an utterly marvelous body of work

Tilt could be his finest hour

Tilt is astounding, both in ambition and in execution. A most essential, if not easy, listen.

I've only heard the first four solo albums and Tilt (I ordered Climate of the hunter two days ago), but of those I give the nod to Tilt. Still, there are times when only Scott 3 will do the trick. A beautiful, entrancing album. Those are my two faves, but all of the above mentioned regularly make it into my cd player.

For me it was a very close call between Scott 4 & Tilt, with Scott 4 just edging it...

In my eyes, Scott 1 & 2 both have some killer tracks, but also a few misfires, while Scott 3 & Climate of Hunter don't quite work the way I'd like them to, even though they're both good records.

But Scott 4 & Tilt are as close to perfection as you can get...

at this stage I would have expected Stretch or We Had It All to be streets ahead of the chasing pack

After some agonising I voted for Nite Flights. I have to stress though that this is only for the opening 4 tracks all penned by Scott. The 4 tracks, especially The Electrician and Fat Mama Kicks, are peerless in my eyes.

The rest of the record is disco shit but since Scott's songs form the opening salvo, you can ignore the rest of the record and imagine that it's an EP.

That's what I do!

Tilt for me. Quite surprised that it's polling so high, but it makes sense that it'd be the Fall fan's favourite - it probably wouldn't be your average Beatles fan's favourite.

I must say i never heard Climate of Hunter.

I find Tilt too demanding. My bad. :(

Scott 3 has a wonderful flow, but Scott 4 has Boy Child and Angels of Ashes.

Scott 4 then.

Interesting that almost 80% of the votes went to either to either Scott 4 or Tilt combined. I picked for the latter although I wouldn't rate Scott 3 and Climate Of Hunter significantly less.

Generally I prefer the later "difficult" albums a bit. Apart from that unique voice you wouldn't know they were by the same artist who recorded in the 60s and 70s by yourself.

If The Drift was included it would most likely have been my choice.

Looking forward to the next regular album sometime around 2020 when he will be in his mid to late 70s...

If this were updated, "The Drift" would walk it. Such as it is, I'd have to say "Scott 3" - a 10 song cycle of almost unbelieveable richness and depth followed by 3 of his beloved Brel songs with Walker clearly relishing every single note of them.

why has this not happened?

Have to say I prefer Scott 2 to the usual student-feted Scott 4, and if push came to shove (to grab a cliche by the neck) I'd rather hang on to my Scott (debut) album than either of the aforementioned.
I of course realise that people who say they like Scott 4 are much hipper than me though.

I am much hippier than most people around here.

Students?!? I am glad to live in the 3rd world! Students round here listen to Bloc Party: i feel SO much superior to them... :huh:

EDIT - Bloc Party, Nirvana and Bob Marley.

The only two I've heard bits of are Tilt and The Drift.
I found both demanding, like Völlig, but I can see/hear the richness of it.
It's music I admire while not necessarily music I'd listen to. I expect I'll like it more as I age.
Sadly, I haven't heard any other Scott Walker...

His voice is incredibly startling. It has a sort of piercing depth and richness. A bit like Billy Mackenzie only much better and broader (apologies if that's way off-beam or insulting to Scott fans :unsure: ).

i love all this stuff :)

went for scott 3

but that could change tomorrow

I felt kind of confronted by this list. The mind boggles; I guess I've never considered his body of work, as such, just the experience of them separately. I hope that makes sense.
This might not: when Climate of Hunter came out, I was so taken with it, that Blanket Roll Blues gave me the idea to go camping on my own one weekend. I wanted to live the song, somehow. Weird eh? (I took more than a blanket though). Camped next to a waterfall, but because I was above it, even at night you could hardly hear it. It was a wonderfully existential experience.
My choice: the first Scott LP. It's deeply personal to me: to no small extent it ws the soundtrack to the happiest time of my life. (When I had someone to go camping with, years later).

Scott 4. A perfect record.

I see I've already voted. :rolleyes:

That'll have been 'Scott 4' then.

:)

get behind me, and Rhymes of Goodbye are particular favourites, love the Herbie Flowers funky bassline on the former (he did similar stuff on Space Oddity...Bowie was a big Scott fan, maybe he said 'play like you did on Get Behind me' :), but they're all good.

In my opinion, Scott Walker has the voice of an angel.

And Scott 1 - 4 are, indeed, unsurpassed masterpieces.

Oh, I forgot to say that the Scott sings Brel album is great as well.

Does a decent vinyl pressing of Tilt exist?

I've had two and they're poor.

Great anecdote.

Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker
Featuring Damon Albarn, Dot Allison, Jarvis Cocker, Gavin Friday, Michael Henry & Nigel Richards.
13 - 15 November 2008 / 19:45 -- Barbican Theatre, London.

Gavin Friday!?! ^_^

Jarvis Cocker?!

:lol:

Damon Albarn!?!

Incidentally, Jarvis Cocker is performing at Rough Trade's 30th Anniversary tour with Fall-fan Jeffrey Lewis. :beer: <----- that's for Lewis not Cocker...

He should be okay, funnily enough. I watched that BBC Imagine... documentary about the Monkey opera, and Albarn has learned to sing 'properly' now. Good vibrato and everything.

But... Jarvis Cocker.

*shudders*

Yes, I saw that too; it was very impressive.
What a strange collection of singers, though (the Walker thing, I mean)!

Anyways, I should say Walker himself isn't performing, but he did "conceive" it...

eventualy got my hands on nite flights recently

some of its brilliant and most of it isnt i think