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==Soundtrack==
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The ''Blue Velvet'' soundtrack was supervised by [[Angelo Badalamenti]] (who makes a brief cameo appearance as the pianist at the Slow Club where Dorothy performs). The soundtrack makes heavy usage of vintage pop songs, such as [[Bobby Vinton]]'s "[[Blue Velvet (song)|Blue Velvet]]" and [[Roy Orbison]]'s "[[In Dreams (Roy Orbison song)|In Dreams]]", juxtaposed with an orchestral score. During filming, Lynch placed speakers on set and in streets and played Shostakovich to set the mood he wanted to convey.<ref name="Blue Velvet">''Mysteries of Love: The Making of Blue Velvet'', ''Blue Velvet'' Special Edition DVD documentary, [2002]</ref> The score alludes to Shostakovich's [[Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich)|15th Symphony]], which Lynch had been listening to regularly while writing the screenplay.<ref>''Blue Velvet'' film score at [http://www.thecityofabsurdity.com/bluevelvet/bvsound.html "The City of Absurdity"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716225453/http://www.thecityofabsurdity.com/bluevelvet/bvsound.html |date=July 16, 2011 }}. Retrieved June 24, 2007.</ref> Lynch had originally opted to use "[[Song to the Siren]]" by [[This Mortal Coil]] during the scene in which Sandy and Jeffrey share a dance; however, he could not obtain the rights for the song at the time. He would go on to use this song in ''[[Lost Highway (film)|Lost Highway]]'' eleven years later.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/17/song-to-the-siren-classic|title=Song to the Siren's irresistible tang|newspaper=The Guardian|date=November 18, 2011|access-date=June 20, 2016|last1=Aston|first1=Martin}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2011/11/the-saddest-music-in-the-world-174088/|title=The saddest music in the world|work=[[Indiewire]]|date=November 16, 2011|access-date=June 20, 2016}}</ref>

''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked ''Blue Velvet''{{'s}} soundtrack on its list of the ''100 Greatest Film Soundtracks'', at the 100th position. Critic John Alexander wrote, "the haunting soundtrack accompanies the title credits, then weaves through the narrative, accentuating the noir mood of the film."<ref name="British Film Resource">{{cite web | title = The Films of David Lynch: 50 Percent Sound | publisher = The British Film Resource | year = 1997 | url = http://www.britishfilm.org.uk/lynch/Schap3.html | access-date = August 31, 2009 | archive-date = August 29, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090829132248/http://www.britishfilm.org.uk/lynch/Schap3.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> Lynch worked with music composer [[Angelo Badalamenti]] for the first time in this film and asked him to write a score that had to be "like Shostakovich, be very Russian, but make it the most beautiful thing but make it dark and a little bit scary."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Chion |first=Michael |year=1995 | title = Blue Velvet | journal=British Film Institute, London |page=89}}</ref> Badalamenti's success with ''Blue Velvet'' would lead him to contribute to all of Lynch's future full-length films until ''[[Inland Empire (film)|Inland Empire]]'' as well as the cult television program ''[[Twin Peaks]]''. Also included in the sound team was long-time Lynch collaborator [[Alan Splet]], a [[Sound editor (filmmaking)|sound editor]] and designer who had won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for his work on ''[[The Black Stallion (film)|The Black Stallion]]'' (1979) and been nominated for ''[[Never Cry Wolf (film)|Never Cry Wolf]]'' (1983).<ref name="oscars1">{{Cite web |title=Alan Splet |url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/052-23/ |access-date=March 31, 2008 |website=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Woodward |first=Richard B. |date=May 13, 2014 |title=Snapping, Humming, Buzzing, Banging: Remembering Alan Splet |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/05/13/snapping-humming-buzzing-banging-remembering-alan-splet/ |access-date=April 30, 2022 |website=The Paris Review |language=en}}</ref>