Falling (Julee Cruise song)

"Falling"
An image of a dead woman wrapped in plastic on a white background. Brown text above reads "Julee Cruise falling" and below reads "The Theme from Twin Peaks Five Inch CD single".
Single by Julee Cruise
from the album Floating into the Night
B-side
  • "Theme from Twin Peaks" (instrumental)
  • "Floating"
Released1990 (1990)
StudioExcalibur Sound Productions (New York, New York)
Genre
Length
  • 4:12 (radio edit)
  • 5:21 (album version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Angelo Badalamenti
  • David Lynch
Julee Cruise singles chronology
"Falling"
(1990) 		"Rockin' Back Inside My Heart"
(1991)
Music video
"Falling" on YouTube

"Falling" is a song by American dream pop singer Julee Cruise. It is the lead single and second track from her debut studio album, Floating into the Night (1989). Featuring music composed by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics written by David Lynch, an instrumental version of "Falling" was used as the theme song for the ABC television series Twin Peaks and its Showtime revival.[1]

Twin Peaks gained a cult following after its original broadcast in April 1990, and "Falling" subsequently charted in 15 countries worldwide between 1990 and 1992, including Australia, where it reached No. 1 in April 1991. Badalamenti won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards for "Twin Peaks Theme".[2] In 2010, Pitchfork Media ranked "Falling" at No. 146 on its "Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s".[3] NME listed the song at No. 38 in their ranking of "100 Best Songs of the 1990s" in 2012.[4]

  1. ^ "How Twin Peaks Changed Music - David Lynch Influenced Lana Del Rey, Beach House, and More". Esquire. May 17, 2017. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  2. ^ "33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards | 1990 GRAMMYs". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  3. ^ "Staff Lists: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 150–101 | Features". Pitchfork Media. August 31, 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2011.
  4. ^ "100 Best Songs of the 1990s". NME. May 8, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2020.