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	Scott Walker (singer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scott was originally championed by Eddie Fisher in the late 1950s and appeared several times on Fisher's TV series as a teen idol type in the vein of Fabian or Frankie Avalon, under his real name.
		Walker was among the first to adopt the electric base guitar, mastering it to a proficiency to win regular session work in Los Angeles studios while still in his teens.
		Walker's early solo career was extremely successful in Britain; his first three albums, titled Scott (1967), Scott 2 (1968) and Scott 3 (1969) all sold in large numbers, Scott 2 topping the British charts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scott_Walker_(singer) (2572 words)

	Scott Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walker's music is both spacy and spacious, his lyrics terse cryptograms floating over a music of a grandiose eeriness, his words sung in a rich baritone leaning toward the high end of the range and conveying an oddly mellifluous sense of panic.
		Walker was originally Scott Engel from Ohio, a singer who went to England and achieved some fame in the mid '60s as a member of the pop/rock post-Beatles group the Walker Brothers.
		Walker's singing is fey in the original sense of the word (near-death but still with us), and the aggressively cornball orchestrations of yore have been replaced by soundscapes that move from menacingly sketchy to Nine Inch Nails-type industrial full slam.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/97/10/16/SCOTT_WALKER.html (476 words)

	Scott Shumaker - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: One of the most enigmatic figures in rock history, Scott Walker was known as Scotty Engel when he cut obscure flop records in the late '50s and early '60s in the teen idol vein.
		As their full-throated lead singer and principal songwriter, Walker was the dominant artistic force in the group, who split in 1967.
		The '70s were a frustrating period for Walker, pocked with increasingly sporadic releases and a largely unsuccessful reunion with his "brothers" in the middle of the decade.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/103/421/2/1034212.html (413 words)

	Cokemachineglow.com : Scott Walker: The Drift
		Luckily, I’ve obtained an extensive statistical study that shows Walker’s what-the-fuck approach to music has cleaved the population into three major groups: a small cohort of Scott-shippers, a large clenched-fist population of Scott-haters, and the majority of the world’s population, who say, “huh?” What follows is an attempt to address the concerns of each group.
		Walker’s romance-inflected (like, Shakespearean romance) baritone isn’t always a hit among fans of music, but it’s hard to deny his odd take on pop is frequently astounding, and I suspect Antony is more than a passing fan of the Scott.
		A bit of history: Walker’s solo career began with a series of four eponymous albums in the late ‘60s; Scott and Scott 2 are a little over the top, earnest-wise, but Scott 3 and Scott 4 showed a more confident Walker experimenting with odd arrangements and lyrics that tackled a wide variety of subjects.
	www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/walker_drift2006.html (939 words)

	Scott Walker: The Drift: Pitchfork Record Review
		Walker released a string of albums in the early 1970s that retreated drastically from the ambition of his first four before unexpectedly reuniting with the Walker Brothers for 1978's Nite Flights, and unveiling the first glimpses of the major musical artist we hear today.
		Walker describes working with "blocks of sound" as opposed to written arrangements, and the record betrays a broad, almost brawny movement, as if being slowly, persistently kicked in the gut by the characters (or characterizations) of the composer's songs.
		Walker has described this as his "9/11 song," and uses the motif of Elvis and his stillborn twin brother to make a statement about American mythology and hubris-- and yes, that's pretentious, as is most of Walker's output for the last 30 years.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/23262/Scott_Walker_The_Drift (1023 words)

	Scott Walker
		For Scott Walker, forever stuck with his adopted name, it was a different if equally star-crossed story.
		By the time of Scott 4, which was deleted a year after it was made, the pop idol had lost his place and the enigmatic recluse had taken over.
		Scott blueprinted all his subsequent work in those fractured, driven songs, culminating in "The Electrician", which enumerated many of the issues which have fired him since: the interface of politics and love, societies in flux, and music that bridges classical tradition with some displaced part of rock language.
	www.thewire.co.uk /archive/interviews/scott_walker.html (2421 words)

	Browse by Artist: WALKER, SCOTT
		Scott was fearless in so many ways, and though it might seem at first that he was just embracing all things 'European', if one takes a closer look he was actually adventurous enough to take on the bigger issues, musically and otherwise, that so many songwriters are afraid to deal with head on.
		Incredibly, Walker swung much further in each direction than any of those other artists, singing standards (and other housewives' choices) on a TV variety show, and creating famously impenetrable, esoteric work on his most recent (a loosely used term here, to be sure) solo albums.
		An increasingly revered figure, Scott Walker is a singular craftsmen, one of rock's few individuals to demonstrate a willingness to both embrace elements of the unfashionable and ignore prevailing trends, yet also display an acute awareness of contemporary sounds.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/walker.scott.html (1656 words)

