S&D: Scott Walker/Walker Bros.

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eek!

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 22 February 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

You should be afraid of Tilt. It's pretty great tho.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 22 February 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Iwas just listening to a Brothers album last night, Take it Easy. "You're All Around Me" is a fantastic early Scott composition, what a melody. Perfectly arranged. Love the judicious use of the bells. Man. I might have to add this to that "songs that give you chills" thread.

Actually the whole four song stretch on the second side of this record, "You're All Around Me" => Dylan's "Love Minus Zero" => "I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore" => "Here Comes the Night", is as good as anything he was involved with.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 22 February 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

David Driver's favorite album is Till the Band Comes In.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 23 February 2003 06:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Do you have that one Mary? It is the greatest--of his early records. Actually more precisely, side A is the greatest. Side B is, famously, eh. Viz Pulp's "Bad Cover Version" for corroboration.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 23 February 2003 09:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

the female of the species!

some loony just gave me a VHS of every Scott tv appearance 67-95(I will let you know) He has the most brilliant career tragetctory(sp?) eva!

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 23 February 2003 09:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't have it:( I will begin search.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 23 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

So felicity how was the show? I couldn't make it.

― hstencil, Sunday, 23 February 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I broke my cd-r of The Moviegoer! *sob* I forgot to mention this before, but it is also impossibly wonderful.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 23 February 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh it was wonderful! I lurve the Loser's Lounge! I am think I am starting to "get " Scott Walker. He makes me want to listen to the Gainsbourg "Actrices" album, The Divine Comedy and Leonard Cohen in Tri-ophenia.

Next for my studies: St. Etienne or failing that the tribute, Ain't Etienne.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Felicity, let me know if you fail to find any SW albums, or copies thereof, in NYC.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks!

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

heh i have a feeling st etienne is markedly less difficult to "get" than s walker

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

..and markedly less rewarding... (ducks)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

whyioughtablahblah

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 February 2003 06:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Black Sheep Boy is a Tim Hardin song. But it is great as is much of Tim's stuff. As is Scott - but what's with everyone being so (relatively speaking) down on Scott 4?

― tigerclawskank, Monday, 24 February 2003 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm up with it!

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm up with it, exc. I have never much liked "Seventh Seal."

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

question for A Nairn who started this thread:
what's Nite Flights like ?
ie is a bad cover pulpy type comment like "except for the non-scott songs appropriate" ? (i've only been lucky enough to hear the 4 scott walker songs so far)

― george gosset (gegoss), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

the non-scott songs on nite flights are apalling in every way except as a barometer of how well scott handles the same experimental territory!

― pulpo, Monday, 24 February 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't understand this thread.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would like to mention Climate of Hunter on this thread again, because it is the equal of any of Scott's albums and because it features the world-historical musical meeting of Ray Russell and Billy Ocean.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

"what's Nite Flights like ?"

It's very noticeable when the 5th track comes on how much the creepy tone of the album changes. Some of the other songs aren't very apalling but just different. The singing is nowhere near as good as Scott's, but I do like "the Death of Romance," and some other aspects of some of the other songs. I think Maus' songs are the worst.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

But as for searching for Scott Walker songs those four are the only ones nessicary from that album.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scott 4 is my favorite.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

How do you people rate Stretch and We Had It All? Just heard that two-fer. I expected to be pleasantly surprised, but it really is anemic. He sounds fairly distinterested much of the time and while the musicians are capable, there isn't a moment of inspiration on either record. Well not quite, his version of "Sundown" is nice.

Has anyone heard Any Day Now?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah Stretch / We Had it All is pretty horrid. I don't know what happened to him around this time. (i.e. I honestly know next to nothing of his personal history). It's like Beefheart with those two Mercury albums or something. Did he have some kind of manager/svengali who pushed him into this shit?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 05:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

I actually think that two-fer houses some good material. I enjoy hearing Scott sing, and I think he interacts with most of the songs pretty well. There are a couple clinkers (I don't want to hear anyone sing "Delta Dawn" ever), but lots of highlights as well. He's obviously going for a different mood than what he made his name with previously, in fact it's probably easy to argue that the level of ambition here is somewhat lower, but I still like it.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

Any Day Now is a smashing albumn. It is the best of Scott's "pure-lounge" albumns, with some really dynamic arrangements.

― Adrian, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Start here, if you think you're hard enough:

New Scott Walker album: 'The Drift'

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

The other day I heard a Walker Brothers song 'We're All Alone', which was not as good as 'No Regrets' but it was still pretty sublime. Googling it I see it comes from a reunion album 'Lines'. Is this any good? And is the 'No Regrets' album any good (apart from the obviously excellent title track)?

― Frederic R., Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

No Regrets is pretty good throughout, though I will remember it more fondly for the cover photo (permed/nattily-attired Gary and John flashing "buy me, please buy me" smiles while a shirtless Scott sips his beer and stiff-arms the camera...surely the classic "which of these is not like the other"? shot)...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Just got the Walker Brothers boxed set (Everything Under the Sun) - haven't listened to it all. It says "The Complete Recordings..." on the front of the box, but don't sell your old Walker Brothers stuff just yet! Offhand, "After The Lights Go Out" is a different mix (way less reverb on the vocals) than the one on the After The Lights Go Out one-disc best-of, and there's only one version in the box. (I prefer the one with more reverb...)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

I'm not a fan myself, but I figure those who are will want to hear the audio versions of the two pilots for Walker's BBC show, which are here: http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2009/01/scott-1.html.

― Matos W.K., Monday, 26 January 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

holy christ I had no idea these two performed Scaggs' "We're All Alone."

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:49 (ten years ago) link

How has there been no mention of the incredible "In Five Easy Pieces" box set? While it's missing a bit, it also has lots of stuff otherwise unavailable. And I personally love the themed discs.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link

three years pass...

Doris Day's "Love Him" from 1964 is the same song as the Walker Brothers "Love Her" from 1965 - with a very different arrangement. However what's interesting is that the intro sounds so much like Montague Terrace in Blue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HinOwpgK5U

― everything, Friday, 7 July 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link

Good catch.

Posted this elsewhere, but I was listening to the 1955 Frank Sinatra single, "Not as a Stranger" and noticed that Scott Walker's 1967 version of "Jackie" pretty much swipes the intro and outro of it. Curiously, Jacques Brel's 1966 original version, "Chanson de Jacky," has the same intro but not the same outro.

― Josefa, Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

I chose 25 of these things.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link

You definitely have to hear 'Til the Band Comes In.

― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 October 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link

You don't rate "The Electrician"?

― Soundslike, Sunday, 20 October 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link

seven months pass...

Not sure I've ever seen an interview with Scott Walker from the 60s before.

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

― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link

Nice find. So young! & beautiful. And quite relaxed

― willem, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link

Der Art Zigeuner! :) Yeah lovely find. And a voice to die for.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link

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