not that anyone needs reminding but this is an extraordinary song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJzTWk6bSw
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link
i can't seem to find the link but there's a radio show from a few years ago, where jarvis cocker interviews scott for over an hour about those early records (which SW didn't often talk about) and they talk about his arrangers quite a bit. worth a listen or two.
― Alba, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 05:31 (five years ago) link
I believe the interview has now been repeated on 6music, so will now be on the BBC player
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 07:15 (five years ago) link
Jarvis: "I've got a recording of an interview you gave a few years ago, can I play a bit of it to you?"
Possibly the only person who could get that one OK'ed by Scott
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 07:19 (five years ago) link
I love how Scott had Jarvis add "The second side of 'Til The Band Comes In" to the list of substandard things in Bad Cover Version
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 07:42 (five years ago) link
He didn't - Jarvis wrote it before Scott was on the project, he claims that Scott never noticed it - certainly never said owt.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
I think Jack Jones was more popular in the UK than the US.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 09:53 (five years ago) link
xp is there a quote on that somewhere? Sure I remember otherwise, though quite likely some sort of false memory
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
http://i65.tinypic.com/2nbbqcm.jpg
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
Thanks, even better story.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 11:54 (five years ago) link
Well, there you go.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:05 (five years ago) link
What book is that, btw?
Excellent!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Weird thing is The War Is Over (Sleepers) is on Side 2 and that's one he wrote himself (and it's ace!) so he's got his facts a bit skew whiff.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
yeah, the album sort-of finishes it's theme about two-thirds of the way through, and adds a few (not al that terrible) covers at the end.
Then again, so does Scott 3.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
The book is Truth And Beauty - The Story Of Pulp by Mark Sturdy, it's an exhaustive book which covers their entire lifespan up until the hiatus.
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
You can hear a whistle in Scott’s speaking voice on that Jarvis i/v, presumably as a result of busting his teeth from his most recent cycling accident.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
nice to hear that interview and him speak at length. early on listening to it I began imagining there could be a creature-comforts-style animation to accompany it.
― conrad, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
You can hear a whistle in Scott’s speaking voice on that Jarvis i/v, presumably as a result of busting his teeth from his most recent cycling accident.― Michael Jones, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 2:58 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 2:58 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not a result of one of his many bar fights?
he always had a slight lisp, did he not. gives his voice some of its alluring character imo.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Lemon bloody cola!
Goddamn this stuff is so good. I intentionally avoid overplaying things I love, to keep them a bit fresh. Listening to "Bolivia '95" on headphones right now, I still hear things that surprise me.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
a repeat for jarvis' Late Junction mixtape
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0003rrv
The ElectricianBlanket Roll BluesClaraThe PlagueFarmer in the CityOpeningIt's Raining Today
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 10:54 (five years ago) link
and here's Scott talking with Jarvis - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000417w
(same as youtube link, i think)
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 10:56 (five years ago) link
Scott's favourite films:
http://bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/scott-walker-s-favourite-films
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 10:56 (five years ago) link
and related, an hour of soundtrack work
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/84934
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 11:06 (five years ago) link
I like how so much of Scott's stuff is a reference to pre-60s societal and cultural ephemera - stuff I know very little about in all honesty
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link
Such as?
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
It doesn't surprise me that he loved Gertrud.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
climate of hunter is soooo amazing
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
isn't it just?
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
the billy ocean harmonies on "track three" make it that much more sinister
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
and then late-'60s scott rears up for the last time on "sleepwalkers woman"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
That movie list: I think Chinese Roulette is the first of Fassbinder's movies with Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity" on the soundtrack? The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant makes use of the Walker Brothers's "In My Room" – that came out in 1972, which must have been a nadir of Scott Walker appreciation.
― with hidden noise, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JOB6BJTh1E
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:47 (five years ago) link
It's here and it's wonderful. I'd never heard him interviewed before and my heart just meltedThis was so great, thank you so much for linking it. Jesus I need to hear his not fit for public consumption Russia story!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
I'd been putting off getting the Vox Lux soundtrack but it's time now seeing as it will probably be Scott's last release. It appears there is no CD version, only streaming and relatively pricey mp3 download? Kinda irritating as I've always gone out of my way to buy SW on physical.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
Yeah same (he was basically the only artist I bought everything from). It's annoying, I've not seen anything on a physical release.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
i found his recent scores to be just sorta lovely but not terribly interesting. and the two corbet films (the most recent in particular) were awful, not that we can blame that on scott. it's understandable why they would work together; they both have similar touchstones. walker just happens to be a great artist and corbet is at best a skilled imitator.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
Childhood of a Leader would be nothing w/out the score, for sure.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
yeah that was the better of two and it's in large part b/c of the score, which is effective, but not peak scott.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
What did you guys think of his ballet score
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
NYT obit (not vary good imo) says cause of death was cancer. Which I guess matters slightly to me in that it indicates a forewarned departure as opposed to a sudden bolt
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
Guy in his 70s, smoked a lot of cigs, drank a lot of booze, not really a great surprise.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
slapped a lot of pigs
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
The move of putting his new lyrics in the Sundogs book definitely had an air of “might not get to record these”, yeah.
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
I don't think I've ever seen a photo of Scott Walker smoking/ holding a cigarette.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 28 March 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
Always curious about the Sylvian link-up (and my heart sank when someone posted a photo of him on their IG feed recently... as a happy birthday thing thankfully... every time I fear the worst now). In the Guardian DS said they'd kicked around some ideas that might have extricated SW from his onerous Virgin deal, without ever imagining it would come to fruition. Initially DS had sent SW a song that would suit his voice. This was 1990-ish. I wonder what it was. My money's on "Blackwater".
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 March 2019 11:37 (five years ago) link
Good guessPocket full of change could be too
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 28 March 2019 11:39 (five years ago) link
And... there was a Sound On Sound article on Rain Tree Crow in June '91 in which the SW-DS album was still a thing, supposedly set for spring '92.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 March 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
ooh i just looked up that article, thanks!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link