[starman]

Twin Peaks: How Laura Palmer's death marked the rebirth of TV drama | Feature | Television & radio | The Observer

[Uncle Skeleton]

Weird, I just started watching Twin Peaks a few weeks ago for the first time. I can't believe they said the music was so good, I thought it was the most hilariously bad part of the whole show. It's so repetitive and transparent. Although I guess if you were watching week by week it wouldn't have been so obvious...

[Thorzdad]

You have to compare the music to what was on tv at the time. It WAS pretty different/quirky music for tv of the day.

[scottiB]

That gum you like is going to come back in style.

[voodoo]

Yeah the music was pretty bad - although it didn't bother me when it was only once a week - but I notice that the X-Files later used similar music tactics. But took it a step further so there isn't a moment in a single X-Files episode without music droning in the background.

Twin Peaks was fun to watch and pretty exciting, but in the end it was stupid. At least it imploded in mere two seasons - BSG took four awful seasons to die. Or was it five? I stopped watching sometime along the way.

Twin Peaks didn't have a plan, David Lynch was writing and producing the series on the fly and in the end it breaks in his hands. The first season was the best and then .. it actually became sort of like X-Files would be in the future in mood and episode structure and like BSG in horrible plot without a plan.

[subego]

Julee Cruise is cool.

I also liked the drum bits for the FBI agents, which was sadly reduced to part of a medley on the soundtrack CD.

But otherwise, yeah, kind of a letdown. Ironic considering the sound design was pretty tight.

[sek929]

Heh, me and the g/f are currently a couple episodes deep into Season 2, watching it for the first time.

I really enjoy the show, but I agree that some of the musical numbers are so horrible they make me cringe. There's one scene where James, laura's cousin, and Laura Flynn Boyle are all singing some kind of hideous acoustic music, it made us burst out laughing.

That said Agent Cooper is my hero, in one episode he tells the waitress he likes his bacon well done and actually says 'cremate it.' I use that term at all breakfast establishments now.

[Oisín]

Somehow, I’ve managed to never watch Twin Peaks. To this day, I still haven’t seen it.

But for those who say the music was crap, I have to assume you mean how the music was used, right? The soundtrack on its own is outstanding. Theme from Twin Peaks is one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music of its time.

[Uncle Skeleton]

They used it for everything and anything. Every 5 minutes it was on again, and there was no other music to make you forget about it first. At first I thought it was a joke, like how the same fake soap opera was always on tv (in the show)... maybe it still was a joke I don't know.

I just went to amazon to see what music they had on there. The first 2 tracks should really be part of the same score, and they were played in a constant loop with occasional breaks for dialog. The third was played about once per episode, and the rest were each played exactly once in the whole series. Just so you get an idea. BTW, how long are those tracks? I can't tell, but based on the show they can't be more than a minute and a half each. Can you imagine hearing them 10 times per hour? It was ridiculous.

[The Final Dakar]

It's on Pure Moods.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton 

I just went to amazon to see what music they had on there. The first 2 tracks should really be part of the same score, and they were played in a constant loop with occasional breaks for dialog. The third was played about once per episode, and the rest were each played exactly once in the whole series. Just so you get an idea. BTW, how long are those tracks? I can't tell, but based on the show they can't be more than a minute and a half each. Can you imagine hearing them 10 times per hour? It was ridiculous.

Oh dear. That sounds rather wretched. Most of the tracks are about three to five minutes in length; more details here.

[Eriamjh]

The owls are not what they seem.

[Eriamjh]

I watched Twin Peaks in its original run. The biggest problem was how it was cancelled mid-season 2. The uproar was great and they let DL finish it. He kind of BSGed it, I guess.

Damn good coffee, though.

[voodoo]

Yeah I thought the strongest thing about Twin Peaks was the atmosphere. No matter what else can be said about it, the atmosphere was rich, intimidating and just surreal enough to make sense.