1,000,001 CDs 23: Angelo Badalamenti ~ Twin Peaks & David Lynch

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Davidi Lynch  ~ Twin Peaks

CD front cover 

 cover photographer unknown 

photo of CD cover by Styrous®

Two days ago film director Davidi Lynch died. He was one of my "Immortals" (link below). My first awareness of his work was the VERY eerie film Eraserhead (link below), which I saw in the late seventies at the Roxy Theater (link below) in the Mission in San Francisco.       

 

My next exposure to his work was in the eighties with the film, Blue Velvet, not as weird as Eraserhead but pretty strange, with a score by Angelo Badalamenti. It starred Kyle MacLachlan, who would crop up in other Lynch films.      

Blue Velvet movie poster

 

A decade later, Lynch completely blew me away with the wildly insane, Twin Peaks. This was entirely off the charts but what really blew my head off was that it was produced for network broadcast television! It premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990, and ran for two seasons until its cancellation in 1991.    

From Wikipedia:

The show's narrative draws on the characteristics of detective fiction, but its uncanny tone, metaphysical elements, and campy, melodramatic portrayal of eccentric characters also draws from American soap opera and horror tropes. Like much of Lynch's work, it is distinguished by surrealism, distinctive cinematography, and offbeat humor.      

 The score for the series was composed by Angelo Badalamenti again; it was perfect for Twin Peaks! Some of the cuts are strange and some are so beautiful it hurts, such as the opening theme with it's echoey guitar.     

 

Then there is the dance of the little man which is vaguely reminiscent of "the girl in the radiator" scene in Eraserhead. I love the quietly jazzy, Dance Of The Dream Man with Tenor Sax played by Al Regni  

 

The score introduced me to Julee Cruise with the songs Falling, The Nightingale, Into The Night and the Love Theme. 

 

Davidi Lynch  ~ Twin Peaks

CD interior

photo by Styrous®

   

Tracklist:
        
1 - Twin Peaks Theme - 5:06
2 - Laura Palmer's Theme - 4:52
3 - Audrey's Dance - 5:15
4 - The Nightingale - 4:54
5 - Freshly Squeezed - 3:48
6 - The Bookhouse Boys - 3:30
7 - Into The Night - 4:42
8 - Night Life In Twin Peaks - 3:23
9 - Dance Of The Dream Man - 3:39
10 - Love Theme From Twin Peaks - 5:04
11 - Falling - 5:24       
       
Companies, etc.
       
    Recorded At – Excalibur Sound Productions
    Mixed At – Excalibur Sound Productions
    Mixed At – The Hit Factory
    Mastered At – Masterdisk
    Copyright © – Lynch/Frost Productions Inc.
    Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
    Copyright © – WEA International Inc.
    Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
    Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA International Inc.
    Record Company – Warner Communications
    Manufactured By – WEA Manufacturing
    Published By – Anlon Music
    Published By – Bobkind Music
    Published By – O.K. Paul Music
    Glass Mastered At – Specialty Records Corporation
    Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation
       
Credits:
       
    A&R [A&R Coordination] – Kevin Laffey
    Art Direction, Design – Tom Recchion
    Composed By – Angelo Badalamenti
    Coordinator [Soundtrack Album Coordination By] – AGM Management, Tony Meilandt
    Drums – Grady Tate
    Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars] – Eddie Dixon, Vinnie Bell
    Flute, Clarinet – Eddie Daniels
    Lyrics By – David Lynch (tracks: 4, 7, 11)
    Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
    Mixed By – Art Pohlemus* (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10), Jay Healy (tracks: 4, 7, 11)
    Orchestrated By [Orchestrations By], Arranged By [Arrangements By] – Angelo Badalamenti
    Photography By – Craig Sjodin, David Lynch, Fredrik Nilsen, Kimberly Wright, Marc Sirinsky, Paula K. Shimatsu-U
    Producer [Produced By] – Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch
    Recorded By – Art Pohlemus*
    Synthesizer [Synthesizers] – Kinny Landrum
    Synthesizer [Synthesizers], Piano – Angelo Badalamenti
    Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute – Al Regni*
    Vocals – Julee Cruise (tracks: 4, 7, 11)
       
Notes:
       
Recorded at Excalibur Sound.

