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CrowleyHead

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It's an old cliche but the idea of music on record being a summoning spell never gets old truly. We don't buy songs, what we buy is means of access to provide us with the stimulation of this temporal existence. Radios, Streaming Subscriptions, CDs, whatever. All these simply become gateways to a phantasmal existence.

When my mother drove, she made a point to depart from the rap music that was consuming my father's life and made him inaccessible and unreal(istic). For whatever reason, a frequent go to was early 60s or late 50s pop type stuff. "The Wanderer", "Tell Him", and this one particularly. There's a manic quality in the songs of this period that often gets ignored. For every sedate note, there's an underlying tone that seems haunted or off, a creepiness to this dream-like centering.

The world outside the cars that'd play this song were always real, alive, chaotic, full of din. This felt like death.
 
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I can't help but think of Lynch when I hear this stuff. There are a couple in one of the audition scenes in Mulholland Drive - Sixteen Reasons, I've Told Every Little Star. I like them, but you're right about death. It sounds like an absence. A jukebox playing in a long-deserted diner. There's an airless quality to it. Vacuum sealed.
 
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catalog

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These lists are great and @CrowleyHead commands a respect on here for his writing that is second to none. And of course we all wanna know his top tunes so we can make mix CDs out of them to impress people with.

Is it gonna be mainly hip hop? I don't think so. He's a well rounded fella.

Let's be having you.

EDIT: Spotify playlist

EDIT: List of songs

  • Natalie Imbruglia: Torn
  • Lyn Collins: Think (About It)
  • Black Riot (Todd Terry): A day in the life (club mix)
  • Yuzo Koshiro: SOR Super Mix (Introduction) (from Streets Of Rage 2 Soundtrack)
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Oh dear, I left it so long, I can't edit this list anymore, is that right? OK well I'm adding to the spotify playlist and the link is still current. I'll put a list at the end of all the songs maybe. Good shit Crowley, please carry on. I'm just listening to 'blackbird' goes a bit weird towards the end.
 
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CrowleyHead said:
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It's an old cliche but the idea of music on record being a summoning spell never gets old truly. We don't buy songs, what we buy is means of access to provide us with the stimulation of this temporal existence. Radios, Streaming Subscriptions, CDs, whatever. All these simply become gateways to a phantasmal existence.

When my mother drove, she made a point to depart from the rap music that was consuming my father's life and made him inaccessible and unreal(istic). For whatever reason, a frequent go to was early 60s or late 50s pop type stuff. "The Wanderer", "Tell Him", and this one particularly. There's a manic quality in the songs of this period that often gets ignored. For every sedate note, there's an underlying tone that seems haunted or off, a creepiness to this dream-like centering.

The world outside the cars that'd play this song were always real, alive, chaotic, full of din. This felt like death.
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i need the title of the tune for this one, to add to spotify, cos fegging youtube have made the video unavailable. i love all that syrupy 50s stuff, i like that crystals one 'he hit me but it felt like a kiss' that adam curtis uses a lot. and all the joe meek era stuff on this side.
 
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catalog

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where's he gone, what happened. come on crowlers, let's crank out a few more. i like kool keith, is there gonna be any kool keith?
 
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I can't help but think of Lynch when I hear this stuff. There are a couple in one of the audition scenes in Mulholland Drive - Sixteen Reasons, I've Told Every Little Star. I like them, but you're right about death. It sounds like an absence. A jukebox playing in a long-deserted diner. There's an airless quality to it. Vacuum sealed.
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Saccharine, syrupy, schmaltzy, harmonic heavy, white picket fence of Blue Velvet et al.

Wicked thread! More please.
 
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version said:
I can't help but think of Lynch when I hear this stuff. There are a couple in one of the audition scenes in Mulholland Drive - Sixteen Reasons, I've Told Every Little Star. I like them, but you're right about death. It sounds like an absence. A jukebox playing in a long-deserted diner. There's an airless quality to it. Vacuum sealed.
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I could replay that scene all day long. He looks back; he and Betty make eye contact; he face falls; "I'm sorry... there's somewhere I have to be."
 
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I prefer lost highway of all the lynchs. I love the bit when Patricia arquette whispers into bill pullmans ear when they're shagging. He starts repeating 'I want you', 'I want you', then comes, and lies his head next to hers and she says to him, very slowly, 'you'll never have me'. Icy cold.
 
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huh I always saw Lost Highway as the warmup to Mulholland Drive, the first failed attempt before the masterpiece, but maybe I just like sleek sheen more

that was a crazy moment tho, I remember

Have you read the DFW essay on Lost Highway?
 
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@Linebaugh I can't believe you, that is some low-ass shit. You know how many times I seen Mulholland Drive? 9. 9 times. In four years. You know how many Lynch films I've seen?? All of them. Every one. Even the one with the tractor shit. Even those hokey black and white ones from the olden days with the elephants and the worms in the cupboard. Even the one with the worms in the sand! I swallowed David Lynch's shit as it came out of his anus and I filmed the entire ordeal for YouTube. I have the complete collection of his filmed adverts on my hard drive As We Speak. Not just the perfume ones! I've read every essay ever written about Lynch and stored those on a harddrive and I had to upgrade even though it was 8GB and all text files, because there were so damn many. I have purchased a single head of hair off his head. I have licked the
 
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Lynch is like kafka for me- really like about half of it but am left completely unaffected by the rest. (Lynch is a huge kafka fan, wonder if that relates)

Mullholland drive, twin peaks season 1, fire walk with me are great

Twin peaks season 2-3, wild at heart, and blue velvet I found very dull. Though each has great moments

All I've seen. Whats next?
 
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I'm just memeing outrage but Elephant Man is genuinely very good. And I actually haven't seen the tractor one, though it's on the list.

Wild At Heart I liked quite a bit, but I was stoned and in the mood for some camp; I had a good time. Nick Cage's character is such a great combination of slimy and sincere.

Blue Velvet did nothing for me the first two watches and has slowly grown on me. So many beautiful moments, and there's something so comforting about the space, I just want to return to it. Laura Dern sitting in her car talking about sparrows...
 
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