OPO -- Scott Walker

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I'd say something off Scott 3 or Scott 4 but it's a tough call. And that's why I want to know.

― Wooly Reaper, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

oh man this is a toughie.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I say 'Mathilde', although I'm not massively familiar witht the non-Brel stuff from 2 and 3.

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's Raining Today"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Jackie"!!

and "Matlida," yes.

and "NEXT!"

ah, there are so so many...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Farmer in the City"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

if you go away

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

amsterdam

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

only pick one? hmm... montague terrace, mathilde and more beg my vote, but at this moment it's on your own again.

― j.a.e., Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Either The Plague or Patriot

― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

warning! thread tangent: have you heard jadell's downtempo track titled on the other side of the wind? if so, how do you feel about the heavy scott walker sample?

― j.a.e., Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

haven't heard it - sounds good tho - will download

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"duchess" or "the plague"

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

big louise

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The one that goes:

"Sitting with your mother's friends
Pregnant eyes
Sagging chins
Swollen fingertips
Pour antique cups of tea"

"Rosemary", is it? Something like that.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Plastic Palace People

― Paul R (paul R), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

the lady from Baltimore song

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Montague Terrace in Blue

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg! It is beautiful and comforting and psychologically acute and unforgiving, and it has the biggest title-quality to track-quality ratio evah!

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Possibly the only song about someone killed by slipping on the newly-waxed floor of their kitchen.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

i've always has a fondness for "Little Things (That Keep Us Together)," and it hasn't been picked yet, so...

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm rather fond of "Two Ragged Soldiers" - even if, like most of Scott's songs, the lyrics don't bear too close an examination.

― Dadaismus, Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

'it's raining today'. obv.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

"The World's Strongest Man"

― richard stacey (analog75), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"Next"!!! or "Jackie"

― G. Turkington, Friday, 14 March 2003 04:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex Harvey's version of "NExt" is probably the best and most authentic Brel cover ever.

― Dadaismus, Friday, 14 March 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

There is no way I can OPO. Simply. No. Way.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't remember what it's called - and I can't even remember which one it's off. It's the one with the lines "wine and piss and death's desire/ and sometimes blood for Madeleine/ who's laughter was the night." . . . what the hell was it called?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I was waiting for Nicole's answer. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Does a song-suite count as one song?
No, I didn't think it would. Even so, I'm choosing all of side 1 of 'Til The Band Comes In. All those marvellous character sketches. Impossible to separate.

― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 14 March 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Seventh Seal" if I'm manic or "Tilt" if I'm depressed.

― Erick H (Erick H), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

Thanks for Chicago, Mr. James

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The second track off Tilt, because it still makes me feel like ants are eating my brane and then it combusts and makes me feel sick. It's great!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Electrician. Those whining strings at the beginning (recalling It's Raining Today), the horribly sinister lyrics, then breaking out into that beautifully over-the-top orchestral section, the Spanish guitar, then back to dread... ambitious, over-wrought, emotional, mysterious, it simply IS the essence of Scott Walker.

― Susan (Susan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

deep Scott: "Angels Of Ashes"
pop Scott: "World's Strongest Man"
silly, bust-your-sides-laffing Scott: "Girls From The Streets"

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Montague terrace in blue

― Michael B, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Electrician... though The War is Over, if it has to be one no-one else has chosen; a really sublime guitar refrain, and a very sad end of era feel.

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Track Five" from Climate is awfully good as well.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

the plague off of boy/child. doom'n'gloom scott on a very poppy and catchy track. my first scott walker song ever!

― doom-e, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

Always coming back to you it is the best song of Noel Scott Engel

― Nelson FAria, Saturday, 17 April 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I still pick "The Cockfarmer".

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

and it still isn't funny?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

This is true.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 17 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Farmer in the City

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Got to be "The Electrician" for early saturday evening,then "Face on breast" when the night is over.Sunday morning wake up to "I threw it all away" a marriage made in heaven Scott sings and Nick Cave producing. Will Scott and Tom Waits get into a studio together ?

