Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

music's very much like a magic eye picture.

How would you know he added reverb as oposed to it being an element that is just there?

that's what i'm saying

Michael Jones that is an illuminating thing that you posted, thank you. Of course that's the easiest and most economical explanation!

So in those spots we just cut off the analogue, and where we had the silences we just used the digital.

On the vinyl, the silences will be replaced by excerpts from "Yakety Sax."

Is that ish of Teh_Wire on the stands in the US yet?

When "Epizootics!" gets to the tubax solo I thought "cool tubax solo" not realizing I hadn't ever heard an actual tubax, it just sounds so much like what it would be

Meantime, a little good reading while we wait:

http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/nite-flights/

Thanks for that link, Ned, that's a great article.

That blog always delivers.

some kind of special preview event being thrown by Beggars tomorrow at something called Sleep No More in NYC. I used to be in the loop.

Good old bowiesongs.

Yeah I noticed an FB contest to be one of three lucky fans to go to the NYC thing.

Obv if anyone gots a hookup for that get at me.

oh my god. the long song goes all jacques brel!

this is one of the best side-long songs i've ever heard

watching/listening to the video for epizootics!

holy hell this is something

some kind of special preview event being thrown by Beggars tomorrow at something called Sleep No More in NYC. I used to be in the loop.

wow. hadn't heard about that listening party. Sleep No More is a participatory theater thing held at a warehouse converted into an old hotel. it's pretty great actually, we went in July.

and yeah you're kind of out of the loop for not knowing what Sleep No More is, it's been on Gossip Girl and everything ;)

it's really grebt. I keep having to stop myself from watching it again. It's quite addictive

xpost

xpost as far as I know ian and wife went to the listening party...

Yeah. On your prodding Ian offered me an extra ticket at the last minute but I already had dinner/evening plans. MIkey IQ from Other Music went and posted some stuff on facebook "Oh, and cheers to whomever decided to host the event at Sleep No More in the McKittrick Hotel. Best listening party EVER."

I am a 42 y.o. sad fuck who had to get up at 8 the next morning so the 10.30pm start time was too much for me. Regretting myself now...

leaked btw

Must... Not...

2012 - the year experimental rock broke

Actual lyric, reportedly:

You're so fat when u go out in a rain jacket people mistake u for a cab

i donkey punch a ho in the streets of galway

xpost confirmed!

listening my way through the leak.

yes that just confirms to me that as much as i like scott his sense of humour is quite far from mine.

I've been listening to this while writing lecture notes; not the ideal way to do either thing, really. Hard to get a handle on it, but it's pretty extraordinary. The cab lyric is real, sounds fine in context.

I've severed my reeking gonads. Fed them to your shrunken face.

Just saying.

The line is actually:

You're so fat that when you wear a yellow raincoat people say "TAXI!"

But I heard it as:

You're so fat that when you wear a yellow raincoat people say "TAKE ME!"

Other good insults in the lyrics:

If brains were rain you'd surely be a desert.
If shit were music, you'd be a brass band.
Does your face hurt? Cos it's killing me!
Don't move, I want to forget you just the way you are.

I was trying to recall where that last one came from, or where I'd heard before, anyway.

The Monkees' "Head" film!

xp
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Billy_Joel_-_Just_the_way_you_are.jpg

**SPOILERS**

this record contains simulated fart noises accompanied by lyrics about sphincters tooting.

thanks, that's gonna spoilers my dinners

Wire articles great. More PLAGUE vicar?

i swear on the wet head of my first case of gonorrhea that this is his best album since scott 4

Can't wait for the fart noises.

― LaMonte, Monday, September 24, 2012 8:17 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some truly amazing SONICS on this record. the machete sharpening/rolling on "corps de blah" is just WOW. i mean, so many amazing SOUNDS! really. but then he uses the same or a similar sound in Tar.

i don't know if it all hangs together or if it's meant to or if it should. I was rereading The Drift thread and Julio's criticism of that record applies here too. "It does many things in a 'samey' manner...its going for a consistency in mood, but at the same time he undermines this by throwing the odd humourous line" - apologies for referencing his observations AGAIN but they do cut to the heart of the matter, imo. Apart from 'See You Don't Bump His Head' and "Epizootics!", a couple of others, everything seems pretty much interchangeable, could be part of any other track. Again, this is probably the intention )a song-suite) but over a sustained period (the length of a CD) it sounds like a multitude of sonic ideas ultimately sounding the same. Would i know that "SDSS14+13B" had ended and "Epizootics!" had started if i had not already heard "Epizootics!"? if so does it matter? "you're so boring you can't even entertain doubt" is a great line but i don't know if it has any meaning or interest to me beyond being clever and funny. other lines in the same vein aren't even funny (to me). maybe that's the point too? i don't know and i'm confused by it.

but it IS fascinating, a window into a very singular mind. whether that's a cause to revisit it more than a couple of times remains to be seen. sometimes i really want to listen to "farmer in the city" or "patriot (a single)" or "clara" but i can't imagine having that impulse with any of these tracks, songs, "pieces" or whatever you cry them.

When Tilt came out all I wanted to hear was Climate of Hunter. When The Drift came out, I was all over Tilt. Now this new one has me crooning 'Cossacks Are' as I walk down the street.

All of these records seemed verging on self-parody to me on first listen. They genuinely do take years to sink in and become enjoyable music... that's how I see it at least.

Any time there's Donald Duck or Farting Noise there's a tendency in all of us to go "Scott, You've Gone To Far This Time"

this is such an amazing record. prefer it to The Drift already. plus its very funny.

Can we get Sissy Spacek onto that one? (xpost)

Rainbo iirc

"They genuinely do take years to sink in and become enjoyable music... that's how I see it at least."

life's too short.

also, almost every "difficult" record will sinh in after some years.

i'm finding this very enjoyable from second listen onwards.

I got into this one way more quickly than The Drift or Tilt, enjoyed it on the first listen and have grown to like it even more on subsequent listens. I guess it helps that I listened to epizootics! about 5-6 times before the album leaked.