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Dramatic Underscoring is our regular column by Marcella Hemmeter reviewing soundtrack albums from movies current and forgotten. This edition covers 1992's Burn Walk With Me.

Fans of this movie are chomping at the bit for the much-anticipated vinyl release of the Twin Peaks: Burn down Walk With Me soundtrack coming from Mondo, which at the time of writing still hasn't been given a release date. The test pressing for the Twin Peaks soundtrack heard at MondoCon in October is hopefully a good sign both will be coming presently. In the realm of David Lynch films, the Fire Walk With Me soundtrack might get short-shrift adjacent to its out-in that location Lynch brethren but equally with near things, time tends to uncover the gem that was initially encrusted with the varied opinions of the picture show itself.

For those of you unfamiliar with Burn Walk With Me (1992), information technology's a prequel motion picture that came out later on Twin Peaks ended. Twin Peaks was an early '90s TV-series that asked the question, "Who killed Laura Palmer?" A whodunit mystery series nearly the murder of a high school girl in a small northwestern boondocks, it captured the imaginations of TV viewers across the state including those who had never seen a Lynch flick. We're talking T-shirts, viewing parties, kids going to bookstores to pollex through Laura's "diary." Cancelled subsequently 2 seasons in 1991, product on Fire Walk With Me began afterward that year. The movie takes us back into the world of Twin Peaks, showing the initial investigation into the murder of another teenage daughter, Teresa Banks, but with the majority of the film focusing on the last sad days of Laura. And if the collective gasp of disappointed viewers could've been measured, it would have filled a dozen blimps. This was not the Television set bear witness those viewers were expecting. You know David Lynch movies, right? Well, this was a David Lynch movie; a watching-a-poor girl-spiral-down-to-her-horrible-stop bonanza of pain and despair. In the show, nosotros only had glimpses of the town's dirty underbelly. In the film, that rotting underbelly is laid bare. Dear it or hate it, you have to acknowledge that it faithfully expresses the horror and helplessness of abuse victims and does and then in a graphic, no-holds-barred manner. It'due south heartbreaking and Sheryl Lee's performance as Laura is riveting.

Angelo Badalamenti, a composer for many Lynch films, continues the dreamy jazz that won united states of america over in Twin Peaks, merely adding more than delicacy, dazzler, and darkness, if that'south even possible. You'll forget you're listening to a soundtrack; it is a complete album where each vocal fits together like a puzzle piece and complements the pic perfectly. Again and again, memorable moments in Fire Walk With Me are paired with poignant numbers including cue pieces from the Tv set serial ("Laura Palmer's Theme," hello!). Starting with the muted trumpet in the "Theme from Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me" one immediately imagines a alone barfly with a tale to tell. A depressing jazz number, information technology prepares the viewer for the nightmare to come up. This is followed by "The Pino Bladder," heard when Laura is getting ready for a night of debauchery while her best friend Donna asks to come along and if this were a '50s noir it would score the scene where the femme fatale walks into the detective's function. And then at that place's the amazing "Sycamore Trees" sung past Jimmy Scott starting time heard in the Twin Peaks series finale and heard here in a brief instrumental snippet in the Blackness Lodge only subsequently Laura is killed. Its inclusion on the soundtrack is wonderful, as Scott'southward song is total of the kind of morose longing that'll take fans looking upwardly his records just equally they did after watching the testify's finale.

The soundtrack wouldn't be complete without an appearance from Julee Cruise, who sang on some key songs in the Idiot box series. Here she is seen at the Roadhouse, singing "Questions in a Globe of Blue" every bit Laura walks in transfixed upon the song and breaks downward into tears, lost and drowning, then agreeing to party with two men to which Donna asks to bring together. Perhaps the song most people will recollect of is dingy jazz-dejection-rocker "The Pinkish Room" which plays while Laura, Donna and the ii men are in The Pink Room and Donna sees for the first time just how far into the nighttime Laura has gone. The soundtrack is capped off with "The Voice of Love," heard in the motion picture'due south ending where we see Laura'southward spirit in the Black Lodge, being comforted past Agent Cooper (who investigates her murder in the Telly serial), and then she sees an angel which inspires her to cry and laugh. The music is uplifting and her joy is palpable giving the audience a much-needed emotional release. Information technology'southward left up to interpretation over what the scene ways simply the joyful music and Laura's reaction to the affections gives the states hope that she has finally found peace. The upcoming continuation of Twin Peaks on Showtime may provide more clues. Or questions.

So count me in for a vinyl pressing of the stunning Fire Walk With Me soundtrack. Information technology'southward an anthology that stands on its own, taking listeners on a journey through light and dark, gripping you with jazz and burn. But don't accept our word for it. Even if you haven't seen the pic, give the album a mind. Exist sure to accept a piece of cherry pie while you lot exercise.

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