scott walker jesse (2006)
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- Опубліковано 12 лис 2006
- i know it's been already uploaded, but this one's got much better sound quality, so.. enjoy the pure beauty of Scott's art.
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Nose holes
caked
in black
cocaine
Pow! Pow!
No one
holds
a match
to your
skin
No dupe
No chiming
a way
off
miles
off
No needle
through a
glove
Famine is
a tall
tall
tower
a building
left
in the
night
Jesse
are you
listening?
It casts
its ruins
in shadows
under
Memphis
moonlight
Jesse
are you
listening?
Six feet
of
foetus
flung at
sparrows
in the
sky
Put yourself
in my
shoes
A kiss -
- wet -
- muzzle
A clouded
eye
No stars
to flush
it
out
Famine is
a tall
tall
tower
A building
left
in the
night
Jesse
are you
listening?
It casts
its ruins
in shadows
under
Memphis
moonlight
Jesse
are you
listening?
Pow! Pow!
In the dream
I am crawling
around on my
hands and knees
smoothing out
the prairie
All the dents
and the gouges
and the winds
dying down
I lower
my head
press my
ear
to the
prairie
Alive
I'm the
only
one
left
alive
I'm the
only
one
left
alive
I'm the
only
one
left
alive
Alive
I'm the
only
one
left
alive
I'm the
only
one
left
alive
I'm the
only
one
left
alive
When people look back on Scott's music in 100 years time, when just about every one alive now will be long gone, people will describe "The Drift" as his best work. I am in awe.
Are you still alive?
yup, just 89 years left lol
"Do I hear 21, 21, 21 ... " Yes, it's that anniversary. Noseholes caked in black cocaine and we're the only ones left alive...
Genius! Try to imagine what the song is about after I tell you and listen to it again from this perspective... It is the first 2 strums of the song Jailhouse Rock(Elvis Presley) slowed down and that is because it is a song about Elvis and his still-born dead twin brother Jesse. Imagine the horror and sadness of being in the womb as Elvis(Scott is Elvis) and next to you is your dead brother. Scott gave a voice to what Elvis might of felt inside his mothers womb. Elvis never got over this event.
I hadn’t realised the Jailhouse Rock connection. The Pow! Pow! sound that follows the down-tuned two-chord strum also imitates the two-bar drum beat following the two-chord riff of the Elvis Presley song, as well as referencing the two
planes that crashed into the twin towers on 9-11.
That sustained string drone at the beginning is also reminiscent of Penderecki’s work.
When I got Drift I listened to it two times in a row and then I just sat there, staring. It gave me chills and it made me cry, it's a fantastic record.
Beautiful man beautiful voice ❤️ RIP Scott 💔 Outstanding creator of sound - we’re still listening 😢👏
Been a Scott fan since 1964,god this is so moving,. All of a sudden that Voice! I'm the only one alive!
SO intense.
A masterpiece.
Artist of soundscapes.The Original! The Enigmatic! Genius
This guy is out there on his own. I tip my hat to you Scott Walker.
I'm very grateful to have spent the late night hours watching "Scott Walker - 30 Century Man" to put all of this in context. He is a very unique, exemplary artist and an inspiration. He is right on the dot about not sacrificing your vision just to speed things along or get an audience. Listening to his music is a Eucharist. It's not important to understand or find a meaning in the lyrics, it just flows from his Muse - whatever that is.
This album was the background to the most intense trips i ever had. Proceed with caution though. Madness was always a thought away....
I kinda love that this comment was only 3 hours ago.
Now you are gone, it's haunting me so much more. rip.
i really like his music now, it creates a perfect and dark atmosphere, agony - perfect in my viem. just because you'd say he's on his way to oblivion (i understand that this kind of music doesn't get that many listeners), it doesn't mean he get's a worse artist.
This is so inspiring... this is whats life´s worth living for.
