C60: Vaguely Creepy Lynchian Nostalgia

Chris Isaak I suppose.

Some Gene Pitney stuff.

Chris Issak absolutamente.

Delia's Gone?

"24 Hours from Tulsa" haunted the fuck out of me as a kid because I didn't understand why he couldn't go home.

Glen Campbell (some Glen campbell anyway)

Ilxor favourite Vincent Gallo's When mines this seam pretty well too.

He's certainly creepy.

Johnny Cash: When The Man Comes Around
Dire Straits: Private Investigations

i'd venture to say john frusciante's "niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt," though i don't exactly know why

Ricky Nelson

and whoever did that creepy old ballad called "Patches", the one with the line about the drowned poor girl:

"floating face down in that dirty old river / my little patches, I bid you farewell"

yikes!

this one:

Patches 1962
Dickey Lee

Down by the river that flows by the coal yards.
Stands wooden houses with shutters torn down
There lives a girl everybody calls Patches
Patches my darling of Old Shanty town

We plan to marry when June brought the summer
I couldn't wait to make Patches my bride
Now I don't see how that ever can happen
My folks say No, and my heart breaks inside

Patches oh what can I do
I swear I'll always love you
But a girl from that place would just bring me disgrace
So my folks won't let me love you

Each night I cry as I think of that shanty
And pretty Patches there watching the door
She dosn't know that I can't come to see her
Patches must think that I love her no more

I hear a neighbor tellin my father
He said a girl name of Patches was found
Floating face down in that dirty old river
That flows by the coal yards in Old Shanty Town

Patches oh what can I do
I swear I'll always love you
It may not be right But I'll join you tonight
Patches I'm coming to you.

"Ode to Billie Joe" for reals

There must be a good version of "Clementine" too I'd'a thunk

Ilxor favourite Vincent Gallo's When mines this seam pretty well too.

Cool, I didn't realise people liked the Gallo here!

i'd venture to say john frusciante's "niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt," though i don't exactly know why

-- cutty, Sunday, February 17, 2008 9:14 PM

yeah actually a nice bit of frusciante's solo stuff would work for this, come to think of it.

xpost

Just me I think.

Little Jimmy Scott, obv.

Bohren & House of Gore, for realz

I love Bohren, listened to them a lot while I was writing a really dark story last year, but maybe they're too dark?

Johnny Ace - Pledging my Love

Suicide

RAMMSTEIN

i will try to put this ish together this week

Tav Falco and Panther Burns, particularly in ballad mode.

oh, and Rasputina.

Gene Pitney otm

The Brown Bunny was a good movie, fuck the hatres, etc.

"When The Man Comes Around" is much too fast for this

Frusciante actually has a couple songs on the Brown Bunny soundtrack.

I think some Chet Baker songs might work here, too.

And also Julee Cruise, though that's probably obvious.

Most recent I can think of = Beach House, "Master of None"

Mickey and Sylvia's strangely lovely and Oedipal "Mommy Out De Light": Mommy, out de light, and kiss me like you kissed my daddy last night...."

Parts of Mr Bungle's California.

David Ackles' "Candy Man"

not old, but both El Perro Del Mar & Susanna and the Magical Orchestra have songs that sound like they could be in a Lynch movie

Randy Newman, "In Germany Before the War"

... what a song *shudder*

Santo & Johnny: "Sleepwalk"

Lotta stuff off Ferrante & Teicher Soundproof

Grateful Dead-Wharf Rat

Duane Eddy when he's playin inna minor key stylee.

Suicide

The Sinking of The Titanic/Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet

Suicide thirded

Van Morrison - TB Sheets

peter visti - "dolly" (at 33)

Mickey and Sylvia's strangely lovely and Oedipal "Mommy Out De Light"

Marie Bryant did this too. I have it on her 'Don't Touch My Nylons' LP.

