Best latter-period Scott Walker album

Not for the first time, I think you're reading too much into this.(xp) The reason I brought up the duck was I was listening to that track on the bus this morning and I almost LOLed when Donald made his appearance.

The best kind of humour is simultaneously funny and terrifying

Climate of Hunter needs a re-release.

walker used actors dressed as plague doctors in the staging of "patriot (a single)" at that concert he did about 10 years ago

There's this as well, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0LmWUUVvUM

And "the plague"!

... and The Seventh Seal.

There are unspeakable diseases happening in the nite flights tracks too, at least that's the whiff I get

Also "Cue".

I haven't heard the full Childhood of a Leader soundtrack yet or seen the movie, but this piece rocks. A strong Bernard Herrmann/Hitchcock feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQHZcORowlc

Cue is another one that I find creepy enough that I can't listen to it in certain states of mind. the concept of the flugelman- brrrr...! The Drift was the first of these albums that I ever heard and while I'm happy to listen to the others p much any time, I always feel a sense of dread when I go to put on The Drift

Surprised Climate of Hunter beat-out Bish Bosch (can't remember whether I voted for the latter or Tilt). But I've decided to spend some quality time with CoH as I always saw it as the odd-one-out in his catalogue. I'd never realised how tremendous Rawhide is - those whirling strings!

foot, knee, shaggy belly, face
famous hindlegs

thank you to this thread for prompting me to look into whether The Drift is still OOP on vinyl; it is not, and so I bought it.

sadly newer editions (mine included) don't come with a full lyric sheet

Happy 75th to my soul guide

yeah, ride on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V01oQ_BsX00

"how you always embrace the new, and how you free so many artists. thank you especially for your generosity of spirit, when it comes to other artists."

should be completely directed at Scott himself, too.

He's publishing his lyrics, interview here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/15/scott-walker-sundog-book-lyrics-interview

“But I can rate them, the albums, as I go along. Not the early ones, because I’ve no idea any more, but I can say the success rate of, say, Tilt, was about – from what I wanted to get – 65%. And then the next album was 75%, and on and on until I hit Soused, which was pretty perfect.”

Deluxe edition is € 500 :-/ Normal edition page leads to a 404.

https://scottwalkerbook.com/

£ 500

jeezo

this is sad publishing your lyrics in a bokk is for cunts tbh

Agree. Doesn't help Walkers motivation isn't more than 'well my friend Jarvis said all the cool kids do it nowadays so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

yeah taking advice from Jarvis Cocker would be another no-no

have to say, i was a bit annoyed that my copy of The Drift didn't come with a lyric booklet when I bought it. Apparently the first editions did but 4AD phased it out afterwards. If I were to buy a lyric book by anyone, it would be Scott though.

Also Scott is wrong in that Soused is definitely not his best work

He's not saying that, exactly.

Surely there should be a Fire Escape In The Sky type compilation for his forgotten 70s stuff? Anyone ever actually wade through them all? I'm surprised that the lyrics to some of Til The Band Comes In aren't in this book; The War Is Over is a winner for starters.

The No Regrets anthology includes a long essay by Ian Penman (one of his best pieces) that goes pretty thoroughly into the 'lost' period. Most of it was material written by other ppl, iirc, so probably wouldn't feature in this book anyway.

On the day the drift came out I read the lyric booklet through several times before I ever heard it, granted this was because I couldn't get home to put it on but it was good

Lyric booklets >> whatever this thing is; I'm sure a lot of the lyrics to the early songs (perennial faves chez moi) are awful on paper. What's mostly noteworthy about this publication is that it has a section for New Songs

Deluxe edition is € 500 :-/ Normal edition page leads to a 404.

https://scottwalkerbook.com/

― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 15 January 2018 08:54 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Normal edition link works - is £14.99

There's a mid version as well, signed - £125

'well my friend Jarvis said all the cool kids do it nowadays so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

You know, I actually like it that it's this.

I'm pretty sure a signed Jarvis one wouldn't fetch £500 (or even £50 (maybe £5, let's be fair))

Surely there should be a Fire Escape In The Sky type compilation for his forgotten 70s stuff? Anyone ever actually wade through them all? I'm surprised that the lyrics to some of Til The Band Comes In aren't in this book; The War Is Over is a winner for starters.

― piscesx, Monday, January 15, 2018 11:48 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's quite a lot on the 'This Is How You Disappear' boxset, which is essential imo, also for the film stuff.

xp I hear you :)

^ Are you sure about this? Wiki says that 'This Is How You Disappear' is CD four of the 5 Easy Pieces box set, and it doesn't seem to contain much from the wilderness years. It also says that Walker is blocking this stuff from being reissued.

£125 doesn't seem unreasonable for a signed SW book, especially given the man's lack of public appearances – I might even spring for that myself

You are right, I mixed things up. 5 Easy Pieces is the box set, and it doesn't have a lot of the 70s stuff. Sorry about that.

have to say, i was a bit annoyed that my copy of The Drift didn't come with a lyric booklet when I bought it. Apparently the first editions did but 4AD phased it out afterwards. If I were to buy a lyric book by anyone, it would be Scott though.

― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Monday, 15 January 2018 09:32 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah this was the one letdown with the vinyl when they reissued it. I'm assuming CD copies still come with one?

I was in waterstones so read the eimear mcbride essay and the new songs section (read at least one of the songs in the former's voice and it totally worked). The new lyrics are v good scott walker lyrics imo, I had a kind of horrified grin on my face from the jokes and puns and imagery and quotations. There are musical "stage directions" for three of the songs that make me... curious to hear the record

Pretty sure the 5 Easy Pieces has a bunch of tracks from the 'lost' 70s albums. I've heard them and there's maybe a few other tracks worth hearing more than once.

5 easy pieces is great, one of the few physical media things I regret selling

The Moviegoer is a legit great album from that period

Not sure anything from the CBS albums are present.

Ok, I took a closer look. "The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti" from "The Moviegoer" is on disc 5 of the Easy Pieces box and "Someone Who Cared" from "Stretch" is on disc 2. I also quite like "This Way Mary" from "The Moviegoer", and there were some good singles from soundtracks in the 70s, such as "I Still See You", that didn't make those albums. But otherwise the rest is disposable.

One CBS track? Hmmm, must have been less difficult to license than.

I caved and bought the stupid book, okay?

so is there a new record coming out? when?

2030

Hell yesh Someone Who Cared is great. Also If Ships Were Meant To Sail is on a Jimmy Webb CD i bought about 20 years back called And Someone Left A Cake Out In The Rain, always liked that one.

i like his caetano cover from the "lost" period

Not sure about the accent he puts on though. His version of "Cowboy" is great.

so is there a new record coming out? when?