What song are you listening to right now?

[THUMPER]

for RIFKE , my beloved blue flower ~

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

reminded me of Lee Hazlewood, great writer and singer, Some duet ballads here with Nancy Sinatra, a lot of songs she performed were written by Lee. (Einsturzende Neubauten do a cover of 'Sand' though you probably know that)

1968



My eyes grew heavy and my lips they could not speak
I tried to get up but I couldn't find my feet
She reassured me with an unfamiliar line
And then she gave to me more summer wine



Flowers growing on a hill, dragonflies and daffodils
Learn from us very much, look at us but do not touch
Phaedra is my name

 

[Irregular Regular]

 

[Irregular Regular]

 

[Johnny Thunders]

 

[billybu69]

 

[Anonymous]

Tommy Stinson - meant to be

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

i like this collection of duets, ketamine, and i did not know about the collapsing newly constructed buildings' cover of sand. i've added it immediately to my new playlist. i can also see that there is a tradition of duets sung by disenchanted couples, but whereas hazelwood&sinatra kind of inebriatedly try to dwell in nostalgic memories of the early phases of infatuation, staples&rosselini have both feet on the ground, trying to hurt each other by stressing the other's naiveté. there is still more entanglement here

more entanglement....

1978




Every Sunday I will go down to the bar
And leave him the guitar
You say you want me
I want another
Say you dream of me
Dream of your brother
Oh, the stars shine so suspiciously
For we three

 

[The Wild Turkey]

wow cool. Never judge a record by it's cover, wasn't expecting this sound when it started. Immediately thought of 70's Motown and the Stax recordings, the big sweeping strings and the drum room sound from those Isaac Hayes records.Like it when the song stretches out and he goes off on a scatting tangent, sweet.

which made me think of this song....(just the end part)




in another post you wrote you didn't know Walkers earlier recordings, which surprised me, people usually don't know or care to know his more recent work. 'TILT' from 95 is to me his best, seems to me what he was always (consciously or not) working towards all through the late 60's on. 'TILT' an amazing record. But he has a large body of work over the years and if the records are not great as a whole there are still a lot of priceless gems on each one.

these and the song above are from his 4th solo record ' SCOTT 4 '


1969


The Angels of Ashes
Will give back your passions
Again and again

Their light shafts
Will reach through the darkness
And touch you my friend

They'll fly in a mind dance
And blind you with wings
Wrapped in flame

If you're down to an echo
They just might remember
Your name .......



You'll lose your way
A boy child rides upon your back
Take him away
Through mirrors dark and blessed with cracks
Through forgotten courtyards
Where you used to search for youth
Old gets a new life
Reach out you can touch it's true
He's not a shadow of shadows
Like you, you see
Hearts hold on holding
If you stay one, you'll stay free .....


this ones from 'SCOTT 2'

1968


........
Her sailors stained her cobblestones
With wine and piss and death desire
And sometimes blood for Madelaine
Whose laughter was the night

Her girls would lift their dresses high
And breathe the stars and kiss the sky
She'd smother them with whispers then
Embrace them with her sighs ....


Though you may have already heard these before. For the Walker Brothers records I think it's best to just find a couple decent compilation records.

Thanks for lettin' me know Ketamine. I never knew who Scott Walker was until I heard about Tilt. Then Drift and Bisch Bosh. That's my favorite stuff. I like some of this earlier stuff to, so now I'll be uncovering gems along the way.

 

[The Wild Turkey]

If the establishment won't listen now, will they ever?
Minor point of criticism, it is so relaxed, the establishment might fall asleep if it isn't already.
How wild is the Wild Turkey?

Don't you remember I said I could Turkey Step to any tune selected? Please consider that even the slightest movement can be wild to those that aim to shackle you.

 

[Anonymous]

Sounds a bit like Nico, video is interesting. I like wells.

 

[Irregular Regular]

 

[Irregular Regular]

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Thanks for lettin' me know Ketamine. I never knew who Scott Walker was until I heard about Tilt. Then Drift and Bisch Bosh. That's my favorite stuff. I like some of this earlier stuff to, so now I'll be uncovering gems along the way.

4 songs from first half of the Walker Brothers last record 'Nite Flights'. Worth it just for these four sung by Scott. The label was going under, so knowing it wasn't going to be promoted,they just did what they wanted to do, Scotts first signs of what was to come.


1978


Something attacked the earth last nite
With a kick that man habit - eye
Cut the sleep tight boys who dreamed and dreamed
Of a city like the sky
There were faces bobbing in the heat
For some rising from her zone
Moving, hitting, holding on
For the promise to carry us home

In the shutout
In the shutout
Never a lock in the fall
In the shutout
In the shutout
How will we know the great doll?


Armed angels
Walk the
City lights
Wait inside
Their master corpses
Peeled raw, betrayed
And fade
And fade
As the noise
Goes over
And over
The gods are gone
The search lights lick
You cannot risk
The fat fat mama
Kick


Its so cold
The dark
Dug up
By dogs
The stitches
Torn and broke
The raw meat fist
You choke
Has hit
The bloodlight
Glass traps
Open and close
On night flights


He's
Drilling through
The spiritus sanctus
Tonight
Through
The dark hip falls
Screaming
Oh you mambos
Kill me
And
Kill me
And
Kill me

 

[Quando quando quando]

Scott Walker is f***ing brilliant!
If there has ever been a underestimated singer in pop music it is him.
He is up there with the greatest but not recognized as such. I mean now.
I can think of another pop artist who will experience this.

 

[Irregular Regular]

 

[Naynellhi]

Unloveable

 

[Chris Lowe's hat]

 

[Anonymous]

Ronald Koal 1986 Interview - Men With Guns

 

[MIDNITE]

A little bit of indie electro punk
Nice bass punch and synths !

Put a head phones on or listen via speakers

Enjoy !