I'd say Return to Cookie Mountain is their best album. It's less poppy and more atmospheric than their later work. If you want more poppy, then Dear Science would be a good start.

I'm thinking he's been in a witness protection program at that point.

You can listen to music however you like, of course, but wow if I thought like that I would never have found appreciated of my current favorite albums (most of which I disliked on first listen).

No, his real biggest weakness is that (spoilers) …. he is owned by DC Comics.

I dunno, All Star got me into the character for the first time.

At first I felt like all the songs on this new release blended together too much, but my appreciation of this album has expanded exponentially over multiple listens. With BoC the devil is in the details, and there are a lot of gorgeous little details here that you won't pick up on without actively looking for them…

I kinda think that's when the show started to lose its way a little.

How about Damon Lindelof instead?

That's definitely true. There's also the opening with the TV being smashed, and the later opening scene making fun of interpreting symbolism. I think Lynch was saying that if you strip away the donuts, lovable goofs, quotable lines, and television censorship Twin Peaks is a story about rape and murder, and don't you…

Subtitles? I watched the Japanese blu-ray and there were no subtitles, I assumed that was why the scene was infamous (for having no subtitles at all).

I think he does, actually, as surprising as that may seem at first. It makes a lot of sense for Highway's mystery man to be related to the Garmonbozia vampires as seen in Fire Walk With Me. And anyway Inland Empire seems to tie a few of Lynch's previous films together (especially in the end credits).

It's important to note that the show Twin Peaks is mostly following Dale Cooper's perspective. Even when its not literally following him, we're seeing the town the way he does. The film is so different because we're seeing the town from the point of view of a desperate, addicted abuse victim in her last days alive. It…

I agree with this way of looking at it.

FWWM, along with parts of the show and in the context of some of Lynch's other work, seems to imply that the denizens of the Red Room / Lodges are living ideas that feed off extreme human emotions ("garmonbozia"). Like any ideas, they only have power in the real world when humans act on them.