Was the album "Floating Into The Night" written before Twin Peaks was thought of? If so, this means that the intro music (Falling) wasn't written specifically for the show which isn't a good thing. Thankfully, "Laura Palmer's Theme" for written specifically for the show.

Why is it a bad thing? Most people agree it works perfectly with the show so whether it was written specifically for it or not I can't see it makes much difference.

Floating into the Night was released 8 months after the Twin Peaks soundtrack, according to amazon.  I think it was cross promoting on Lynch's part. They did they same thing with the FWWM theme and Voice of Love/She Would Die for Love.

I think Angelo says that he prior to working on Twin Peaks worked with Julee Cruise. So I assumed it was the Floating Into The Night album his was talking about. I think it's on the new DVD but I could be wrong.

Yes, it does work well with the series. But if it wasn't written specifically for the show, the idea for the song, what the song was to orginally supposed to reflect etc, affects how I view the song. It means they just took a "someone elses" song and slapped it onto the intro for the show. It just feels as though the song has lost something, some quality to it if it is indeed true that it was not specifically written for Twin Peaks. Movies are another thing, but when it comes to tv-shows I feel that the intro music should be specifically written for the show. It needs to feel personal. But then, what do I know.

A lot of songs on her album are in the series.

Anyway, it's still a great song.

I'm not sure one should trust amazon when it comes to dates.

Welll, unlike a movie, the theme must have been written with at most the Pilot in mind. I don't think the Pilot

gives a good sense of the show. Thus, I think Angelo writing it for the show or not for the show are barely different. In the case of a movie, they are able to pick music with the entire script for the movie available,

and possibly with the finished movie available. 

I have a soft spot for "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart," I just think it's an equally sad and beautiful song.

The LP theme and Falling are so thematically similar I can't imagine they weren't written about the same time and for the same project.  But what do I know, indeed!  :)

I think Angelo says that he prior to working on Twin Peaks worked with Julee Cruise.

Yeah, on the song "Mysteries of Love", from Blue Velvet. And he knew her before that, because he suggested her to Lynch for that song.

In her commentary on the Gold DVD set, Julee Cruise said Lynch asked her to think of the person she had loved the most when recording "Falling."  Cruise said she thought of her cocker spaniel, "Rudy".  I thought this was especially endearing and funny

I remember going into the local music store in the summer of 1990 and asking for Twin Peaks music.  I was directed to Floating Into the Night and was not disappointed, and I enjoyed recognizing the songs as they later appeared in the series.  So I'm sure the songs were released before TP was made, but as earlier posts have stated, it is likely that Lynch, Badalamenti, and Cruise wrote the song with Laura Palmer et al in mind.

I don't know. I'm still not sure about this.

David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti both wrote and produced the songs on "Floating into the Night". The album was released September 12, 1989. The release date of the TP soundtrack was August 31, 1990. First show broadcast was April 8th, 1990.  These songs were all being written right around the same time the first shows were being made.

I see. Well, I guess we'll never know for sure.

The 1989 release date is the correct one. But I don't see what the big deal is, to be honest. I agree that there might be some problem in theory, but pretty much everything Lynch and Badalamenti have done together have similarities. Whether "Falling" was written for Peaks or not is a moot point to me - it feels like it was. I think we can be reasonably assume "Rockin' Back inside My Heart" and "The World Spins" were not written for the show, since they weren't used until a year and a half later and yet they fit perfectly. The "Sycamore Trees" lyric is taken straight from the original "Ronny Rocket" script from 1978 (or about that time). And that fits perfectly too. Granted, that was unreleased, but I don't think this is more problematic than the Rabbits/Inland Empire case.

dont forget Industrial Symphony No. 1, done at the brooklyn academy of music at the same time as twin peaks and wild at heart. julee crusie sings many songs from floating into the night, including rockin back inside my heart sung from the trunk of a car. falling is there too. i guess its really hard to say what the original purpose of these songs were, as theres is so much that is shared by all these works. id almost venture to say they are all part of a larger whole.