#Scott6Music - help pick the Ultimate Scott Walker Playlist

Surely Jacky should be the first tune on? Driving beats and trumpets with as fast a delivery as you could want. Happy birthday Scott!

Amsterdam please

I'd like to hear Jolson & Jones, terrifying but brilliant, and a perfect demonstration of just how far ahead of the pack Scott is creatively. Happy Birthday!

You could play The Day The Conducator Died from Bish Bosch because this 'Xmas song' is a brilliant highlight of Scott's modern work.

1. Favourite Scott song: 'My Way Home' flip of 1971 single 'I Still See Someone'



2. For a Scott Walker contemporary how about Gene McDaniels who recorded 'Another Tear Falls' in 1962. The Walker Bros covered it in 1966 (check out this great footage of Gene McDaniels performing Another Tear Falls fom the UK movie 'It's Trad, Dad'...which also featured Gene Vincent! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhyVoX1GPHM)



And (3) finally to hear Scott's influence one need look no further than my near neighbour Simon Warner who's album 'Waiting Rooms' was cruelly ignored on release in 1997. You could do a lot worse that play it's title track.

Top of the Pops:

Montague Terrace in Blue

Plastic Palace People

Boy Child

It's Raining Today

The Bridge

Copenhagen

From the Scott era; The Bridge, Rosemary, Come Next Spring, Rhymes of Goodbye and maybe World's Strongest Man.



From the 'avant-garde' era; Bolivia '95, The Electrician, Psoriatic, Bouncer See Bouncer, Track 3, Sleepwalker's Woman and Epizootics!

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Such a small love

Angels of ashes

No regrets

Funeral tango

Farmer in the city

Jean the machine is pretty damned funny

I could, like most of you, go on and on...



Influences - contemporaries?

Marc Almond comes to mind

Englebert

I agree with the Gene McDaniels post. Great song.

Favorite: worlds strongest man

60s contemporaries: Dusty: if you go away.

People he’s worked with: John walker (as he produced his solo single).

directly influenced by him: Julian Cope

JP says to y'all = c'mon boys lets face it, its us "in love with love" chappies that really get Mr Walker and as such there is only one song that reeeeeally satisfies. "ON YOUR OWN AGAIN" aaaaaaaaah me ickle 'eart pops a pickle to that thar number

Its Raining today

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg

Rosemary

The Rhymes of Goodbye



All the above songs i consider as Scott's best for painting pictures with words,



other notable tracks:

The old man's back again

The Windows of the world

If you go away



Must admit, Scott's modern stuff doesn't really do it for me, but i do respect his originality.

I agree with Testify. I bought Simon Warner's Waiting Rooms without having heard it, I believe from a review (maybe the Guardian?).



One gem from 'til the band comes in that often seems to get missed is Cowbells Shakin'. The track is only 1 minute 6 seconds long - but in that short time Scott paints a vivid picture of the travails of a migrant who is struggling to succeed.

I wrote an article here that has 10 of the best Scott Walker influenced tracks including My Life Story, Simon Warner and more https://www.brandish.tv/2013/01/09/ten-of-the-best-scott-walker-influenced-tracks-julian-cope-my-life-story-jens-lekman-and-more.html

New songs for Scott's playlist would be 'Epizootics', 'The Day The Conductor Died', 'Sleepwalker's Woman', 'Rosary'.

Older songs would be 'Archangel' a really brilliant song (please ask Scott if he got his 'angel' at christmas', 'Turn Out The Moon', 'I Will Wait For You' 'A Young Man Cried' and 'Tell Me (Your Coming Back To Me). Also 'No Regrets' the bathroom version lol.

Please wish Scott a belated Happy Birthday and I hope he got his card and to keep on with his dream as he is a brilliant singer, songwriter and to always go with his gut instinct'.Thank you for everything.

