New Scott Walker album: 'The Drift'

I hope the Walker Brothers box set goes down to a fiver one day as well.

Oh, there was also an Eno album for a pound, but I was put of by the presence of Daniel Lanois.

I have expressed my deep reservations about this box set in the past but at a fiver it does provide the opportunity to pick up some otherwise hard-to-get material...and for the two Ute Lemper tracks alone I would deem it essential.

Sorry, I was only to supposed to think that, not type it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000H0MKDI/ref=dp_olp_1/026-3945335-0330023

I need to know about this different packaging though.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scott-Walker-5-Easy-Pieces/dp/B0000EWNXS/sr=1-28/qid=1170331001/ref=sr_1_28/026-3945335-0330023?ie=UTF8&s=music

Still a winner.

Also bought Apollo! It's not the remaster (that was a tenner in the alphabetical section) but I can't be too fussy for a pound.

Almsot all of Tilt as well, and quite a lot of Climate of Hunter.

I am not sure how bothered to be about this.

I suppose I could try and exchange it at another HMV.

Or I could arse about trying to get the manufacturers to change it.

Or I could just sulk a bit and pretend I didn't want it anyway.

Mind you, all I've heard of it so far is about 30 sec of "Jackie", which was enough to confirm that (a) it's not HDCD like the 2000 reissues (I know no one cares about that) and (b) it's two-channel. Perhaps it drops out later on disc 3?

Perhaps I have hit the bottle.

I can't find the receipt.

-- PJ Miller (pjmiller6...), February 1st, 2007 5:09 AM. (PJ Miller 68) (later)

if that was apollo, you made a huge mistake

Not a huge mistake. Not really. Not when I can copy it for PJM for nothing.

Ne'er mind, eh?

Unless Pam has a Walker Bros comp lurking somewhere, I think there are actually 46 tracks (about 165min) on this that I don't have on CD. So perhaps I should just keep it. Or dump a couple of the Til The Band Comes In tracks that appear on Boychild (have the 1990 vinyl pressing), burn 2 CDs and sell it. I dunno...if it's anything like the Eames-pattern chairs we have in the carport, I'll never get round to eBaying it anyway.

Greatest Scott lyric ever.

You know there's a Walker Brothers box set that's just come out, don't you?

Thanks Michael, but it's more the FACT of having a dud that bothers me. I think I have almost everyhting on that disc anyway, except for something about Chicago, and I am not keen on the Europe/America split, which seems rather artificial. But then the same is true of all the splits, I suppose.

I think the problem is that Boy Child is pretty much perfect.

The bad news is, the box itself is even more shop-soiled than the first one. However, I have fought the urge to discard the packaging without further ado.

Turns out it's a first-generation model; later models have the Freeview codes and this model can be upgraded by buying some special cable, whacking it into the six-pin socket inside the battery compartment and downloading some dubious software written by "enthusiasts". Not bloody likely.)

Sometimes I really REALLY despair at the youth of today.

I shall give Nite Flights another shot, while I caress my badly shopsoiled box.

It is nice to be called youth though.

(Family couldn't care less, PJM. Barely even registered interest in amazing new electro-luminescent remote control and disappointment at uselessness of it was infinitessimal. Ill, y'see.)

4AD are to release new material from seasoned oddball and occasional genius Scott Walker on September 24th. Entitled, rather preposterously, And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go To The Ball?, the 25 minute instrumental composition was commissioned by the South Bank Centre to accompany a dance piece by the Candoco company, who will be touring it across the country in the autumn. Says Scott: “The music is full of edge and staccato shapes or cuts, reflecting how we cut up the world around us as a consequence of the shape of our bodies. How much of a body does an intelligence need to be potentially socialised in an age of ever-developing AI?” Hmmm…

And What Shall Go To The Ball?

where's ethan

getting sonned by ugly sisters jess and deej, probably

what

I love the sound of the Drift but the lyrics just make me cringe and/or laugh out loud; I spent the first couple months after it was released trying to appreciate them as being "abstract," but really they're just childish/stupid.

As a top intellectual, you'd know.

As a hipster who has to have music reviews form their opinions for them, you wouldn't.

ok, nothing of the last seven posts made any sense at all.

The lyrics are intended to make you laugh, duh.

The Donald Duck part is totally brilliant.

Is this new thing available for pre-order? I couldn't find anything on the 4AD website...

'the escape' freaks me out a bit. that gollum style voice totally comes out of nowhere.

elsewhere, this project is lke the musical equivalent of a toilet seat installation. i mean that in a good way mostly. this record brings the qualities of the medium of art a little closer to music.

occasionally, his vocal stylings remind me of jeff buckley's rendition of 'lilac wine'

ok, totally sold on this album
next stop 'tilt' perhaps

Tilt is great. Maybe even better than this.