I'm done with it! No more Summer! It isn't even August yet and I'm ready to throw the towel in. It's probably because it got up to 102 degrees today and it's wicked humid. That or the fact that the air conditioners broke down yesterday at 2:00 at work and didn't work at all today. They did send us home at 4:30 but it was little consolation. I was a little sweaty and kind of hallucinating ...
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I like the kitchen-sink kitsch of the Walker Brothers: "Love Her," "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore," "Make It Easy On Yourself," et. al. The records have that mid-'60s Philips UK melodrama (like Dusty Springfield's more grandiose efforts), and Scott Walker's voice, all dark and plummy, is right in the pocket of these BrillBuilding-ish melodies.The documentary "Scott Walker 30 Century Man" w...
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I checked out 30 Century Man, a newly released documentary with executive producer none other than David Bowie. I doubt it will be in theatrical release for long--there was one other customer at the show, which opened last week end. If you are a fan, seek it out or look for the DVD. A lot of cameo appearances and comment by the many musicians Scott has influenced or inspired. Walker himself was...
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This weekend was the worst weekend I have ever had.Like, it was mostly good, but it ended in heartache and suffering.And then I had to watch 8 hours of Gilmore Girls season 5 until Loralie and Luke got back together because otherwise my world was just too TOO sad.So, in order to milk the heart-ache (because no one pities me as much as I pity myself), I have been weeping, sobbing, crying and lis...
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OTHER MUSIC PRESENTS SCOTT WALKER: 30 CENTURY MAN PREMIERE PARTY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17 K&M BAR, WILLIAMSBURG North 8th Street (at Roebling) 9PM to 1AM No Cover / 21 with ID No RSVP needed cash bar. cheap drinks. good tunes. To celebrate the NY release by Plexifilm of SCOTT WALKER - 30 CENTURY MAN, Other Music is throwing a premiere party that Wednesday night at [...]
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I've been listening to a fair bit of Scott Walker over the last week and it's really struck me how much he's changed as an artist from his early days in the Walker brothers and on his solo "Scott" albums to his last two albums "Tilt" and "The Drift" where he has become a highly experimental, darkly psychedelically ambient creator, particularly on The Drift.Walker it seems is determined to push ...
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1. Scott Walker - Clara (from "The Drift")The fact that for this track an artist is credited with "meat-punching" says it all. It's impossible to adequately describe this surreal poem about a dream of Clara Mussolini, a dream of her own death. It pulls you to the edge, sinking down to the low pits of deathly horror, spiraling upward holding a knife to your throat. Walker's operatic voice is in...
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Scott Walker - from glorious 60's pop to dark, disturbing visionaryHere's a bit on Scott Walker from the BBC. If you don't know about this guy, now is the time to find out.And this is "Jesse" from his latest work, "The Drift", which imagines Elvis talking to his dead twin brother about the horrors that beset the world. Really, it does.NEVER listen to "The Drift" on headphones, late at night, in...
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The Pierces have been pretty quiet since the release of Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge, but news comes that they are busily working on new songs for their next album and are performing in Paris on May 28th at Le Nouveau Casino - 8pm.Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli are hitting the road and both have a number of new projects in the works, but not Gutter Twins- Mark Lanegan is working on a new sol...
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Scott's take on a classic from his 70's covers album "Any Day Now" Been away for a while... back now!
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When I heard that Damon Albarn's Mali Music album was coming out on a new Honest Jon's imprint some years ago, I resolved to finally stop in at the Honest Jon's record store the next time I was in London. I had walked past it so many times up and down Portobello Road on previous visits, it was surprising I had never actually stopped in before.When you're a kid growing up on indie and pop music,...
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If we didn't have artists like Scott Walker covering artists like Jaques Brel, we of the English speaking world might miss out on the sharp wit and sharp tongued lyrics that make Jaues Brel so great.En Français:
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It was about 12 years ago when Scott Walker came back into my life with "Tilt". Whenever i had to ride the train to Vienna and back I played "Tilt" and could not believe how many different levels of expression I could get. First his singing, clear, precise and full of emotion but in a decent way. Second the lyrics - some of them I don't understand till today. Always new contexts open up, it see...
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can i edit this post later? i'll have to fill in the rest later as i'm late for rehearsal
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