Cossacks Are - Scott Walker

Found footage, vancouver trolly 1907, WW2.
Music by Scott Walker - Cossacks Are from the album The Drift

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Music

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• Alternative
• scott
• walker
• vancovuer
• trolly
• 1907
• ww2

[kingoftheelves]

why mix early footage of Vancouver with footage of an overseas war that didn't start until three decades later? would love it if you uploaded the uneditted vancouver footage!

[heaveymellow]

@kingoftheelves The Footage I think is available online. It was funny it was a couple days after I put the video up on youtube and I saw a still on the front page of the Vancouver Sun, and there was a long article about the trolly footage.

[heaveymellow]

@kingoftheelves The reason for the mix had nothing to do with when the war happened and when the vancouver footage happened. It was first a found footage project, so I worked with what I had. The two together worked really well to outline the idea that while we go about our everyday lives All this other bad stuff is happening around the world.

[Raw1ner]

The Drift scared the living shit of me when I first listened to it. I had never and still haven't heard any other music that made me feel so uncomfortable I wanted to turn it off or get out of the room as quickly as possible. Absolutly terrifying and haunting but morbidly beautiful. Scott is a true artist, a true genius.....

[nicklandable]

Seriously,don't put a fucking ad in front of a Scott Walker song.

[Soilwar]

@Sodhats: Okay, guess you're right. I bet he would be a terrible lullaby-singer. Poor children would have nightmares if they could sleep at all, haha.

[Sodhats]

@Soilwar I think "that's a swanky suit" sounding terrifying is more of an achievement.

[Soilwar]

"face on the pale monkey nails"

only Scott Walker could make this line sound evil.

[MrHomme0]

@heaveymellow I think the main issue here is that the things did not happen at the same time. The Belle Epoque was quite different from World War II, and the footage of the civilian life shows this pretty strongly (many trams were out of use because necessary steel was taken for the war effort, fabric was severely rationed, and homelessness was prominent all over Canada). Also, yes, you worked with what you had, this is what "found footage" means.

[cosmicrider287]

audio and images fits like a hand in glove.well done.

[bigjamcunt]

@damedavid I know. Who wants to know about fucking Kronenberg lager during your favorites. Advertising is a nasty, irritating virus that gets everywhere

[damedavid]

Adverts have suddenly appeared on this..ruins my Favorites jukebox moments of pleasure. Argh.

[HuxleyWasRight]

really weird, i listened to this a few weeks back and had to stop it half way through, then out of nowhere i just got the urge to listen to it again, and now I think it's a fascinating piece of music.

wtf is the bit where he sings about a "swanky suit" all about ? it just comes out of nowhere :- D lol awesome.

[stevehomoki]

Want to know what makes this video even more creepier? Everyone in that video is now dead.