Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (soundtrack)

The soundtrack includes music by Badalamenti, who had composed and conducted the music on the television series and its original soundtrack. In addition to his instrumental compositions, Fire Walk with Me's soundtrack features vocal accompaniment to Badalamenti's songs by Jimmy Scott and Julee Cruise.^[6]

Badalamenti performs vocals on "A Real Indication" and "The Black Dog Runs at Night", two songs by Thought Gang, a musical project between Badalamenti and Lynch. Lynch wrote the lyrics for several of the soundtrack's songs, including "Sycamore Trees", "Questions in a World of Blue", "A Real Indication" and "The Black Dog Runs at Night", and was the soundtrack's producer alongside Badalamenti.^[6]

Upon its release, Fire Walk with Me's soundtrack charted in the United States, peaking at number 173 on the Billboard 200.^[7] It was nominated for, and later received, the Best Music at the 1992 Saturn Awards^[8] and Best Original Score at the Independent Spirit Awards.^[9] In March 2011, British music publication NME placed Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me's soundtrack at number 1 on their list of the 50 Best Film soundtracks Ever, describing it as "combining plangent beauty with a kind of clanking evil jazz, this is one of those endlessly evocative soundtracks that takes up residence in your subconscious and never leaves".^[10]

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.^[11]

In her book about the soundtrack of the series and film, Clare Nina Norelli noted that pieces are "informed by jazz" and generally "set up a different atmosphere from that of the series".^[13]

In Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds, the soundtrack was said to "[reinforce] physical and mental transformations and changes in characters".^[14]