― ste rittenberg, Monday, 18 July 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Cowbells Shakin', if only for the classic line, "Your headwaiter brother won't get me a job"

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

"Plastic Palace People."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

You,ve just made me have a rethink,it could be "Tilt" if only for the line"If he heads this way when the moon is slow...come over and pray"

― ste rittenberg, Monday, 18 July 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

dream duets for scott or covers we would like to hear?

― ste ritt, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

ste ritt - its if you had to pick only one scott song...

"rhymes of goodbye" for me (currently).

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

oh - i see. you were posing a new question, werent you?

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

TRAPPED IN THE MUHFUH CLOSET. OH MY GOD. SCOTT WALKER MUST COVER TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

"Duchess"

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Can't believe noone's mentioned 'My Death'.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

"Best of Both Worlds."
That's not really what I'd pick, but for whatever reason that's the song that parked itself in my head as soon as I saw this thread title. If I had a chance to think about it, I'd probably still pick something off of Scott 2, maybe Jackie. I'd prefer an OP26 thread next time, please.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I stick with my earlier answer but "The Electrician" is now in a tie with it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

i was just listening to rufus wainwright "Oh what a world" and thought of a scott version with full orchestra and thats what made me ask the question

― ste ritt, Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

NEXT!

― -vest, Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I stick with my earlier answer but "The Electrician" is now in a tie with it.

exactly the same for me, same songs and the tie situation just happened a few days back.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

i'm listening to 3 a lot right now, and i'd have to take 'We Came Through'. it gets my pulse up every time. i love the trumpets! and the clattering at the end! what's the consensus on this track? i can't find any discussion of it.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 7 April 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I like "Rosary" it's profoundly simple.

― PaulBaran, Friday, 7 April 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

a ribbon of hair

and a wire of snare

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 8 April 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

"The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)" will have to do for now. The bass line is great and he scats at the end and it has one of the best titles of the 60s.

― methanie tanner (methanie tanner), Saturday, 8 April 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

The Girls And The Dogs

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 8 April 2006 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Right now it's "Angelica"

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 8 April 2006 01:37 (twenty years ago)

"the electrician" or "rosary"....

― gek-opel, Saturday, 8 April 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Question about "Such a Small Love"--use of the word 'dago'? Does that have another meaning other than the derisive/ethnic slur?

― Joe, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

"...drenched in dago red..."

Dago Red is a once-common term people used to use for affordable italian wine.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

A-ha...thanks! I knew there had to be a different interpretation. :)

― Joe, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

"Long About Now"

― henry s, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

jackie, probably

― kenan, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

perfect SCOTT 3 weather in the uk today. perfect.

― pisces, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Gradually working my way through Five Easy Pieces and this is definitely my favourite at the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaIV_KJ59ZM

― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Saturday, 23 October 2010 08:06 (fifteen years ago)

i heard his "i don't want to hear it anymore" for the first time this year on the on vine street: the early songs of randy newman comp and i had a hard time warming up to it, mostly, i think, 'cause the dusty springfield version destroys it.

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 23 October 2010 13:57 (fifteen years ago)

I've only heard this version, but I'll have to check the Dusty Springfield one out. His voice is as glorious as anywhere in this though.

― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Saturday, 23 October 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

he's very well served by Spotify by the way in case anyone wants to investigate. all the best stuff is on there.

― piscesx, Saturday, 23 October 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

duchess has been really blowing me away lately

― dynamicinterface, Monday, 25 October 2010 03:37 (fifteen years ago)

I can't decide on just one! It's Raining Today is one I've been enjoying recently - pure melancholy with an insidious discordant string drone. The Electrician is magnificent, as are all the Scott tracks on Nite Flights - maybe the most epic thing he's ever done? Then of course there's Jackie, which I knew and enjoyed as a song before I'd heard of Scott. Even the early Walker Brothers hits, Make It Easy On Yourself etc are fantastic.

― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 25 October 2010 10:37 (fifteen years ago)

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