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I am asking this in regards to the fact that he has produced the new Pulp album and everything I've heard so far is wonderful. However, stick one of his actual records by my ears and I don't like it. Not at all. I think it's the voice (note, not gravelly), the actual arrangements often sound good. Anyone else have this problem with him? I also realised Jarvis' is fairly similar, only I like it, which is strange.

― Bill, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

he has produced the new Pulp album

Wow, talk about being cool in England. I guess for Americans, that would be like getting J.D. Salinger to produce your album or something.

Re:Scott Walker, I still haven't heard Tilt. Comments?

― dleone, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Tilt = godlike. One of those albums where I initially didn't know what to think of it, but now all it takes is the beginning of "Farmer in the City" to immediately send me.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Anyone else have this problem with him?

No, for me the voice is the main attraction. "Tilt" is really not representative of his main body of work. Even his vocal style has completely changed. It's really not where I would start with him; it's a weird one. Scott 1-4 are all great (espcially 4) and I even like his "country" albums.

― Sean, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Make 4 good records and then live the fame forever.

Tilt? game over! Insert Coin --> jarvis want to play!

― MZ, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Whoever you are, MZ, I like you already. Welcome! And if you've posted before I apologize for not noticing. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Yes, TILT doesn't really represent his main body of work, but it fucking STABS! And his voice sounds amazing throughout.

― Kodanshi, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

My introduction to Scott Walker was, perversely, Climate of Hunter, which (forgive me) I thought was unlistenable. All frightening avant garde warbling. It took about five years for me to recover and work out that it wasn't all like that.

― daniel, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Reviving this thread to plug this website I found today. MP3 downloads of all the Scott Walker albums that haven't found their way onto official CD releases yet. Scott Sings Songs From His TV Series! The Moviegoer! Any Day Now! And two discs of what sounds like off-air recordings of ALL the songs from the TV series.

Don't tell the RIAA, now.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 18 September 2003 03:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

This looks great! Thanks for posting this.

I can't wait to hear them.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

You are most welcome Charlie.

I've had "...Sings Songs From His TV Series" for ages - I grew up listening to it actually, my dad owned it on old fashioned audio tape and played it to death. It's the most Vegas-y Scott ever got, and I doubt he was very comfortable doing that sort of material, but damn it's great to hear him singing that kind of stuff. The arrangement on "Will You Still Be Mine" is completely over the top.

I'd recommend downloading "Country Girl" first. It'd fit real nicely on "Scott 3." Then download "Maria Bethania" if you really want to be confused.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

that link isn't working for me, and I really really want it to.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

oh, scratch that last post of mine, this is awesome (so many songs)

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

You know that feeling you get when you're just browsing in a record store and you come across an album you've been searching for for years? That's the feeling I got when I discovered that site. I actually yelped when the page had finished loading.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah, I think I yelped too.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

wow! what a treasure... i actually just bought my first Scott album (1) two weeks ago and like it a lot. i'm curious to find out what the material from this website sounds like. he actually had a tv-show?

― willem (willem), Thursday, 18 September 2003 06:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'd recommend downloading "Country Girl" first. It'd fit real nicely on "Scott 3."

Oh man, I love that song - apparently it's based on Wordsworth or some such geezer

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 September 2003 10:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

According to Mojo, a Scott Walker box-set entitled "5 Easy Pieces" will be released in November and it's been compiled by Scott himself, with each disc representing a different aspect of his work (film work, avant garde, etc.). It will include some Walker Brothers tracks, although there's no mention of unreleased material.

― Susan (Susan), Thursday, 18 September 2003 13:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

he actually had a tv-show?

You better believe it boy - primetime BBC1, Saturday evening(?), 1969(?), much the same set up as similar shows presented by Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Lulu though i don't believe any of those ladies ever sang "My Death".

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 September 2003 13:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

Retort pouch, I kiss you!

I wish I was at home right now so I could download it all right away.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 18 September 2003 18:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was about to say, I kept checking this thread thinking, "No Nicolars post yet? THE WORLD MADE SENSE AN HOUR AGO."

Bookmarked it yesterday, I might do some downloading over the weekend but only after I clear everything up on my computer some.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

*splutter* There's more! Three tracks recorded circa 67/8! Never ever released!

1. Free Again
2. I Get Along Without You Very Well
3. I Think I'm Getting Over You

http://mapage.noos.fr/ckt02/rare.zip

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

wow.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

fuck this low speed connection fuck fuck

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 19 September 2003 04:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

Fucking Maria Bethania!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Me am upset. Links no work for me. Anyone else own a mac and having similar probs?

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was able to download that new Zip link mentioned up above just fine...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

Working now. Must have been overloaded. Thanks. Here we go!