	Scott Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scott Walker (politician) (born 1967), county executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
		Scott Walker (hockey) (born 1973), professional ice hockey player
		This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scott_Walker (111 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Scott Walker *
		Walker's records, however, possess a conceptual density that is practically impossible to match; as such, the decade of near-silence that has followed both Climate of the Hunter and Tilt was entirely necessary.
		When approaching Walker, nothing can be taken for granted, as everything from the title to the last struck note is impeccably placed and labored, precisely calculated for a maximum impact that the creator himself is generally reticent to reveal.
		With "Cossacks Are," Walker appears to foreshadow his direction — those Cossacks and their march, perhaps the stomp of the critical cognoscenti, or maybe even Scott fessing up to his complete indifference to commercial success, suicide by lack of sales, signal impending death and destruction.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/2856 (1073 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews - Scott Walker
		Scott's second solo album is structured in a similar fashion to his first, the same mix of covers with a smattering of original Scott songs featured.
		Scott's vocals are more assured here, which is not to say they necessarily weren't on SCOTT or the Walker Brothers material.
		Scott still had a glorious voice in 1972 and all of these songs are very much in the vein of similar cover material that peppered his first two solo albums.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /scott.html (5568 words)

	The Walker Brothers - Biography - AOL Music
		They weren't British, they weren't brothers, and their real names weren't Walker, but Californians Scott Engel, John Maus, and Gary Leeds were briefly huge stars in England (and small ones in their native land) at the peak of the British Invasion.
		While the Walkers looked the part of British Invaders with their shaggy mop-top hairstyles, they were far more pop than rock.
		Scott ran off a series of Top Ten British solo albums in the late '60s, which have attracted a sizable cult with their idiosyncratic marriage of Scott's brooding, insular songs and ornate orchestral arrangements.
	music.aol.com /artist/the-walker-brothers/21303/biography (526 words)

	Scott Walker @ pHinnWeb
		Walker, meanwhile, had become a devotee of Belgian composer Jacques Brel and included several of his songs on his debut solo album, Scott.
		Walker's solo albums were equally quirky and stylistically diverse, fusing the brutal visions of Brel alongside contemporary MOR standards such as Tony Bennett 's 'When Joanna Loved Me'.
		Walker was also displaying immense talent as a songwriter in his own right with poetic, brooding songs, such as 'Such A Small Love' and 'Always Coming Back To You'.
	www.phinnweb.org /retro/scott (1331 words)

	diddy wah: Great Scott
		Born Noel Scott Engel in Ohio, USA, he made a few recordings under his own name before moving to Los Angeles, where he performed with a couple of groups prior to forming The Walker Brothers.
		Walker's first LP was entitled 'Scott' and emulating his favourite Belgian singer-songwriter, Jacques Brel, subsequent releases were, 'Scott 2', 'Scott 3' and 'Scott 4'.
		An almost hilarious juxtaposition is created when these sounds are combined with Walker's rich'n'smooth vocal chords rapidly wrapping themselves around lyrics such as "I swear on the wet head/Of my first case of gonorrhea" in 'Next', a song about a man who regrets losing his innocence in "a mobile army whorehouse".
	diddywah.blogspot.com /2006/01/great-scott.html (482 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Scott Walker: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Scott Walker (Scott Engel) was one of the many pop stars of the Sixties who delivered radio-friendly refrains for mass consumption, aided by a marketing campaign that emphasized his cute looks over his uninspired songs (rings a bell?
		California-born and Hollywood-raised singer songwriter Scott "Walker" Engel formed the Walker Brothers with Gary Leeds (the former Standells drummer) and John Maus.
		Scott Walker's solo career began with two albums, named Scott (Fontana, 1967) and Scott 2 (Philips, 1968), which were mainly tributes to his idol Jacques Brel.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol2/walker.html (458 words)

	:: FROGGY'S DELIGHT :: Scott Walker :: Musique, Cinema, Theatre, Livres, Expos, Restaurants et bien plus.
		Scott seems to be quoting his own reviews as lyrics and one finds a chuckle in the "Current top ten" line.
		Orchestras flow from rusty faucets flooding the whole tower of song, there is the sound of a panic room being breached, a foal born drowning in an abattoirthere are even some guitars.
		The 63 year old Scott sings fluidly in a watery neutral tone throughout, recites in a parched speaking voice and even spits at himself in the final song.
	www.froggydelight.com /article-2683-Scott_Walker.html (758 words)

	Glossary: Walker, Scott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Perhaps one of the most overlooked pop forces in the 1960s, singer/songwriter/bassist Scott Walker spent years building a successful rock trio and a remarkable and long-lasting solo career, paving the way for melancholic British pop lords well before Morrissey's scowl brought the Smiths into the spotlight.
		Born Scott Engel in California in 1943, Walker was the only child of a rich oil tycoon and a housewife mother.
		Walker agreed and the trio earned a Top Five single with "No Regrets." No Regrets, Lines and Nite Flites were soon released, but never gained the commercial success of their previous recordings.
	www.harbour.sfu.ca /~hayward/van/glossary/walker.html (481 words)

