Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

haha that was what I thought of too!

"I don't come to where you work and punch your donkey on the streets of Galway."

Just seems like a lyric that deliberately deflates the ~serious visionary~ persona. (I am assuming the red light is a double meaning = recording booth)

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.

Oh also: 73 minutes long.

Jesus.

I'll be making A and B side playlists for this one then.

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

totally

"Can't go by a man with brain grass" lol you are correct

Agree. So many moments on The Drift sound like mentalism on paper but work brilliantly in practice.

Another leaked video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrMBBt1BYTc

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

Also, the closing seconds confirm it could only have been released in December.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2012 14:20 (Yesterday) Permalink

keeping my fingers crossed this is true in the 'bob dylan christmas album' sense

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, October 5, 2012 11:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but not as much on his last three records though.

In '68 he released a song called The Amorous Humphrey Plugg. Title alone is totally lol-worthy.

heard the first track off of this, think it's a hit!

"Nothing clears a room like removing a brain."

do any cartoon characters make a cameo on this one?

yeah but not as much on his last three records though.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, October 6, 2012 5:43 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wrong

You could easily picture this in the current top ten

I hope he does another solo acoustic number for the closer like the last three.

yeah but not as much on his last three records though.

― 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, 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.

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.

I only ever found those funny when they were pointed out to me as funny. Before that I just found those bits terrifying.

I think the demonic duck on The Drift is supposed to be terrifying AND funny.

Whereas the Rick Dees one...

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

Not haw haw funny but macabre and witty and definitely not 100% serious

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 time for real:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Accd9StNlYE

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?

down already. that was quick.

http://youtu.be/PfrVuhD8maE

trailer's super well done. the songs sound awesome. so psyched for this.

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?

Whoa

xpost -- it definitely 'rocks out' more. The slabs of guitar feedback aren't there for nothing.

Can't wait for this.

"Bish bosch" almost sounds like a genre name.

I predict this will be the best album to ever feature a dude scraping machetes

Cue Richard E. Grant "he's sharpening the fucking knife..."

http://www.boerderijcampingdelinde.nl/Fotos/Biesbosch.jpg

"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.

"YouTube in Germany" is my favorite Associates song btw

his url's not perfect, but that can be altered

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.

80s production aside

gtfo

Amazon Germany has 30 second clips from each track online... they seem to be almost randomly cut but there are a few lyrical gems in there ("If shit was music, you'd be a brass band...")

http://www.amazon.de/Bish-Bosch-Walker-Scott/dp/B009CXLS4S/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1352039563&sr=1-1

"Corps De Blah" actually fits in nicely with that fake trailer

huge pic, so linky here: http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/387575_10152260524970265_560626555_n.jpg

Desperately trying to avoid this thread before Christmas. I kind of regret watching that preview video upthread cos afaic it contains spoilers.