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was able to get them all fine on my mac. the website took a few tries to load, but it worked. Yeah, Maria Bethania is a great song.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 19 September 2003 06:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

note to retort pouch: i'll post the track listings for the box set on my blog this weekend.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 19 September 2003 08:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

Best thread ever.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 19 September 2003 08:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

haha, a cover of bobby conn's 'maria b'!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 September 2003 11:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

would anyone be willing to burn these on a cd (or cds) for me?

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'd be glad to, amateurist. Just email me your address.

Marcello - thanks, looking forward to that.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 19 September 2003 16:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh oh, how about me? (Maybe one of the Glas ilxors w. broadband?)

― David. (Cozen), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

sometime.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

haha, a cover of bobby conn's 'maria b'!

RJG, I don't know if you're kidding or not, but if you haven't heard the original version of "Maria Bethania" by Caetano Veloso, you should really really download it. I love it to death. Walker's version is good, but disappointingly faithful to the original.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

is anyone here in the uk or france? i'll be in france and wouldn't want someone in the usa (or myself) to pay the heavy shipping across the sea.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

aside: I think Bobby Conn's version of "Maria Bethania" is one of the worst covers I've ever heard, ever. And I like Bobby Conn, so go figure.

― hstencil, Friday, 19 September 2003 21:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

Anyone who's interested should check out the Scott Walker group in Yahooo. Cedric, who's site y'all are raving about, posts regularly.

― Libby, Monday, 22 September 2003 02:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

In my previous posting, beware the errant apostrophe! A thousand apologies.

Libby

― libby, Monday, 22 September 2003 03:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

its' ok

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 22 September 2003 05:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

sometime?

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

does anyone happen to know on which label 5 Easy Pieces will be released?

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

According to musica.co.uk, it's released on Universal :
http://www.musica.co.uk/musica/screen__PRODUCT/shop__MUS/affiliate__INTGOOGLE/category__PP685964.htm

― Cedric, Friday, 3 October 2003 06:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

And now MP3 the site is down. Before I get to download anything. Sob.

― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 3 October 2003 08:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

i was never able to access it! sob indeed.

there's something off about the idea of a scott box set. how does one excerpt "tilt" anyhow?

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 3 October 2003 09:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

Agreed about the box set. Anyone have any thoughts about this:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scottwalker/message/162

If it's real, it sounds more interesting than the box set!

― proggist, Friday, 3 October 2003 10:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

i was never able to access it! sob indeed.

Amateurist, I'd still be delighted to burn discs for you and propel them across the ocean. Just send me your address.

Anyway, it seems the MP3 downloads are down, "temporarily" but they have been replaced by a video clip from Scott's TV show which is well worth watching. HAHA look at his hair.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 4 October 2003 01:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

His hair is fab! I wish I could look just like that every day.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 4 October 2003 01:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

Skipping 49 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

What's Scott Walker up to now? Apparently, he's writing scores for dance pieces inspired by Jean Cocteau:

http://pitchfork.com/news/42772-scott-walker-writes-score-for-dance-piece/

― geeta, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

It'd be more surprising if he didn't do that, I figure!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's the second dance he's scored. The first one, "And Who Shall Go To The Ball And What Shall Go To The Ball", came out on 4AD not long after "The Drift".

― jed_, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I got the box set earlier this year and it's really mind-bending in a literal way to delve so deeply into Scott's world. I could hear connections to so many things both backwards and forwards, it's like he sat at a musical crossroads for all generations.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've said this before, and I'll say it again (anticipating the full wrath of the greater ILM community, of course):

please: more crooning, less looning

― henry s, Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

wonder if this is your first sb.

― Germans freaking LOVE being naked. (Matt P), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

NEW ALBUM!?!?

http://pitchfork.com/news/46919-scott-walker-at-work-on-new-album/

― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Friday, 22 June 2012 09:00 (10 months ago) Permalink

woohoo

― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 22 June 2012 09:07 (10 months ago) Permalink

oh yeah

― jed_, Friday, 22 June 2012 09:44 (10 months ago) Permalink

Makes sense -- new decade, new album.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:27 (10 months ago) Permalink

Wait we're not due another Scott Walker album for 4-5 years!

― Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:35 (10 months ago) Permalink

Well maybe he's just finished one song, ten to go.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:37 (10 months ago) Permalink

I can't believe The Drift came out SIX YEARS AGO

Also lol at "I wonder if this is your first sb."

― Call me Ishmael (Ówen P.), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:55 (10 months ago) Permalink

There were some photos from the sessions a few months ago. Totally beyond excited. I don't think it will be all that long from here. Scott seems to take years and years in the gestation of what he wants to do, but not an unusually long time once he starts to execute it.

