Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

the "big pink mint" is a toilet freshener!?!?!

YES

woof, you're the bwast!

I think it's a 'Norseman are thick savages' gag about a toilet freshener.

The 'flush hard' joke is ummmm, either saying 'greeks are shits' or thinking about it some more, 'greeks are homosexuals & likely to be found in your bottom'.

Or saying that Athens is a cesspit

From Wiki:

Adipocere (pron.: /ˈædɨpɵsɪər/), also known as corpse, grave or mortuary wax, is a wax-like organic substance formed by the anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis of fat in tissue, such as body fat in corpses. In its formation, putrefaction is replaced by a permanent firm cast of fatty tissues, internal organs and the face.

Adipocere in a zoot...? There are a lot of musical and lyrical references to late-40s/early-50s pop culture throughout Epizootics!. I kind of imagine it as West Side Story as viewed by someone who's having an extremely bad trip.

West Side Story South Pacific

Not an answer to dog latin's question, but I've just learned from Google that there's a racehorse with the charming name "Neigh O Me".

Other searches on the family name "Neigho" throws up... nothing much other than it's an ancient name.

wasn't she eventually buried at the bottom of the pillar when she died?

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:48 AM (5 hours ago)

buried alive actually, the bastard still didn't come down

The Alfredo Garcia cameo in "Epizootics!" makes me very happy altho I have no idea what it's doing there

I pretty much assumed that this album would be my automatic BEST OF DECADE just based on the trailer + "Epizootics!" & the fact that I'm a massive scott stan (listened to the drift nearly every day for like a year after it came out). And then the release date came & I heard it and I just couldn't help feeling deflated, like yeah this is brilliant but none of the songs really get to me the way eg "clara" or "farmer in the city" do.

Happily I'm revising this position & now think that "zercon" especially is one of the most affecting things he's done. The central metaphor, though oblique, is just so elegant & moving: zercon moving to higher & higher peaks (across multiple eras/spaces) in order to escape his circumstances, but of course he can't, and even when he ascends to space he's still a dwarf and the universe is still cold & cruel & unfeeling - Walker's said in interviews that at the beginning of the song zercon is getting "heckled by silence", which is some kinda bergman-level angst right there. At its core it's not a zillion miles away from the 60s character pieces - poor zercon, like big louise, is looking for (fire) escapes in the sky.

I mean I wouldn't really claim to know what's ~going on~ in the song at all times but it seems to be "about" different kinds of human cruelty & the ways people have of coping with them. Hence the many references to past racisms &c. Zercon's defensive strategy against the society that treats him like shit is to give as good as he gets (all the classic putdowns at the start of the song); later, he just withdraws & withdraws until there's nothing left & he "drop[s] into the darkness" (this is how you disappear). The responses to heckles in the last part of the song aren't randomly chosen, they all point towards complete effacement: "I want to forget you just the way you are", "I think you've got nothing there","I hope your face clears up".

This is why I can't get with complaints about the humour - even the funny lines on this album aren't just there for the lolz. Plus there's always been humour in scott's work - on the drift he actually bursts out laughing ffs!

Brilliant post wins

Another thought I had:

ROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6AjaS1adwk8

I laughed.

Hmm!

http://pitchfork.com/news/50048-scott-walkers-bish-bosch-becoming-multimedia-show-for-vivid-sydney-festival/

The Alfredo Garcia cameo in "Epizootics!" makes me very happy altho I have no idea what it's doing there

― castle grayscale (wins), Thursday, 31 January 2013 22:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

Garcia also gets a mention in Cockfighter on Tilt.

"eccentric, asburd"

still playing this. Also

Another thought I had:

ROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICEROOMFULLAMICE

― ☯ t (wins), Thursday, 7 February 2013 00:49 (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me otm, although that may be the "jazz police" of this album

Some video of the Bish Bosch thingie at the Sydney Opera house:

http://youtu.be/M6gowakwh8A

looks neat!

Really hope they do this in the UK. The Sydney opera house thing is free to attend! Any ilxors going?

Contrast and compare:

"Take that accidentally in the bollocks for a start", Scott Walker, 'Epizootics!', 2012

"'ere, get this in the bollocks for a start!", Derek & Clive, 'You Cunt', 1976

It's all in the detais. Gary Barlow would not have made it so big in a boy band called "Ere, Get this"

?????

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.