Scott Walker said a few years ago that he suffers from terrible nightmares. Having heard "The Drift", he leaves me in no doubt that he wasn't joking.
i remember always catching this on MTV really late at night when it's real quiet. really freaked me out!
Wowwwww... Scott, the great Walker
Its Art, audible art!
Scott Walker is pure genius
I listen to his music and reads his lyrics much in the same way as when looking at a Picasso painting.(Discover new things every time.)
Genius. Takes me back to David Sylvian days.
I can definitely see the Tears For Fears and Queen influences in this song, I walked down the aisle to this classic! The Drift is the only album the kids will listen to from my collection in the car!
When I first read that, I thought you meant you had this on headphones while you did your shopping like the titular character listening to Lee Hazlewood in Morvern Callar. But getting married to it is pretty cool too.
At least we can be fairly certain that this will never be used as background music in a car advertisment.
This is an amazing celebration of insanity. I love it. This is a HUGE inspiration to me. Wow, what a true artist.
For me it is all in the womb, Jesse gives no answer................, 'Jesse, are you listening?', how alone can you be! Think about that one :)
This is the ultimate drift. So enigmatic people will be desyfering it into the 30th century. And so grosteque, it is beautiful. Probably a word no one else has used. Because they're too busy understanding substance over sound. Scott said himself not to take it too literal. Genius.
..no entiendo como no hizo un disco con Bowie!!,,SUBLIME!!
Wonderful. I strongly recommend The Drift, from which this track came. It is absolutely stunning. If you can listen to the whole 70 minutes in one go, it leaves you with a pain in your stomach as the tension grabs you there. Well, it does me anyway. The video was surprisingly good. (Get Tilt too).
This is what Dracula would listen to...
Quote from gdsongwriter 'This is music which is has a dual effect on me - at times too difficult to listen to and at other times extraordinarily beautiful' - superb description - this is how I feel about Scott's music, I recognise it has some great beauty but do find some of it very difficult to listen to! It can be quite disturbing.
Love it. It's always make me cry.
This music is mesmerizing.
First I was scared then confused now just amazed.......
My first listen to the drift was on boxing day 2009........
Strange yet compelling. This one is hitting a string with me... Thanks for sharing!
Yeah I just saw the movie, and I have to say - I like it. It's, like, uncomfortable isn't it? But so beautiful as well. Nice to hear somebody doing something different and not giving a shit.
famine is a tall tall tower; a building left in the night
so good it hurts
Wow... This was... Fascinating... I think fascinating is the word...
Every second comment compares Scott Walker with something else.
The whole album is a big chill..an expressive manifesto of black bile..a masterpiece that will
pass the test of music history..the only album (The Drift) that punched my belly and shocked my nervous system..
RIP!
Brillaint song!
Morbid master! Scott is the best when all are in the rest!
Check out the documentary on Scott Walker that came out a year or so ago. Good footage of the making of this recording including shots of a percussionist punching a large hunk of meat with Scott directing him to get the sound he wants. Genius? Why not.
truly something to aspire to your level of courage and skill has never been matched. I think asking you to rest in peace would be insulting. In a way I think you should continue to permeate between dreams and horrors.
great video, beautiful!!
mind blower in 5-1 sound late at nite in a dark room wow
Scott Walker = integrity. Fucking star!
you should see a documentary film called "30th century man" in order to understand more fully this artist who has influenced the likes of Bowie and eno. if you are willing to alow yourself into it you might find it extremly rewarding intelectually. if you are a musician you'll appreciate it even more. the man is a pioneer and no one else does what he does.
.75x speed for the not faint of heart.
I'll take progression over the ill fated digression that has plagued so many amazing artists over the years anyday. My favorite SW and counting!
MR WHITE
Sweet mother of god that was creepy. I love it. XD
That's a great song description. Except the Elvis/Jesse metaphor is actually a reference to 9/11. Scott's said it himself. That said, it's such a truly amazing song, that it seems so easy to come up with all sorts of reasons WHY it exists the way it does.
Genious!
man I knew that Wisconsin Governor was one fucked up dude
I like them both.
