He provided a number of genuine laugh-out-loud "oh dear" moments esp on "the war is over"
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:26 (seven years ago) link
It's a shame Goldfrapp didn't turn up for this. Susanne was perfect, I think that's the best version of that song
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Maybe this was talked about in some other thread but Scott has composed the score for Vox Lux, the new film by the guy who directed Childhood of a Leader, which stars Natalie Portman and the young girl from Killing ofA Sacred Deer and sounds possibly pretty awesome as a movie (songs are by Sia and are not SW collabs)
Score album comes out in two weeks!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 1 December 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
Part of The Drift also turns up in the new Jean-Luc Godard.
― with hidden noise, Saturday, 1 December 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
He should do something with Gazelle Twin.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 3 December 2018 05:30 (five years ago) link
Saw this thread back at the top of ILX and had a mixture of excitement for new material/fear something had happened to Scott. Turned out it was just the Vox Lux news I already knew about, so I'll write this up as a mixed success.& as long as we're tossing out potential collabs he should absolutely do the hook on an fka Twigs track. Like, I'd 100% take any other sort of collaborative work from them as well, but "Scott hook" strikes me as the platonic form of that hypothetical meetup. Plus as I think I've said before somewhere else "Glass & Patron" is just the Bish Bosch sound design quantized into a vogue beat
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Monday, 3 December 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Scott Walker. Scott was 76 years old and is survived by his daughter, Lee, his granddaughter, Emmi-Lee, and his partner Beverly: https://t.co/awaFXWOkja pic.twitter.com/nd6MYVmWaO— 4AD (@4AD_Official) March 25, 2019
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
Damn!
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
Come on mods, do what's needed.
This being one thread where we see it's revival and say "Oh good, what's Scott been up to all these years?" as opposed to....
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
Oh no. RIP.
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 March 2019 08:51 (five years ago) link
Farewell scotty, I love you old man
― kolarov spring (NickB), Monday, 25 March 2019 08:54 (five years ago) link
Jaw literally dropped when I heard the news on the radio just now. Too soon, too soon. RIP.
― Jeff W, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link
Very sad - felt like there was more great music to come from him.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:42 (five years ago) link
Yeah there were about 3 or 4 new songs in that collected lyrics book iirc. I guess we’ll have to just imagine the music now
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 09:44 (five years ago) link
RIP. man this really sucks.
Here’s 2006’s ‘30 Century Man’ docu in full, i once saw this with only 2 other fellas in there, at the Cornerhouse in Manchester.
Grab this if you’ve never seen it, it’s amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUj-T3EecBI
― piscesx, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:55 (five years ago) link
RIP. Thanks for producing We Love Life.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:00 (five years ago) link
RIP Scott. A hero.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:02 (five years ago) link
No. No no no no...
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:16 (five years ago) link
miserable
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
Noooooo
― Simon H., Monday, 25 March 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
Remember seeing the tribute show to his career at Barbican just over ten years ago, Scott humbly smiling at the mixing desk from under a baseball cap while Jarvis and Damon gamely butchered his songs
He had one of the most fascinating career trajectories of anybody, and of course basically the best voice ever. He also seemed like a really gentle, nice dude
The 30th Century Man doc was great for the image of Scott unnerving people by blasting the final master of Tilt at max volume, fully intending to never listen to it ever again after that because it was Finished
That incredible last verse of "the Seventh Seal" always made me feel really intense and overcome with emotion, can't wait to cause myself significant emotional harm by listening to it later
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 25 March 2019 11:08 (five years ago) link
Absolutely brutal to lose two singular artists like him and Mark Ellis so close together.
― Chris L, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
Mark Hollis, bad time for my brain to fail
― Chris L, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
Tilt, The Drift and Bisch Bosh are some of the most significant works of art of the last 20-something years. I was hoping we would get some more, especially since it seemed like he was more active than usual in recent years with soundtrack work.
― silverfish, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
Seriously gutted... RIP
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 25 March 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
this really sucks ass
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
“the old man’s back again” was on friday’s episode of THE BLACKLIST and hearing his voice made me hope new stuff was on the way from him soon. a true original.
― maura, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
Scott is — hard to say was — just the greatest example of an artist enduring and making brilliant, challenging music late in life. He seemed to be picking up the pace, and while the recent scores weren't that special, I was looking still so forward to whatever he'd do next.... His passing changes my world, for the worse. He seemed to remain so youthful later in life, but in a way kind of like he was sustaining it on a tightrope... he talked in an interview not long ago about falling off his bicycle a lot, and I felt like I could relate at about half his age. I think I thought he'd just keep living. I am shocked and saddened.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
Are you fucking kidding meWhy did my two biggest living heroes die within a month of each other God damn it Scott was at the height of his fucking powers
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
I'm guessing the BBC may dust off the Proms tribute from 18 months ago, onto BBC4 or 6Music or wherever.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
when I crossed the riverwith a heavy blanket rollI took nobody with menot a soul
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
^via Brando by Tennessee Williams
Scott you giant, brilliant oddity :(
RIP, this is really sad news, such an inspiring figure in music.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
i put on scott 3 right away and it was a bad idea if i didn't want to be a mess!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:59 (five years ago) link
Like of course it’s ‘more complicated than that’ but when people ask me my favorite records the instant answer is always laughing stock and tilt. I know this is what life is, transitory, but can we have a brief break please?Also god only knows what was still coming from NS Engel, scratch that, god doesn’t even know.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
I interviewed him 21 years ago, on the occasion of the Drift being released in the US via Drag City. Given his reputation as not exactly voluble and as a recluse for much of his career, much less vis-a-vis his mordant artistic inclinations, I was delighted to experience a fairly cheerful, not at all obtuse or uncooperative guy, behavior which was quite evident to everyone who saw in the 30th Century Man doc. He told me that he only visited the U.S. once since the Walker Bros emigrated to the UK, when his mother died. Accordingly/appropriately, his was a peculiar, rootless mid atlantic dialect.
Sui generis, all the way.
― veronica moser, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
RIP you wonderful genius. Definitely was expecting more to come, so this is a giant blow.
― emil.y, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
excuse me the drift came out 13 years ago don't give me a heart attack xp
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
Oh fuck…I meant Tilt…
― veronica moser, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
lol i figured that out after a second
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
A wonderful artist, a wonderful life. Listening to Funeral Tango and smiling.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
No news yet on cause of death?
― jmm, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
rip scott, so sad to hear. it's funny, i've long been a fan of 1-4 and the '70s walker bros albums, but i've never dove into drift or tilt.
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
Oof well you should. The Drift in particular is such a crazy achievement, no other record like it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
I came to Scott quite late, about 10 years ago after a good friend gently kept pushing him on me. One of those artists whose work just crept up on me and burrowed into my subconscious. And all phases of it are amazing, from "Mrs. Murphy" to "Nite Flights" to the latest stuff. An artist who truly forged his own path, though undoubtedly enabled by his early success. I hope in this easy-access-to-everything era that his presence will continue to be felt.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
yes voodoo chili - this is urgent
and do not overlook the two long tracks scott wrote and arranged for Ute Lemper on her Punishing Kiss album - they are the way station between tilt and drift.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
yeah it's sort of the definition of a "record you should hear before you die", like it or not it's one of the most nuts records ever
― frogbs, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
“Ride on, Hero”
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
I actually did listen (possibly for the first time, properly, thanks Spotify!) to "Tilt" about two weeks ago, it's really not as abrasive as you might have reason to expect - definitely a mid-point between Scott4 style orchestration and the heavy song styles of "The Drift".
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link