Episode 173 - Nite Flights by The Walker Brothers (Side B‪)‬ Unsung Podcast

In case you missed it, we discussed The Walker Brothers’ career, and some of Scott Walker’s, in part one, which you can listen to here. This week we dive into the period where Scott gets weird. From 1984’s Climate of Hunter onwards, Scott begins his transformation from 60s pop poster boy to avant-garde legends. He only followed Nite Flights with another 4 albums, but the impact of his work from this period until the end of his life is absolutely massive. We go into this in quite a lot of detail, spending a fair amount of time talking about The Drift and Bish Bosch before we circle right back around to the reason we’re gathered here: Nite Flights. Scott Walker’s four songs on this album are hailed as groundbreaking, and their influence is, well, we said it before, huge. In many ways though, Scott Walker is unsung. He may be influential but he’s always been an outsider. Many of the acts that love his music have gone on to be truly huge. Is Nite Flights the best representation of this underappreciated artist? Or should we come back and discuss one of his later albums? You decide.