![]() ![]() Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Long story short, the cowboy country look doesn’t suit Scott Walker. Listen free to Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel (Jackie, Next and more). Unfortunately, the songs on the record are mediocre and middle-of-the-road, not to mention four of the ten songs weren’t even his, they were written by Billy Joe Shaver and had previously appeared on Waylon Jenning’s 1973 Honky Tonk Heroes, who did the whole ‘outlaw country artist’ a little more authentically and more successfully. His excuse at the time was to “return to his roots”. The last track isn't a Brel cover but an original by Walk which sounds like a Brel song. Impressive compilation (the tracks here are taken from his first three solo albums), Nothing's wrong here. Released in 1974, during the period of time I would venture to call his ‘lost years’, he was essentially owned by the record label and was contractually obligated to release material. As I love Jacques Brel, I was interested in listening to some of his best songs performed in English by Scott Walker. Scott Walker’s tenth album and is his final solo record released right before taking a decade long hiatus. ![]() Scott Walker’s albums ranked from worst to best: 16. Here, we ranked his albums from worst to best. With this list, we strove to outline his catalogue to help you contextualise this entire picture and what his body of work truly amounts to.
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