Scott Walker. (RIP March 2019)

it's on iplayer, radio and tv

Haven't got a TV license :-/ and the BBC radio app insists I log in now, which is a bridge too far for me

You can skip that login at the moment, look underneath ...

get_iplayer...

you need a tv license

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

Yeah, its all over YouTube.

ah that's okay then. thanks all

I can find individual links for video (like Susan's) but does a full video version exist on YT?

Yikes I can't get with Jarvis Cocker on these first few tunes (listening to the YT link). Like a wet rag on those beautiful arrangements.

He provided a number of genuine laugh-out-loud "oh dear" moments esp on "the war is over"

It's a shame Goldfrapp didn't turn up for this. Susanne was perfect, I think that's the best version of that song

Maybe this was talked about in some other thread but Scott has composed the score for Vox Lux, the new film by the guy who directed Childhood of a Leader, which stars Natalie Portman and the young girl from Killing of
A Sacred Deer and sounds possibly pretty awesome as a movie (songs are by Sia and are not SW collabs)

Score album comes out in two weeks!

Part of The Drift also turns up in the new Jean-Luc Godard.

He should do something with Gazelle Twin.

Saw this thread back at the top of ILX and had a mixture of excitement for new material/fear something had happened to Scott. Turned out it was just the Vox Lux news I already knew about, so I'll write this up as a mixed success.
& as long as we're tossing out potential collabs he should absolutely do the hook on an fka Twigs track. Like, I'd 100% take any other sort of collaborative work from them as well, but "Scott hook" strikes me as the platonic form of that hypothetical meetup. Plus as I think I've said before somewhere else "Glass & Patron" is just the Bish Bosch sound design quantized into a vogue beat

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Scott Walker. Scott was 76 years old and is survived by his daughter, Lee, his granddaughter, Emmi-Lee, and his partner Beverly: https://t.co/awaFXWOkja pic.twitter.com/nd6MYVmWaO

— 4AD (@4AD_Official) March 25, 2019

Damn!

Come on mods, do what's needed.

This being one thread where we see it's revival and say "Oh good, what's Scott been up to all these years?" as opposed to....

Oh no. RIP.

Farewell scotty, I love you old man

Jaw literally dropped when I heard the news on the radio just now. Too soon, too soon. RIP.

:-(

Very sad - felt like there was more great music to come from him.

Yeah there were about 3 or 4 new songs in that collected lyrics book iirc. I guess we’ll have to just imagine the music now

RIP. man this really sucks.

Here’s 2006’s ‘30 Century Man’ docu in full, i once saw this with only 2 other fellas in there, at the Cornerhouse in Manchester.

Grab this if you’ve never seen it, it’s amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUj-T3EecBI

RIP. Thanks for producing We Love Life.

RIP Scott. A hero.

No. No no no no...

miserable

Noooooo

Remember seeing the tribute show to his career at Barbican just over ten years ago, Scott humbly smiling at the mixing desk from under a baseball cap while Jarvis and Damon gamely butchered his songs

He had one of the most fascinating career trajectories of anybody, and of course basically the best voice ever. He also seemed like a really gentle, nice dude

The 30th Century Man doc was great for the image of Scott unnerving people by blasting the final master of Tilt at max volume, fully intending to never listen to it ever again after that because it was Finished

That incredible last verse of "the Seventh Seal" always made me feel really intense and overcome with emotion, can't wait to cause myself significant emotional harm by listening to it later

Absolutely brutal to lose two singular artists like him and Mark Ellis so close together.

Mark Hollis, bad time for my brain to fail

Tilt, The Drift and Bisch Bosh are some of the most significant works of art of the last 20-something years. I was hoping we would get some more, especially since it seemed like he was more active than usual in recent years with soundtrack work.

Seriously gutted... RIP

this really sucks ass

“the old man’s back again” was on friday’s episode of THE BLACKLIST and hearing his voice made me hope new stuff was on the way from him soon. a true original.

Scott is — hard to say was — just the greatest example of an artist enduring and making brilliant, challenging music late in life. He seemed to be picking up the pace, and while the recent scores weren't that special, I was looking still so forward to whatever he'd do next.... His passing changes my world, for the worse. He seemed to remain so youthful later in life, but in a way kind of like he was sustaining it on a tightrope... he talked in an interview not long ago about falling off his bicycle a lot, and I felt like I could relate at about half his age. I think I thought he'd just keep living. I am shocked and saddened.

Are you fucking kidding me

Why did my two biggest living heroes die within a month of each other

God damn it

Scott was at the height of his fucking powers

I'm guessing the BBC may dust off the Proms tribute from 18 months ago, onto BBC4 or 6Music or wherever.

when I crossed the river
with a heavy blanket roll
I took nobody with me
not a soul

^via Brando by Tennessee Williams

Scott you giant, brilliant oddity :(

RIP, this is really sad news, such an inspiring figure in music.

i put on scott 3 right away and it was a bad idea if i didn't want to be a mess!!!

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.

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.

RIP you wonderful genius. Definitely was expecting more to come, so this is a giant blow.

excuse me the drift came out 13 years ago don't give me a heart attack xp

Oh fuck…I meant Tilt…