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:38 (10 months ago) Permalink

"Last night at a 4AD event in New York City, the label played one new song, which does not appear to have a title yet. The epically unpredictable suite featured an album's worth of ideas as it went from pummeling drum rhythms to near-a cappella crooning. Its overall effect was unsettling, daunting, thrilling."

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:03 (10 months ago) Permalink

omg omg can't wait

― arby's, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:46 (10 months ago) Permalink

Taking advantage of WI recall fallout?

That said, the senator makes me so mad I'll probably end up reflexively passing on this.

― Hennesy Williams (EDB), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:36 (10 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, it would be an opportune time to switch back to Noel Scott Engel!

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:40 (10 months ago) Permalink

cf. Joe Budden's return immediately following Joe Biden becoming Obama's running VP.

― Hennesy Williams (EDB), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:45 (10 months ago) Permalink

xpost well it didn't work for the Scott 4 album

― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2012 21:50 (10 months ago) Permalink

You know I never thought about what a ~numinous~ name Noel Engel is...

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:59 (10 months ago) Permalink

oh my god I'm itching to hear this

― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Friday, 22 June 2012 22:19 (10 months ago) Permalink

Yeah right? He's the only one of my big heroes who is still likely to blow me away with new stuff. In all honesty I probably still think about the 'sound world' of Tilt every single day at some point, even though I almost never play it. It's like the dining room table in my memory house.

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 22:41 (10 months ago) Permalink

Wait we're not due another Scott Walker album for 4-5 years!

I reckon it'll take at least that much longer to emerge from his own asshole.

― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 23 June 2012 00:41 (10 months ago) Permalink

F U BRO

― circa1916, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:07 (10 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

via

― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:09 (8 months ago) Permalink

That link is a 404 for me – has he deleted the tweet?

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

oh huh, seemingly so. it was a list of records released as review copies to a magazine, organised by artist & including Scott Walker. some speculation on the twitter account i linked about what it might be now

― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

no I mean the tweet is a 404, the image is still visible

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

new Royal Trux record?

― E.I.E.I. (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

New Dinosaur jr, new Schneider TM, new Pelt and new Pet Shop Boys too - is this a leak from 1995?

― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

I see A.R. Kane also, on that list.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:43 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bish-Bosch-Scott-Walker/dp/B009CXLS4S/

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Sunday, 23 September 2012 16:59 (7 months ago) Permalink

http://instagram.com/p/Pt6YjsDsWt/

Hugh Burns' 68 custom which has graced Scott Walker's Tilt, Drift & Bish Bosch albums.

― 50 miles of lmao room (unregistered), Sunday, 23 September 2012 17:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

3rd December then!

(Cue NSouthall to say 'never gonna happen')

― Mark G, Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

Wh...wha... *faints*

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:50 (7 months ago) Permalink

Well then!

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:53 (7 months ago) Permalink

Tilt, Drift & Bish Bosch

― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:56 (7 months ago) Permalink

Bish Bosch!!

― jed_, Sunday, 23 September 2012 19:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

loadsamoney!!

― Mark G, Sunday, 23 September 2012 19:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

haha

― jed_, Sunday, 23 September 2012 19:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

https://twitter.com/natashalawes/status/247624773239181312

And according to this there will be a music video soon!!

Bish Bosch is one hell of a title, almost too perfect a summation of late era Walker. I had the same feeling when Nick Cave announced his new album would be called Nocturama.

― Leonard Pine, Sunday, 23 September 2012 19:59 (7 months ago) Permalink

!!!

― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 23 September 2012 23:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

We have a Bish Bash falls here in Western MA, please do show there thanks bye

― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 23 September 2012 23:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 23 September 2012 23:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

― jed_, Sunday, 23 September 2012 23:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Just reading about the song 'Only Myself to Blame' that Scott did for 'The World is Not Enough' Bond film. Poor decison by the director...

Arnold broke tradition by not ending the film with a new song or a reprise of the opening theme. Originally, Arnold intended to use the song "Only Myself to Blame", written by David Arnold & Don Black and sung by Scott Walker and inspired by the failed romance between Bond and Elektra King, who turns out to be a a villain. However, director Michael Apted "felt it it was too much of a downer for the end of the movie" and Arnold replaced it with a techno remix of the "James Bond Theme". "Only Myself to Blame", is the nineteenth and final track on the album

― Gouty_Ted, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:55 (5 months ago) Permalink

Where's that from? That new book about Bond music?

― Tomb Of Spatula (Jon Lewis), Friday, 7 December 2012 19:20 (5 months ago) Permalink

wikipedia

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 7 December 2012 19:28 (5 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

http://www.allisonschulnik.com/FILM/MOUND/MOUND_SCREENER/MOUND_SCREENER.mov

― Fetchboy, Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:43 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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