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Angelo Badalamenti — Laurens Walking
Album: The Straight Story
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Released: 1999
Length: 4:06
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(Instrumental)
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Life means Zendo, and becoming at peace with oneself. (Allan Watts, Hermann Hesse)
Just wonderful.
Great music for a great film.
 tumbledad wrote:

Double melancholy as I listen to this song and replay the movie's plot while remembering that the great character actor, Richard Farnsworth,  died by suicide. 

A quick search reveals he had terminal cancer and was in excruciating pain. So yeah, it's still melancholy, but maybe a tad less so.
Such a wonderful movie, regardless.
c.

The little riff on human beans below is a sentimental reminder (as if this music wasn’t already), of when I was trying to come up with a nickname for our daughter. Scout was already taken, the readers among us will know how, I was searching for something humble but with goodness and a link to something that had a wee connection to mythology. This: Bean. ❤️❤️❤️
This hit hard, heart-achingly beautiful
A beautiful touching film with a perfect soundtrack.  Gorgeous
Double melancholy as I listen to this song and replay the movie's plot while remembering that the great character actor, Richard Farnsworth,  died by suicide. 
 goodenough wrote:


So what do you really hope they are, Chimpanzees, uh? Of course they are human beings, don't you recognise word play when it's used?🐨



As english is not my mother tongue - no, apparently not.
But your tone - if one can say that about something written - appears a bit aggressive. Calm down, please.
 Lemmes wrote:


Well, I hope, neither Bill nor Rebecca are actually human beans! 


So what do you really hope they are, Chimpanzees, uh? Of course they are human beings, don't you recognise word play when it's used?🐨
 norbertZ wrote:
Great Song. Great Movie.

8 --> 9  


Missed this one - thanks for the tip! I'm always a big fan of both Angelo Badelamenti (perhaps best name ever) and Lynch.
Bumped from 6 to an 8. I must’ve been in a bad mood when I heard this the first time.
 goodenough wrote:

Weeks of  algorithm "curated" playlists on Spotify might turn up a couple of interesting sounds. Fifteen minutes of listening to Radio Paradise with playlists curated by human beans and I've already found three songs that are absolute belters. And this is one of them.🐨



Well, I hope, neither Bill nor Rebecca are actually human beans! 
Great Song. Great Movie.

8 --> 9  
 goodenough wrote:

Weeks of  algorithm "curated" playlists on Spotify might turn up a couple of interesting sounds. Fifteen minutes of listening to Radio Paradise with playlists curated by human beans and I've already found three songs that are absolute belters. And this is one of them.🐨


Maybe that gets at the true meaning of eclectic... a wide ranging taste in music of a particular essence. The algorithms of amazon, spotify and pandora have never worked for me at all. I don't like all the music Bill does, but his taste is very aligned with mine at some kind of mystical root. 
Weeks of  algorithm "curated" playlists on Spotify might turn up a couple of interesting sounds. Fifteen minutes of listening to Radio Paradise with playlists curated by human beans and I've already found three songs that are absolute belters. And this is one of them.🐨
 jwallstrom846 wrote:
      
 

You would like the movie. 
I really enjoyed the movie. Not sure I can explain why.
c.

      Larrygrrl wrote:
This is so beautiful I want to cry.
 

You would like the movie. 
The Twin Peaks guy? I like👍
Love it!!!
Where's the log lady now!  Brilliant! 
Alexandra wrote:
This is gorgeous
 

Yes. So is your name .
This is so beautiful I want to cry.
 sirtezza wrote:
A five minute intro to nowhere..... 
 
I can see your point, but sometimes the journey matters more than the destination?
I'm certainly happy with it!!
this is why i listen to RP. another new one
That was very nice.... a beautiful interlude.
 sirtezza wrote:
A five minute intro to nowhere..... 
 
