Best latter-period Scott Walker album

^ 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.

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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?

how do we know he's got a whole album's worth already?

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the book contains lyrics for songs for an upcoming album. I don't know if it's an album's worth of songs though.

Yeah the book has like nine new songs

Yeah the Albert Hall was all about the first five albums..

I didn't know that Scott and Jarvis had already done a Drift/Tilt event a few years ago.. http://5against4.com/2008/11/16/drifting-and-tilting-the-songs-of-scott-walker/

Yeah I remember when they announced that. The pain of being utterly unable to see it.

I love 5 by 4 blog but never noticed he had that write up on there - it was really good.

I was at that gig! Walker semi-disavowed it, saying something to the effect of "some of it worked, some of it didn't" but I thought it was really excellent, even the Jarvis bit. Only sour note was fuckin Damon albarn singing farmer in the city 😷

You were there??? God damn you!

Yep! Those two albums are huge favourites of mine so it was great to hear them realised live - meat punching and all. I also thought the staging really stayed true to the feel of the songs although I don't have the clearest memory of that side of it anymore (it was ten years ago fml) with the exception of patriot which I remember VERY clearly for some reason

Damn, so jealous! Are there any recordings of those nights? The 'Clara' performance sounds amazing as per 5:4.

Well, as I said up thread, at the end of 30 century man, Scott said something about maybe doing something that could be rendered in a live environment. Was wondering if that meant doing something like Kate Bush did, but hadn't realised he had already done it.

Must have been hard for Scott to put on without listening to it.

I was there too. Scott Walker is totally right that some things worked and some didn't, but I don't know if we'd agree on what worked.

I was really bothered by the soccer team picture and the guy with make-up and condoms in his stockings because it completely violated my idea of how these songs should look. There were a few other visual things I didn't like that I can't remember.

I was iffy about some of the singers like Jarvis and Albarn but I don't think anyone was bad. One of the opera singers didn't really work for me but it probably wasn't his fault. Wire magazine criticized the choice of some of the more popular singers.

The music was awesome, Gavin Friday was good but the absolute highlight was the dancing corpse lady, it was just perfect with the music.

Something else negative that left an impression was a couple a few rows behind me who clearly wanted to lets us all know that they thought it was all stupid and we were idiots for liking this arty farty nonsense but they were glad they saw Bono at the end when the performers were bowing (Bono just suddenly appeared to lead them out to take a bow). Most of the audience wouldn't hear their booing but anyone in a nearby seat would have.

Overall it was really good.

Lmao I do not remember bono at all

(Fuck those people obv)

why would you pay a premium to sit and slag off a show for being pretentious? surely they kind of knew what they were letting themselves in for?

I don't think they did at all. According to their conversations, they were invited there by friends and were expecting something different, probably 60s style Walker.

I miss the Scott walker in records like 3, 4 and climate of hunter. At this point it would be more unconventional for him to make a straight up record than go more esoteric..feel like the only one who jumped ship after drift

(Bono just suddenly appeared to lead them out to take a bow)

classic bono move

I didn't want to be too cynical and assume it but it did look like he invited himself onstage to show the cool people he hangs out with. People kept wondering if Scott would come out because he apparently was at the event but he never came out.

see also the bono ruins tinariwen concert youtube

so was this his last ever live appearance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5E1VXaCBW8

I believe so.

and i gotta quit

Wasn't scott visible at the mixing desk? Or am I thinking of his dance piece