In Five Easy Pieces

In Five Easy Pieces Artist: Scott Walker
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 5


UPC: 602498104422
EAN: 0602498104422
ASIN: B0000EWNXS


Release Date: 2004-01-27

In Five Easy Pieces


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Tracks:

  1. Prologue/Little Things
  2. I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore - The Walker Brothers
  3. In My Room - The Walker Brothers
  4. After the Lights Go Out - The Walker Brothers
  5. Archangel - The Walker Brothers
  6. Orpheus - The Walker Brothers
  7. Mrs. Murphy
  8. Montaque Terrace (In Blue)
  9. Such a Small Love
  10. Amorous Humphrey Plugg
  11. It's 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 (Sleepers -- Epilogue) [Sleepers- Epilogue]

Tracks:

  1. Where's the Girl - The Walker Brothers
  2. You're All Around Me - The Walker Brothers
  3. Just Say Goodbye - The Walker Brothers
  4. Hurting Each Other - The Walker Brothers
  5. Genevieve - The Walker Brothers
  6. Once Upon a Summertime - The Walker Brothers
  7. When Joanna Loved Me
  8. Joanna
  9. Angelica
  10. Always Coming Back to You
  11. Bridge
  12. Best of Both Words
  13. Two Weeks Since You've Gone
  14. On Your Own Again
  15. Someone Who Cared
  16. Long About Now - Esther Ofarim
  17. Scope J - Ute Lemper
  18. Lullaby (By-By-By) - Ute Lemper

Tracks:

  1. Jackie
  2. Mathilde
  3. Girls and the Dogs
  4. Amsterdam
  5. Next
  6. Girls from the Streets
  7. My Death
  8. Sons Of
  9. If You Go Away
  10. Copenhagen
  11. We Came Through
  12. 30 Century Man - Scott Walker,
  13. Rhymes of Goodbye
  14. Thanks for Chicago Mr. James
  15. Cowbells Shakin'
  16. My Way Home
  17. Lines - The Walker Brothers
  18. Rawhide
  19. Blanket Roll Blues
  20. Tilt
  21. Patriot

Tracks:

  1. Plague
  2. Plastic Palace People
  3. Boy Child
  4. Shut Out
  5. Fat Mama Kick
  6. Nite Flights
  7. Electrician - The Walker Brothers
  8. Dealer
  9. Track 3
  10. Sleepwalkers Woman
  11. Track 5
  12. Farmer in the City
  13. Cockfighter
  14. Bouncer See Bouncer
  15. Face on Breast

Tracks:

  1. Light
  2. Deadlier Than the Male - The Walker Brothers
  3. Rope and the Colt
  4. Meadow
  5. Seventh Seal
  6. Darkest Forest
  7. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
  8. Summer Knows [Theme from Summer of '42]
  9. Glory Road [The Theme from W. U. S. A.]
  10. Isabel
  11. Man from Reno
  12. Chruch of the Apostles
  13. Indecent Sacrifice
  14. Bombupper
  15. I Threw It All Away
  16. River of Blood
  17. Only Myself to Blame
  18. Running
  19. Time Is Out of Joint!
  20. Never Again
  21. Closing

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  2. Climate of Hunter
  3. Tilt
  4. Scott 3
  5. Scott 4

Album Description

Subtitled - A Themed 5 CD Anthology. 2003 longbox-set from one of the most powerful voices in music, whose influenced everyone from David Bowie to Ken Stringfellow has given us 93 digitally remastered tracks spread across five themed discs, 'In My Room', 'Where's The Girl', 'An American In Europe', 'This Is How You Disappear', & 'Scott On Screen', ranging from '60s Spector-esque pop to the French cabaret pop of Jacques Brel plus many rarities & soundtracks on one CD for the first time. This is a brilliant box set not out in the U.S.! Includes 56-page booklet. Mercury.

Album Details

Walker is One of the Most Enigmatic Figures in Popular Music of the 20th Century. His Recordings Are Not Exactly Made for the Moment, but for the Artist's Satisfaction, a Philosophy that Would Be Adopted by Many More in Future Generations. In Later Years, Walker Became One of the Few Experimentalists that Explored Territory Musical Territory Undreamt of by Anyone with a Berth on the Pop Charts of the Day. This Box Set Pays the Man his Due with Five Themed CDs of 93 Digitally Remastered Tracks. The Discs Are Titled "in My Room", "Where's the Girl", "an American in Europe", "This is How You Disappear" and "Scott on Screen", which Includes Some of the Rarest Material from Various Soundtracks and Compilations. Includes a 96 Page Detailed Book with Detailed Notes and Essays.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Why did they bother?.......2004-11-08