Sometimes music doesn't need to take you anywhere, it's OK to be lifted gently, carried with the flow for a short while before being carefully deposited back to your place of comfort. {#Drunk}
This... this is nice. Very nice.
Reminds me of another great movie, Eastern Promises, when Armin Mueller-Stahl explains the right way to play a violin: making the wood cry.
This is gorgeous
sweet music for a fine, slo film  
A five minute intro to nowhere..... 
Perfect for the story~captured the essence of the emotions~
very nice
doesn't sound like it was written for a movie 
 sum wrote:
muito boa, essa musica xd
 

Looks like he 3rd'd it before me.{#Wink}
 mkrueck wrote:

I second that!

 

I'll third that!
 MassivRuss wrote:
Bill is there any recording NOT in RP's collection? Please answer using a Venn diagram.
 
{#Lol} That would be quite an undertaking.
 BMTR wrote:
{#Notworthy} wonderful music to a wonderful movie

 
and
 BMTR wrote:
{#Notworthy} wonderful music to a wonderful movie

 
I agree {#Daisy}
{#Notworthy} wonderful music to a wonderful movie
Moody. Helps to be in the right mood. I am.
Couldn't make it further than the first 30 seconds or so.  2
 smdeeg wrote:


Funny, but not very accurate. It is literally David Lynch meets Disney, and if you're familiar with his work you can see it's him, but without all the evil.  Sweet and slow, small in scope, and well crafted, the end made my girlfriend (now wife) sob a bit.  And, as is typical with Lynch, great music by Angelo Badalamenti.  I rather liked it, but it's not everybody's cup of tea.

 
The real Alvin Straight's path took him about an hour north of where I grew up.  I remember seeing him on the news and everything.
The movie still gives me a homesick lump in my throat.
Hi All
this us the closest thing you have played to Irish traditional music and I recommend you try some more TRAD 
 photolew wrote:
Its songs like this from an artist I've never heard of until 3 min ago is why I am an RP junkie

 
I second that!
Bill is there any recording NOT in RP's collection? Please answer using a Venn diagram.
 mladek wrote:

The slowest road movie ever made
 
If you didn't already know, it's a true story. David Lynch goes Americana. Strange, but true. In that sense, at least, it's The Elephant Man. 

Badalamenti is amazing... one of my favorite movie scores.  Beautiful, evocative music.
muito boa, essa musica xd
Its songs like this from an artist I've never heard of until 3 min ago is why I am an RP junkie
 RKeaton wrote:
English film critic Mark Kermode calls this movie "Forrest Gump on a tractor".
 
The slowest road movie ever made
After a minute or so, I realized it wasn't just a long intro to a song, but the song. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Yes, this.  More please.
Verrrry nice. And touching movie too.
 RKeaton wrote:
English film critic Mark Kermode calls this movie "Forrest Gump on a tractor".
 

Funny, but not very accurate. It is literally David Lynch meets Disney, and if you're familiar with his work you can see it's him, but without all the evil.  Sweet and slow, small in scope, and well crafted, the end made my girlfriend (now wife) sob a bit.  And, as is typical with Lynch, great music by Angelo Badalamenti.  I rather liked it, but it's not everybody's cup of tea.
 RKeaton wrote:
English film critic Mark Kermode calls this movie "Forrest Gump on a tractor".
 
Must See Cinema!
English film critic Mark Kermode calls this movie "Forrest Gump on a tractor".
beautiful
I really liked that quirky little movie.

And Badalamenti is The Sh*t!  {#Music}

 coding_to_music wrote:
Sounds like music for Prairie Home Companion, or a Ken Burns PBS special

Nice enough... 
 
Let's multi-task !  Seriously....I have noticed some of the BEST PEOPLE here on RP, and you are one of them......Cheers
And Keep Coding

Sounds like music for Prairie Home Companion, or a Ken Burns PBS special

Nice enough... 
Oh, that movie was so poignant! And funny.
Reminds me a little of the Deadwood theme song.  I'm liking it.
You really should play this song! 
 icatapult wrote:
I am suprised this is the only Angelo Badalamenti on RP, and even more suprised that this song has not even been played. I am sending a request now.
 

Ditto! More Angelo! {#Exclaim}
I am suprised this is the only Angelo Badalamenti on RP, and even more suprised that this song has not even been played. I am sending a request now.