Scott Walker - 30 Century Man

[LloydDutch]

Love this song, keep pressing replay, but I think it could do with another few verses, otherwise great.

[Hawkathon]

Does anyone else think this song was the inspiration for the whole Futurama series (not just Bender's Big Game)?

[IneptSilentRelative]

@Hawkathon It's scary how much it relates to the show. I honestly think it did, personally. A fantastic song by a fantastic artist for a fantastic show.

[uRnotGOODLikeME]

how did i go from gay porn to this....

[tredlow]

They added Charles De Gaulle into the Futurama movie just for this song.

[VonHeintz]

i like the ambulance version toooo. couldn't find it up here.

[Jarp12]

What deaf whore gave this a dislike?!

[adamasdiamandis]

LOVE IT :)

[banq0o]

great upload, thanks!

[ghotisticks22]

Fantastic addition to the Life Aquatic soundtrack

[jaguarnero]

There's something disturbingly wrong with the one person who disliked this...

[thehelix27]

I'll be there in a thousand years!

[nygiantsphan]

HO!

[bluemoonshinya]

David Bowie saids

who knows anything about scott walker? i know very little about scott walker.

[keystage9]

Futurama!

[sbrown1450]

Play the album a lot along with other Scott and Walker Brother albums. Seems like a long time ago that I bought the album though. Sylvia Brown

[ryanellis999]

The Needle Drop

[punkrockerRHCP80]

would someone be so kind as to help me? im just getting into scott walker and id like to purchase a album of his. i was wondering...which album would be the best introduction to his work?

[luistownmassacre]

@punkrockerRHCP80: Get Scott Walker, then 2-4. Then get The Drift.

[borisjohnson2008]

@punkrockerRHCP80 Boy Child: The Best of Scott Walker 1967-1970 is ggrreeaatt.

[astroboomboy]

Have to thank the needle drop for this, I'd never heard about it, great songs!

[medamorth]

@astroboomboy Same! I think I prefer this more than Scott 4 too.

[yokokuramaful]

Which futurama movie was this in? I know it was in one.

[simonmrozinski]

@yokokuramaful It's in benders big score

[Kerpymon]

@yokokuramaful Benders Big Score

[charizardguy4086jph]

@Kerpymon Ditto

[rvdsm]

It's sad that Scott Engel decided that this kind of songwriting was not worth his time and instead devoted all of his efforts to creating music that even he won't listen to (check the documentary), but the general public, on the whole, reserve to be "experimental" at best. He might be considered a visionary in the UK, but I just don't see it. With that said, I love this song. It's a shame, really!

[TheAmazingZdog]

"Wait for me, Leela! I'll be there in a thousand years!"

[tiptopgolfy]

This song is brilliant! Why is it so short!



[brandonskanes96]

this was on futurama, fucking wicked.

[MisAnnThorpe]

Just thought I'd mention that in his book, Head on, Julian Cope says that his love of Scott Walker ended after a young acquaintance who used to visit his home, pointed out how naff it was that Walker had written a song, The Seventh seal, about a film he'd seen! No, I can't see anything naff in that either, especially considering what a work of art the said film is. Can only conclude that Cope must be very insecure in his opinions. That said, he's largely responsible for me discovering Walker.

[MegaLysergic]

heard the tune on Life Aquatic. wanna hear more good stuff from Scott Walker. any suggestions?

[JoyousInsurrection]

@MegaLysergic He has a lot of great stuff, but nothing else he recorded really sounds like this. Not in a negative way, but every thing else he did has like a lot of orchestral arrangements and stuff. Some of my favorites: Such A Small Love, My Death, Shut Out (with The Walker Brothers), Montague Terrace In Blue, Amsterdam, Jackie. Most of his stuff is pretty good, but it took me a while to warm up to it. Basically, anything from his first four albums is pretty great though.

[keepcalmycarryon]

Thumbs up if you're here because of the saran-wrapping montage in Jean Lucas Christeau's 1978 classic "A Common Man and His Fish".

[Orion8888888]

Futurama



[genebyegene]

wow people... just to be truthful about the subject I found out about Scott Walker by watching 30th Century Man on Sundance JUST BY CHANCE. Had I never seen that I'dve never checked him out although I had seen The Life Aquatic & Futurama I didn't get interested until after seeing the documentary. In which it's pointed out Scott fell into obscurity until Julian Cope started passing around his mix of Scott songs. So MANY didn't find Scott on their own! Who cares anyways?!

[aSafePlaceToHide]

@CynicalCatharsis Yikes, I'm not used to such eloquently spoken Youtube comments, this song seems to attract intellectuals. Agreeing with what you said, I have to shamefully admit that I first heard this song, like so many people before me, on The Life Aquatic, and I'm glad because otherwise I may have never heard it. I suppose if the radio didn't just put garbage on repeat, or if I had an infinite amount of time to search out obscure but talented artists, I may have found it on my own...

[Barker540]

This song is musical perfection.

[XxBeatlesforeverxX]

@CynicalCatharsis You're an idiot. It was a question. You sound so pretentious, it's almost ironic you're calling me the "hipster douchebag." Get over yourself and leave me alone. Have a good day- Alexa.

[mondaydreaming]

Fry!



