http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYyOkQUyJZM

I mean obviously you're gonna get sad acoustic songs about suicide and stuff, and Norweigan black metal about human vivisection, and Doom rock, or whatever.

But however many times I listen to this song I can't help but be genuinely unsettled.

It appears to be about Elvis Presley, and the fact he was a twin and his brother Jesse was still-born. It's an interesting concept. Would we have had Elvis the King of Rock had his twin been born? What was the event's ultimate effect on him? Etc Etc.

"Nose holes caked in black cocaine
Pow! Pow!
No one holds a match to your skin
No dupe
No chiming
A way off miles off
No needle through a glove
Famine is a tall tower
A building left in the night
Jesse are you listening?
It casts it's ruins in shadows
Under Memphis moonlight
Jesse are you listening?
Six feet of foetus
Flung at sparrows in the sky
Put yourself in my shoes
A kiss, wet, muzzle
A clouded eye
No stars to flush it out
Famine is a tall tower
A building left in the night
Jesse are you listening?
It casts it's ruins in shadows
Under Memphis moonlight
Jesse are you listening?
Pow! Pow!
In the dream
I am crawling around in my hands and knees
Smoothing out the prairie
All the dents and the gouges
And the winds dying down
I lower my head
Press my ear to the prairie
Alive, I'm the only one
Left alive
I'm the only one
Left alive
I'm the only one
Left alive
Alive
I'm the only one
Left alive
I'm the only one
Left alive
I'm the only one
Left alive"

Are Tilt and The Drift two of the best albums of the last 15 years, or are they perhaps too unique to be considered so? It's very hard to compare them to anything. I drew up a list of my favourite albums of the decade, and I had The Drift at number 4. But how the hell can I put it at number 4? But then if I put it at number 1, it almost makes a mockery of popular music.

I'm rambling now, but anyway yeah. SCOTT WALKER discussion! He needs to play live again, right? He's gonna be too old to do it soon, and all the world will have to remember these two amazing pieces of music by in a live setting is a grainy youtube performance of Rosary on Jools Holland in 1995, and that show where Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn sang.

I've asked this before, but I'll ask again - is there anything at all comparable to Tilt and The Drift? I'd love to hear it if so.

Hope you're having a nice Tuesday morning!