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| From | "floatingunder" <underthefloat@msn.com> |
| Subject | TILT was Re: Joanna Newsom - Ys |
| Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:33:30 -0000 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@...>
wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Smith" <markmsmith@...>
> > I was suspicious of the strong reviews thinking it would be like
the
> > Scott
> > Walker record. I don't believe that most of the reviewers had any
> > context in
> > which to judge it, but it's *Scott Walker* and he hasn't released
a
> > record
> > in years so therefore we'll give it top marks.I did see a review
of
> > his
> > earlier album Tilt where it was given '10 or 0, who can tell'. At
> > least that
> > was being honest. I wonder how many of those reviewers who gave
it
> > full
> > marks are still listening to it or are including it in their best
of
> > year
> > lists?
>
> I'm pretty sure it's going to be on mine: I actually far prefer THE
> DRIFT to TILT, which is an album I frankly *still* have a hard time
> wrapping my mind around, all these years later. But for some
reason,
> THE DRIFT just automatically connected for me in a way I wasn't
> expecting: somehow, all of the freaky bits (the song with the
rhythm
> section consisting of a guy punching a side of raw meat, the Donald
> Duck impersonation) made sense, likely because I had the sense that
> the songs were actually "about" something in a way that TILT
wasn't.
> For such a supposedly insular, self-aborbed guy, an album that
seems
> to be explicitly about the war and the rest of the current mess is
> just surprising.
I actually like TILT quite a bit. I'm still more of a "SCOTT 1-4 +
Til the Band" guy. I totally understand and agree with the line Mark
mentioned "10 or 0, who can tell". Very funny and true.
I like some of the abstractness of TILT. A man singing in absolute
pain "about" nylons with holes in them (if my memory serves). But I
do understand and appreciate Stewart's point regarding DRIFT.
What surprised me about TILT was that at first play it was totally,
laugh out loud, unlistenable to me. Gradually, I grew to like it a
lot but it was very mood dependent for when I put it on. I sort of
needed to be in a disturbed trance to fully "enjoy" it. Sure not
everyone sees the value in that state of mind. :)
Anyway, what really surprised me is I was recently listening to
Walker's box set which includes a few tracks off TILT. When a few
songs from TILT played, I thought.."these can't be from TILT, the
songs are not THAT weird". Well, they were from TILT and I now wonder
about the power of repeated listening of something so dense that it
becomes "listenable". Or I simply wonder and fear for my sanity.
:)
Steve D
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