Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

Not sure where I saw this said, thought it was this thread but Ctrl-F is turning up naught, but: Lulu > Bish Bosch. And that's coming from someone that loved the previous two.

brandon soderberg said that

"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours"

Thanks, that's where I saw it. (xpost)

Scott's film picks for some online streaming thing:
http://thequietus.com/articles/10918-scott-walker-curates-curzon-on-demand-film-season

Had less than 10 dollars in my bank account but discovered 20 bucks credit on one of my cards last night, so hello Bish Bosch.

Just finished my first listen. This was so much greater than I dared hope. Transcendental KO. The Drift now feels like a transitional record en route to this. This may be as good as Tilt. Fuckin' A.

Was seriously ready for disappointment.

My copy is waiting at home.

How is it doing in the midweeks? Anyone?

I mean, Tilt made #27 and The Drift #51.

Have we discussed the fact that on the last track ('...'conducator'...') Scott plays everything himself? Not just voice + guitar as before but a whole arrangement? Stunning track.

Here's something I'd never seen till it was mentioned in The Quietus review:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q2EoduCLKYY

Was he doing someone a favor? Did they throw money at him? Did he do it for fun?

I don't know the story behind it but I do know that, even at the time, it seemed like a coup to get him to do it.

Currently collecting the more substantial interviews (Guardian, Pfork, Quietus) into a single PDF cause I'm a fuckin' dork like that...

'Wire' as well.

Yeah that I'll be buying.

I'm loving this. Second listen today.

I'm not loving the drum sounds.

did scott walker fart

are those farts real or autotuned?

this album is like the worst ever btw, like if I were to spend 10 mins making a fake scott walker album it would prob sound like this not trying to big myself up or anything btw

ixiiivixvvi

We should have done a precover of this one.

Now he says it.

:-(

Nah, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's remix/working the Christmas thing and the Beatles track.

Woouldn't have had the time to do that one as well

agree with soderberg that Lulu's better but I loved Lulu so that really isn't as damning as it should be. love Tilt but this one isn't clicking with me like it should

ixiiivixvvi is a total hook. best track on the album (for now).
not sure if i like it as much as the drift, but... enjoying hearing it again and again, that's for sure.

Scott appears on this episode of J cocker's show, which expires in 2 hours:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3lgz

interview starts at about 46 minutes in.

this album isn't very enjoyable to listen to. i like the horns on epizootics! and other little moments like that. it's certainly no Lulu, which I liked as well.

I've managed three tracks so far. The opening track is pretty strong, in a bludgeony way, Corps De Blah has several beautiful 30sec chunks which don't add up to much and Phrasing has stuck in my head as the best of the three. I don't know when I'll get around to the 21min track.

I'm sure a large part of why Tilt was a big deal to me and I kind of ignored The Drift were my very different domestic circumstances, 11 years apart. At 27, I was single, living alone, no neighbours to speak of, nice stereo, lots of free time; at 38 I was married with kids, no time, long work hours. My principal memory of The Drift is being stunned by the Donald Duck Moment on the top deck of a number 3 bus in Dulwich. And then I probably didn't listen to it again for six months. I've gone back to it recently - "Jesse" still marvellous. But this issue of barely having the time and space to give these records the room they (maybe) deserve is present again with Bish Bosch.

the cobwebby cum spray font works

i can empathise with Michael Jones. I heald off buying the Drift on vinyl because I thought, shit, am I really going to want to play this out loud, but I currently live at home and I'm loving the aura of vinyl playback lately so I'm looking forward to hearing BB on a turntable in my room.

Currently collecting the more substantial interviews (Guardian, Pfork, Quietus) into a single PDF cause I'm a fuckin' dork like that...

― Tomb Of Spatula (Jon Lewis), Friday, 7 December 2012 19:17 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd love a copy of this if you wouldn't mind?

Album is straight in at number 95

The Mighty Bosch

"My Gran used to love him in the 60s, so she'll love getting this for Xmas"

Actually my mum used to like him but I won't be getting her this

god jesus, there are gonna be a few heart attacks over the festive season. i actually fear...

Okay, so the last 2/3rds of this album is pretty engaging, but those first two tracks are the ones that really scan as Walker self-parody to me. Shave those two off and this is quite a bit better.

dog latin, i will send when i get a chance. It's not slick, I just c & p'd the text from each one.

no that's cool - thansk man, would be nice to read em all in one place once i have the album.

this album is a gas

i never know what to DO to scott walker albums but even if i never wanted to listen to them i "enjoyed" the sensation of totally forbidding, serious awe that tilt and the drift elicited. this one just had me pursing my lips at the fart noises. if you're gonna be unlistenable at least be completely 100% humourless ffs

i like the humour

Yeah. For some reason I've been reaching for this a lot more than I did when I first got The Drift.

loved this at first listen, don't really want to listen to anything else. good accompaniment for all holiday activities.

streaming on spotify btw

i haven't fallen this hard for one of his albums since i first heard Scott 2

Finding it impossible to listen to this when the sun is out.

album of the year