Create your own atrocious MOR 1970s Scott Walker album...

hasn't eno done all of those songs, btw?

1. Do I Hear 21-21-21 (remembering Jacques Derrida)
2. The Bear-Baiter
3. Barman See Barman
4. Song With Very Loud Organ Sounds And Loony Singing
5. Track 2
6. Track With Naff Guitar Solo And Fretless Base
7. Track 9
8. Hail Mary

Roundabout
You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
Help Me Make It Through the Night
Find the Cost of Freedom/Love the One You're With (Medley)
Spanish Harlem
Me & Mrs. Jones
Another Saturday Night
Brown Eyed Girl
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) (running time: 9:24)

December, 1963 (radio edit) b/w "Theme from a Fistful of Dollars" (lyrics by Ady Semel)

Scott Walker It's Only Rock N Roll But I Hate Myself (V2, 2003)

1. Favourite Things
2. Crystal (either the Husker Du or the New Order, I'm not fussy)
3. Jeremy
4. Intro Inspection
5. Rise and Fall
6. Don't Mess with my toot-toot
7. Sing for the Moment
8. The Cheeky Song
9. Earth Shaking Event
10. When I'm Cleaning Windows
11. My Heart Will Go On (feat. Marc Almond)
12. Do you know Squarepusher?

-- amateurist (amateuris...), August 8th, 2003 1:21 PM. (amateurist) (link)

You laugh, but Scott Walker would have done a fantastic cover of "Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)"

J

p.s i kinda haterz this thread

I just like the idea of speculating on what would albums would have been made if Nite Flights and his subsequent avant-career had never happened, and he had continued in the AOR vein until the present day.

SCOTT WALKER’S ‘DANCE’ ALBUM! 

 One of the most enigmatic artists of his or indeed any generation, Scott Walker is not known for his prolific output. And yet he has completed a brand new album in double quick time. What’s more it’s a contemporary dance album!
Not one to worry about challenging his fans, Walker hasn’t made a dance record in the Fat Boy Slim sense of the word, but has instead recorded a work that was commissioned by the South Bank Centre in London to be staged and performed by a dance company.
The result is an instrumental piece in four movements entitled And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go To The Ball? The 25-minute long piece was written in the wake of his last studio album, The Drift, which was released in 2006 and which saw him collect the MOJO Icon Award at that year’s MOJO Honours List.  
Following its premier at Manchester’s Contact Theatre on April 26, the piece has been performed throughout Europe by the Candoco (pronounced Can-doo-co) dance company who return to these shows for a series of performances that will coincide with the album’s release.
Despite the album being a vocal-free work, Walker himself has commented on the subject matter which has inspired him. 
“Apart from a slow movement given over to solitude, the music is full of edgy and staccato shapes or cuts, reflecting how we cut up the world around us as a consequence of the shape of our bodies,” he states. “How much of a body does an intelligence need to be potentially socialised in an age of ever-developing A.I. ? This is but one of many questions that informed the approach to the project.”
The album is out on 4AD on September 24 as a limited edition deluxe package that, according to the label, “will never be re-pressed”.
And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go To The Ball? will be performed at the following dates:
September 25 & 26 London, Southbank Centre, QEH

October 16 & 17 Poole, Lighthouse

October 23 Sheffield, Crucible

October 26 University of Herts, Hatfield

November 8 Leicester, Peepul Centre

November 15 Malvern Theatre

November 24 Newcastle Dance City

 

Scott Walker progs out

I give you the track listing for Isildur's Folly (Fontana 20XX?):

1) The Endless Enigma, pt. 1
2) Heart of the Sunrise
3) Starless*
4) The Musical Box
5) Xanadu**
6) Refugees
7) Thick as a Brick (opening)
8) Your Own Special Way
9) The Endless Enigma, pt. 2

* Actually, that would be pretty damn good, come to think of it...
** Rush, of course, not Olivia N-J & ELO

** Rush, of course, not Olivia N-J & ELO

And why the trousers not?

Because last time I checked, Olivia N-J & ELO's "Xanadu" isn't exactly a prog song, the theme of the list. If we were to do one from the Xanadu soundtrack to fit in for the MOR 70s albums, I'd say "Magic" or "Suspended in Time".

Though I wrote that list initially joking, the more I hear it in my head, the more convinced I am that Scott Walker doing a rendition of "Starless" (just the opening verses, minus all the instrumental section stuff and beyond) would be absolutely classic. While the lyrics are not well-suited at all, I could also hear his voice working out well with songs from the first K.C. album (e.g. "Moonchild" or "Court of the Crimson King"). Doing "Your Own Special Way" might have held up as a syrupy ballad on one of the Stretch-era albums.