S&D: Scott Walker/Walker Bros.

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Any Day Now is a smashing albumn. It is the best of Scott's "pure-lounge" albumns, with some really dynamic arrangements.

Adrian, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Start here, if you think you're hard enough:

New Scott Walker album: 'The Drift'

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

The other day I heard a Walker Brothers song 'We're All Alone', which was not as good as 'No Regrets' but it was still pretty sublime. Googling it I see it comes from a reunion album 'Lines'. Is this any good? And is the 'No Regrets' album any good (apart from the obviously excellent title track)?

Frederic R., Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

No Regrets is pretty good throughout, though I will remember it more fondly for the cover photo (permed/nattily-attired Gary and John flashing "buy me, please buy me" smiles while a shirtless Scott sips his beer and stiff-arms the camera...surely the classic "which of these is not like the other"? shot)...

hank (hank s), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...
Just got the Walker Brothers boxed set (Everything Under the Sun) - haven't listened to it all. It says "The Complete Recordings..." on the front of the box, but don't sell your old Walker Brothers stuff just yet! Offhand, "After The Lights Go Out" is a different mix (way less reverb on the vocals) than the one on the After The Lights Go Out one-disc best-of, and there's only one version in the box. (I prefer the one with more reverb...)

Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

I'm not a fan myself, but I figure those who are will want to hear the audio versions of the two pilots for Walker's BBC show, which are here: http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2009/01/scott-1.html.

Matos W.K., Monday, 26 January 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

holy christ I had no idea these two performed Scaggs' "We're All Alone."

first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:49 (ten years ago) link

How has there been no mention of the incredible "In Five Easy Pieces" box set? While it's missing a bit, it also has lots of stuff otherwise unavailable. And I personally love the themed discs.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link

three years pass...

Doris Day's "Love Him" from 1964 is the same song as the Walker Brothers "Love Her" from 1965 - with a very different arrangement. However what's interesting is that the intro sounds so much like Montague Terrace in Blue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HinOwpgK5U

everything, Friday, 7 July 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link

Good catch.

Posted this elsewhere, but I was listening to the 1955 Frank Sinatra single, "Not as a Stranger" and noticed that Scott Walker's 1967 version of "Jackie" pretty much swipes the intro and outro of it. Curiously, Jacques Brel's 1966 original version, "Chanson de Jacky," has the same intro but not the same outro.

Josefa, Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

I chose 25 of these things.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link

You definitely have to hear 'Til the Band Comes In.

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 October 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link

You don't rate "The Electrician"?

Soundslike, Sunday, 20 October 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link

seven months pass...

Not sure I've ever seen an interview with Scott Walker from the 60s before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGXzLYglKHk

Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link

Nice find. So young! & beautiful. And quite relaxed

willem, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link

Der Art Zigeuner! :) Yeah lovely find. And a voice to die for.

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link


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