[Thor Joachim Haga]

Good luck, Malte! I binge all of TWIN PEAKS about once every two years or so. I have the “gold” DVD box for the original series.

But now that this thread was ressurected, I can add another story (it was either this or the “extra-musical associations” one):

I’ve mentioned Jean Michel Jarre’s WAITING FOR COUSTEAU (1990) twice now, in other threads, and it has a back story that fits in this thread, I think.

It’s one of the very first LPs I got, that was just for me and not culled from my dad’s collection. It was a Christmas gift from my uncle – a teen at the time (he’s not much older than me), who went out to his local record store and bought this for me because he knew I was into Jarre. One of the best and most “tailored” gifts I’ve ever received, which I actually told him last summer. The title track “En Attendant Cousteau” is only half the length on the LP, but I soon got the CD as well, with its longer running time.

I love all the tracks on it, but I got particularly “lost” in the title track over its almost 50-minute running time. Every time, I created a narrative in my head, simultaneously created as I listened – I remember something about deserts, beaches, scorching sun, water, settlements and FLYING. I went back to the same story every time and embellished it. Wish I’d written it down, since I also wrote a lot of fiction back then.

But most DEFINITELY a track (albeit not film music) that inspired creativity elsewhere, which is what this thread is about. Obviously, a lot of my film music love (which emanates from ACTUAL narratives, not imagined ones) stems from these conceptual albums in electronic music and progressive rock.