Have had ‘The Electrician’ and the other Scott songs from Nite Flights on repeat for about a week. So incredible.
Wasn't it a good year? Wasn't filled with talking. It still moves through my heart, from time to time.
I ask on a other thread if the 5 cd box set is mastered as hdcd but did not get a answer ,anyone got both to check.
Looked up Scott’s lyric book website and told my wife about the deluxe edition. I’m a fan, but am not sure about that price - £500.
The other night I was listening to the 24bit HDCD Scott 4. The bass during the track The Old Man's Back Again was amazing. Anyone else rate this CD release ?
There’s always the regular version at £11.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sundog-Sco...8&qid=1516139372&sr=1-1&keywords=scott+walker
Already gone. Those Fontana discs sound superb. I don't have the BGO disc and would put out reasonable money for it.
Nice! An upgrade on your current discs, or are the 60s albums new to you? I certainly rate that bass line! Sounds incredible on my ‘92 Fontana too.
I bought the Fontana CDs in the ‘90s but regretfully traded them following a CD purge when I was short of space and had bought the Scott 1-4 vinyl box ....
I have been a fan of Nite Flights for a few years now via Bowie/Eno (I joined the Scott Walker train late, but the first 4 songs on Nite Flights made it easy to hop on board)... I would listen to Scott 1-4 on iTunes here and there but recently picked up the first 5 solo albums in one of those 5 album mini vinyl cd sets along with The Walker Brothers 5 cd Everything Under The Sun collection from 2006. After this deep dive I'm driving that damn train now . Especially love Scott 3!
I managed to get an original Scott 4 off eBay, close to pristine. It was credited to Scott Engel, which is probably why I won it for £48
Big promo etc for the recent RAH Scott Walker prom, obviously. However, I didn't know there'd already been a similar event based around Tilt and The Drift.. Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker
There's a lovely Richard Hawley interview with Stuart Maconie from 8.30 mins to 14.50 mins in this BBC Radio 6 show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jr5xx where he talks about the Scott Prom and being waylaid by a record shop when he was due to be in the studio with Scott producing Pulp ...
I always consider Til' The Band Comes In to be the final part of the classic run of Scott's baroque pop albums, although its does admittedly trail off on the second side. But if you just removed the covers and tacked on a few non-LP cuts from that time period to the end you would have a hell of a successor to Scott 4 IMO. Here's my version: (just for fun) Scott 5 (1970) Side One A1. Prologue A2. Little Things (That Keep Us Together) A3. Thanks For Chicago Mr. James A4. Joe A5. Long About Now A6. Time Operator A7. Jean The Machine A8. Cowbells Shakin' Side Two A1. Til' The Band Comes In A2. The War Is Over (Sleepers-Epilogue) A3. Lights Of Cincinnati (1969 A-Side) A4. Joanna (1968 A-Side) A5. The Rope and the Colt (1969 theme song to "Cemetery Without Crosses") A6. My Way Home (B-Side, released in 1971 but apparently recorded in 1970) (Runtime: 39:00 (18:54/20:06)
In terms of Scott through 'Til The Band Comes In, I think I prefer the sound of the original Fontana CDs (1992) to the 2000 HDCD remasters, maybe because I no longer have a player that recognizes HDCD. The real question is how are the 2007 Japanese paper sleeve editions? Do they share the same remastering (by Simon Heyworth) as the 2000s?
I'm a huge fan of Walker's work, particularly his work from this century which I hold in very high regard. I'd rate Bish Bosch as his finest work, slightly edging out The Drift. As much as I love both artists, I found Walker's more recent colab with Sunn O))) to be suprisingly awful.
What about the songs Scott wrote before he went solo? I'm meaning the Walker Brothers tracks, obviously. We could make a fairly decent "Scott -1" there, I'm sure. (We'd have to make "Doin' The Jerk" the secret extra track, obviously)
