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Topic History of: Scott Walker - Bish Bosch Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Metal Mickey
Notcyrilshane wrote: The man should use his popular singing voice. He ought to perform for people who shelled out their hard-earned which has allowed him the total luxury of being creative for a living.
He's abusing his gift and depriving these audiences of what they would love to hear.
I'd love to hear Scott actually "singing" again too, but the work he's doing now is genuinely jaw-dropping stuff, definitively "not for everyone", but really expanding the vocabulary of what "music" actually is...
I also think it's significant that he's doing a lot of press for this new record (more than anything he's done since the mid-70's I'd say), and the label has also obviously gotten behind it, even producing a video for the song "Epizootics!" (worth YouTube-ing), so it would be great to see it pay off and become at least a cult hit...
Notcyrilshane
The man should use his popular singing voice. He ought to perform for people who shelled out their hard-earned which has allowed him the total luxury of being creative for a living.
He's abusing his gift and depriving these audiences of what they would love to hear.
rn57
Ah, Scott...I have heard Bish Bosch, twice. And on the second listening, just about all the seemingly incoherent spots seemed to magically pull themselves together. And the more arcane references steadily became more intelligible. I wonder how he does it.
(Plus, for an American of a certain age, parts of it bring back delightful memories. Like his skillful deployment of "inka dinka doo" on one track. I thought Jimmy Durante-isms were a universally known language, but I read one review which wondered why Scott, in using that phrase, was introducing a "football reference." What was meant by that, I don't know.)
Scott was just interviewed by Jarvis Cocker on the radio () and, as different as he looks now from the golden boy of 1966, when speaking he sounds just the same as ever.
(As for the other Walkers - as shown at one clip at YouTube, John Maus, even during his final performance a few weeks before his death last year, still looked much as he did in the '60s, albeit a tad craggier and more weatherbeaten. Gary, as recent photos abundantly show, looks nothing like he did in the Walkers days. I get the feeling he has to spend a lot of time at pubs persuading people that they used to watch him on RSG. And speaking of which....JK, can the deepest and darkest Walkers secret finally be unveiled? By which I mean, did Gary really wear a hairpiece back then?)
Elspeth Gay
The last I saw of Scott Walker he was in a darkened studio slapping the greased-up carcass of a dead pig. I didn't know whether it was a recording session or another one of those Heston Blumenthal programmes. Dear little Scottie has a lovely baritone. He keeps him in a cupboard and brings him out once a year - much like the Germans do with Freddie Frinton - when the nut selection arrives for Christmas. I'm not sure about the hit potential of this latest record as I've already heard it. Obviously I hope it does very well indeed, but until he makes The One Show I'll reserve judgement.
JK2006
Certainly it's a good idea to listen but seeing the signs is an equally essential ingredient in knowing if something is a hit; I've often been convinced (ears) something is a hit but seen enough signs from others that it's not. That's why so many majors have gone bust; they don't know when to drop their priorities and cannot understand when something that sounds like a flop (Gangnam Style) becomes a hit.
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