yeah big crossover between scott walker fans and basketball. unless you know who that is he just looks like a bored dude.
― clouds, Thursday, 27 September 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
has there been a joek about bosc pears yet?
― sriracha bishop (get bent), Thursday, 27 September 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
I'll punch a bosc pear in the streets of Galway
― LaMonte, Thursday, 27 September 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
And I used to be a citizenI never felt the pressureI knew nothing of the horsesNothing of the bosc pear
― The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Thursday, 27 September 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol'ing so hard at that 'trailer'
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Thursday, 27 September 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
He is shaking to washThe pear pulp away
― QUOTE sampling at a higher rate UNQUOTE (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 27 September 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
is bosc really pronounced "bosh" and have i been mispronouncing it all these years?
― clouds, Thursday, 27 September 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
bosh for bosch is the correct pronunciation.
― jed_, Thursday, 27 September 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yep, bosch definitely pronounced "bosh"
― Duke, Thursday, 27 September 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
now can someone tell me how to pronounce "Miele"?
― Lee626, Saturday, 29 September 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
is it german? it's probably "meel-uh"
― clouds, Saturday, 29 September 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
It is. And it is.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Saturday, 29 September 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
Miele is a German surname. Most famously the name of the electronic appliances manufacturer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miele
― Duke, Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
More reports from the field, in this case J. Edward Keyes on Twitter:
"Nothing clears a room like removing a brain" - standout lyric on the new Scott Walker record. So much tubax on this Scott Walker record!
So much tubax on this Scott Walker record!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
He added on FB:
It is his most violent record, in every possible respect.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
kinda guessed that from the album sleeve
― Lee626, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
And further!
It's a lot more aggressive over all; a lot more guitar, too. The strings are more high-neck horror-movie style that shoot in out of nowhere and terrify. I'm still absorbing, but the Bosch reference isn't accidental. It has that same gruesome feel.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
that description of the strings fits in with SW's avowed love of Bartok (from whom the 'horror movie style' largely derived)
― QUOTE sampling at a higher rate UNQUOTE (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't anticipated a new album so much in years. From the description it sounds like it's going to be amazing, if just maybe a little TOO Scott Walkerish for even Scott Walker?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
The Drift was, for me, basically a further exploration of the sound of Tilt (which is fine seeing as Tilt was my all time favorite record). As great as The Drift is, though, there was a bit of disappointment for me that it did not represent the same kind of unthinkable leap and break that had separated Tilt and Climate of Hunter, and Climate from Nite Flights.
To put it another way, The Drift was deeply satisfying and moving but not STARTLING.
I'm letting myself hope the new one will actually do my head in in a new way.
― QUOTE sampling at a higher rate UNQUOTE (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
mostly agree with this, except that I think The Drift is better than Tilt. More refined. From what I'm reading about this new one it looks like it's just going further in the same direction, which is fine with me (more than fine really, should be amazing).
― silverfish, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
if just maybe a little TOO Scott Walkerish for even Scott Walker?
yeah, the documentary was the first time i really thought he was drifting into unintentional self-parody, and the news on this new one is a little bit o_O in that respect.
still like climate of hunter best of his late-period (that is, the last 30 years!) LPs, i think.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
and we have a track listing
1 'See You Don’t Bump His Head'2 Corps De Blah 3 Phrasing 4 SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter) 5 Epizootics! 6 Dimple 7 Tar 8 Pilgrim 9 The Day The "Conducator" Died
― Lee626, Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
Is 9 a follow up to "the Night that Minnie Timperley died" ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm, interesting -- Conducator was one of the titles that Nicolae Ceaucescu held when he ruled Romania, a bit like Mao's Great Helmsman. It's almost like a sequel to "The Old Man's Back Again" more than anything else!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 October 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
One could possibly add 'Clara' to this connection as well, iirc?
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Thursday, 4 October 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah that's the first association that came to my mind.
I would be genuinely sad if there was a new SW album without a song about a murderous dictatorship.
― QUOTE sampling at a higher rate UNQUOTE (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 4 October 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
"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