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The Walker Brothers - I Can See It Now (1966)

Wonderful track from the Walker Brothers second LP Portrait. The horns are just perfect.

A sleepless night Still didn't make things right

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The Termites - Tell Me (1965)

Charming Rolling Stones cover by the misleadingly named Termites, a UK duo.  They also recorded this song in Italian.

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Blossom Dearie - Dindi (1967)

Can you get any sweeter than Blossom Dearie singing DIndi?

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Many say that Scott Walker's current phase is pretty much in complete opposition to what he did before. I would tell them like I did before that this notion is a bit rich. Sure, his earlier songs were classically orchestrated, yes, even though their subject matter was closer to his later work. O.K., it was a preparation for it (no dictators were harmed yet), but his tunes back then were cunningly made to be easy to listen. They were hiding the pain and the sorrow thru the incredible melodic melliflousness. The cut from the first installment of Scott series is a great case for that, cause it keeps getting bleaker lyrically, while the music is becoming sweeter and drowning Walker's voice with its intensity.

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Scott Walker wouldn't be the Scott Walker we know, if it weren't for Jacques Brel. The volatile Belgian chansoneur enabled Walker to develop his distinctiveness and that gave him a chance to unleash himself from the shackles of the music business. It is apt that this tune, already magnificent in the original form, opened his solo debut Scott, cause the entire record displayed his eagerness to play with the assumptions about him. This tune is basically a quite nice detonation of all that he did before, even though claiming that is a bit rich. It would be better to say that many just weren't paying attention.  

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Scott Walker is one of those singers whose career arc is hard to comprehend. His phases appear to have no connection to each other and the only continuity among them is his marvellous voice. Personally, I think it is not just his vocal that unites his different styles, it is also the atmosphere. For instance – his early solo work might not have the radical soundscapes of Tilt, but it has that certain despair that only Walker is able to evoke. His songs are basically observations about those who hoped for something better, yet they failed to achieve it and they are stuck between what it is and what it could be. But how they react to it? Well, it differs from one tune to another.