Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

ohhh, so the insults and gags are toilet graffiti. I get it.

and the flatulence is flatulence..

The whole thing's just one big fart gag

we must make fart noises or else we become a cold dead lifeless star do u see?

ohhh, so the insults and gags are toilet graffiti. I get it.

The insults in "SDSS1416whatevea" are ripostes to hecklers... from the same Radio 6 interview

You have to do a gig to have hecklers.

I guess even Simeon Stylites had to do his business every now and again. Maybe he amused himself by carving out graffiti on the toilet area of his pillar while he was at it.

how the dwarf got brown

I still haven't gotten this album but i think i will soon, this lyric discussion is fascinating.

Anyone know what these refer to:

Adopocere
Maman Neigho

?

Right - that makes sense - it's sort of how I was seeing the earlier ones, the "the red light where you work", "you should get an agent" stuff - but then it's (Zercon-imagined) bog graffiti by the time you get to "flush hard, it's a long way to Athens", "do not eat the big pink mint".

I will listen to that interview when I get in, it sounds informative if I am going down this rabbithole.

(multi xps to Tom that)

the "big pink mint" is a toilet freshener!?!?!

YES

woof, you're the bwast!

I think it's a 'Norseman are thick savages' gag about a toilet freshener.

The 'flush hard' joke is ummmm, either saying 'greeks are shits' or thinking about it some more, 'greeks are homosexuals & likely to be found in your bottom'.

Or saying that Athens is a cesspit

From Wiki:

Adipocere (pron.: /ˈædɨpɵsɪər/), also known as corpse, grave or mortuary wax, is a wax-like organic substance formed by the anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis of fat in tissue, such as body fat in corpses. In its formation, putrefaction is replaced by a permanent firm cast of fatty tissues, internal organs and the face.

Adipocere in a zoot...? There are a lot of musical and lyrical references to late-40s/early-50s pop culture throughout Epizootics!. I kind of imagine it as West Side Story as viewed by someone who's having an extremely bad trip.

West Side Story South Pacific

Not an answer to dog latin's question, but I've just learned from Google that there's a racehorse with the charming name "Neigh O Me".

Other searches on the family name "Neigho" throws up... nothing much other than it's an ancient name.

wasn't she eventually buried at the bottom of the pillar when she died?

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:48 AM (5 hours ago)

buried alive actually, the bastard still didn't come down

The Alfredo Garcia cameo in "Epizootics!" makes me very happy altho I have no idea what it's doing there

I pretty much assumed that this album would be my automatic BEST OF DECADE just based on the trailer + "Epizootics!" & the fact that I'm a massive scott stan (listened to the drift nearly every day for like a year after it came out). And then the release date came & I heard it and I just couldn't help feeling deflated, like yeah this is brilliant but none of the songs really get to me the way eg "clara" or "farmer in the city" do.

Happily I'm revising this position & now think that "zercon" especially is one of the most affecting things he's done. The central metaphor, though oblique, is just so elegant & moving: zercon moving to higher & higher peaks (across multiple eras/spaces) in order to escape his circumstances, but of course he can't, and even when he ascends to space he's still a dwarf and the universe is still cold & cruel & unfeeling - Walker's said in interviews that at the beginning of the song zercon is getting "heckled by silence", which is some kinda bergman-level angst right there. At its core it's not a zillion miles away from the 60s character pieces - poor zercon, like big louise, is looking for (fire) escapes in the sky.

I mean I wouldn't really claim to know what's ~going on~ in the song at all times but it seems to be "about" different kinds of human cruelty & the ways people have of coping with them. Hence the many references to past racisms &c. Zercon's defensive strategy against the society that treats him like shit is to give as good as he gets (all the classic putdowns at the start of the song); later, he just withdraws & withdraws until there's nothing left & he "drop[s] into the darkness" (this is how you disappear). The responses to heckles in the last part of the song aren't randomly chosen, they all point towards complete effacement: "I want to forget you just the way you are", "I think you've got nothing there","I hope your face clears up".

This is why I can't get with complaints about the humour - even the funny lines on this album aren't just there for the lolz. Plus there's always been humour in scott's work - on the drift he actually bursts out laughing ffs!

Brilliant post wins

Another thought I had:

ROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6AjaS1adwk8

I laughed.

Hmm!

http://pitchfork.com/news/50048-scott-walkers-bish-bosch-becoming-multimedia-show-for-vivid-sydney-festival/

The Alfredo Garcia cameo in "Epizootics!" makes me very happy altho I have no idea what it's doing there

― castle grayscale (wins), Thursday, 31 January 2013 22:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

Garcia also gets a mention in Cockfighter on Tilt.

"eccentric, asburd"

still playing this. Also

Another thought I had:

ROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICE

― ☯ t (wins), Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:49 (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me otm, although that may be the "jazz police" of this album

Some video of the Bish Bosch thingie at the Sydney Opera house:

http://youtu.be/M6gowakwh8A

looks neat!

Really hope they do this in the UK. The Sydney opera house thing is free to attend! Any ilxors going?

Contrast and compare:

"Take that accidentally in the bollocks for a start", Scott Walker, 'Epizootics!', 2012

"'ere, get this in the bollocks for a start!", Derek & Clive, 'You Cunt', 1976

It's all in the detais. Gary Barlow would not have made it so big in a boy band called "Ere, Get this"

?????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7zXriGjAiM

"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, October 5, 2012 3:54 PM (1 year ago)

this might be the most i've ever laughed at a post on ILM. jus sayin.

i don't think there's been a point this year where I haven't had this album on some sort of rotation and i'm still noticing new things about it.

...such as?

mostly just little details, layers, a vocal section that i'd not really noticed before. really these albums are such a rollercoaster at first that you don't really take in the scenery - it's all hair-raising twists and turns etc.

gtfo

hell i still hear shit in "next" i never noticed before

records

to play fugues on jove's spam castanets

hell i still hear shit in "next" i never noticed before

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, December 3, 2013 3:44 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it just took me this long to realise you weren't talking about the clothes and homes store, Next.

only stores i talk about are aldi and supreme clientele

all the naked and the dead should hold each other's hands and watch me scream at night in a dream no one can understand

Always found the imagery on Next too disturbing for comfort, but I just read the lyrics for the first time and boy, it gets pretty Boschian by the end dunnit?

Alex Harvey's take on "Next" annihilates Scotty's version tbh