	The Observer \| OMM \| Scott Walker, The Drift
		Scott Walker is the teen idol who queered his pitch by quitting vocal group the Walker Brothers at their height and recasting himself as pop's original boy blue.
		It's also an apt metaphor for the schism appearing in the culture in which this record now appears; split between two poles, one shifting inexorably towards a banal future crocheted from threads of the past, the other drawn to reflect on the white light, white heat marked by a total awareness of the present.
		Take 'Jesse', which, with the benefit of following Walker's commentary in a recent interview, seems to be fashioned as a meditation on hubris, death and the American dream, conjoining the still-born fate of Elvis Presley's twin brother with the felling of the Twin Towers.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /omm/10bestcds/story/0,,1756929,00.html (627 words)

	Scott Walker - Scott 2
		1968's Scott 2 is not as cohesive as its two subsequent releases, mainly due to him using a variety of songwriters.
		A peak is reached on the marvellous 'Plastic Palace People' where the string-laden backing gives way to the singer's baritone; it was a trick that Walker (actually born Scott Engel) was to repeat on his future releases.
		However, with Walker's own 'The Amorous Humphrey Plugg' and 'The Girls From The Streets' he manage to create an evocative image of 60's low-life, clearly revelling in the bawdy suggestiveness of his own lyrics.
	www.leonardslair.co.uk /scott2.htm (222 words)

	Scott Walker - Scott 3
		Music lovers would be hard pushed to find a body of work as impressive as Scott Walker's late 60's album output.
		Scott 3, released in the year after its predecessor, sees Walker growing in confidence as a writer as well as a singer with only the last 3 of the 13 tracks not credited to him.
		Walker, Scott - Boy Child, Scott 2, Scott 4, Climate Of Hunter, The Drift
	www.leonardslair.co.uk /scott3.htm (251 words)

	The Walker Brothers Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Walker Brothers were three men in their early 20's who formed a group on the West Coast in the mid-60's then went to the United Kingdom, where they enjoyed more success than they did in the United States.
		The members of the group were Scott Engel on lead vocals and bass guitar, John Maus on guitar and vocals, and drummer Gary Leeds.
		Scott Engel achieved the status of a teen idol in Great Britain, although his introverted ways and nervousness did not suit him well for such a role.
	www.tsimon.com /walker.htm (493 words)

	Scott: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Scott Walker's success as a teen idol singer of Spectorish ballads with the Walker Brothers in no way prepared listeners for the mordant, despairing lyrics of his solo debut.
		Scott Walker [+]'s success as a teen idol singer of Spectorish ballads with the Walker Brothers [+] in no way prepared listeners for the mordant, despairing lyrics of his solo debut.
		Besides presenting three of his own compositions, Walker covers tunes by Weill/Mann, Tim Hardin [+], and Andre and Dory Previn on this album, as well as three songs by his favorite writer, Jacques Brel [+].
	www.music.com /release/scott/1 (410 words)

	Amazon.com: Climate of Hunter: Music: Scott Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scott Walker has had a long and varied carrier in music.From the highest reaches of chart success in England with his brothers,(Walker Brothers), to his series of hit solo albums in the late sixties and early seventies.
		Walker would be on the verge of launching his career and suddenly vanish into the mists from wens he came.Following his success's he found himself thrust from the mainstream
		Scott Walker with "Climate of the Hunter" has embraced all the defining elements of progressive music in subscribing to the basic spirit of creating something unique and inspiring while turning his back on the pre formula, pre-packaged product that so many claimed he was destined to produce.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007UKU?v=glance (1454 words)

	Scott Walker - On First Listen - Stylus Magazine
		With 4AD slated this autumn to release Scott Walker's first album of new material in ten years (apparently with a Liz Fraser cameo!), I figured it was time for me to finally hear the iconic singer/songwriter whose name I'd seen floated about for years.
		Now I'd long suspected that Walker might appeal to me, given my understanding that he wrote off-kilter orchestral pop songs and was influenced by pre-rock'n'roll singers; I imagined something like a bedroom lounge crooner.
		(Scott 4 probably comes the closest for me, as it's the most musically eclectic and the rhythmic component is more pronounced than usual.) I would, however, be able to make a pretty great single-disc compilation out of them, and I can tell you two songs that would definitely make the cut.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /articles/on_first_listen/scott-walker.htm (949 words)

	eBay - CD: Scott II (UPC: 0731451088025) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Somehow Scott Walker (by now writing under his given name, Engel) carved himself a commercial as well as critical success just as the pop star's existential angst assumed the upper hand.
		As with predecessor SCOTT (1), the fascination with Jacques Brel is evident in the inclusion of three of the Belgian's songs.
		The whole of SCOTT 2 is lent weight by the wildly inventive arrangements of Wally Stott, Peter Knight, and Reg Guest.
	product.ebay.com /Scott-II_UPC_0731451088025_W0QQfvcsZ1277QQsoprZ4037245 (493 words)

	Scott Walker: The Drift (2006): Reviews
		Walker has gone as far into the atmosphere as one can travel while still being earthbound.
		No easy listening feat by any stretch of the imagination, Scott Walker's The Drift will provide critics and general music fans with talking points for the next 10 years.
		Scott Walker comes as close to the edge of his 30 year musical experiment as he can,,,,,,while still managing to score a record deal.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/walkerscott/drift (1065 words)

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