"The Nightingale", "Into The Night" and "Falling" mixed at the Hit Factory.
All other songs mixed at Excalibur Sound.

All songs © / published 1989 by Anlon Music (ASCAP)/Bobkind Music (ASCAP)
except tracks 1, 4, 7, 11 published 1989 by Anlon Music (ASCAP)/O.K. Paul Music (BMI)

4, 7, and 11: Also available on the Warner Bros. album Floating Into The Night (1/4/2-25859)

(Back cover)
Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Warner Communications Company.
© 1990 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.
© 1990 Lynch/Frost Productions Inc.
℗ 1989, 1990 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.
Made in U.S.A.

(CD)
© 1990 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S.
© 1990 Lynch/Frost Productions Inc.
℗ 1989, 1990 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S., a Warner Communications Company
Mfg. by WEA Manufacturing.
Made in USA.

Booklet folds out to 12 cm x 48 cm wide and shows the full cast on one side and song lyrics on the other.

Printed durations that differ:
Track 1: 4:45
Track 2: 5:08
Track 6: 3:24
Track 10: 4:34
Track 11: 5:18

       

Angelo Badalamenti – Soundtrack From Twin Peaks
Label: Warner Bros. Records – 9 26316-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Aug 31, 1990
Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style: Lounge, Post-Modern, Soundtrack, Score

        

         

Viewfinder links:        

         

Julee Cruise          

Eraserhead

Immortal Loves           

David Lynch        

Roxie Theater        

        

Net links:        

        

ABC NEWS ~ David Lynch, Eraserhead & Twin Peaks director, dies at 78   

BBC ~ Twin Peaks film director David Lynch dies at 78              

GQ ~ Kyle MacLachlan On losing David Lynch       

Al Regni         

RollingStone ~ Twin Peaks Tribute       

Twin Peaks website                

Variety ~ With Twin Peaks, Lynch Left His Mark on Television          

        

YouTube links:        

         

Twin Peaks Intro            

Twin Peaks ~ The Nightingale          

Twin Peaks summarized in one scene        

        

        

         

        

        

        

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45 RPMs 84: Crime ~ hot wire my heart, baby you're so repulsive

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Crime - ca 1977 

photographer unknown

The late seventies was a terrific time for punk rock in San Francisco. I could go to a couple of clubs in my neighborhood, the Mission. One of them was the Valencia Tool & Die at 974 Valencia, just around the corner from my studio. I saw the Japanese New Wave group The Plastics there; Devo, who was just starting up, showed up during their set.       

  

Another club four blocks away and just around the corner from the Roxie Theater (link below) was The Deaf Club (link below). It was there I first saw Crime. I saw them later at the Mabuhay Gardens on Broadway, across the street from the Condor Club, which was made famous by Carol Doda (link below), and the Hungry i where I danced (link below).          

Crime poster - ca 1978

poster photo by James Stark

 

The first time I saw them, the members of Crime were pretty scary looking; they dressed like very sinister cops.       

 

 

Crime - ca 1977 

photographer unknown

 

 

Crime was an early American punk band from San Francisco. The band was formed in 1976 by Johnny Strike (vocals, guitar), Frankie Fix (vocals, guitar), Ron "The Ripper" Greco (bass; ex-Flamin' Groovies), and Ricky Tractor (Ricky Williams) (drums). Their debut, the self-financed double A-side, Hot Wire My Heart and Baby You're So Repulsive, appeared at the end of 1976, and is the first single released by a U.S. punk act from the West Coast.          

 

 

Crime 
45 RPM single 

cover photo by James Stark

photo of record sleeve by Styrous®

 

 

Hot Wire is on the "A" side of the record, which is usually the "Hit" song . . .      

 

. . . but it is the "B" side with, Baby You're So Repulsiv, that got my attention; to me it is the epitome of punk music; it is a love song, punk style, and it fit right into my biker lifestyle at the time (link below).       

