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Scott Walker RIP

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  • #2
    mosstin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭mosstin


    I came to open a thread about exactly this. The greatest solo artist I've ever listened to. His career was the most remarkable - from a manufactured for TV boyband of sorts to avant-garde explorations of music which involved punching pieces of meat for percussive effect. An utter genius and maverick.


  • #3
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Amazing talent, it's just as well he didn't give a feck in the way that Lou Reed and Captain Beefheart didn't with Metal Machine Music and Trout Mask Replica respectively.

    The Walker Brothers* (*not actual brothers) were that rare beast an American act that reversed the British Invasion of mid 60s American chart music. But slightly differently in that they couldn't hardly get arrested at home but were chart toppers in UK whereas the Beatles etc were huge on both sides of Atlantic at same time.


  • #4
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,445 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    I mean, c'mon!

    From Gary Barlow to this...



  • #5
    mosstin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Hard to pick a favourite really but from the Scott 2.0 school, probably this.....


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJzTWk6bSw



    and from Scott 1.0 version, this......


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7zeQXpYaig


  • #6
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,532 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Some of the most terrifying musical experiences I've ever had have been going to bed listening to music and then been shocked awake a few hours later with Scott Walker roaring and discordant horns blaring away like it's the end of the world.


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  • #7
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Ha! I've had moments like that but it was just the World Service on LW when the reception goes all fuzzy and distorted (a bit like Scott Walker then :))


  • #8
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    I'll punch a donkey on the streets of Galway this evening in his honour.

    We've lost Mark Hollis and now Scott. Two artists who turned their backs on pop music and reinvented themselves with spectacular results.

    RIP Scott


  • #9
    mosstin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Anesthetize wrote: »
    I'll punch a donkey on the streets of Galway this evening in his honour.

    We've lost Mark Hollis and now Scott. Two artists who turned their backs on pop music and reinvented themselves with spectacular results.

    RIP Scott


    I'm pretty binary when it comes to Scott and split people in two camps;


    1. Those who admire his work.


    2. Gob****es.


  • #10
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    So I hear this guy for the first time today. Play this.



    This is fùcking fantastic.

    I can't even compare this to anyone.

    Insane. Man was 70 when he made this.


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