"Buzzers" another in the dictator theme.
There's also the virus sequence: "The Plague," "Cue," "Epizootics!"
― jim, Thursday, 4 October 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Well...
I've heard it.
All earlier reports and descriptions accurate.
Sample line:
"This is my job...I don't come around and shut off the red light...while YOU work..."
Also, the closing seconds confirm it could only have been released in December.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
That's a pretty funny lyric.
― bass line has no point of view (Jon Lewis), Friday, 5 October 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
he rejected: "I don't come to where you work and slap the dick out of your mouth."
― clouds, Friday, 5 October 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
haha that was what I thought of too!
― bass line has no point of view (Jon Lewis), Friday, 5 October 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
"I don't come to where you work and punch your donkey on the streets of Galway."
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 5 October 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Just seems like a lyric that deliberately deflates the ~serious visionary~ persona. (I am assuming the red light is a double meaning = recording booth)
― bass line has no point of view (Jon Lewis), Friday, 5 October 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I CAN say that the song with said lyric in it has lots of similar lines, plenty of hoary old vaudeville chestnuts and the like. The net effect is said deflation AND increased creepiness thanks to the delivery. Lars Gotrich just called the album "more harrowing but more human than The Drift" and I'll go with that.
Oh also: 73 minutes long.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus.
I'll be making A and B side playlists for this one then.
― bass line has no point of view (Jon Lewis), Friday, 5 October 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
In the face of any accusations of "Scott Walker, self-parodist", I'd like to note that the guy has always made very funny records, despite his reputation as a serious cat
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 October 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
totally
― bass line has no point of view (Jon Lewis), Friday, 5 October 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
"Can't go by a man with brain grass" lol you are correct
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 October 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
Agree. So many moments on The Drift sound like mentalism on paper but work brilliantly in practice.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 5 October 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Another leaked video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrMBBt1BYTc
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 6 October 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wow, a ton of albums on his MySpace, from the Walker Brothers on (gotta click Album; MySpace Radio tries insert itself after playing an isolated SW track.Can always pause Album when needed) http://www.myspace.com/thegodlikegeniusofscottwalker/music/albums
― dow, Saturday, 6 October 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2012 14:20 (Yesterday) Permalink
keeping my fingers crossed this is true in the 'bob dylan christmas album' sense
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Saturday, 6 October 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, October 5, 2012 11:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah but not as much on his last three records though.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 7 October 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
In '68 he released a song called The Amorous Humphrey Plugg. Title alone is totally lol-worthy.
― LaMonte, Sunday, 7 October 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
heard the first track off of this, think it's a hit!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 October 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
"Nothing clears a room like removing a brain."
― alb indys, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
do any cartoon characters make a cameo on this one?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, October 6, 2012 5:43 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wrong
― We demand justice: who murdered Chanel? (Matt P), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
You could easily picture this in the current top ten
― Leonard Pine, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
I hope he does another solo acoustic number for the closer like the last three.
― LaMonte, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
― We demand justice: who murdered Chanel? (Matt P), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:18 PM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
really? i guess i just don't hear much humor on the recent ones--maybe a bit of it on the drift. i'd be interested to hear where you find humor in these LPs.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
There's not much humour in Tilt, is there? There's a fair bit in The Drift but it's one of the reasons i don't like the record very much - punching donkeys in Galway & donald duck voices & easily seeing this in the current top ten - it's just not my sense of humour.
― jed_, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:54 (eleven years ago) link
I only ever found those funny when they were pointed out to me as funny. Before that I just found those bits terrifying.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
I think the demonic duck on The Drift is supposed to be terrifying AND funny.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
Whereas the Rick Dees one...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
Lots of musical jokes. The tape rewinding... "Birds!" Pst pst pst pst! Pst pst pst!And you could play Xiu xiu? or "The drift"? with "This is not a cornhusk doll / dipped in blood in the moonlight / like what happened in America" or the "pee-pee soaked trousers" bit
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
Not haw haw funny but macabre and witty and definitely not 100% serious
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
Cryptic is the word for this album. Like a hall full of doors that contain keys to other doors.
Is the tape rewinding supposed to refer to something specific? I find that bit rather out of place/unexpected. The whole thing is fairly post-modern in its humour which is kind of surprising considering the canvas it's painting on.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
This time for real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Accd9StNlYE
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
I don't want to hear it until it comes out officially, but I'm worried it'll have been discussed to death on here by then. Would a NO SPOILERS PLEASE rule be alright?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
down already. that was quick.
― circa1916, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/PfrVuhD8maE
trailer's super well done. the songs sound awesome. so psyched for this.
― circa1916, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
Seems to 'rock out' a little more than The Drift, without sacrificing all the vast, nerve-wracking spaces. With all that studio footage, is it too much to hope there will be some sort of longer-form 'making-of' sort of thing eventually?
― alb indys, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa
― Hadrian VIII, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
xpost -- it definitely 'rocks out' more. The slabs of guitar feedback aren't there for nothing.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Can't wait for this.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
"Bish bosch" almost sounds like a genre name.
― jim, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
I predict this will be the best album to ever feature a dude scraping machetes
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Cue Richard E. Grant "he's sharpening the fucking knife..."
― you can kill things and still like them, i don't know (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 11 October 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.boerderijcampingdelinde.nl/Fotos/Biesbosch.jpg
― burt oraneg, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
"Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that."
Aaaarghh, YouTube in Germany is such a pain in the ass.
― Duke, Friday, 12 October 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
"YouTube in Germany" is my favorite Associates song btw
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
his url's not perfect, but that can be altered
― crisp apple morning (clouds), Friday, 12 October 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
finally got around to listening to climate of hunter. 80s production aside, this album takes my breath away. so hauntingly beautiful and mysterious, and all such adjectives. wish he made at least one other album in this vein. def looking forward to the new one.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 4 November 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
80s production aside
gtfo
― doubting tuomas (clouds), Sunday, 4 November 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link