The old man's back again - Best Scott Walker solo

Climate of Hunter was robbed here

Was just thinking today, about one of my minidisc that has the Jarvis/Scott interview, followed by the RAH proms concert tribute. Life is good.

I do wish they would broadcast (or repeat, whatever) the ICA? performance of his latter stuff, which had more active Scott involvement

Climate is fantastic but the production is very much of its time. I enjoy it as a transitional album and also as an extremely odd bit of eighties weirdo pop

I think it totally holds up...weird, for records of that era with "that sound" this one never seems shoehorned into it...I'm not a big fan of fretless bass e.g. but it dovetails so perfectly w/ the lyrical disequalibrium, the whole fever dream feel. Hasn't dated at all to my ears.

The early Scott albums may drag because the sequencing is pretty eccentric, although it's tough to come up with an energizing running order when you've got 10 ballads out of 13 tracks or so.

Scott 4 is the very rare album that seems too short to me - like it needed one or two more songs to really make the statement it is reaching for.

3, 4 and TTBCI all have the same number of Scott compositions, I think? 10 per album.

I could happily listen to 13 ballads out of 13 tbh.

I think those early albums are best served by the themed discs in the "In Five Easy Pieces" box set.

Foot, knee, shaggy belly, face
Famous hindlegs,
As one of their own
You graze with them.
Cro-magnon herders
Will stand in the wind,
Sweeping tails shining,
And scaled to begin
Shutting down here

Surprised there's no dedicated thread for Climate of Hunter. Not my favourite, but sometimes it is?

Soused has also gone up a bit in my estimation while Bish Bosch has gone down slightly.

(xp) One of my favourite opening lines to a song.... album, in fact?

Two reasons why it's undervalued:

- the songs on side two are weaker copies of those on side one, with an acoustic cover in place of an orchestral ballad
- it's seen as a transition between Nite Flights and "where he meant to go" on Tilt

Bish Bosch was such a laborious listening experience that I never got round to Soused, but I mean to. I was "Scott Walkered-out".

Xp yeah I was just listening to side two and thinking exactly that: it's just a less memorable copy of side one. And yeah a transitional album hammocking seventeen years between Nite Flights and Tilt.

Forget how many big guest players are on Climate - Mark Knopfler, Evan Parker, Billy Ocean

I love BB but mostly for key tracks like Epizootics! and the crazy long one about Pole Sitting

Soused was a bit underwhelming coming off the back of the fuller orchestrations on BB. I had extremely high hopes for it. It's got some great Ligottian dread mysticism going on. But Sunn O)))'s boneshaking frequencies are reduced to a vespine buzzing and repeated lyrics like "bump the beaky" get irritating after a while.

I feel really really sad knowing that he had more songs in the works with lyrics written that we'll never get to hear

flashbacks to the Soused listening event in a church in London, an intoxicated (?) lady wanting everyone to dance and being escorted out by security. this music is not danceable.

I don't see nothing wrong with a little bump n beak