Part 8 (Twin Peaks)
Production
Almost every episode of the 2017 Twin Peaks series features a live performance by various bands at the Roadhouse. In this episode, American rock band Nine Inch Nails performed "She's Gone Away". Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor had previously collaborated with Lynch on the soundtrack for Lost Highway, and Lynch had directed the music video for the Nine Inch Nails song "Came Back Haunted". Uniquely, the performance takes place during the episode, preceding the New Mexico scenes, rather than at its end. During the scene in which Ray Monroe shoots Mr. C, a severely slowed down version of Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is used. The atomic bomb sequence is underscored by the musical composition Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki. Two original recordings were used in the course of the episode, during the scenes in the structure over the purple sea: "Slow '30s Room", a remixed excerpt of the seventh movement in David Lynch and Dean Hurley's 2007 album The Air Is on Fire, and "The Fireman" by Angelo Badalamenti; both compositions were eventually released in the September 2017 soundtrack album Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack. Additionally, the song "My Prayer" by the Platters is used in the final scene of the episode. One of the founding members of the group is a singer named David Lynch.
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