Blue Velvet: The Deluxe Edition (2-CD)

Blue Velvet is David Lynch’s unforgettable 1986 masterwork, starring Kyle MacLachlan as a college student whose discovery of a severed ear leads him into a nightmarish world of crime and sexual perversion. Isabella Rosselini, as a tormented lounge singer, and Dennis Hopper, as an emotional gas-sniffing psychopath, are among the brilliant cast. 

Blue Velvet was Lynch’s first collaboration with his longtime composer and musical partner, Angelo Badalamenti (their fame later to explode with Twin Peaks). Badalamenti has always been able to channel Lynch’s unique vision, and it was evident upon their first collaboration: a dark, moody yet melodic score, at turns agitated and violent, soaring with sublime beauty, and hanging cool with ’50s-style jazz. Badalamenti also acted as musical director for the film’s nightclub lounge recordings (in fact, the reason why he was hired).

Varèse Sarabande released the Blue Velvet soundtrack at the time of the film, a program of songs and score retained as disc one of this 2CD set—with the addition of the famous 1963 recording of “Blue Velvet,” performed by Bobby Vinton. Disc one concludes with the first Lynch–Badalamenti–Julee Cruise collaboration, the dreamlike “Mysteries of Love.” 

Premiering on disc two is an extended program of previously unreleased Badalamenti score: film cues, alternates and outtakes entitled “Lumberton Firewood.” Although Blue Velvet was scored more traditionally than later Lynch projects, the director and composer intended many tracks to be merely “firewood,” their term for raw orchestral sonorities to be edited and manipulated into sound design by the director.

The Deluxe Edition packaging features liner notes by Tim Greiving, incorporating new interviews with David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti, Kyle MacLachlan and producer Fred Caruso.

Limited to 3000 copies

Tracklist

Disc One: The Original Soundtrack
1. Main Title (From the Motion Picture Blue Velvet) 1:24
2. Night Streets / Sandy and Jeffrey 3:37
3. Frank 3:33
4. Jeffrey’s Dark Side 1:48
5. Mysteries of Love (French Horn solo)2:09 †
6. Frank Returns 4:38
7. Mysteries of Love (Instrumental) 4:13†
8. Blue Velvet */ Blue Star †- Montage 1:49
9. Lumberton U.S.A. † / Going Down to Lincoln - Sound Effects Suite 2:12
10. Alrcon Meets the Blues 2:41
11. Blue Velvet performed by Bobby Vinton 2:48 ‡
12. Honky Tonk Part I performed by Bill Doggett 3:09 tt
13. In Dreams performed by Roy Orbison 2:48 ‡‡
14. Love Letters performed by Ketty Lester 2:39 ‡‡‡
15. Mysteries of Love performed by Julee Cruise 4:25 †

Disc Two: Lumberton Firewood
1. Alrcon Meets the Blues (alternate) 1:05
2. Lumberton U.S.A. Radio Ad 0:16
3. Timpo 0:23
4. Ribbon Scissor 0:20
5. Going Down to Lincoln 1:41
6. Organs and Sirens (take 2) 1:12
7. Sandy and Jeffery 0:26
8. Dorothy Alone 0:19
9. Mount Frank’s Eruption aka Frank (Film version without Clarinet) 3:36
10. Sloe Club Boys 0:25
11. High Gentle Memories 1:02
12. Stalking Out 0:22
13. Yellow Man 1:03
14. Sandy and Jeffrey (Version 2) 0:47
15. Ominously Yours II 0:54
16. Ominously Yours IV 0:41
17. Organ (Version 3)/Mysteries of Love 4:11 †
18. Organ Toots and Sirens 1:17
19. Cue 61A 1:13
20. Cue 05 0:54
21. Cue 09 0:55
22. Cue 09A 0:29
23. Cue 13 1:38
24. Cue 16 0:24
25. Cue 21 & 24 0:46
26. Cue 27 1:54
27. Cue 36 0:34
28. Cue 46 1:14
29. Cue 48 0:48
30. Cue 50 1:04
31. Cue 56 1:22
32. Cue 65 0:51
33. Cue D 0:56
34. Cue 65 (Version 2) 3:05