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
― piscesx, Monday, 25 March 2019 09:55 (five years ago) link
RIP. Thanks for producing We Love Life.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:00 (five years ago) link
RIP Scott. A hero.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:02 (five years ago) link
No. No no no no...
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:16 (five years ago) link
miserable
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 25 March 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
Noooooo
― Simon H., Monday, 25 March 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
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
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 25 March 2019 11:08 (five years ago) link
Absolutely brutal to lose two singular artists like him and Mark Ellis so close together.
― Chris L, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
Mark Hollis, bad time for my brain to fail
― Chris L, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― silverfish, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
Seriously gutted... RIP
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 25 March 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
this really sucks ass
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
“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.
― maura, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
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.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
Are you fucking kidding meWhy 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
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
I'm guessing the BBC may dust off the Proms tribute from 18 months ago, onto BBC4 or 6Music or wherever.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
when I crossed the riverwith a heavy blanket rollI took nobody with menot a soul
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
^via Brando by Tennessee Williams
Scott you giant, brilliant oddity :(
RIP, this is really sad news, such an inspiring figure in music.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
i put on scott 3 right away and it was a bad idea if i didn't want to be a mess!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:59 (five years ago) link
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.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
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.
― veronica moser, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
RIP you wonderful genius. Definitely was expecting more to come, so this is a giant blow.
― emil.y, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
excuse me the drift came out 13 years ago don't give me a heart attack xp
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
Oh fuck…I meant Tilt…
― veronica moser, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
lol i figured that out after a second
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
A wonderful artist, a wonderful life. Listening to Funeral Tango and smiling.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
No news yet on cause of death?
― jmm, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
rip scott, so sad to hear. it's funny, i've long been a fan of 1-4 and the '70s walker bros albums, but i've never dove into drift or tilt.
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
Oof well you should. The Drift in particular is such a crazy achievement, no other record like it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
I came to Scott quite late, about 10 years ago after a good friend gently kept pushing him on me. One of those artists whose work just crept up on me and burrowed into my subconscious. And all phases of it are amazing, from "Mrs. Murphy" to "Nite Flights" to the latest stuff. An artist who truly forged his own path, though undoubtedly enabled by his early success. I hope in this easy-access-to-everything era that his presence will continue to be felt.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
yes voodoo chili - this is urgent
and do not overlook the two long tracks scott wrote and arranged for Ute Lemper on her Punishing Kiss album - they are the way station between tilt and drift.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
yeah it's sort of the definition of a "record you should hear before you die", like it or not it's one of the most nuts records ever
― frogbs, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
“Ride on, Hero”
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
I actually did listen (possibly for the first time, properly, thanks Spotify!) to "Tilt" about two weeks ago, it's really not as abrasive as you might have reason to expect - definitely a mid-point between Scott4 style orchestration and the heavy song styles of "The Drift".
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
yeah I don't really think his stuff is difficult to listen to, which makes it a lot more disturbing really
― frogbs, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
Those lemper tracks are essential
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
yeah, tilt and drift have been on my list for a while, i just need to dive in and not worry if i'm 'in the mood.'
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
Tilt starts off with one of the most gorgeous songs ever recorded so it’s definitely not like Walker is going out of his way to be offputting
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
speaking of the most gorgeous songs ever recorded--the fucking electrician is devastating on a normal day, but today...
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
do I hear…21…
― veronica moser, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
I don't why anyone ever thought "Tilt" was abrasive or difficult.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
I mean some parts are kinda? And the subject matter is often chilling. It’s kinda exactly what the titles tilt and drift suggest - the guy who made climate of Hunter and nite flights wandering further out
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
Yes, I can only assume a lot of the people who were surprised with it hadn't heard Nite Flights and Climate of Hunter.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
Der Spiegel is reporting cancer, but does so at the end of an idiotic "golly gee, shame he went crazy after No Regrets and produced nothing anyone can listen to" article, so...
― Three Word Username, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
when tilt came out it was abrasive and difficult
the goal posts moved after that
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
it is absolutely a more harrowing sound world than nite flights or climate, come on now
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Harrowing? I don't find it harrowing.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon)
I need to get on this!
― emil.y, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
you are in for a treat emil.y - they add up to the length of a decent size EP (tracks are "Scope J" and "Lullaby')
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link