Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

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.