lol 'The Amorous Humphrey Plugg' just popped up on random play
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, it's all I can do not to play Scott's stuff day after day after day...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks to facebook, I only JUST learned about the song The Plague. Can you imagine, having known Scott's 1 - 4 (and side A of 'Til the Band) by heart and obsessing for years and suddenly learning there was another song? I don't know how I missed it.
― dan selzer, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
...containing the immortal couplet "It's all so vague/When you meet the plague".
― hugo_w, Friday, 4 May 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
That's awesome, Dan! I'm jealous! It was there from the beginning for me as my first Scott purchase was the Boy Child compilation.
(In a bookend kind of way, I assume you know about his track on 4AD's Plague Songs comp?)
This is a pretty great Scott thread that I've never noticed before. My answer is, resoundingly, Scott 3. Wally Stott ftw.
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
The Plague is the first Scott Walker solo song I heard, it got me hooked.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
interesting timing for the thread revival as i was thinking about this the other day and concluded that Scott 3 is probably top 5 of all time for me. Scott 4 is a bit too cavalier for me in parts, whereas Scott 2 doesn't quite connect with me the whole way through. Scott 3 has the perfect balance of introspection and storytelling and is capable of moving me in unique ways.
― charlie h, Saturday, 5 May 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― dan selzer, Saturday, 5 May 2012 07:28 (eleven years ago) link