the Twin Peaks: The Return roadhouse performances poll

xp I don't think the (huge) impact of that song would have been greater if it had gone on for longer

But it's an old song and (rightly) not really recontextualised the way just you and Audrey's dance were, so it makes sense that people pass over it in a poll like this

I voted for James I'm not ashamed

hell yeah brother, was my second choice

I'm leaning towards Lark right now, it really ties a nice bow around the first four episodes. Like those first four episodes are so bewildering, you get through them all and you have no idea where the show is going to go, and then that song comes on and it's so pleasant. it really captures this feeling that the plot is starting to form and the rest of the show is gonna be one long strange dreamy ride. I also like how they're stylish in a lynchian way but it doesn't feel like they're "trying" to put on an image (i.e. chromatics, who i love but of course they're in this thing)

it's amazing how a vote's been guaranteed for all but 3 performances here, and there's no way No Stars isn't getting a vote. Heck it's my second choice right now.

well maybe not guaranteed, but there's a lot of love to go around for all of these. except hudmo. poor hudmo. I contemplated combining his performance with au revoir simone's in part 9 but then anyone who just liked the simone song wouldn't dare vote for it

I've had sharp dressed man stuck in my head since the episode aired.

I loved the HudMo for showing that there are support bands in the nu-Roadhouse universe

and ppl still talk through them

Axolotl was possibly the single worst thing I've ever seen. That band annoys me anyway, but jfc

Anyway, probably not voting for them

otm, axolotl was the absolute lowest point

• None of the above.

sad that xiu xiu didn't get their rightful spot in the roadhouse but at least we have this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SG6yDSbtxU

my unborn child first discernibly kicked during the nine inch nails performance (and kicked like crazy during the same song when we saw them at webster hall a few weeks later). so the nin it is.

that rules

The roadhouse is proud to welcome

not sure why people have a visceral bad reaction to that Veils song.

who is going to stand up for Lissie - Wild West? NOT ME that was fucking terrible.

the absolute nadir and low point of the Return IMO

(except for maybe Leaving Las Vegas)

eh on rewatch i suddenly really liked the lissie song

I thought the Veils song was great.

akm otm ftw

voting 'shadow', just ahead of nin for me

i didn't hate any of the songs. the lissie song felt a little out of context with the rest of the music, and i'm not a big vedder/pearl jam fan but i thought his song was fine. the sharon van etten song is the only one i have no memory of at all.

i'm actually going to vote for the sharon van etten song, it's so gorgeous

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

regret voting for NIN instead of James

don't regret it, you made the right choice

plot twist: james actually wins the poll

no spoilers

I voted for James

Fuck it, I'm voting for Lissie. Haters gonna hate.

that song rules. speak your truth

Lissie annoyed me a lot less than Au Revoir Simone

C'mon, Au Rev Sim were the counterparts of Candy and the casino girls, absolutely perfect. If I'm honest the most annoying artist was Julee Cruise - felt that way in 1991 and still feel it in 2017.

These takes are so foreign to me I hardly know how to approach them

Julee Cruise did seem shoehorned in unfortunately

as opposed to the rest of the musical performances?

Really? Felt to me like a very deliberate return to the emotional space of the end of episode 14 xp

Although exponents of the sync theory point to the use of that song as an example of a happy ending lol

*proponents I'm losing it

well i mean it was like really short and a weird ass part of the song she barely sings

That's precisely it for me. It's a replay of maddie's murder (in that Cooper has gravely failed and is deeply confounded) but this time we don't get to luxuriate in the sadness. It's a great setup for part 18 imo

Yah it totally worked, but I have no doubt in my mind it took A LOT of fiddling to make it work lol

yeah they didn't spend enough time on her performance. I don't know why. She blew her top when that aired on FB but then claimed it wasn't because of the shortened length. I'm still not sure what she was mad about if it wasn't that. That scene has a lot of emotional resonance in the original series; and here, it seemed superfluous. Maybe that was the intention though, like so many other semi-fan-servicey bits.

It really increased the sadness and eventual gut punch for me.

Yeah totally. I'm trying to imagine that scene in the forest fading into a 5-minute roadhouse performance and people thinking that was better than what we got

it would have been 2 to three minutes better

Different strokes I guess. They could have had Donna and Bobby reprise their weeping, too, as a recording from the 90s played out, but it's hard to see what that would add - the way they went was purposeful and effective, and we can all still play our old CDs.

have i noted my objection to this ilm thread being on ilx yet

an ilm thread on ilx? say it ain't so

cant get jaded in the face of tyranny buck

No votes fof Saturday? Used very beautifully

wtf there are so many more embarrassing things than THE Nine Inch Nails

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0a7_lEoQg

^^^ the best one

Indeed, one of those votes is mine

rewatching currently and Rebekah Del Rio’s just feels like the original run’s Julee Cruise song. And Moby!

baffles me that Beach House weren’t among these performances

the Broadcast poll had me thinking how they would’ve been a great fit, not necessarily on the stage performance section, but doing whatever Lynch was doing for his sound editing.

the breakdown in the chromatics song "shadow" has a brief moment that directly rips off the verse melody of "wish fulfillment" by sonic youth

when I first saw that episode there was a moment where I thought it might be a cover

I got around to watching this last year and really liked the Lissie song.

Au Revoir Simone is very bad