Scott 3 and Scott 4 were dominated by his own compositions, and are sublime masterpieces that fully realize his dark vision. By this point, Walker had alienated most of his old fans, and after a few terrible easy listening cover albums in the 70s, he mostly withdrew, fading into obscurity. Scott Walker Articles and Media. Trading in the art of melodrama, Scott Walker used baroque pop to showcase his suave, baritone voice. He rose to 1960s stardom, starting out as a session musician.
Scott Walker is one of the most mythologized, mysterious figures in modern music. After finding fame as a mid-'60s pop pin-up in the Walker Brothers. Walker recorded four astonishing solo albums in the space of three years (including the classic Scott 3 and Scott 4 in 1969). After a depressing descent into sell-out mediocrity in the '70s, Walker disappears into oblivion. Surfacing roughly once a decade thereafter, he delivers musical explorations of his 'nightmarish imagination,' each more terrifying and experimental than the last.
With these, his legend only grows. In early '65, the Walker Brothers arrive in London, and by the end of the year they've scored a #1 UK single, with the Bacharach/David-penned 'Make it Easy on Yourself,' and a Top 10 debut album, the richly orchestral Take it Easy. In 1966, they hit the top of the charts with 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore,' which finds Engel prophetically singing, his rich baritone doused in echo, 'Loneliness is a cloak you wear, a deep shade of blue is always there.' 40 years later, in The Guardian, he would recall. Walker's four swiftly-released solo albums — Scott, 1968's Scott 2, and 1969's Scott 3 and Scott 4— are unlikely marriages of light pop standards, Brel's verbose songs, and Engel's own increasingly-adventurous writing. Yet, even whilst Engel was singing kitchen-sink dramas, tales of transvestitism and gonorrhea, and referencing bleak Scandinavian filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and bleaker French writer Albert Camus, he did so still in the public eye.
Bizarrely, the BBC had him host a light entertainment series that was, inevitably, canceled after only six episodes. Engel stopped writing his own work, recording a string of forgettable albums — 'Til The Band Comes In (1970), The Moviegoer (1972), Any Day Now (1973), Stretch (1973), and We Had It All (1974). The Walker Brothers were persuaded to reunite by their management strictly for financial reasons, and, fortunately, 1975's tired album of country songs, No Regrets, delivered them a Top 10 single. Engel used this as leverage to allow the band to write their own songs for their final album, 1978's Night Flights. Six years after the last Walker Brothers album, Engel finally returned with the enigmatic, unexpected Climate of Hunter.
A worthy, 15-years-later successor to Scott 4, it ushered in the new era of Scott Walker the avant-gardist. The album is defined by its incongruity: though plumbing lyrical terrain of dark depression, forging into minimal electronic ambiance, and populated by formless songs that are rarely given names, Climate of Hunter sounds slickly 1980s and features bizarre guest spots from Mark Isham, Mark Knopfler, and Billy Ocean(!). It would be 11 years before the release of his next album, Tilt.
In that time, recordings with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois were abandoned after Engel grew dissatisfied with the collaboration. Virgin, his record label, axed him from his record deal. By the time he arose with Tilt, Scott Walker was more myth than man, and the music did little to dissuade that notion. Working with massive, shifting 'blocks' of often atonal sound, the record works with extremes of emotion and tonality; Walker pushing his baritone into an eerie moan, like a ghost lost in the darkness. To The Guardian, Engel said. After a 1995 article in Uncut promised that 'Walker’s next album will be made not in 2006, but next year,' Engel's follow-up to Tilt didn't arrive, amusingly enough, until 2006. The Drift, the most extreme, intense, and barren Scott Walker album yet was issued to near critical acclaim.
The album found Engel working in increasingly bizarre ways: 'Clara' finds percussionist Alasdair Malloy punching on a side of pork to summon the sound of angry citizens clubbing the strung-up corpses of Benito Mussolini and his mistress in a Milan piazza. Another song, 'Cue,' apparently took Walker six years to complete.
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Included are the hits, “Montague Terrace (In Blue),” “The Lady Came From Baltimore,” “When Joanna Loved Me,” “My Death,” “Through A Long And Sleepless Night,” “Amsterdam,” “Jackie,” “The Girls From The Streets,” “Plastic Palace People,” “The Bridge,” “Two Ragged Soldiers,” “If You Go Away,” “The World's Strongest Man,” “Til The Band Comes In,” “It's Over” and much more. Scott Walker Pop,Box Sets 2013-01-01 00:00:00.simple but elegant.
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