 

 

Baby you're so repulsive
Honey you're so sick
Baby you're so repulsive
Honey I'm a masochist
Baby, honey when I'm motor-bikin'
All around your town
Bad girl movin' forwards and then backwards
And I'm upside down

You're so repulsive

Baby you're so repulsive
And you got me down
Baby you're so repulsive
Think I'm gonna hang around

Baby, honey when I see you comin'
I just gotta run
Baby, I'm movin' faster and faster
I'm like a tommy-gun

You're so repulsive

Baby you're so repulsive
Honey you're so sick
Baby you're so repulsive
Honey I'm a masochist

Baby, honey when I'm motor-bikin'
All around your town
Bad girl movin' forwards and then backwards
And I'm upside down

You're so repulsive

So repulsive Baby

       

 

Crime recorded Hot Wire My Heart written by Johnny Strike and Baby You're So Repulsive written by Frankie Fix, in November of 1976 at Blue Bear Studios in San Francisco in a room that was fifteen by ten feet resulting in tons of distortion, exactly what the group wanted.           

 

 

Crime - 1976
Blue Bear Studios

photo by James Stark

 

            

James Stark began photographing Crime in 1976. In 2006 he wrote a history about the punk scene; he mentions the group in it.           

Punk '77 - 2006

written by James Stark

Punk '77: An Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock n' Roll Scene, 1977

ISBN 10: 1889307149 / ISBN 13: 9781889307145
Published by Re/Search Publications, 2006       

 

 

   

Tracklist:
       
Side 1:

        

A - Hot Wire My Heart, written by Johnny Strike

       
Side 2:
       
B - Baby You're So Repulsive, written by Frankie Fix
       
Credits:
       
    Bass – Ron The Ripper
    Drums – Ricky Tractor
    Guitar – Frankie Fix, Johnny Strike
    Vocals – Frankie Fix, Johnny Strike
       
Notes:
       
1000 black vinyl copies with picture sleeve

       
Barcode and Other Identifiers
       
    Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side A (Etched) (Special Characters not Included): SAC 0188-A- 29949
    Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side B (Etched) (Special Characters not Included): SAC 0188-B 29949

        

Crime (2) – Hot Wire My Heart / Baby You're So Repulsive
Label: Crime Music – sac 0188
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single
Country: US
Released: 1976
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk       

       

       

Viewfinder links:          

         

Beemer Memories            

Can You Hear Me? Music from the Deaf Club         

Carol Doda        

Frankie Fix        

Ron "The Ripper" Greco        

Hungry i           

Hank Rank         

Johnny Strike         

Ricky "Tractor" Williams          

      

Net links:          

             

Art for a Change ~ San Francisco’s doomed—just like L.A.   

Center Label ~   

       Crime       

       Crime Releases       

James Stark ~  

      The Band Crime: Punk '77 Revisited                     

      James Stark                     

     

YouTube links:                       

The Bachelors ~ The Stars Will Remember         

 Crime -     

        Baby You're So Repulsive       

        Baby You're So Repulsive (live @ the Mab - 1977)      

        Hot Wire My Heart      

        Piss On Your Dog          

         

        

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Roxie Theater ~ San Francisco

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Crime ~ hot wire my heart      
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The Residents ~ Not Available  
The Rocky Horror Picture Show         
         
         
       
         
                    
         
     

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20,000 vinyl LPs 17: The Residents ~ Not Available

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I had my dream studio in the Mission district of San Francisco for almost 30 years (29 years, 3 months and 15 days to be exact). It was heaven on earth, that's why I lived there for so long. I would probably still be there if the landlords hadn't sold the building and the new owners hadn't kicked my ass out so they could sell the building in a year or so to make a profit (I later heard about it from someone). It was at the height of the dot com explosion/fiasco in 2001.

Anyway, I loved all the many things available within walking distance from my studio; great ethnic food markets (every type of Latin, Asian, African-American, etc.), shops selling goods from all over the world, clothing and book stores and, of course, record shops. One of my favorite stores was a Greek one on Mission Street just three blocks from my studio that sold Greek food (oh, my, the kourabiedes, touloubakia and halva they sold made my mother crazy), books and music. I found terrific music there, not the usual Rembetiko or Zorba-the-Greek type bouzuki (although, they had tons of that) but unique types like Stamatis Spanoudakis whom I discovered when I was on Cyprus in 2000. Another favorite shop of mine was Dog Eared Books which was down on the corner from my studio. It sold really great music and was VERY dangerous, financially, to me. Yep, I was in heaven there in the Mission.

