Other Mixes By Siobhan
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When this kind of fire starts, it's very hard to put out
| Artist | Song | |
| Wall Of Voodoo | Red Light (Dark Continent, 1981) | |
| Smith and Mighty | Try (Life Is..., 2002) | |
| Skinny Puppy | Optimissed (Music From The Motion Picture "Underworld", 2003) | |
| Tom Waits | Blow Wind Blow (Franks Wild Years, 1987) | |
| Caetano Veloso | Alegria, Alegria (Caetano Veloso, 1968) | |
| Cab Calloway | Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway & Co., 1931) | |
| The Electric Soft Parade | It's Wasting Me Away (Holes In The Wall, 2002) | |
| Poleposition | We Live In Cities (XO [EP], 2004) | |
| Jorge Bolet | Liebestraum, notturno for piano no. 3 in A flat major ("O Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst"), S. 541/3 (LW A103/3) (Franz Liszt:Favourite Piano Works/Beliebte Klavierwerke, 1995) | |
| Portishead | Western Eyes (Portishead, 1997) | |
| Sparks | This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us (Kimono My House, 1974) | |
| Dave Edmunds | I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock & Roll) (Get It, 1977) | |
| The Andrews Sisters | Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (The Best Of The Andrews Sister, 1977) | |
| Super Furry Animals | Juxtapozed With U (Rings Around The World, 2001) | |
| Pulp | This Is Hardcore (This Is Hardcore, 1998) | |
| Morrissey | Late Night, Maudlin Street (Viva Hate, 1988) | |
| Lena Horne | Stormy Weather (Stormy Weather, 1957) | |
| Violet Indiana | Jailbird (Special [EP], 2001) | |
| Dallas Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Litton | "Urlicht" Sehr Feierlich, Aber Schlicht "O Roschen Roth" (Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection", 1999) | |
Comment:
When Mulholland Drive came out, a friend and I went to see it, and afterwards, decided it would be a good idea to e-mail whoever runs the Irn-Bru (mysterious orange soft drink, made in Scotland and every dentist's nightmare) website and ask them if they could set up a brain transplant with the grey matter of David Lynch. They never answered. But this, my friends, is the effect which David Lynch has on people, apparently. Anyway! This is a mix that's been in the works for a little while, inspired by Lynch and his work, and his own taste in music - as with the other "director" mixes I've done, it's not so much an attempt to recreate a David Lynch soundtrack as to take the music as inspiration, hopefully producing something which not only reflects the images and moods which he creates, but also would (hopefully!) cater to his taste. And as it turns out, his taste is rather eclectic. On his soundtracks, he uses anything from NIN to Strauss, so I've tried to balance tracks which reflect his "trademark" dark, slow-motion effects (e.g. Portishead, Mahler) with those which show his penchant for red herrings, in either the soundtracks or the movies themselves, as well as including stuff which is inspired by artists he has used. In general, I tried to also aim for an element of the theatrical. I'm by no means the authority on David Lynch, but I do think he's really interesting, and I'm sure there are other mixes out there inspired by him! Also, apparently his favourite band is Rammstein. Hmm. The picture is straight from, of course, Blue Velvet, and the title's taken from a line in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
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Definitely ominous, evocative, and strangely optmistic!
I think Lynch might well use some of it though I believe it might be a tad Brit for his tastes...I don't like Lynch sndtrcks for the artists he uses but I do love The Badalamenti (sic) tracks...I think Blue Velvet is Lynch's one true master-piece and everything else seems to be Lynch trying to be wilfully obscure..
like Dali, Lynch annoys me...I find little beneath the surface! An opinion no doubt others will disagree with! Like u said it's not a Lynch score but a scource of inspiration. Good Job!
like Dali, Lynch annoys me...I find little beneath the surface! An opinion no doubt others will disagree with! Like u said it's not a Lynch score but a scource of inspiration. Good Job!
Great Wall of Voodoo song to open with. It fits in with the Lynchian concept. Lynch doesn't need to rely on creppy music - he can take an otherwise upbeat song totally out of context and match it up with a disturbing scene and suddenly the song is creepy. I'll agree with Dom and his films - many of them now seem to be more a parody of his early works. They always look good and have some good scenes, but they seem to rely on weirdness without falling back on substance.
I came in expecting to be the lone dissenting voice, but Dom and Dale are here already. Anyhow, he's certainly interesting, though I might accuse him of being weird for weird's sake far too often. But then again, maybe that's not such a bad thing in a world over-populated with cookie-cutter movies. And the Andrews Sisters...I can see him using that.
Inspired choice with Pulp's "This Is Hardcore" -- I never really understood the big deal about David Lynch (Lost Highway and Blue Velvet are incredibly contrived to me) but Mulholland Drive is one of my all-time favorite films. I agree with Dale's assessment that sometimes there doesn't seem to be a lot of substance behind what Lynch does, but I think Mulholland Drive is the shining example of a perfect balance between weird and heartfelt. And I think sometimes he has an incredible ear for sirens (re: Julee Cruise and the absolutely ravishing Rebekah del Rio). Anyway, as far as the mix goes -- looks good to me!
Fantastic.
Wow! Top to bottom, just a fantastic mix. Nice WoV and Sparks picks; nifty to see Cab Calloway and Tom Waits milling about here...
I don't really care about anything else he's done - but Blue Velvet has burned an impression on my soul........Eraserhead was pretty wicked too.
I am , by and large, in agreement with those before me on things Lynchian...but agree completely with 12vman. Eraserhead changed my world.
'Could I be Paul Mordeeb?' 'You are Paul Mordeeb.' Nice stuff but what does Irn Bru have to do with it?
Not much really - basically we decided that we wanted David Lynch's brain, and that the Irn Bru company would be the people who could provide us with this. Possibly just being, as Adam said, weird for weird's sake!
Wow. As other people have pointed out, this mix is all over the place (but in a very cool, sophisticated way). Great job. As for Mr. Lynch, I only like "Twin Peaks"--I wish they would put season two out on DVD.
Yeah this could easily fit in to one of his films
Awesome mix Siobhan, jury's out with me re Lynch but a few decades ago me & my mates were Eraserhead junkies.
Just received this one a couple of days back and am fully impressed. She catches the many moods of Mr. Lynch well, from whimsical americana to dark and forboding. Nicely done, and now onto her other 2 mixes I have waiting for me!