Twin Peaks
S1Pilot 04/08/90 David Lynch
S1E01 04/12/90 Duwayne Dunham
S1E02 04/19/90 David Lynch
S1E03 04/26/90 Tina Rathbourne
S1E04 05/03/90 Tim Hunter
S1E05 05/10/90 Lesli Linka Glatter
S1E06 05/17/90 Caleb Deschanel
S1E07 05/23/90 Mark Frost
S1E08 09/30/90 David Lynch
S2E01 10/06/90 David Lynch
S2E02 10/13/90 David Lynch
S2E03 10/20/90 Lesli Linka Glatter
S2E04 10/27/90 Todd Holland
S2E05 11/03/90 Graeme Clifford
S2E06 11/10/90 Lesli Linka Glatter
S2E07 11/17/90 David Lynch
S2E08 12/01/90 Caleb Deschanel
S2E09 12/08/90 Tim Hunter
S2E10 12/15/90 Tina Rathborne
S2E11 01/12/91 Duwayne Dunham
S2E12 01/19/91 Caleb Deschanel
S2E13 02/02/91 Todd Holland
S2E14 02/09/91 Uli Edel
S2E15 02/16/91 Diane Keaton
S2E16 03/28/91 Lesli Linka Glatter
S2E17 04/04/91 James Foley
S2E18 04/11/91 Duwayne Dunham
S2E19 04/18/91 Jonathan Sanger
S2E20 06/10/91 Stephen Gyllenhaal
S2E21 06/10/91 Tim Hunter
S2E21 06/10/91 David Lynch
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Although I am a huge fan, I only have the first season and never bothered to pick up the second season on DVD. I'm glad I've procrastinated because Maggie pointed out that they are releasing Twin Peaks Definitive Gold Box, which will include some special features.
What I'm most excited about is that it will finally include the pilot (I have this on VHS) and also may be packaged with the Season 2 Soundtrack, according to tvshowsondvd.
When I was watching this show in 1990, I bought all the merchandises: a
T-Shirt (which I've long lost), the Diary, the fanzines "Wrapped in
Plastic", and, of course, the soundtrack!
I bought the soundtrack on cassette originally, but through three seperation of friends and families - they had destroyed a portion of the tape. So I bought the CD to replace the damaged tape.
So a little information about Julee Cruise's involvement with Twin Peaks: she was working for Angelo Badalamenti as a talent scout in the mid 80s. Badalamenti was already working with David Lynch on his film Blue Velvet and they needed a song to replace This Mortal Coil's "Song of the Siren" because the licensing for the song was too costly.
So Badalamenti and Lynch wrote "Mysteries of Love" and used Julee Cruise as the voice. They used the same formula (Badalamenti composing the music, Lynch writing the lyrics and Julee Cruise singing) and produced the wonderful Floating into the Night (1989) album. I also bought this album a year after it was released, and my favorite song off of it is "The Nightingale" (which I'll include here). I recently saw a car commercial that used Cruise's "Floating" song, but I've forgotten the car brand.
Anyway, the Twin Peaks theme song is actually the instrumental version of "Falling". I am including both the Twin Peaks Theme and Falling so you can see where the lyrics, er, falls in place. Julee Cruise's Five-inch CD Single with a picture of a dead Laura Palmer, boosted the single to #7 in the UK charts.
By this time, with the popularity of the show, the soundtrack (which includes some of Cruise's material from Floating Into the Night) became the best-selling television soundtrack of all time!
Sadly, the popularity of Season One did not carry over to Season Two, I think because people mostly just got tired of trying to figure out who killed Laura Palmer. The show's declining rating caused ABC to cancel the series.
The movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
(1992), didn't help bring back any interests in the show either.
I remember I was barely legal age when I saw this film. I think it may
have been a little too brutal for me, I didn't like it. I watched it
years later, I still didn't like it. There's all these parts that seems
to be missing, either intentionally or unintentionally.
In either case, the new Gold Box DVD will be coming out October 30th, which I'm looking forward to owning.
Related entry: Julee Cruise - It's The End Of The World As We Know It...
| raf wrote: Jun 25, 2007 8:59 AM |
Don't forget that Moby sampled the title theme on his Go track.
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But I know Julee Cruise album "Floating Into The Night"" and I adore it.
I've also watched a sort of musical short movie by David Lynch called "Industrial Symphony n°1". That was an amazing stuff. With lots of materials and characters in common with Twin Peaks.
All I have to say is:
I did NOT kill Laura Palmer.
... the butler did it?
But Badalamenti's crowning glory has to be his work on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
To be fair though: it got TOO WEIRD for the mass audience. Naturally people tune off when they couldn't understand it.... c'mon black lodge ? Future dale cooper ? even more dancing midgets ? haha too much!
vu
Cap'n: "Welcome to amateur hour." (Miguel Ferrer is completely awesome.) I think a four episode diversion of James The Wooden in a house of Boring Rich Weirdos represents a legitimate reason for cancelling the show. After Laura's murder was solved, the plot began to founder.
Using a single death to shed light on how everyone, even in a seemingly "perfectly normal" small town oasis carries some darkness is an admirable set up for a show, and I think it might have been able to eventually find its footing again, but it was that question, burning on everyone's lips, that gave the show its mass popularity, and therefore its commercial viability. David Lynch was just entirely unable to muster another central, compelling plot element that would keep viewers coming back.
I was saving the SNL one for cover lover, but it's good that you brought up Twin Beaks! I haven't heard of these.
I agree that throwing Windom Earle into the fray was uncalled for. There didn't need to be a 2nd villain (especially someone from Agent Cooper's past...*cop out*). It was BOB and BOB alone. Yeah, we found out who the "tangible murderer" was. But there had to be some way of eliminating BOB w/o the path they chose for Ghostbusters 2 where the citizens all expressed happy feelings towards each other.
Mook: That scene between Rosenfield & Sheriff Truman is priceless where Albert cites such idols as Gandhi and King Jr. for his views on non-violence culminating in "I love you, Sheriff Truman."
And that Darkwing Duck parody? Best episode...EVER!! "The cows are not what they seem."