We need to start a series here at Nerdist called “Things I didn’t want, but the Internet made it and now I need more of it.” Case in point: this NES-style de-make of the Twin Peaks opening.
The video was put together by Filthy Frackers, who’ve made a thing of 8-bit/chiptune versions of Grunge hits and the like. Here, they’ve reworked Angelo Badalamenti’s classic theme, which is still haunting and sad without the vocals.
It’s a perfect reproduction of the show’s credits, down to the way it captures the autumn colors of upstate Washington which got viewers primed each week for David Lynch’s surreal murder mystery/soap opera.
Is there anyone out there with more time than sense willing to recreate all of Twin Peaks in this style? Or at least the pilot? I guess I’m so taken with it because it feels like such a sharply-drawn reinterpretation of something I love. The de-make is era-appropriate and captures what made the original work.
By the way, this isn’t the only time Twin Peaks has gotten the video game treatment: back in 2011, indie developer Jak Locke created Black Lodge. Locke went all in, making his game in the style of an Atari 2600 action adventure game featuring the a day in the life of Special Agent Dale Cooper. And of course, he ends up in the Black Lodge, and things get wonderfully surreal.
[Source: Filthy Frackers via The Mary Sue]
Since when does the Twin Peaks theme have vocals?
An instrumental version of “Falling” was used for the Twin Peaks theme, but the original had lyrics by David Lynch and was sung by Julee Cruise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_(Julee_Cruise_song)
Interesting. I didn’t know that. .
That being said, in the context of Twin Peaks and its “theme,” it didn’t have vocals either.