The cd booklet contained an image of Bowie's "War Child" charity art piece from '97, where ".. famous celebrities .. all homages to .. other musicians .. they considered to be a big influence on their work".This art consisted of a lightbox containing 3 x-rayed skulls and six eyes (a curious Residents coincidence). There are two side-view skulls on the two sides of this box and one forward facing central skull, presumably Skott, the brains of the operation. The eyes mystify me. OK we all know about David's special eye, but was the Walkers' invasion of Britain really in part due to tricky eyes ? It seemed a rather self-aggrandizing feature from Bowie's art otherwise, epecially as of all things Walker to leave out it left out their ears.
― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 19 February 2004 05:38 (twenty years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 19 February 2004 05:53 (twenty years ago) link
3.
by a mile.
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jimmy James Inc, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/scott-walker-scott-4-round-26-grahams-choice/
― yugi ex, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
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