scott walker

lets talk about scott walker again. i recently got into his old albums (thanks fox). his older solo work, scott4, scott2 and his work with the walker brothers too - nite flights and the *cough cough* best of (shut it). i have yet to give his lastest work another listen since really getting into his old stuff. infact i'm gonna put tilt on now and see. his newer stuff always scared me off but maybe with an understanding of his journey to this point i might understand it better. my wife cannot stand his voice.

so what's your favorite album of his? mine is currently scott4 (even the scatting) probably although i do listen to nite flights alot.

is climate of hunter worthy of a listen?

anyone see imagine scott walker documentary or that new '30 Century Man' documentary?

actually might be a bit soon for tilt. i see theres a few albums (and many years) between scott 4 and tilt:

# 'Til The Band Comes In (1970)

# The Moviegoer (1972)

# Any Day Now (1973)

# Stretch (1973)

# We Had It All (1974)

# Climate of Hunter (1984)

any specific recommendations from that list?

yeah, i saw the doc... and it made me /really/ want to get the tilt and some more of his recent work. Ive been kinda put off by his earlier stuff... its not really my kind of thing...

atm... its a toss up between the tilt and madlibs trojan compilation next time i wander into hmv. (lol - i felt like i was pwning music then)

I watched the thing on the BBC about him, I think it was a shortened version of the 30 Century Man film (?). I think his 70's albums are to be avoided but I havent heard them, he says they're shit though. Scott 3 is my favourite album I think. Tilt seems okay, I havent exactly managed to get into it though.

  awkward said:

lets talk about scott walker again. i recently got into his old albums (thanks fox).

jesus, i rant about albums since i've started posting here and noone pays a blind bit of notice to me :fee:

  awkward said:

his older solo work, scott4, scott2 and his work with the walker brothers too - nite flights and the *cough cough* best of (shut it). i have yet to give his lastest work another listen since really getting into his old stuff. infact i'm gonna put tilt on now and see. his newer stuff always scared me off but maybe with an understanding of his journey to this point i might understand it better. my wife cannot stand his voice.

 

so what's your favorite album of his? mine is currently scott4 (even the scatting) probably although i do listen to nite flights alot.

 

is climate of hunter worthy of a listen?

 

anyone see imagine scott walker documentary or that new '30 Century Man' documentary?

 

actually might be a bit soon for tilt. i see theres a few albums (and many years) between scott 4 and tilt:

 

# 'Til The Band Comes In (1970)

# The Moviegoer (1972)

# Any Day Now (1973)

# Stretch (1973)

# We Had It All (1974)

# Climate of Hunter (1984)

 

any specific recommendations from that list?

don't bother with anything between the moviegoer and we had it all, it's all complete crap recorded in a haze of dejection and alcohol, and scott will admit this himself. there's the odd amazing track in there though (lines in particular)

the first side of til the band comes in is amazing, the second one in rubbish

climate of hunter is quite tiltish, very 80s production but a great album

you might also want to check out the soundtrack to pola x (think instrumental tilt) and the two tracks he wrote for ute lemper (also very tiltish)

my favourite albums of his are scott 4 (oldschool) and tilt (newschool) but the drift was my fave album of last year along with ms newsom

i also love the scott tracks from nite flites (you can trace the evolution between old scott and new scott very easily, there's a big bowie and even disco (!) influence in there) even if the rest of the album isn't worth the cd it's burnt onto. the electrician is fucking sublime. also i sampled the break from shutout for the last track on p168.1, it's a killer drum loop.

  kaini said:

jesus, i rant about albums since i've started posting here and noone pays a blind bit of notice to me :fee:

yeah you deserve some credit here too but the drift and titl are not good recommendations for a walker newb. i still cannot listen to them.

  kaini said:

the two tracks he wrote for ute lemper (also very tiltish)

he said they were his best things he'd written i think

  kaini said:

i also love the scott tracks from nite flites (you can trace the evolution between old scott and new scott very easily, there's a big bowie and even disco (!) influence in there) even if the rest of the album isn't worth the cd it's burnt onto. the electrician is fucking sublime. also i sampled the break from shutout for the last track on p168.1, it's a killer drum loop.

yar the first half of nite flights is incredible. if the whole album was similair it'd be my fave probably. the title track i can put on repeat

the second half is good but after the first half it sounds weird. that horn man made me embarressed to be listening to it, even on headphones

ysee the night flites thing...

the first four tracks are essentially scott with the rest of the walkers as session musicians

the next four are gary walker with the rest of the walkers as session musicians

the last two are the other fella with the rest of the walkers as session musicians

so essentially the first four are the only things worth bothering with

i have had ten years to get accustomed to tilt, so i can put it on whenever with no problem. i can sing along, i know every word of that album. the drift is still a bit uncomfortable for me at times, especially clara. one of those albums i love but to listen to it too often would be to devalue it. 'black period' scott as the wire has dubbed it takes time to absorb.

wiereded coincidences, i just got scott 3 to check out

if you go away is such a great song

jacques brel is ballin outta control

Cool yeah I've been getting into the walker brothers in your reccomendation and Nite Flights is such a good album

Yeah the middle 4 tracks are pretty shit on Nite Flights. I do like Fury and The Fire though.

  alpaca said:

wiereded coincidences, i just got scott 3 to check out

 

if you go away is such a great song

Rosemary!

the vocals on the shutout are so good.dont know why but they just sound incredible.

so nite flights was 1977, lines was 1976 and climate of hunter was 1984. need more like night flights. but not quite like tilt. yet

i wanna hear the brel versions too (the actually brel versions).

walker is the only thing i want to hear currently.

bowie cover version??????

you're outta luck as regards nite flites. don't think there's any more like that.

bowie's covered brel's amsterdam (on teh ziggy... live) album, think a few other brel tracks too

the actual brel recordings are in french and shitty recording quality, bowie and scott both used the same english translations by some dude.

no bowie covered nite flights

the brel translations must be awesome coz it fits so sweetly. like when they translate spirited away and dub it but they translate it so it almost fits the mouth movements.

the death of romance lol *kenny g*

waaaallllllllllkkkkkkeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr

i didn't know that about bowie.

this is the fella who did the translations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_McKuen

he was a poet, makes sense.

and yeah that fucking sax *shudder*

seems there is bowie and nin version too

i shall report back upon further investigation

and a little work too (actual work)

wow this bowie cover isn't bad

very 80s production but i don't mind that.

yer not bad but at times in the trk you are thinking "goink"

what do you think of old walker brothers? sun aint gonna shine and make it easy are classics and wonderful but the rest?

it's ok, but it just makes me want to listen to scott.

you were asking about stuff like nite flites? well there's a genuine oddity you should grab:

scott walker and goran bregovich - man from reno

it's funk tilt!

another one is only myself to blame from the end credits of a bond film forget which, well cinematic.

oh man i dig goran bregovich. his underground soundtrack is a favorite

shall look this out

do you know what the tracks were called that he wrote for Ute Lemper?

yep

scope j

lullabye-(bye-bye) (which i don't have, it only appeared on the japanese release of punishing kiss)

bond film = the world is not enough

yep. stupid sheryl fucking crow wailed (not in the good sense) all over the opening, consigning scott to the end credits.

and i have always thought he had a perfect voice for a bond theme too

do you have the 5 Easy Pieces box set?