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4. Roy Orbison: “In Desires”
Essentially the most unforgettable musical scene in “Blue Velvet,” although, begins with a track request from the monstrous Frank Sales space (Dennis Hopper): “The candy-colored clown they name the sandman.” Along with his face illuminated from beneath by a mechanic’s work mild doubling as a microphone, Dean Stockwell’s character Ben lip-syncs this Roy Orbison traditional as Lynch attracts out the hidden menace in lyrics that learn as romance: “In goals, you’re mine.” (Orbison’s music additionally figures into 2001’s “Mulholland Drive,” with Rebekah del Rio performing a Spanish-language cowl of “Crying” in a climactic scene.)
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5. “In Heaven (Girl within the Radiator Music)”
In “Eraserhead,” the Girl within the Radiator seems to Henry, the movie’s shock-haired protagonist, and performs this tune on a tiny stage inside, you guessed it, his radiator. The songwriter Peter Ivers co-wrote “In Heaven” with Lynch and launched his personal model later, and the observe has drawn as a lot of a cult following because the film: I heard the duvet model by Pixies lengthy earlier than I had really seen “Eraserhead.”
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6. Chris Isaak: “Depraved Recreation”
Chris Isaak’s replace of Orbison’s excessive lonesome croon and Elvis Presley’s low growl match completely in Lynch’s “Wild at Coronary heart” (1990), a violent romance that includes Laura Dern and an Elvis-obsessed, snakeskin-jacket-wearing Nicolas Cage as lovers on the run.
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7. Jimmy Scott: “Sycamore Timber”
Lynch tapped Jimmy Scott, a jazz singer with a excessive, ghostly voice, for a key scene within the ultimate episode of “Twin Peaks” in 1991. Agent Cooper enters the otherworldly Pink Room and watches Scott sing “Sycamore Timber,” a mournful ballad written by Lynch and Badalamenti.
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8. Rammstein: “Rammstein”
One in every of Lynch’s seemingly extra incongruous musical enthusiasms was for industrial onerous rock verging on metallic, used most prominently in his 1997 movie “Misplaced Freeway.” Alongside tracks by 9 Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, this pummeling track by the notorious German band Rammstein contributed to the film’s sinister undercurrent.
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9. Beck: “Black Tambourine”
Beck’s album “Guero” (2005) consists of this groovy shuffle that performs beneath Dern’s Hollywood breakdown in “Inland Empire,” Lynch’s experimental (even for him) 2006 characteristic.