"All I Have to Do Is Dream" - The Every Brothers

"There's Always Tomorrow" - song from Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rankin-Bass TV special. Sad & creepy as hell.

although it's creepy nostalgia is generally ties to silence of the lambs, q lazarus's "goodbye horses" would work

"Theme from the Tiki Wonder Hour" - Combustible Edison (a kitschy attempt to duplicate the vibe, but still great)

Roxy Music-"A Song For Europe"

"Blue Moon" - Big Star (not the Elvis song)

That weird & dreamy 30-second song from Night of the Hunter:

LONG SHOT -- THE RIVER AND LANDSCAPE
Featuring starlight; and the drifting boat -- PEARL in stern.

TWO-SHOT -- THE CHILDREN -- FRONT ON
JOHN is asleep. PEARL sits sleepily whispering to her doll.

PEARL (sings):
Once upon a time there was a pretty fly.
He had a wife, this pretty fly...

MEDIUM LONG SHOT -- THE DRIFTING BOAT, THROUGH FIREFLIES

PEARL'S VOICE (o.s.)
But one day she flew away, flew awaaayyyy
She had two pretty children, but one night those pretty children...

SPECIAL SHOT -- THE MOVING SKIFF, THROUGH DEW-JEWELED SPIDER-WEB

PEARL'S VOICE (o.s.)
Flew away into the sky, into the moon

SPECIAL SHOT -- A FROG, AND SKIFF
A big frog is profiled; the skiff drifts by in distance; the frog twangs out a bass note.

Lee Hazlewood "The Night Before"

The KLF's Chill Out album is worth hearing if you're interested in this stuff

I could see the Everly Brothers' "You've lost that loving feeling" fit on this

The Flamingos - I only have eyes for you
The Raveonettes - With my eyes closed

sexydancer posted this on noize board, feels very lynch-y to me

shangi-las past present and future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xN00dFkPAk

see also: same girl's leader of the pack vid

There's gotta be some Morphine or Twinemen tracks that fit.

all doo wop and girl group.

maybe leadbelly - goodnight irene.

a lot of early elvis, buddy holly.

Practically all of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Two steps from the blues" lp

especially "i'll take care of you" and "st james infirmary"

Hah yes i wrote this after "i'll take care of you" came up on shuffle

Chromatics are sorta creepy... "Night Drive"

Afghan Whigs most of Uptown Avondale

Smog is *really* creepy. "Wild Love," The Doctor Came at Dawn, Red Apple Falls

how about goddamn angelo badalamenti for god's sake!

Roy Orbison is king of this. Lou Reed, Richard Hawley, maybe? Orbison's "Blue Bayou" is sorta the template, long drifting shot of guy sitting alone in a diner, obsessing over the girl he loved/shot/divorced whatever.

Anybody have any other ideas?

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, February 17, 2008 2:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

It's kind of funny to call Orbison the "king" of "vaguely creepy Lynchian nostalgia" since Lynch is actually the king of taking vaguely creepy stuff like Roy Orbison -- in one of the most memorable scenes in Blue Velvet -- and bringing out the creepiness in it.

devotchka and the czars, at least in their quiet moments.

I'm sure there was a thread called "drunk and creepy" started way back that would have lots of this kind of stuff. Tom Waits, Elvis, Cave, that sort of thing.

Calexico

Good call on Shangri-Las "Past, Present and Future". Creepy as hell.

Tindersticks - "El Diablo En El Ojo"

Elvis Presley - Blue moon
Ricky Nelson - Lonesome town

Speck Mountain - pretty much any song from Some Sweet Relief

I like the Mills Brothers.

this this this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbubyUymQqQ

The Teddy Bears - Oh Why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVPqQNXjfZE

The Spectors Three - I Really Do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuTwp-9ev6c

"Pink Cigarette" by Mister Bungle. Also this fan video is fairly Lynchian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwWQYg7aS5o

Surely one of the creepiest things ever recorded: 'O Willow Waly' from The Innocents soundtrack. Sung by Isla Cameron, I think, music by Georges Auric and Daphne Oram.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm77Xck34GE

Feels like a scene from Mulholland Drive

late 80s early 90s lana del reyish lynchcore tumblrwave songs (warning: millennial content)