This dream takes place in a room with red curtains and a floor straight out of Eraserhead.
In “Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer,” or Episode 2, Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) stirs restless in his bed in room 315 of The Great Northern Hotel clearly having an uncomfortable dream. When Twin Peaks returned in 2017, the visuals might have changed but the theme remained and its no wonder Twin Peaks just wouldn’t be Twin Peaks without it.
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That theme then became one of the most best-selling TV themes in history and earned Badalamenti a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1991.Īlong with the show’s soundtrack album becoming a huge seller, its music became an inspiration for artists such as Moby, Paul McCartney, Lana Del Rey and even metal band Anthrax. Once that sound was captured, “Falling” was completed and the instrumental version was used for the show’s opening credits. The song was recorded in New York with synth music maker Kinny Landrum creating the twangy signature sound of the Twin Peaks theme using an Emulator II. The “Twin Peaks Theme”, as its listed on the official original soundtrack album, is actually the instrumental version of “Falling,” a song created in collaboration between Badalamenti and Lynch with lyrics sung by vocalist Julee Cruise from her 1989 album Floating Into the Night. Some are light and some are heart–wrenching but each are uniquely important to the world of Twin Peaks. So choosing less than ten out of 200 wasn’t easy and while we all love “Laura Palmer’s Theme” and “Audrey’s Dance”, for this piece I wanted to showcase more lesser known or varied selection of music. Over the course of the original series, more than 200 pieces of music would be written and performed by composer Angelo Badalamenti who previously worked with David Lynch on Blue Velvet. Many viewers fell in love with Twin Peaks as soon as they heard the first three notes of the now classic opening theme during the title credits-credits which during the original pilot ran for an incredible three minutes! There were many other musical pieces heard throughout the two hour episode, most notably “Laura Palmer’s Theme” and vocalist Julee Cruise performing “Into The Night” and “Falling” inside the town hangout, The Roadhouse.