Scott Walker

Just listening to Scott Walker's TILT album and, to my mind, it's very much Prog. Most of his solo stuff from Scott 3 up to Bish Bosch is fascinating, complex and can be challenging but also features rich orchestration to go with that rich voice.

Edited by Ronstein - January 05 2021 at 07:34

Yes, love Jacques Brel too. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band did a brilliant cover of Next!

Love Scott Walker 3 and 4.

Scott Walker is one of my favorite artists! I would love to see him added on PA and wil gladly review all his records

Furthermore, it could be argued that his later records like Tilt, Drift and Bisch Bosch easily qualify for avant-prog. Scott Walker is also the main influence on David Bowie's Blackstar album.

His earlier records (Scott 2, 3 and 4) are perhaps more of an extremely progressive style of American chanson (yes it exists), but these albums could also be seen as high-class barokpop albums.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: His album Soused with Sunn O))) is excellent if very weird. He's certainly out there these days.

I love Tilt. I have considered Scott Walker to have made music that I would put in the greater prog related umbrella, but I don't know his music as well as I think I should. He has had a lot of fans at PA. I moved this to general music discussions, because the Prog Music lounges are intended for general Prog music discussion and acts already included in the database -- see THIS - CLICK. He has been suggested in Suggest New Bands before a number of times, in fact once ever year over four years which is interesting (once in 2011, once in 2010, once in 2009, and once in 2008) Tilt and the Drift are often cited as prime examples of proggy music. he has been suggested to Avant prog and Crossover for the Art Rock qualities.

I see that I wrote this back in 2010 in one of those topics:

[quote=Logan]I just listened to "Jolson and Jones", which I found rather catchy (not frightening to me) and that I would think sufficiently on the chamber rock side a la Art Zoyd and Univers Zero to be readily considerable. Listening to another track now (track 9 -- cool harmonica part that reminds of Morricone's Man with Harmonica), and so far I don't see why he wouldn't be includable. I had listened to music of his before as it's been suggested a couple of times, but never got evaluated (not on progfreak) -- hopefully third time is the charm. In an earlier thread I thought Crossover as a possibility too but I guess that was more based on earlier material.[/url]

But those were early impressions and I didn't know his material very well at the time. I don't know if it ever was formally evaluated (I could search, but others might remember). Opinion has seemed to be divided on this artist (not a no-brainer depending on perspective and the materials listened to and the overall discography). To me it seemed more prog related before, but I'm not familiar enough with the music and artist's background and that is a very involved process where various criteria are expected to be met, an SC proposes it to us, and we generally also gauge the arguments and thoroughness of the suggestion.



Edited by Logan - January 05 2021 at 16:37

I’m with you there on not being a fan of assigning artists to any specific label as they tend to span genres. A limitation of this site is that not only can’t we assign labels by the album, we can’t assign multiple labels for artists. The pigeonholing aspect of the process has no doubt kept various artists out of this site.   I too will be pleased if more people are turned on to Scott Walkers music. Very nice topic, by the way. :)

Haven't heard much of Scott Walker after 'Tilt' which I bought soon after its release in 1995 . I think that Scott disappeared for a number of years after 'Tilt' and I didn't quite catch up.