone who writes about Badalamenti seems to stress his reliance on synthesizers, but what is really important about his work is his synthesis of musical styles and genres in the tradition of George Gershwin and Nino Rota.As a footnote, it's startling to hear "The Pink Room" after reading accounts that David Lynch himself knows nothing about music. He can obviously give techno music composers a run for their money!

Not your average soundtrack
By the third track of this collection, people usually ask "what the heck is this?", when I play it at work. When the familiar trebly bass intro of the "Twin Peaks" theme surfaces, everyone knows it's the world of David Lynch, rising up from today's post-modern stupor to alternately jar and soothe the psyche. The music is as bizarre and yet as intriguing as the film; it's also a testament to the symbiosis of director Lynch and composer/compiler Angelo Badalamenti that moods and themes in cinema both inspire and demand great music. For me the best (and most haunting) track is "Sycamore Trees", which played, curiously enough, in the final episode of the television series, not in "Fire Walk With Me". Still, it's good to have the complete, off-kilter soundtrack to a fascinating world.

Horror jazz
A lot of people don't get this record and are probably better off buying something by Enya or Enigma. This is not new age BS! It's not a conventional soundtrack either. Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch created an entire new genre: horror jazz! It's cool, groovy, jazzy...but something's horribly wrong. Midnight music for when the ghosts come out. From tranquility to insanity.

Unfortunately horror jazz never really took off. I know of only one pure horror jazz track outside Badalamenti's work: 'Venus Velvet' by the Bobby Brown Quartet from the mid-1960s.

I want more horror jazz. I love it.