Mulholland Drive (2001)

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"Every little star" and "Jitterbug" are really fun.

I love this soundtrack

Ambient creepiness; melancholy
The sound track for Mulholland Drive, like the film itself, deftly veers between horror, farce, and tragic love story. With characteristic audacity, Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch weave a soundscape that pulls the listener from one mood to the next with little warning. This is music as sound effects, or perhaps sound effects as music; it's hard to tell. Even the more melodic tracks ("Jitterbug", "Mulholland Drive", the achingly beautiful "Diane and Camilla") have an undercurrent of hallucinatory kinesthesia, shot through with black veins of dread.

The spookier tracks ("Diner", "Dwarfland/Love Theme", and especially "Mountains Falling") sound as though stirred up from some pit of cold, dark water in the basement of the psyche. OK, so that's a little purple. But that's what they sound like.

Then there are the transparent little ditties tossed in from the film's contextual music cues - "I've Told Every Little Star", "The Beast", and "Bring it on Home". They provide much needed contrast and context for the original tracks, leavening the mix with a dash of satire. The weakest of these is Lynch's own "Dinner Party Pool Music", which is as bland and generic as something generated by Band In a Box. But then, that may have been the intent - to create a deliberately flavorless pastiche of the sort that the "Hollywood types" lampooned in that sequence would likely enjoy. That same sequence contains a more striking piece with a pulsing bass beat and trippy syncopated percussion section that is sadly missing from this CD.

Of course, I feel compelled to also mention the fine a capella work of Rebekah Del Rio for her rendition (in Spanish) of Roy Orbison's "Crying". It comes at point in the film when the Bunuel-O-meter is all the way in the red, and serves to ground the very surreal sequence in a solid framework of human emotion.

In all, Mulholland Drive is a CD certainly worth owning for David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti fans.

a excellent movie....a excellent soundtrack
This is one of my favorite soundtrack of all times. The atmosphere, the emotions, the dreams and reality shock, come beautifully and amazingly together to become a music that can't be forgotten.