Scott-O -- as in Scott Walker and SunnO)))

Holy crap. This is as good as I accidentally imagined it would be for a second when I heard about it, before sanity kicked in and I lowered my expectations.

excellent post

The most surprising thing on this album are its first opening seconds. And yeah it sounds like GnR.

It's really good, though Lullaby sent me back to Ute Lemper's version where, just for the briefest moment, she sounds like Billy Mackenzie.

Which release is the UL version on?

It's on the Japanese edition of her Punishing Kiss album.

Also included in the Five Easy Pieces boxset, which they were practically giving away (it was a bit battered) in HMV about five years ago.

I'll use my time machine.

Or I'll just Dropbox it to you, seeing as it's so difficult to find...

(It'll have to be tonight as I have an iPhone and, naturally, I can't get anything off that).

Lemper version is so definitive I think of this one as a cover (an excellent one). It's interesting that Scott took out the "fa la la" sections, song feels quite different without them

It's cool Michael, but thanks. I do have a rip of that already :-)

lou barlow does not like sunn o)))

i hope sunn o))) names their next album 'lou barlow' and it's just one chord played for sixty minutes with the lyric 'lou barlow' intoned at a glacial pace over the whole running time.

more like sebadohn't amirite

BarlO)))

this is a good listen. certainly more listenable than Bisch Bosch and the Drift; it has a nice ominous cozy feel to it. Perfect for a dreadful autumn.

Walker currently locked in a basement with SunnO))), playing a three-hour long version of Dinosaur Jr:'s "Don't" whilst weeping.

"synthesized pre-set whip-cracks"

Oh, Lou. Scott has a whip man. From Bristol. Everyone knows that.

Well Lou's always had a reputation for being a miserable git.

The other factual error in there is he gets the lyrics to his 'favorite scott walker song' wrong (the string tied to the underwear is plastic palace people not montague terrace)

Online hardman's "takedown" is more deserving of our attention than this wasteman

lou was saying plastic palace people is ~montague terrace era~ but sort of a strange way to tag a scott ~era~ and smacks of half-assed attempt to appear to have interest/investment

RIP perfectly respectable melodic indie bands that sound good on laptop speakers

responses to this album are making it really easy to decide whose musical opinions i can safely ignore from now on

http://www.stereogum.com/1713730/scott-walker-sunn-o-brando-video/video/

Not really heard this yet and while I don't find the music of SunnO))) particularly interesting, "this sounded like shit on my computer speakers" is such a dumb fucking criticism.

God that Lou Barlow piece is one of the least convincing arguments I've ever read. Scott has made a Christmas album - Bish Bosch.

Comparing Sunn O))) to a load of 80s proto-grunge and industrial is getting it wrong too.

sunn o))) sound good on laptop speakers

No results found for "lube arlow"

― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 June 2012 22:54 (2 years ago)

someone on

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has now posted this phrase

No results found for "lou barsehole"

oh shit wrong thread sorry guys ;_;

Stanm, I thought you had nicked my GaryBarlO))) joke, I see now it isn't so.

well, maybe a bit..

didn't mean to drag this esteemed thread down to my wretched level xp

Yeah, it was recycling. xpost

This was linked upthread but here's an embed for your viewing convenience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_NIop72vis

hmmm... not sure if that video was interesting or kind of boring at 9.30mins. Not a patch on the Epizootics vid.

Am I wrong in hearing "They're taking her children away" from Lou Reed's "The Kids" echoed in "Herod 2014"'s "She's hidden her babies away"?

There's a bit during Bull (I think) that reminds me so much of Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by The Eurythmics it's unreal.

Similar to my initial reaction to the Bull teaser...

This sounds great so far. Makes me think know of early Spandau Ballet for some reason.

― Scary Darey (dog latin), Friday, August 22, 2014 12:08 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's definitely a new romantic vibe to that track.

I've been playing this album a LOT this week. Sounds (feels, rather :-) even better in the car than on my stereo at home. It's a really fun album in that it's fun to sing along with Scott and fun to shred with the (lead) guitarists.

One of the maddest experiences was when my friend and I were driving down a country road to Norfolk on a dark January night after Christmas listening to Epizootics, when a lorry overtook us at full speed. Something like a bag full of flour or some sort of dusty substance on the back of the truck burst and sent this blinding cloud flying all over the road. Definitely freaked me out. I'm surprised we didn't slow down or stop, but I think we were too scared.

Am I wrong in hearing "They're taking her children away" from Lou Reed's "The Kids" echoed in "Herod 2014"'s "She's hidden her babies away"?

― with hidden noise, Friday, October 24, 2014 6:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I doubt it was intentional but I thought the exact same thing

Stephen F. O'Malley ‏@IdeologicOrgan 1 minute ago

It's great to see Mr. Lou Barlow didn't loose any of his pathetic 90s indy rock smugness.

neither of them trolls very well

I was finding this largely tedious until 'Bull' kicked in and now I love it.

it sounds totally challopsy to say this is more "pop" than anything either of them have done recently but... it's kinda true!

Yep, its relatively easy to listen to. Didn't stop the odd looks from my girlfriend the first time I played it though.