The Best-Selling Records on Discogs This Week: January 31, 2025

#2

Music From Twin Peaks

Angelo Badalamenti

1990

Few creative partnerships feel as divine as the one between Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch. The two shared a deep bond, with Lynch building worlds and Badalamenti consistently delivering the perfect scores to match. Their collaborations spanned several projects, but for most fans, Twin Peaks is the peak of their synergy.

Despite its obscurity, mystery, and (in the second season) sci-fi twists, Twin Peaks also leaned heavily into soap opera pastiche. Badalamenti’s score bridged these contrasting elements. With the emotional “Twin Peaks Theme” and “Laura Palmer’s Theme,” he delved into the show’s darkness. Meanwhile, tracks like “Dance of the Dream Man” and “Freshly Squeezed” brought smoky saxophone lines and noir-inspired vibraphone melodies, amplifying the melodrama that made the strange Pacific Northwestern town feel both surreal and familiar.

#3

Severance: Season 1

Theodore Shapiro

2023

In 2022, Theodore Shapiro‘s disquieting score, a brilliant sonic perfume to the liminal world the main characters choose to spend their 9-5.  

Severance praise settled between season one and the recently released season two, until the cast performed as their characters mid-work inside a glass box in Grand Central Station earlier this month. Since the 2023 pressing of the show’s memorable soundtrack.

#4

Images And Words

Dream Theater

2025

Rhino kicked off 2025 with its Start Your Ear Off Right reissue campaign, releasing 26 limited-edition titles across four drops in January. The first drop, on January 3, included four releases from the prog metal pioneers, Dream Theater — Images and Words, Falling Into Infinity.

The campaign featured additional drops on January 17, 24, and there will be a final one on January 31. Many of the releases tie into other Rhino initiatives, such as the ZZ Top reissues.