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His albums “Tilt”, The Drift” and “Bish Bosch” differ a lot from his earlier work.
His current artistic direction is extremely avant-garde and has been described as the “sound of nightmares”.
His musical evolution is examined in the acclaimed documentary film “Scott Walker - 30 Century Man” in which Walker gives a very candid interview about his creative process and allows access into the meat-punching and box-bashing recording sessions for 2006’s “The Drift.”
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Nakkinak
what the fuck are you discussing
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firefly2811
first four solo albums are good and even great. after that the later albums tilt, drift, bish bosh are unlistenable to my ears.
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Pk_Henry
vv That was - in a more succinct way - what a wrote here on the 6th of may. :)
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viniortolano
people missused the term so much that now the definition of it became "a guy who plays his own songs on a acustic guitar". that's why i laugh when i see this tag used only for folk stuff. the guy below is right though
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jazzthieve
Jeez such a silly discussion: "Singer" a person who sings, "Songwriter"= a person who writes songs, thus "Singer-Songwriter"= a singer who writes his own songs. Not realy sure what an acoustic guitar has to with it. A person who sings and writes his songs using a piano is not a singer-songwriter? A "composer", a person who creates (composes) music. Thus a singer-songwriter can be perfectly considered a composer because he composes a song. For some stupid reason people get it their head that a singer-songwriter must use an acoustic guitar and a composer is someone more oriented toward instrumental or classical music.
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viniortolano
i bet you got that information on wikipedia didn't you, silly goose?
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viniortolano
singer-songwriter = a guy who make songs based on an acustic guitar? thats some knowledge right here!
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Pk_Henry
The definition you give of a composer is artificial and disputable. A composer can be anyone who creates music, a composer can - and usually is - a songwriter. What you are implying is that a "composer" is someone who composes "art" contrasting with others that simply do music. A composer of sonatas isn't more musician than someone who writes rock, both are musicians in the same sense, the difficulty of writing a music isn't only sustained by the category you attribute to his creator. Of course some arrangements of Scott Walker, for instance, are made not to be played live but that isn't a specific characteristic of all those who can be inscribed as "composers", on the contrary, most composers want their compositions to be "played live". Actually, the main reason Scott Walker doesn't play his songs live may be the fact he refuses to do it. Many of his composition could be played live, as most of John Cage were.
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Pk_Henry
No. A composer doesn't write "songs" by any traditional definition of the word. He usually sends an e-mail to Zeus and then waits he launches a lighting bolt directly to his head with the exact platonic form of the already made composition.
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sunheadbowed
You clearly have zero concept of what the definition of 'singer-songwriter' is if you believe an avant-garde composer is one. A composer doesn't even write 'songs' by any traditional definition of the word. I'd love to hear you cover Iannis Xenakis on an acoustic guitar. Or even 'SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)'.
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Pk_Henry
VV It's an acquired taste. It is different to talk about Scott's singing in the 60's and 70's and to talk about his singing now. In late 60's his voice was much similar of Sinatra's in many ways, at least for me, he sings now with a completely different metric and style.
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KasparovDeepBlu
V you can cure it with feels
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Bequeathed
I'm trying to get into Walker, but I have some problems with his voice... I admit I don't like it much. Anyone else has/had the same problem? Is it curable.
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Pk_Henry
@sunheadbowed: Uh...he isn't? Doesn't "avant-garde composers" write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies? The exact definition of singer-songwriter.
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tomorrowsparty
Does anyone else think The Day the "Conducator" Died sounds a bit like Scott Walker's dating profile summary?
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sunheadbowed
He's not exactly a singer-songwriter anymore, is he. He's more of an avant-garde composer.
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Pk_Henry
You forgot the 00's and the 2010's.
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viniortolano
scott is the best singer-songwriter from his generation, also the 90s. genius indeed
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BallerCraig
I'm getting a high on the new album. Gorgeous, yummy, lover-lee. George Bish should be Bosched. (Semen and blood on his face when he listens and looks at nice paintings.)
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