WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO....RIGHT NOW Mk II

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i love this album so much. the ultra slow parts mixed in with the intense fast parts are fantastic. slam.


 
Monson said:
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Two top-rank singers.

I love this: the vocals, the string section, and the sudden face-ripping guitar solo.



Scott Walker was kinda a genius. He ran the gamut from sixties heartthrob and baroque pop to total weirdo shit to drone metal with Sunn 0))). When you start listening to him you can hear his influence on certain eras of Bowie's catalogue and latter-day Nick Cave.

The Walker Brothers 'The Electrician' is one of my desert island discs.
 
mongooz said:
he's a monster.
also Steel String Singer !!!
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His 'Late for the Sky' tone is holy grail. He's also one of those guys like Mike Campbell, Pete Anderson, and Keith Scott who is the perfect wingman in terms of what they play. I really admire those players.
 
Motorik said:
His 'Late for the Sky' tone is holy grail. He's also one of those guys like Mike Campbell, Pete Anderson, and Keith Scott who is the perfect wingman in terms of what they play. I really admire those players.
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yea, i was kinda amazed how dwight yoakum didn't sound like dwight when pete left. :shrug:
 
Found this Jackson Browne clip. No idea who is on on steel guitar. Blake Mills on mandolin (and later slide guitar). Anthony Wilson (Diana Krall) on guitar. Sara Watkins on fiddle. And Fiona Apple playing the concrete floor.

 
Motorik said:
Two top-rank singers.

I love this: the vocals, the string section, and the sudden face-ripping guitar solo.



Scott Walker was kinda a genius. He ran the gamut from sixties heartthrob and baroque pop to total weirdo shit to drone metal with Sunn 0))). When you start listening to him you can hear his influence on certain eras of Bowie's catalogue and latter-day Nick Cave.

The Walker Brothers 'The Electrician' is one of my desert island discs.
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I was totally unaware of his solo stuff until I read an interview with Brett Anderson some years ago. I think you can hear an influence on some of the Anderson/Butler songs:



Add the orchestra, the shameless reverb and here we go.

There's something about this borderline easy listening, pathetic, tasteless, over the top sort of stuff that I've always found strangely appealing, the kind that you'd expect to hear while eating over-cooked pasta at some flimflam mediterranean tourist trap, but then there's this tiny twist that's both completely off and absolutely brilliant.



Strip it from the 'bowieness' and it's basically Eros Ramazzotti.
 
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