This box-set is pretty much a waste of everyone's time. The compilers have put far too much of their own (lack of) personality into the song selection and packaging for it to be of any lasting interest or worth to Scott Walker fans, whether of the casual or obsessive persuasion.
The compilers treat this box-set as five separate compilations, all leading "into the heart of Scott Walker", or some such pretentious blather. Much of Scott Walker's output does lend itself to the idea of compiling along thematic or stylistic lines, as opposed to strict chronological order, since he was often producing music in different styles or genres at the same time, often to the confusion of the listening public. These five "thematic" compilations, however, are far too personal and incomplete to cater for anyone other than the compiler themself. The themes themselves are generally infantile and the song selections are arbitrary; songs are most often grouped together on the basis of lyrical content or song titles. A more musically literate approach is necessary in compiling Scott Walker, no matter what the thematic decisions may be. Entire aspects of Scott Walker's recording career are disregarded (eg. most of the Walker Brothers, non-Brel covers from Scotts 1&2, the TV Series, early 70s albums) presumably in the interests of stressing the "cooler" and more fashionable aspects. There's a spare hour or so of unused space over the five discs which should have been put to use.
The booklet is a bit of an embarrassment, offering only sparse, generally idiotic quotes from celebrities, collected in an apparent attempt to convince us (or for the compiler to convince themself?) that it's cool to be into Scott Walker. Apart from that there's a short "Compiler's Note", comprising a lecture that goes on about how completists wear anoraks and don't listen to music, and rarities are rare because they're not worth hearing - no wonder no-one put their name to it. Never mind rarities (of which you won't find many on this box-set), what about (for example) some of the best tracks from Scott 4? And surely part of the point of a box-set is some sort of analysis, perspective, even information about the artist and the recordings? The booklet is a waste of paper, and the packaging overall is cheap and impractical.
The sound quality seems fine, but with no marked improvement over previous releases containing this same material.
The strangest thing about this box-set is that presumably it received approval from Scott Walker himself for its release. As he's apparently vetoed the release of other unavailable Scott Walker albums on CD, making fans go in search of old vinyl copies or bootlegs, and many CD releases are now out of print, it seems strange to be approving pointless releases like this. Just make the original recordings available - we can make our own compilations!
Unlike Scott Walker's music, this box-set seems to be going for style over substance. Even that wouldn't be so bad if the compilers had any...

2 out of 5 stars AVOID. Go with the individual albums........2004-02-19

OK, so, i adore Scott Walker but i have to say that this piece of crap was a complete let-down. The only reason i gave it two stars is because of the remastered versions of the tracks off "Climate of Hunter" and "Nite Flites" and some of the b-sides and soundtrack work. "Pola X" in particular is virtually impossible to find.

BUT WHAT on earth were they thinking? It's so weird, the way they pass off these quotes from contemporary artists as "liner notes." Is a casual fan going to shell out upwards of a hundred bucks for an artist they are unfamiliar with because Thom Yorke says to? Doubtful. So why are they trying to talk-up and sell us on the music that we obviously already love? I couldn't give a rats ***!

I thought the testimonials adorning the recent american NEU! reissues were very effective in "selling" the music to "the kiddies," but those were single discs and not such a big investment.

The track listing is also terrible. The set eschews chronological or any other sensible order in favor of some random guy's tastes. My copy does not have the manufacturing error some have reported on disc 3. I wish it did because I could copy the 6 tracks I need and return the thing.

Two other box sets I own, Velvet Underground and Burt Bacharach, are beautifully put together with extensive liner notes and tons of great photographs. I still spend time just looking at and listening to them. Scott is definitely on par with Burt and Lou in terms of influence and strange brilliance, so why is this set so skimpy and stupid? i'd like to smack the idiots who ILL-conceived it.

5 out of 5 stars get this and you'll be done.......2004-01-15

I know many fans, some who have reviewed here, aren't completely happy with this set. I certainly agree with the packaging quality. I just purchased Zombie Heaven, the complete Zombie collection, who were contemporaries of the Walker Bros. That set raises the standard for box sets of obscure artists.
But I still give this a five outta five. Considering just how uncommerical this guy's music is these days, (regardless of what era of Walker career you pick!) and how many strange looks I get when I play it, the fact that we have a new box set at all is a wonderful thing.

Fans of Dvine Comedy, Pulp, Suede, Bowie,Tricky,Tom Jones, Bjork,The Zombies, should check this guy out he influenced them all. The sound is great on my set.

5 out of 5 stars There are many flawed sets.......2004-01-14

There is a confirmed problem with Disc Three. Virgin and Tower Records have both contacted Mercury about the one-channel only Disc Three. Be warned.

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Magic Box ~ The Loved Ones
  2. Sunborn ~ Deadly Sin
  3. Best of All About Eve ~ All About Eve
  4. Thru the Glass ~ Thirteen Senses
  5. Submarines ~ Here Comes Everybody
  6. Kreeme Horn ~ Throbbing Gristle
  7. Solid ~ Everything
  8. Not So Much A Rumor, More A Way Life ~ Rumour
  9. Painting the Moment ~ El Chicano
  10. Swampgas ~ Swampgas

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Don Shirley Plays Birdland Lullabies/Don Shirley Plays Show Tunes ~ Don Shirley

Jazz Grooves ~ Various Artists

Classic Jazz Archive ~ Dave Brubeck

We Three ~ Roy Haynes

Jazz Ballads for Easy Listening ~ Various Artists

Back in Bean's Bag

Facing The Millenium

Premier Pas ~ Martial

Nederlandse Koren ... ~ Various Artists

Tunes and Tales of Ireland ~ The Clancy Brothers