Scott Walker - Boy Child; The Best of Scott Walker 1967-1970 (1990) [Lossless FLAC]

This is the same torrent that was uploaded to Demonoid in June 2008. Scott Walker - Boy Child: The Best of Scott Walker 1967-1970 (1990) Includes: Files by track, ripped at FLAC 8 using Easy CD-DA Extractor (www.poikosoft.com) Tracks have full tags (including embedded thumbnail). All artwork in jpgs at 300 d.p.i. Rotated and cropped losslessly using jpegcrop. (Includes folder.) AMG Bio.txt AMG Review.txt Notes.txt (which is simply these notes included in the torrent) Bio Excerpt from All Music: 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. He then hooked up with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form the Walker Brothers. They weren't named Walker, they weren't brothers, and they weren't English, but they nevertheless became a part of the British Invasion after moving to the U.K. in 1965. They enjoyed a couple of years of massive success there (and a couple of hits in the U.S.) in a Righteous Brothers vein. As their full-throated lead singer and principal songwriter, Walker was the dominant artistic force in the group, who split in 1967. While remaining virtually unknown in his homeland, Walker launched a hugely successful solo career in Britain with a unique blend of orchestrated, almost MOR arrangements with idiosyncratic and morose lyrics. At the height of psychedelia, Walker openly looked to crooners like Sinatra, Jack Jones, and Tony Bennett for inspiration, and to Jacques Brel for much of his material. None of those balladeers, however, would have sung about the oddball subjects -- prostitutes, transvestites, suicidal brooders, plagues, and Joseph Stalin -- that populated Walker's songs. His first four albums hit the Top Ten in the U.K. -- his second, in fact, reached number one in 1968, in the midst of the hippie era. By the time of 1969's Scott 4, the singer was writing all of his material. Although this was perhaps his finest album, it was a commercial disappointment, and unfortunately discouraged him from relying entirely upon his own material on subsequent releases. ... To read the entire bio: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0pfpxql5ldke~T1 All Music Album Review: This collection of "Scott's best self-composed songs" features 20 Walker originals from his 1967-1970 heyday. While he covered some interesting material on his albums during this period, paying tribute to Jacques Brel with special devotion and frequency, his original compositions are his most enduring achievements. Besides such highlights as "Big Louise," "We Came Through," "The Seventh Seal," "Plastic Palace People," and "The Old Man's Back Again," it includes half a dozen songs that were not included on the four other solo albums that Fontana UK has reissued on CD. Some of those cuts are very strong, especially "The Rope and the Colt," a dramatic Western ballad with an arrangement that would do Ennio Morricone proud; the positively eloquent despair of the ennui-ridden "Time Operator"; and "The Plague," a representative sampling of Walker's taste for the disquieting and bizarre. This is a recommended starting point for those interested in checking out this singularly strange '60s phenomenon, who was a relatively unacknowledged and undetected, but nonetheless substantial, influence on David Bowie and other fashionably decadent British singers. Track List: 01. The Plague 02. Montague Terrace (In Blue) 03. Such a Small Love 04. The Amorous Humphrey Plugg 05. The Girls From the Streets 06. Plastic Palace People 07. The Bridge 08. It's Raining Today 09. Copenhagen 10. Big Louise 11. We Came Through 12. The Seventh Seal 13. On Your Own Again 14. Boy Child 15. The Old Man's Back Again 16. Prologue 17. Little Things (That Keep Us Together) 18. Time Operator 19. The War Is Over (Sleepers) (Epilogue) 20. The Rope and the Colt More album detail at: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dvfixqugldse

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