Tag: Scott Walker

• Top 40 Over 40.25: Wise Intelligent

  Even rarer than artists making great records after 40 is those who are able to do so in quick succession.  Back when I was high school, Hüsker Dü released New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig only 8 months apart.  It’s hard to imagine young bands doing that in today’s post-internet crash music economy, let…

  jhd123

  July 26, 2018

  History, Politics, Top 40 Over 40

  Game of Death, Gensu Dean, Holy Intellect, Husker Du, Jimmy Iovine, Music, Poor Righteous Teachers, Record Reviews, Scott Walker, The Blue Klux Klan, The Kerner Commission, United States of America, White Supremacy, Wise Intelligent

• Top 40 Over 40.8: Scott Walker’s hat trick

  Sometimes pop artists you associate with youth surprise you with a new vocal persona that suits them as they get older.  (Think Robert Plant on Raising Sand.) But in the case of Scott Walker, he never really sounded like a young man to begin with.  Sure, he was a teen idol back in the late…

  jhd123

  July 15, 2012

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  30th Century Man, David Bowie, Drift, Films, Music, Night of the Hunter, Record Reviews, Scott Walker, Tilt, Top 40 Over 40