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David Lynch: The Big Dream
The collection Daniel brought back from Denver is pretty freaking nuts. The amount of ‘grail’ items I’ve found… and we’re only about halfway through. All the Uncle Acid and Electric Wizard you could want? Check. Super special edition black metal? Check. A ton of Harvey Milk records? Yep. Dude even had some weird educational/spoken word/field recording records I’ve been eying on Discogs for a while. A lot of it is special editions way out of my price range, but I’ve already snagged some stuff I’m fucking ECSTATIC to finally have in my collection.
I don’t know if my coworkers heard the awful sounds that came out of my mouth when I found The Big Dream in a stack of records I was pricing the other week, but it was definitely loud and probably embarrassing. I’ve loved David Lynch ever since I watched Eraserhead in high school and binged his short films for weeks afterward. That led me to Twin Peaks and his other movies, but as I switched my major from film to printmaking while in college, I found out Lynch is also quite the accomplished lithographer! I think all of Lynch’s work is very distinctly his style, but it’s hard to put a finger on what makes something Lynchian. One of those things where I know it when I see it.
The same goes for his music. In college, a friend was playing The Big Dream in their car and I remember saying ‘this sounds like the soundtrack to a David Lynch movie’... lo and behold, he’s the singer. The whole album is ethereal and creepy. In my head, Twin Peaks is the perfect backdrop for this music. For being electronic and vocoder-y (I don’t even know if he actually used one), there’s something anachronistic about this entire album and I love the line it straddles. I don’t know any other artist besides David Lynch who could make music like this and have it work so well. When I tell people his singing voice is similar to his talking voice, I see a lot of hesitation, but LET ME TELL YOU, it works so well! If you haven’t listened to any David Lynch music but are a fan of his visual art—you have to listen to this shit.