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In Five Easy Pieces [Box]Scott Walker
Release Date: 10/24/2006
Original Release:
2004
# of Discs:
5
J&R Item # 944118_CD
UPC # 602498402191
Label: Mercury
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Disc: 1
1.
Prologue/Little Things
2.
I Dont Want to Hear It Anymore
3.
In My Room
4.
After the Lights Go Out
5.
Archangel
6.
Orpheus
7.
Mrs. Murphy
8.
Montague Terrace
9.
Such a Small Love
10.
Amorous Humphrey Plugg, The
11.
Its Raining Today
12.
Rosemary
13.
Big Louise
14.
Angels of Ashes
15.
Hero of the War
16.
Time Operator
17.
Joe
18.
War Is Over, The
Disc: 2
1.
Where's the Girl?
2.
You're All Around Me
3.
Just Say Goodbye
4.
Hurting Each Other
5.
Genevieve
6.
Once Upon a Summertime
7.
When Johanna Loved Me
8.
Joanna
9.
Angelica
10.
Always Coming Back to You
11.
Bridge, The
12.
Best of Both Worlds
13.
Two Weeks Since Youve Gone
14.
Scope J
Disc: 3
1.
Jackie
2.
Mathilde
3.
Girls and the Dogs, The
4.
Amsterdam
5.
Next
6.
Girls From the Streets, The
7.
My Death
8.
Sons Of
9.
If You Go Away
10.
Copenhagen
11.
We Came Through
12.
Thirtieth Century Man
13.
Rhymes of Goodbye
14.
Thanks For Chicago
15.
Cowbells Shakin
16.
My Way Home
17.
Lines
18.
Rawhide
19.
Blanket Roll Blues
20.
Tilt
21.
Patriot
Disc: 4
1.
Plague, The
2.
Plastic Palace People
3.
Boy Child
4.
Shut Out, The
5.
Fat Mama Kick
6.
Nite Flights
7.
Electrician, The
8.
Dealer
9.
Track 3 (Delayed)
10.
Sleepwalkers Woman
11.
Track 5 (It's a Starving)
12.
Farmer in the City
13.
Cockfighter, The
14.
Bouncer See Bouncer
15.
Face on Breast
Disc: 5
1.
Light
2.
Deadlier Than the Male
3.
Rope and the Colt, The
4.
Meadow
5.
Seventh Seal, The
6.
Darkest Forest, The
7.
Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, The
8.
Summer Knows, The
9.
Glory Road
10.
Isabel
11.
Man From Reno
12.
Church of the Apostles, The
13.
Indecent Sacrifice
14.
Bombupper
15.
Threw It All Away
16.
River of Blood
17.
Only Myself to Blame
18.
Running
19.
Time Is Out of Joint, The
20.
Never Again
21.
Closing
Performer: Scott Walker
Distributor: Fontana Distribution Notes: This excellent box set spans five CDs, each with its own theme. In all there are 93 tracks here representing the wildly diverse output of this mysterious, inimitable vocalist, and a substantial booklet full of notes and photos. The set is available on British import only. Released in the U.K. in 2004 (and in the U.S. two years later), the Scott Walker box set, IN FIVE EASY PIECES, displays a sly sense of humor (there's nothing "easy" about even his most accessible material) and a fascinating, though sometimes frustrating, theme-based sequence. This non-chronological approach makes room for a wide range of tracks by the revered British-based avant-pop crooner, from his mid-1960s era with the Walker Brothers (the ominous, organ-laden "Archangel") to his heralded late-'60s solo outings (the jazzy, pensive "Time Operator" and the delicate, lilting "Copenhagen") to his challenging and abstract '80s/'90s work (the eerie "River of Blood"). While those unfamiliar with Walker's dramatic and utterly unique aesthetic should start with the excellent BOY CHILD collection, diehard fans will enjoy delving into the strange, and often dark, corners of this remarkably thorough five-disc anthology.
Q (p.150) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "IN 5 EASY PIECES takes us from The Walker Brothers' torch ballads through the singer's artful late-'60s solo albums and more abstract creations."
Noel Scott Engel, better known as Scott Walker, was born in the US, but found fame in the UK as a member of the Walker Brothers, who became teen pop idols in England in the 1960s. After the group's demise, Walker's darker, artier side eventually came to the fore, and he began a quirky solo career that encompassed Jacques Brel covers, moody, saloon-singer crooning, and avant-garde tendencies. He became the quintessential cult figure, inscrutable and highly influential, though after the '70s his works were few and far between.
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