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
yeah I don't really think his stuff is difficult to listen to, which makes it a lot more disturbing really
― frogbs, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
Those lemper tracks are essential
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
yeah, tilt and drift have been on my list for a while, i just need to dive in and not worry if i'm 'in the mood.'
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
Tilt starts off with one of the most gorgeous songs ever recorded so it’s definitely not like Walker is going out of his way to be offputting
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
speaking of the most gorgeous songs ever recorded--the fucking electrician is devastating on a normal day, but today...
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
do I hear…21…
― veronica moser, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
I don't why anyone ever thought "Tilt" was abrasive or difficult.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
I mean some parts are kinda? And the subject matter is often chilling. It’s kinda exactly what the titles tilt and drift suggest - the guy who made climate of Hunter and nite flights wandering further out
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
Yes, I can only assume a lot of the people who were surprised with it hadn't heard Nite Flights and Climate of Hunter.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
Der Spiegel is reporting cancer, but does so at the end of an idiotic "golly gee, shame he went crazy after No Regrets and produced nothing anyone can listen to" article, so...
― Three Word Username, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
when tilt came out it was abrasive and difficult
the goal posts moved after that
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
it is absolutely a more harrowing sound world than nite flights or climate, come on now
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Harrowing? I don't find it harrowing.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon)
I need to get on this!
― emil.y, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
you are in for a treat emil.y - they add up to the length of a decent size EP (tracks are "Scope J" and "Lullaby')
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
Where do the sewers go? They gotta go somewhere
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
i guess the farmer in the city could be harrowing?
― kolarov spring (NickB), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
Lol
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
Put on Scope J just now. This is so good. May very well be the best Scott Walker song.
― silverfish, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
Her lullaby is so much better than the version on soused as well
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
LOL (xxp) Ignore me, I don't find any music harrowing.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
Apparently, when "Tilt" was coming out, Fontana records held a listening do and invited notable celeb Scott fans (e.g. Marc Almond) but when it came on, most of them fled!
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
Try Alfred Schnittke's 4th string quartet.
xp
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
On the freak zone at the weekend, before the news this morning, maconie went from mark hollis solo track into Cossacks Are
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
Oh god, I'm only a couple of minutes into 'Scope J'... how have I never listened to this before?
― emil.y, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
Same. Astonishing. Lullaby doesn't seem to be on Spotify
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Don't forget in the midst of his latter period work he recorded a Bond song for 'The World is Not Enough'. Why they didn't get him in 67 at the peak of his commercial success is a mystery, would have killed doing the theme for 'You Only Live Twice'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCt4O4gJifQ
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
If you go away as I know you mustThere'll be nothing left in this world to trustJust an empty room full of empty spaceLike the empty look I see on your faceAnd I'd have been the shadow of your shadowIf you might have kept me by your side
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
RIPwhat a singular artist
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
:( rip
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
Speaking of Bond themes and '67, the Walker Brothers did record the theme song for "Deadlier Than The Male" kind of a 007 knock-off (Bulldog Drummond being the Bond-like hero):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6HSbanREbE
― henry s, Monday, 25 March 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
"It's kind of "jump scare," but the moment where the percussion comes in on "The Cockfighter" always sets me off even when I'm anticipating it. That atmosphere is so cold!"
One track on The Drift is very quiet, and then Donald Duck makes a guest appearance. It's the only time an album has made me jump. I can't remember which track because it's one of those albums I listen to in a single go. I'll look it up on the internet.
It's called The Escape, that's what it's called.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 25 March 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
On a more serious note, The Guardian's obit repeats the old factoid about Climate of Hunter being the lowest-selling record on Virgin Records. Is that true? It sounds implausible. It got to number sixty and only spent two weeks on the chart, but even accounting for "the long tail" I can't imagine the likes of Chili Charles' 1973 folk-rock obscurity Busy Corner or Comus' second album - from Virgin's early prog period - selling more copies. It had a widespread international release. Also, I'm going to look at Discogs.com and see if people have started selling the LP version of The Drift for £700 yet.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link