For real? Is there actual proof to back up that statement? Or is it only based on the fact that Rammstein's song "Heirate Mich" is part of a somewhat important scene on "Lost Highway"? The video for the single "Rammstein" was also directed by mr. Lynch, right? It's obvious that Lynch uses music on his films to get a point across -most of the times, the songs on Lynch's work pretend to communicate something very important within the narrative of the film, and it's apparent that Lynch's idea must be that sometimes a song can provide more powerful context to certain scenes than dialogue could ever do.
Assuming he uses music by artists he likes, it can be gathered that he's a fan a Roy Orbison ("In Dreams" and "Crying", albeit the last one in Spanish, both have appeared on Lynch's work), Julee Cruise (she sang David Lynch's songs on "Blue Velvet" and "Twin peaks"...), Connie Stevens ("Sixteen Reasons" is on "Mulholland Drive"), Bobby Vinton ("Blue Velvet"), Linda Scott ("I've Told Every Little Star" appears also on a scene in "Mulholland Drive"), David Bowie (he stars as agent Jeffries on "Fire Walk With Me", and "I'm Deranged" is on the soundtrack to "Lost Highway"...), Jimmy Scott (What the hell did he do to end up on the Black Lodge?
), etcetera, etcetera... Anyway, he could even be considered a fan of Marilyn Manson, which i would suppose most would consider a dull act in this board, and in most other places to be fair. Remember that mr. Lynch wrote the introduction to Manson's biography "The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell"; there were rumours that Manson would have appeared as a recurring member of the cast on "Mulholland Drive" had it been approved as a TV series by the NBC. He acted on the
porn scene in "Lost Highway", directed by David Lynch, however. Seems like admiration would run both ways, i remember a reference to "Twin Peaks" on Manson's song "Wrapped In Plastic" mentioned to me by a friend a bunch of years ago -Hearing the song spoiled much of the series for her, as she found out who Laura Palmer's killer was through that specific song. A book compiling some of Marilyn Manson's paintings is soon to be released, and allegedly some of the reverend's morbid artwork has been inspired by David Lynch's work.
So, anyway, despite his deep involvement and references to a lot of diverse music; it still remains ambiguos who actually is David Lynch's definitive favorite band or musician (other than Lissie), but if you, fugazifan, or someone else, for that matter, can provide a link to some interview or some sort of article where he claimed Rammstein was, i would be very much interested in reading that, and would appreciate it if you'd hook me up with such information. I love his work, and i've got some fascination with him. This branch of his personal taste is pretty much unknown to me, but i'd always like to learn new things, no matter how unimportant they might seem.
Here are some random shenanigans where he's interviewed on the subject of music, and mentions some artists he likes:
- Personal play-list: David Lynch
ZZ-Top, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Au Revoire Simone, Lissie, and Lady Gaga all get positive words from Lynch in this interview.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...vid-lynch.html - David Lynch on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic
A chat about his recently released music: "Good Day Today", and "I Know", which he describes as "Modern Blues... with a lot of soul". Has good things to say about electronic music. Pays due respect and praise to Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse, and also to his longtime partner in crime, Angelo Badalamenti (He says, "Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music").
http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/m...118david_lynch - Danger Mouse & David Lynch discussing "Dark Night Of The Soul" on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic:
http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/m...118david_lynch
David Lynch also is a regular user of twatter. I've copied and pasted some random posts by him, related to the subject of music:
- Get the music to marry to the picture
- Seeing Pink Floyd on Youtube, singing Comfortably Numb
- Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
- John Lee Hooker, Elvis Presley and Jimmy Hendrix.
- My favorite instrument is guitar.
- I was brought into the world of music by Angelo Badalamenti, but Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse gave me an opp. to work on DNOTS
- No, I don't like the sound of my own voice
- All pop is magical
- Lissie is head & shoulders above anything I've heard in a long time. Incredible, incredible stuff.
- The bass player is right on the money & plays kick drum & hi-hat while he plays bass, just perfection. Lead guitar: perfection.
- I've fallen in love with Lisse, especially the live sessions including the cover of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance: http://bit.ly/bwOIHp
- And Lissie's cover of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters, Lissie's When I'm Alone, Little Lovin & all her live sessions.
More on:
http://twitter.com/david_lynch
Sorry for the long-ass post. I should start to look around for a girlfriend, or something.
EDIT: I'm a thread-killer, uh?
