Scott Walker's final British Top Ten album was the first to be dominated by his own songwriting. Ten of the thirteen tunes on this 1969 LP are originals; the remaining three, naturally, were written by one of his chief inspirations, Jacques Brel. There are some interesting moments here. "Big Louise" talks about a hefty prostitute with shocking explicitness for a pop star album of the era. "Copenhagen" (like much of Walker's '60s work) foreshadows David Bowie. "No Last Tango" is a particularly vicious Brel song. "30 Century Man" is an uncommonly folkish and focused tune for Walker. "We Came Through" is an oddball cavalry charge featuring one of his occasional forays into Ennio Morricone spaghetti-Western-like production. The tension between Walker's dense, foreboding lyrics and orchestral production is unusual, to say the least. But too often, it's too difficult to penetrate Walker's insights through Wally Scott's string-drenched production. It shrouds the lyrics in a fog that's often too syrupy to justify the effort needed to fight through it.
If we didn't have artists like Scott Walker covering artists like Jaques Brel, we of the English speaking world might miss out on the sharp wit and sharp tongued lyrics that make Jaues Brel so great.En Français:
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This weekend was the worst weekend I have ever had.Like, it was mostly good, but it ended in heartache and suffering.And then I had to watch 8 hours of Gilmore Girls season 5 until Loralie and Luke got back together because otherwise my world was just too TOO sad.So, in order to milk the heart-ache (because no one pities me as much as I pity myself), I have been weeping, sobbing, crying and lis...
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When I heard that Damon Albarn's Mali Music album was coming out on a new Honest Jon's imprint some years ago, I resolved to finally stop in at the Honest Jon's record store the next time I was in London. I had walked past it so many times up and down Portobello Road on previous visits, it was surprising I had never actually stopped in before.When you're a kid growing up on indie and pop music,...
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| 1 It's Raining Today |
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| 2 Copenhagen |
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| 3 Rosemary |
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| 4 Big Louise |
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| 5 We Came Through |
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| 6 Butterfly |
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| 7 Two Ragged Soldiers |
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| 8 30 Century Man |
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| 9 Winter Night |
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| 10 Two Weeks Since You've Gone |
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| 11 Sons Of |
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| 12 Funeral Tango |
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| 13 If You Go Away |
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