His solo albums since Scott 4 never charted, so how does he get the funds to employ entire orchestras and other musicians and expensive studio time and session players to record his "late-period" muzak records?
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It's from his 12 album deal with Virgin Records. The only people who buy his disjointed sh!t are pretentious hipsters and they got money to spare to support him. Scott is underground but not flying way below the radar type of underground.
I cant beat monster butts, but I can beat your hungry guts. Thats for sure!
12 albums you say?? Holy jesus, how many more does he have left to go? And can even the hipsters handle the amount? I am worried...
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I have no clue how many he has left but, as the documentary showed, he made only 3 albums from 1984 to 2006. What he is doing has already been done to death. He is no visionary. Musique concrete (which is basically what he's doing) was being done in France during the 1930's. Anybody can do what he does. He's punching a slab of beef and adding in effects. It takes him 10 years to do something that some kid could do in his bedroom in an hour. This guy is like Jandek. A fraud and a con-artist. Hipsters and critics will follow him as long as they gladhand each other and have cash in hand.
I cant beat monster butts, but I can beat your hungry guts. Thats for sure!
I have to say that I diagree. I don't think that Scott has ever resorted to mindless atonal faux-concrete. As the film shows, he always has a proper compositional mind at work - the dissonance is never just a gimmick, he is writing songs with 'proper' chords and harmonies but never stops investigating the queasy no-mans land of pushing those chords to their limits. Yes, the tevent albums do have a similar sound palette but it's obviously where Scott is interested.
As far as I know he doesn't have a long-term deal - after Tilt was released by Mercury/Fontana, he's been on a record-by-record basis with 4AD. How does he afford the recordings? Well, he's fast... All the orchestra work on Tilt was done in a day..