Homework:
1. 15 was year-end ARIA chart position
2. Lots of frosty pines in Twin Peaks/Cascadia
3. See #1 and #5
4. Badalamenti plays Fender Rhodes
5. #1 on ARIA April 7th, 1991
6. BOB is a key Twin Peaks character
7. Takashi Tezuka wanted to build a world of characters inspired by Twin Peaks when he ser abkutbti create Link's Awakening
8. Lynch was inspired by The Beatles, met them all, wrote a forward for Ringo's book and there are pictures of Ringo in The Red Room
9. There are jazzy and soap opera elements to the soundtrack and show. The last picture is maybe a reference to the 'Between Two Worlds' featurette? Not sure about the other pics
10. One Eyed Jacks is the Candian brothel in the show
11. Released in 1990
12. The Velvet Room is very reminiscent of The Red Room
13. "Twin Peaks Theme" received the award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at 33rd Annual Grammy Awards
14. Snoqualmie was a filming location for Twin Peaks, and is whereabouts Twin Peaks exists geographically in-show. (*this is the clue that tied it all together for me, and let me double back to a bunch of previously clues I hadn't solved!)
We have a winner! The album is indeed Angelo Badalamenti - The Music of Twin Peaks. Nailed it on all the clues as well. I'll write up a more detailed bit about why I chose this album next week (about to go out of town for a few days). That being said, there's some other links with some of these clues.
I also had a hidden clue I was going to reveal next week. Prior to the correct guess, I was liking everyone's posts with fire, a nod to Fire Walk With Me (also a great Badalamenti album).
1. 15 was originally meant to be a red herring, was hoping someone would lean into the early NOFX guess, as they have 15 studio albums. Along with the Aria link, It also refers to socket 15 from The Return series.
2. 2 clues on this one, the frosty pines common to the Pacific Northwest, but also chose frost specifically to reference Mark Frost, co-creator of the show.
3. Aria charts chosen specifically to confuse on the location, which I think worked.
4. Got scared when
@Colonel_Angus listed the noted musicians that played the Rhodes, Badalamenti was right there.
5. Again #1 on Aria
6. Another attempt at the red herring, hoping someone would bite on the NOFX reference. But yes, this is very much a reference to the character Bob from the show.
7. Again, spot on, the whole game being a dream very much inspired by Twin Peaks.
8. An extra clue here as well, I specifically chose, according to google, a picture of Ringo from 1964. Christine Hunter, with Angelo Badalamenti as composer and arranger, released the song "Santa, Bring Me Ringo" that year.
9. This one's taken direct from the 33 1/3 book on the album, which lists the music as featuring "cool jazz, classical, soap-opera melodrama, retro teen balladry, and everything in between. I like the connection to the between two worlds as well, though that wasn't my initial intention with this clue.
10. Spot on again, song title a reference to the brothel
11. Realized at this point I hadn't given a direct time period, so freebie clue with no subtlety.
12. Correct again
13. Also correct, was planning on posting more of Badalamenti's awards if it didn't get guessed.
14. I had a feeling this one might give it away. Beautiful area, as is most of the PNW.