Sylvia

From the 60's: Rosemary, Angels of Ashes, Amsterdam, In My Room, Let It Be Me (duet with Dusty Springfield)

Post 60's: The Electrician, Only Myself To Blame, Tilt, Cossacks Are

Influenced/collaborative artists: Peter Broderick's 'Duchess' cover (or, alternatively, Neko Case's version), Pulp's 'The Trees', Bat For Lashes' 'The Big Sleep'

The World's Strongest Man.......



followed by Such a Small Love, Duchess, Farmer in the City, Let it Be Me (duet with Dusty Springfield), Living Above Your Head, It's Raining Today

Many suggestions already listed, so will add:

Where's The Girl

Mrs. Murphy

Orpheus

Such A Small Love (had to second this)

Time Operator (you MUST play something from 'Til The Band Comes In, but not Long About Now, please)

Dreaming As One

Dealer

The Cockfighter, or Patriot

Clara

Pilgrim



Thanks, I will be tuning in from San Diego, California!

Masterpieces:



Always coming back to you

Big Louise

Boy Child

Plastic Palace People

Orpheus

The Bridge

Montague Terrace (in blue)

Such a small love



Influenced: PULP

Thanks For Chicago Mr James

Get Behind Me

It's Raining Today

Montague Terrace

The World's Strongest Man

Copenhagen

The worlds strongest man

- Montague Terrace (funny imagery, beautiful gothic vibes...)

- Time Operator (gloom, groove and that dark humor)

- If You Go Away (zero irony, full melodrama and heart)

- Mathilde (just grand theatrical Brel stuff)

- Jackie (same as above)

- Plastic Palace People (inventive, lyrical, beautiful)

- Rawhide (painfully ignored track from his ignored gem album Climate of Hunter)

- 30 Century Man (brief, witty and dreamy)

- Angels of Ashes (one of those utterly beautiful songs about angels Mr Scott Engel (get it?) Walker wrote. Just painfully beautiful.

- Archangel (another angel riff from Scott and the Walker Bros. The powerful organ hints at the darkness that was to come in Nite Flights. An essential song in understanding the full arch of Scott's musical journey)

- Boy Child (simply, my favourite of his songs)

- The Old Man's Back Again (his finest bass line. Utterly groovy. Utterly, wonderfully dark)

- It's Raining Today (the strings, the resonance...)

- Nite Flights (the beginning of the Scott we know today)

- Two Ragged Soldiers (sad, tragic, rich in imagery)

- Farmer in the City (anthem grandeur, ghostly vocals)

- Cossacks Are (only for the fearless music explorer)

- The Electrician (his masterpiece)

The old man's back again

Duchess

Farmer in the city

The electrician

New song from Bish Bosch "Dimple" bring great comfort to me.

Scott's song sound like Haiku or Tanka.

Thank you Scott!

The Journey that Scotts career and music as traveled is insperational.

His beautiful voice while he was still so young can be heard on What Do You Say, Which was recorded in 1962

I also Love his Voice, In Archangel,,and particularly on the Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti from the album The Moviegoer.

On The soundtrack from Pola X, I love the gentleness of Meadow and Light,. I love how his work is evolving, . How I would love to hear Bish Bosh in a theatrical setting. It has so much atmosphere.

All I can say is a big thankyou to Scott for being so insperational in my life,and for bringing me in touch with so many good friends. I look forward to whatever his future work may bring. My very best wishes to Scott.

Nite Flights by Bowie!

Regarding the Scott Walker playlist for this evening, a couple of my favourites would be 'Thanks for Chicago Mr.James' (from Till The Band Comes In) and Sleepwalkers Woman from Climate of Hunter, would be good to hear these two which I don't think I have ever heard played on the radio.

Would love to hear Montague terrace in blue

Nite flights

The Electrician

Boy child

Raining today

Not the most well knowledgeable fan of Scot Walker's work but my favourite tracks of his would be



Time Operator



Farmer in the City



The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti (admittedly it's a cover but in my opinion his version is much better than Joan Baez')



Duchess (I actually like everything on Scott 4, but that would take up the whole hour)



And being horribly obvious



The Walker Brothers- Make It Easy on yourself

Being a fan since the 60s I've seen Scotts music change so much, from the 60s my favourite song is Just say Goodbye...his voice on here is just great! From now his 'futuristic' music I like The day the conductor Died.



Scott is definitely a 30th Century musician!!!!

We Had It All has to be the best album he recorded!!

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