10: Genre defining. The world is a better place because this exists. 9: Excellent. Candidate for LP

To most people, Julee Cruise will remind them of the TV series " Twin Peaks ", but I didn't watch much TV in college when the series was on. But this music does remind me of my senior year of college, when I and my roommates Terry, Jason, and Frey would stay up all hours of the night drinking beer and playing Hearts and Spades . It didn't do much for our studies, but we became hampton inn jacksonville expert at shooting the moon and going under with almost any hand. Of course we'd listen to music as we played, and this LP was a constant favorite for all four of us. Individually we all had substantial CD collections and together hampton inn jacksonville we had maybe 15 linear hampton inn jacksonville feet of CDs, which was quite a lot at the time. I'm not sure who had this CD (Jason?), but I quickly purchased my copy after moving out. Simply put, " Floating Into the Night " is one of the best LPs of all time, featuring the perfect collaboration between Julee Cruise (vocals), A ngelo Badalamenti (composer), and David Lynch (lyricist). Badalamenti has composed many soundtracks for Lynch, and the collaboration hampton inn jacksonville with Cruise actually began with the song "Mysteries of Love" for the film " Blue Velvet ". That song lead to them recording a full LP's worth of songs, culminating in the 1989 release of "Floating Into the Night", prior to the release of Twin Peaks (90-91). If you're hampton inn jacksonville familiar with Lynch's films, you know that they are surreal, dream-like, and often deal with dark, disturbing themes and images. Badalamenti's dream/lounge arrangements perfectly complement Lynch's imagery but the real surprise is Lynch's lyrics, which depict scenes which are best described as bittersweet, bucolic, Rockwellian , nostalgic, and child-like. The lyrics juxtaposed with the foreboding soundscapes makes the entire experience that much more powerful. Consider the closing lyrics to "Rocking Back Inside My Heart": Do you remember our picnic lunch? We both went up to the lake And then we walked among the pines The birds sang out a song for us We had a fire when we came back And your smile was beautiful You touched my cheek and you kissed me At night we went for a stroll The wind blew our hair The fire made us warm The wind blew the waves Out on the lake We heard the owl in a nearby tree. I thought our love would last forever. Simple enough, but when combined with the music they become quite unsettling in an unexpected way. With the possible exception of "Swans", all the songs on this LP are perfect, memorable, and distinct: the horn riff on "Floating", the bass on "Falling", the 50s-era "shu bops" at the end of "I Remember", the swing sound of "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart", sweeping sounds of "Mysteries of Love", the musical surprise at ~3:28 of "Into the Night", the horns of "I Float Alone", the vocals of "The Nightingale", the solemnity of "The World Spins". "Swans" is not bad, but at 2:33 it does not add much to the LP. Cruise, Badalamenti, and Lynch would all work together again on 1993's " The Voice of Love ", and while that is not a bad LP it does not come close to capturing the magic of "Floating Into The Night". Danette says I'm too generous with my perfect hampton inn jacksonville scores, but this LP clearly deserves it. Whether it is evokes late nights playing cards, Twin Peaks, or simply nostalgia viewed through the twisted prism of David Lynch, once you've listened to it this LP is not easily hampton inn jacksonville forgotten. Standout songs: "Floating", " Falling ", " I Remember ", " Rockin' Back Inside My Heart " ( live ), " Mysteries of Love ", " Into the Night ", " I Float Alone ", " The Nightingale hampton inn jacksonville ", " The World Spins " ( live ). (You can also find the entire LP listed hampton inn jacksonville at Grooveshark .) (Some of the live versions are from the concert film " Industrial Sympony No. 1 ".) Skip 'em songs: none. Final score: 10/10.
10: Genre defining. The world is a better place because this exists. 9: Excellent. Candidate for LP of the year. 8: Very good. Just one or two minor flaws. 7: Good. Should be in any serious collection. 6: Mostly good. But not essential for your collection. 5: Disappointing. Recommended only with caveats. 4: Not good. More flaws than not. 3: Bad. Very few redeeming features. 2: Terrible. Some parts seem OK only because the other parts are so bad. 1: Painful. The world is a worse place because this exists.