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.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 10 September 2017 05:21 (six years ago) link
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
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 10 September 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
I've had sharp dressed man stuck in my head since the episode aired.
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 10 September 2017 06:07 (six years ago) link
I loved the HudMo for showing that there are support bands in the nu-Roadhouse universe
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Sunday, 10 September 2017 06:24 (six years ago) link
and ppl still talk through them
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Sunday, 10 September 2017 06:25 (six years ago) link
Axolotl was possibly the single worst thing I've ever seen. That band annoys me anyway, but jfc
― albvivertine, Sunday, 10 September 2017 06:41 (six years ago) link
Anyway, probably not voting for them
― albvivertine, Sunday, 10 September 2017 06:42 (six years ago) link
otm, axolotl was the absolute lowest point
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 10 September 2017 09:47 (six years ago) link
• None of the above.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
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
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 10 September 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― adam, Sunday, 10 September 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
that rules
― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 September 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
The roadhouse is proud to welcome
― streeps of range (wins), Sunday, 10 September 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― akm, Sunday, 10 September 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
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
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 September 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
I thought the Veils song was great.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 10 September 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
akm otm ftw
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 10 September 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
voting 'shadow', just ahead of nin for me
― nxd, Monday, 11 September 2017 09:13 (six years ago) link
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.
― na (NA), Monday, 11 September 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
i'm actually going to vote for the sharon van etten song, it's so gorgeous
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 September 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
regret voting for NIN instead of James
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
don't regret it, you made the right choice
― Moodles, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
plot twist: james actually wins the poll
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
no spoilers
― mh, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
I voted for James
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
Fuck it, I'm voting for Lissie. Haters gonna hate.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
that song rules. speak your truth
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
Lissie annoyed me a lot less than Au Revoir Simone
― Brad C., Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
These takes are so foreign to me I hardly know how to approach them
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
Julee Cruise did seem shoehorned in unfortunately
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
as opposed to the rest of the musical performances?
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
Really? Felt to me like a very deliberate return to the emotional space of the end of episode 14 xp
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
Although exponents of the sync theory point to the use of that song as an example of a happy ending lol
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
*proponents I'm losing it
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
well i mean it was like really short and a weird ass part of the song she barely sings
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
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
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
Yah it totally worked, but I have no doubt in my mind it took A LOT of fiddling to make it work lol
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
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.
― akm, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
It really increased the sadness and eventual gut punch for me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
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
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
it would have been 2 to three minutes better
― akm, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
I definitely would have liked it longer though not necessarily the whole song.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
wins - the band that played her backing band (was it veils) did that interview about meticulously learning the song and playing it live over and over and then it was just the a short snippet of the performance that barely featured any julie and it was the recorded track from the 90s! obvs there was something up. maybe that clouds the scene for me.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
yeah Cruise went off on FB about "the cult" of Lynch. it's a bummer. reminded me of the Michael J. Anderson stuff. and Sherilyn's tweet...
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 September 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
wtf there are so many more embarrassing things than THE Nine Inch Nails
― akm, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0a7_lEoQg
^^^ the best one
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 8 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Indeed, one of those votes is mine
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 8 December 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
rewatching currently and Rebekah Del Rio’s just feels like the original run’s Julee Cruise song. And Moby!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 30 April 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
baffles me that Beach House weren’t among these performances
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 30 April 2022 05:07 (one year ago) link
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.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 30 April 2022 05:13 (one year ago) link
the breakdown in the chromatics song "shadow" has a brief moment that directly rips off the verse melody of "wish fulfillment" by sonic youth
― na (NA), Monday, 12 September 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
when I first saw that episode there was a moment where I thought it might be a cover
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 12 September 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
I got around to watching this last year and really liked the Lissie song.
― peace, man, Monday, 12 September 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
Au Revoir Simone is very bad
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 12 September 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link