Scott Walker - Boy Child 67-70
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Artist: Scott WalkerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-03-17
Music Label: Fontana Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Montague Terrace (In Blue)
- Such A Small Love
- The Plague
- The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
- The Girls From The Streets
- Plastic Palace People
- The Bridge
- It's Raining Today
- Copenhagen
- Big Louise
- We Came Through
- The Seventh Seal
- On Your Own Again
- Boy Child
- The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Stalinist Regime)
- Angels Of Ashes
- Prologue
- Little Things (That Keep Us Together)
- Time Operator
- The War Is Over (Sleepers - Epilogue)
Music reviews of Boy Child 67-70
Music Review: I wish they included his Brell covers on this album.
Rating: 4 Stars
I know this album is to be a showcase of only Walker originals and a separate album of all Brell covers was released but this was a marketing ploy that did not celebrate what I will call the "Walker mystique."
The "Walker mystique," if I may dare lay claim to understanding it, is a world-weary voice that sparkles with experience and cynicism and yet suprises you with moments of beauty that seem almost naive. Walker appears never to have forgotten the wonder of the young child and this is best expressed in his song "Plastic Palace People." I suppose you could argue that song is the embodiment of the "Walker mystique." By turns magisterial in vocal, sweeping in imagery and dark in undertone, the song propels forward a vision at once many things: there is Walker the child who knows the freshness of beauty in the world and manages, mysteriously, to apprehend it, once more, for the first time. There is Walker the cynic who knows there are people in the world who are just "plastic" and conceal themselves. There is Walker the sage who has heard, one too many times, the line, "Billy/ come down from there." He won't come down from there and that is why you need to hear him.
I single out this song because it is signature Walker but is also indebted to his Brell covers. There is nothing plagiaristic here, one need simply to note that these themes are all Brell's too and Walker recasts them in a voice so characteristically his own; original and so devious. Walker can sing ugliness like it is beauty and make the delicate and ethereal seem seedy and adulterated. Brell did this too but Walker's gentleness and meat-cleaver fist can offer a double-fisted assault unique among English language performers.
Having said all of this, I wonder how songs like "It's Raining Today," The Girls From The Streets" and "Big Louise" can be heard without having first listened to Walker sing Brell's "Mathilde," "Jackie," "If You Go Away," "Next" and "Funeral Tango." I am not suggesting Walker is merely a derivative of Brell, not at all. I am only proposing that he has distilled the better angels of Brell's material and let it infuse the very best in his own songwriting. Buy this record as an addendum to the four "Scott" albums. I think you will see what I mean.
Four stars. It almost makes it there and this under-reach is hardly the fault of Scott himself.
Description of Boy Child 67-70
Mid-priced reissue of 'best of' for the former teen idol & ex-Walker Brother. Focusing on the enigmatic, avant-garde vocalist's hugely successful early solo career. 20 tracks including the rare B-side 'The Plague'. Liner notes by Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy). 2000.Alternative Rock CDs
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