[brandonskanes96]

futurama haha

[MoleFortress]

Dag, you know, what a sad narrative, this thread... How the hell do you find out about anything on your own? What the hell is a Scott Walker? What is a 'hipster douchebag' and are they robots, or from space? What's the schism here? The answers are: You don't, he's not real, they are from space, children think culture is about the medium. Weird. I feel sad now, for being weird with other weirdos here. Now everybody will think they're right about my tin-foil-hat...

[XxBeatlesforeverxX]

Didn't anybody find Scott Walker on their own?

[nederlanddistort]

@XxBeatlesforeverxX I doubt it. Pretty much every other song on this album blows.

[XxBeatlesforeverxX]

@nederlanddistort ... I don't understand how that correlates :?

[jratliff83]

1 person was a 29th century man.

[TARDISpug]

futurama.........

[unicornrida4life]

One time my butt made a sound just like this

[MightyMoot]

I heard this on Futurama!

Cool!

[chica476]

This song sodomizes me sweetly and mostly unbeknownst to most others.

[Jblizzle25]

@chica476 HAIKU!!!!

Haiku three phrases, punctuated verbal rape, of five seven five

[frogface66]

This song always reminds me of Woody Allen's Sleeper.

The part where the men of the future unwrap the tin foil (saran wrap) from Woody.

[thot4]

@frogface66

I love that movie! 'Yes. Well. That was Josef Stalin. I didn't like his moustache very much.'

[ncodyn]

This song is flawless 

[cwiesta]

So i was sitting in the same fashion as the guy in the eye's reflection. I even look kinda similar. I was honestly very confused for a few seconds

[ibnbuttata]

Futurama... nuff said

[Sonofliberty1000]

awesome song...

[Nyarlahotep]

Yes, but he's the B team LEADER

[Flyboy243]

@Nyarlahotep "I've always thought of you two as my dads"

(Please don't let anyone make fun of me for it"

[Flyboy243]

But what about Klaus? Oh wait, He's on B-Squad with Vikram,

[MikeHuntagape]

Didn't want fame and didn't want to be heard.. but I wish him both

[MrJamesrnolan]

I first heard this in the 30 Century Man documentary (which is worth owning even if you''re not a Walker fan). Way different than his other work, as he uses a more clipped straightforward, folksy vocal rather than his renowned vibrato baritone croon. It would've been interesting to have heard an album's worth of tunes in this style, but then again, this is such a unique, lyrically brilliant tune, it should stand on its own as yet another shining example of Scott's eclectic musical gifts.

[GTE123]

I would definitely choose to be a giant!

[cspj12]

@GTE123 but everyone wants to kill the giant

[TheKeyboardKitty]

So what exactly is this song about? A couple of my friends and I have been debating about it for a while now, and were pretty sure that it's about being remembered in the future even after your dead. But maybe were completly wrong. Please someone end this ongoing debate and tell use what this song is all about. Were mainly confused about why he keeps talking about saran rap.

[Crazymike00]

@TheKeyboardKitty its clearly about futurama (sarcasum)

[saintsithney]

@TheKeyboardKitty the music box at the end seems like a good clue. My interpretation is that it's about escapism and the desperate and futile attempt to hold on to childhood. Being paralyzed by choice and the world, thereby choosing to resist the crushing inevitability of time.

[KiwiKid4Lyf]

benders big score :)

[LadyStardustVertigo]

A little piece of magic. His voice makes me cry.

[MissingScientist]

Great song and I've had a stab at it myself.

[bluemoonflame]

This song makes the scenes in both Futurama and Life Aquatic so emotionally powerful...what an amazing piece of music

[tab6812]

cheers for upload, this song sounds so simple, i love this song

[MrChrisHermes]

Picked up on SCOTT 3 years B4 futurama-or aquatic life-his best in my modest opinion-and the mix-so cool to have this stark spilt stereo amidst all the orchestrations in the other tracks-inspired!

[bad74maverick]

heard this on futurama and fell in love with it. oh how sad i am.

[KiwiKid4Lyf]

benders big score

[rrXIII]

FUTURAMA

[kraiggrady]

the mix imitates a bad demo with the vocals all to one side

[bad74maverick]

@kraiggrady yes it does that's weird

[Raseal0]

Saran wrap what you can. Ha. Love 'em.

[CienAnosdeSoledad1]

its funny, because he's singing nostalgicallly, but singing about the future!

[TheModerndaycrusader]

makes me think of going in space when i hear this and if i do you can bet this is the song that is going to be playing and charles de gaulle is the best

[mikulasvselicha]

I also heard it in one of the Futurama movies... Benders game... it has some depth there too... Life aquatic 4ever!

[thecased550]

this song always makes me think of life aquatic too. Gave the movie a bitter sweet feeling,

[johhnydamage]

Remember hearing this on the Life Aquatic.

[Radiohead54321]

@johhnydamage Same here! Wes Anderson movies are great places to find music

[bananaphone83]

@Radiohead54321

the kinks -this time tomorrow is a great example

[Mikemaniax]

@Radiohead54321 I discovered Love and The Rolling Stones "Satanic Majesties Request" album the same way.

[XiaoClone]

@johhnydamage

The whole soundtrack to The Life Aquatic is amazing period.

[surfstrat59]

Still dig this song....five stars