Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

i am soooooooooooo excited for this

Fuck me at that song title.

waow that description has me mad with want.

Not totally comfortable here with a Moorish jester being called a 'brown dwarf'

loool r u serious

I guess? Haven't read the whole press release though, so maybe I'm misinterpreting what it's saying

that is so much like a thing a person would write if they were trying to send up the sort of thing he does

on the other hand so do neutral uninflected descriptions of a lot of the things he does

Dude has a sense of humour

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/RedDwarfShipOriginal.jpg/250px-RedDwarfShipOriginal.jpg

Hehe, I love it when people like Whiney think they deserve an award for pre-emptively not liking something.

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anyway I love this
“I was thinking about making the title refer to a mythological, all-encompassing, giant woman artist.” Scott Walker

His gooniness is its own reward

on the other hand so do neutral uninflected descriptions of a lot of the things he does

― human centipede hz (thomp), Monday, September 24, 2012 9:23 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

Great - really can't wait for this. His last two albums have been unofficial late night Christmas soundtracks for me over the last few years, so this is perfect timing really

I can't wait for Scott's take on "Paranoia paranoia everybody's coming to get me!"

Hieronymous Bosch' "Garden of Earthly Delights" - I called it :-)

Yes though the lovely thing is he imagines this 50FT Queenie version of Hieronymus.

‘SDSS1416 + 13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)’

humina humina humina

http://takemystockplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ralph_kramden.jpg

Sterzing was a total bolthole.

incredible titles!

Corps De Blah
'See You Don't Bump His Head'

!!!

Can't wait.

Is "Darkness (Plague of Locusts)" still his most recent pop song? That was a cool formula, whatever it was... Satanic gospel?

thick silences

Well, to my mind "Cossacks Are" rocks like Public Image, and there was "Only Myself to Blame", for the Bond film The World Is Not Enough.

Can't wait for the fart noises.

This plus Swans in 3 months. I forgot that music could still make me this excited.

"Zercon’ features ramshorns, among them the kudu shofar, a monstrous natural instrument used in ancient times"...a kudu shofar, noch, I'm kvelling....

Can't wait for the fart noises.

Bish Bosch & Mike Watt's Hyphenated Man double feature, please.

Got my hands on an advance copy. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want to believe but I desire proof.

Proof that it's great? It's every bit as good as the Swans record in a very different way. It feels like a deconstructed black metal album in places. The silences are unbelievably, oppressively SILENT.

Aaaugh I want to hear

Or...not hear.

The sounds of silence...MURDERING YOUR SKULL.

I wonder how many people are going to fall for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Fdd35hZWc&feature=share

That is the best thing I've ever seen on youtube.

LOL

For an example of Scott’s unorthodox songwriting techniques, take the album’s centrepiece, the twenty minute ‘SDSS1416 + 13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)’. The title contains two brown dwarves: one, the coldest sub-stellar body in the universe discovered so far; the other, Zercon, was a real-life Moorish jester at the fifth century court of Attila the Hun.

this was already done pretty well on the 1987 monkees reunion album pool it. maybe scott is running out of ideas?

In the telling, Scott often veers dangerously close to self-parody. In the listening, not so much. I have faith this is going to be terrific.

Watched 30th Century Man again last night... Fantastic film. Hope they do a docu about BB.

As confirmed by Beggars US via Twitter:

1st line of the new Scott Walker album: "While plucking feathers from a swan song, Spring might gently press its thumbs against your eyes"

I wonder what you could get on eBay for a microphone that Scott Walker had farted into?

Hehe, I love it when people like Whiney think they deserve an award for pre-emptively not liking something.

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― some white dude (Turangalila), Monday, September 24, 2012 4:37 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wgw posted a pic of Chris Bosh

yeah big crossover between scott walker fans and basketball. unless you know who that is he just looks like a bored dude.

has there been a joek about bosc pears yet?

I'll punch a bosc pear in the streets of Galway

And I used to be a citizen
I never felt the pressure
I knew nothing of the horses
Nothing of the bosc pear

lol'ing so hard at that 'trailer'

He is shaking to wash
The pear pulp away

is bosc really pronounced "bosh" and have i been mispronouncing it all these years?

?????

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

wow i call ppl bish

Still great. Sometimes it's my favourite.

... definitely not mine. Just finished one of my periodic attempts to listen to this thing in one sitting and, though it gets easier as it goes along, it's still a chore. I think my main problem is the vocals, which are so loud and monotonous and, too often, give the impression of being plonked on top of the music willy nilly - I'm pretty certain they weren't btw!

As poetry this album is fantastic. As music, I think it ploughs the same furrow as The Drift to much lesser effect. At first it seemed cool, I think that for a lot of fans, the initial magic of getting a new Scott Walker release rubbed off pretty fast. In retrospect, Walker's managing to release a very musically different follow-up (Soused) less than two years later saved him from what might have been a dip in his reputation.

I wonder what the truth is to rumours that Walker had recorded new music before his death, including the songs whose lyrics are included at the end of the Faber & Faber Sundog collection.

I feel like I couldn't hear the music behind the voice tbh.

one of which had a “rap” section iirc xp

With a bit of distance I'd say the highs of this album (namely 'Epizootics!' and 'Zercon') outweigh the highs of his other albums in terms of ambition and pizzazzle. It's also his most darkly humorous album. Drift is a more sustained listen. Tilt, especially the second side, is the album I go back to more.