Monday, September 7, 2015

Scott Walker: Presidential Candidate or Cult Musician?

It occurred to me that the Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker shares a name with a guy who's actually a prettty significant, if somewhat obscure, character in the past century of music.  He sang lead for The Walker Brothers back in the 60's with gems like this:


From there he went on to do much more experimental stuff, while also being a bit loungey.

Check out my favorite of his, The Plague: https://youtu.be/NiloWOFuY08
Today he does weird stuff like this: https://youtu.be/2Ih7KzKLLWA

He's a pretty unique character who influenced a lot of musicians (David Bowie absolutely idolizes the guy). He's worth checking out...

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