R.I.P.
my name is jesse. this song is obviously dedicated to me. me and scott go way back.
heh.
DAMN!
"Brevity...soul..wit." Very good. I hope the genuine man draws solace, in view of having an unfortunate nominal association.
haha this song is so funny! the weird simplistic quitar and the overacted crying voice!
it makes me happy!
i love this stuff much more than the early stuff of the walker brothers
this is like the walker brothers from the grave
Your parents must be proud of your humorlessness.
My point exactly!:)
This song is intense from start to finish. I love it, but I dont know why.
Oh yes, the airwaves are just saturated with Scott Walker.
Genialne!
@spurtfather Thank you. You've cleared that one up nicely! We obviously think along similar lines after all.
I have this album....and it sounded like the soundtrack of a serial killer or something at the very least. Very raw album. Disturbing is an understatement
Thanks for that analysis in Wonderland.
I'm sure I'll be able to sleep well tonight, knowing all that in depth information!
If Scott read it he would probably think, "What the F is this guy on about!"
He wrote it all on the drift as far as I know. You should also see 30 Century Man. By the time he was a pop star in the 60s-70s he used other people's songs (like Jaque Brell's ) or arrangements.
this should be diplayed in a screen as wide as a whole quarter and let people behold serious beauty. devastating is pretty accurate, but i'd say freeing.
Far out man!
the guy is genious!!!you can also check Virus (NOR) that are inspired from Scott Walker! Great music!!
Agarrense muy fuerte! que el tío Scott nos Zambulle sin piedad al universo Jesse...
A fitting Lynchian vibe.
The song is apparently inspired by Elvis Presley's prayers for help from his stillborn twin brother Jesse, in times of crisis... I think Scott is singing as Elvis reacting to the 9/11 attacks, had he lived to see them
Scott Walker is uniq...
This article explains the album
This things exposes my psycho side.
Indded the sun ain't shining here anymore.
Thumbs up if BYEBYE AND SHLORT brought you here!!
i read in some scholarly piece the 'pow pow' is an allusion the two planes that hit the WTC on 9/11, and that the song is otherwise about Elvis' stillborn brother Jesse
Not to be pedantic, but it's not otherwise because he's using the metaphor of Elvis losing his stillborn brother as a stand-in for void left after the World Trade Center collapsed. Elvis is a major force of Americana imagery. It's sung from the perspective of Elvis waking up from a dream. "Nose holes caked in black cocaine" is an allusion to the image of the smoke coming out of the towers.
.......dam
If you could please include that part of this album that includes the Immunity lyrics that they keep giving on that film 30th Century Man.
Sounds like Bryan Ferry singing over a seventies horror score
i really like this- there is a nice documentary about scott walker, it is called 30th Century Man, Scott Walker, catch it up!
This song scares the shit outta me.
scott walker's voice and music give me precisely the same kind of nasty, skin-crawly feeling of "whoa, there's something deeply WRONG with this person" that i've had after trying to carry on conversations with diagnosed schizophrenics...
lol that's a good one!
Some songs on The Drift are shite but this is fantastic.
If anyone has ever heard of a PS3 game called Little Big Planet i designed a level inspired by this song.
@AMF1322 why dont you see this as music? he maybe doesnt use it in a convential way, but its still in the realm of music, he uses the elements to express something in a new way.
but ofcourse he goes further than music, and than it becomes art, because convential music is just a technic, a medium an artist can use, to bring it to a new level.
scratch that could be more like a Benjamin Britten mixed in with some Penderecki somewhat.
i heard this was about Jesse Presley(Elvis's stillborn twin brother) witnessing the 9/11 attacks and the towers falling. Very eery and sad.
Its Jesse's birthday today.
The "White Walker of music " ....
Amen! Hallelujah! Jesus Christ! and his kids!
He uses orchestrators but they follow his exact direction.
@xbyiu97 that's the way scott has written his lyrics in the liner notes since 1978