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\u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n The most unforgettable musical scene in \u201cBlue Velvet,\u201d though, starts with a song request from the monstrous Frank Booth<\/a> (Dennis Hopper): \u201cThe candy-colored clown they call the sandman.\u201d With his face illuminated from below by a mechanic\u2019s work light doubling as a microphone, Dean Stockwell\u2019s character Ben lip-syncs this Roy Orbison classic<\/a> as Lynch draws out the hidden menace in lyrics that read as romance: \u201cIn dreams, you\u2019re mine.\u201d (Orbison\u2019s music also figures into 2001\u2019s \u201cMulholland Drive,\u201d with Rebekah del Rio performing a Spanish-language cover of \u201cCrying\u201d<\/a> in a climactic scene.)<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n In \u201cEraserhead,\u201d the Lady in the Radiator appears to Henry, the film\u2019s shock-haired protagonist, and performs this tune<\/a> on a tiny stage inside, you guessed it, his radiator. The songwriter Peter Ivers<\/a> co-wrote \u201cIn Heaven\u201d with Lynch and released his own version later<\/a>, and the track has drawn as much of a cult following as the movie: I heard the cover version by Pixies<\/a> long before I had actually seen \u201cEraserhead.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Chris Isaak\u2019s update of Orbison\u2019s high lonesome croon and Elvis Presley\u2019s low growl fit perfectly in Lynch\u2019s \u201cWild at Heart\u201d (1990), a violent romance featuring Laura Dern and an Elvis-obsessed, snakeskin-jacket-wearing Nicolas Cage as lovers on the run<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Lynch tapped Jimmy Scott, a jazz singer<\/a> with a high, ghostly voice, for a key scene in the final episode of \u201cTwin Peaks\u201d in 1991. Agent Cooper enters the otherworldly Red Room and watches Scott sing \u201cSycamore Trees,\u201d<\/a> a mournful ballad written by Lynch and Badalamenti.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n One of Lynch\u2019s seemingly more incongruous musical enthusiasms was for industrial hard rock verging on metal, used most prominently in his 1997 film \u201cLost Highway.\u201d<\/a> Alongside tracks by Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, this pummeling song by the infamous German band Rammstein<\/a> contributed to the movie\u2019s sinister undercurrent.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Beck\u2019s album \u201cGuero\u201d (2005) includes this groovy shuffle that plays underneath Dern\u2019s Hollywood breakdown<\/a> in \u201cInland Empire,\u201d Lynch\u2019s experimental (even for him) 2006 feature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n4. Roy Orbison: \u201cIn Dreams\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
5. \u201cIn Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
6. Chris Isaak: \u201cWicked Game\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
7. Jimmy Scott: \u201cSycamore Trees\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
8. Rammstein: \u201cRammstein\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
9. Beck: \u201cBlack Tambourine\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n