Scott Walker or Tim Buckley?
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Topic: Scott Walker or Tim Buckley?
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Subject: Scott Walker or Tim Buckley?
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 05:21
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Two wonderful voices I enjoy equally (although in different moments, that's true). Let's see your opinions, favorite songs, other candidates in the same range (if any), and, you know, whatever! |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 05:22
| Love both. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 05:26
Scott Walker for his earlier albums and Tim Buckley for his later albums after Lorca & Starsailor, so I'll vote Both. 
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 05:35
^ That's so precise! Thank you 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 05:41
| I've listened a lot more to Scott than Tim in my life, but I've also known about the former artist longer than the latter. Both are great and deserving, so Both from me as well. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 05:43
| For more precision on my part, I love Scott Walker for his 1967 to 1969 period (one through four albums) as well as the later albums, Tilt (1995), The Drift (2006) and Bish Bosch (2012). As for Tim Buckley, I love his six albums from 1966 to 1970. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 06:02
never really understood the SW hoopla, but Buckley was phenomal from Happy Sad to Greetings From LA. I must say that his last two albums are very disappointing (read my reviews) Lorca is his his apex, though I must say that the non-prog crowd will prefer Starsailor. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Logan wrote:Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 06:11
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Both equally. As mentioned before, they're quite different, but both are quite powerful. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 06:12
Lorca would be my pick too. I would expect Starsailor to be the general favourite amongst the members of Prog Archives, maybe followed by Happy Sad. I think Scott Walker is remarkable both for his singer-songwriter baroque pop and experimental, post-industrial work. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 06:14
My first ever Scott Walker album was actually his 1984 release Climate of the Hunter - which I just bought on a whim liking the cover and its title. I think its a mostly great album with some questionable 1980's production and arrangement choices. I also remember how strange I thought Tilt was when it came out. Now I think it's beautiful and quite touching. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 06:24
I'd heard the title track of 'Til the Band Comes In at least, which is in the opening post, before and I really like that. I have not heard The Moviegoer at all yet, that I can recall. I will check those out. The ones I mentioned are the only albums of his and of Buckley that I have heard in full. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 06:38
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Going with Both ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 07:00
I remember 'Til The Band Comes In from long lost radio days (that and The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore), when I was wishing they play it again soon, even before I knew who the singer was. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 11:07
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Scott. Hence went and cracked an atom age old egg beneath my nose. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 14:16
| Scott. There's more to love. I adore Tim, but not a peep after the tender age of 28. Sad... |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 14:25
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Well, as somebody knows, I love Tim Buckley. For me there is no possible comparison. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 20:20
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I picked none, but I have heard little of either. Enough though not to pursue further with both of these singer/songwriters. . ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 06:21
| ^ TBH, Scott had a crooning style that may sound dated (though no less adorable), and Tim used to push his (fantastic) voice too much away at times, but, hey, nobody's perfect! To me, both are a pleasure to listen. |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 07:25
| The only serious moment ever on The Monkeys TV show was Tim Buckley singing Song to the Siren, and it was breathtaking... |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 07:31
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Both
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