One of the gems in the 'hood was a terrific old movie theater, The Roxie (four and a half blocks from my studio), that showed the most incredible indi and underground films. Sometime in 1978 I went there one night and saw a private screening of footage of an uncompleted film, "Vileness Fats" (which has never been publicly released) by The Residents. It was in black and white video (color was not available at the time) and the sets were reminiscent of German Expressionism of the 1920s and 1930s á la "Cabinet of Doctor Caligari" (image samples from the Caligari film). I had never heard of them before. It was TOTALLY weird! I HAD to have their music! I searched until I finally found the album, Not Available, which had some of the music from the film. It was their fifth album, the first of many of their albums I bought. And they have MANY!

Not Available cover art by Pore-Know Graphics

photo of "Not Available" album cover by Styrous®

The back of the Not Available album has a surreal, black and white still from the Vileness Fats video.

 back cover of Not Available

 photo of "Not Available" album cover back by Styrous®

Vileness Fats liner photo by S. Lewis and R Paulsen

photo of "Not Available" liner photo & notes by Styrous®

The album was recorded in 1974, but the LP was not released until 1978 by the Cryptic Corporation's Ralph Records.

photo by Styrous®

According to Discogs, the first pressing with purple labels (5000 copies), suffered from an audible blemish on side B during "Ship's A' Going Down". Most of these records were recalled and destroyed. However, several hundred copies are still in existence. The second pressing had an orange label, the third and fourth green, the fifth yellow and the sixth white. My copy is from the first pressing.

photo by Styrous®

photo by Styrous®

I remember when I bought the album and heard the blemish I was pissed and was going to return the album but somehow never got around to it. Now, that's what I call dumb luck.

In 1984, The Residents took their old Vileness Fats 1/2" black-and-white video footage, transferred it to VHS and created a half-hour video from their original fourteen hours of footage. In addition, they created an all-new soundtrack, releasing the result as Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?.

I saw them in concert in January of 1987 at The Warfield in San Francisco; Penn and Teller opened for them. At one point during the performance two stage hands came on with clamp lights in each hand and waved the lights over the performers in rhythm to the music, creating a cheap but effective strobe-like effect. 

I photographed The Residents in concert in 2010 at the Berkeley Art Museum. They had added an accordion, violin and cello since I'd last seen them and donned new costumes but they were as wacky as ever.

The Residents in concert at the Berkeley Art Museum, 2010

photo by Styrous®

According to NPR Music, 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of the founding of The Residents whom they credit with pioneering punk rock, art rock and techno.

Not Available info:

track listing:

1. Edweena (9:29)
2. The Making Of A Soul (9:59)
3. Ship's A'going Down (6:34)
4. Never Known Questions (7:00)
5. Epilogue (2:21)

 Just to give a sense of the tone of the album, here are the lyrics for the first song:

Edweena

Chorus:
Coming into column nation is a gracious thing
A stirring and a whirring and a broken widow(er)'s pain;
It's causing easy ought to just leave a lust alone
But when a friend has shrunken skin where do you throw the bone?
(The matter that's been spoken to's a fragrant little thing
It's open and was known to need a token diamond ring.)

Young Girl:
Investing space without a place;
Confusing grace with outer space.

Chorus:
To please the breeze you freeze the seize,
Combat disease and bend the knees;
And if explicit matters naught,
Extend the grin -- but don't get caught.
Now Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus, where have you been we say
(We saw the end of Uncle mend and turn into into today).
But now they say there's room no more for such a friendly friendly whore

Uncle Remus:
Yes, Easter Island isn't my land coming home once more.

Chorus:
But a sentence existing inside of a rhyme
Is only just a token left spoken in time

Uncle Remus:
Can tomorrow be more than the end of today?

Young Girl:
Or do posies just bloom for the feel of a may?
Investing space without a place;
Confusing grace with outer space.

Chorus:
The way is a never for severing two,
(For) beginnings are endings for all but a few.
 

The music is even weirder than the lyrics and I love it. If you're interested, you can hear Edweena on YouTube, as well as selections from Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?.     

What a wild, whacky and wonderful time the new wave era was. Boy, do I miss it and my dream studio.

         

Viewfinder links:        

        

The Residents       

Stamatis Spanoudakis        

       

YouTube links:        

        

Edweena       

Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (complete) (32 min., 15 sec.) 

        

         

          

The entire collection is for sale. Interested? Contact Styrous®

      
       
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