Eraserhead Appreciation[views:2859][posts:3]____________________________________ [Jul 17,2006 11:57pm - Dissector ""] Anyone else? |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 18,2006 12:01am - RichHorror ""] Totally. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 18,2006 1:31am - litacore ""] fuck yes ~~~~~ ERASERHEAD - Original Soundtrack - CD - International Record Syndicate - 1982 review by: Larissa Glasser http://www.maelstrom.nu/ezine/vaultreview_iss42_2924.php Every artist, particularly in the black metal scene, has the almost scientifically certain likelihood of creative doors of perception being blasted open by listening to the soundtrack to the David Lynch film "Eraserhead." Regardless of whether you’ve managed to sit through the actual movie (which is, like so many of his other films, an endurance test for the mind), this mostly ambient soundtrack captures desolation, urban decay, and rusty obsolescence better than most other media. This soundtrack is a standalone work. Even repeated viewings of the film are wiped from memory, except during the snippets of dialogue, which are mercifully short. Factory whistles bleat in the background, hissing radiators struggle in vain to stave off the cold air, carnival music squeezes as from down a vast, copper corridor, and finally, the wailing of the torso it-baby with a voice thinner than a mosquito’s wing yet sharp enough to pierce the most seasoned eardrum. By the second half of the soundtrack, Eraserhead has managed to suspend disbelief long enough to offer a more subdued, moaning stream of drone with much less dialogue, despair with the G-force of hurricane winds, and finally, in a VERY futile attempt to satiate his human yearnings while caring for his premature it-baby, attempted affair with the woman living across the hall (she is understandably repelled by his deformed offspring). One of the best points comes around the nine minute mark of this second half, when the it-baby unleashes an incessant wail drenched with reverb and frostwinds. Pregnancies, abide this ordeal. Lord knows what cohesion David Lynch was attempting with "Eraserhead." Full of startling imagery, the film took over five years to make, but it put Lynch on the map. The soundtrack, taken as its own dose, is equally perplexing. Just as the listener grows zombified by incessant cityscape drone, the album cuts short like instant death. Eraserhead a is wholly unsettling listening experience. ~~~~~~ I have a smile across my butt. Must be the humidity. |
| ______________________________________________ [Jul 18,2006 2:14am - chris_from_shit_fuck ""] one of the best films ever made, just the imagery alone in this movie makes it phenomenal but everything just flows so well throughout the film that it is a masterpiece of filmmaking. |