Scott Walker

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8 years ago

SergeantSaltyDawg

Outstanding cover.

9 years ago

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9 years ago

Agrimorfee

It may seem sacrilegious, but damn I like this more than Bill Withers'!

9 years ago

Wally Toynbee

This beats the original hands down. It's just so classy.

10 years ago

Gasparuccio X

supeeeeeeeer!

10 years ago

wes lee

Better than the original. The best version hands down. Praise!

10 years ago

wes lee

Sexy photo :P

10 years ago

kayjay111111

Even if he migrated, he made great moves. He knows his voice. He knows music.

11 years ago

ewetoo

Who did the guitar solo at the end here?

11 years ago

Gaius Julius

GODDAMN! SCOTT......

11 years ago

Elecktricd00m

if my soul could sing....itd sound like this....

12 years ago

yeoviljunction

Hmmm. It's got an "Old Man's Back Again" vibe.

12 years ago

maybulleen

25 times I know

12 years ago

salvadory

@splankhna he is better live but he is a little too commercial to be compared to walker- id still say Nick Caves ballads has a feel closer to Walkers odd" darkness"- i like Ashcroft but thats its it- Walker and Cave are something more

12 years ago

looptricious

I love this version. Scott Walker is the greatest.

12 years ago

EmaJack99

A great voice. I've knew him with the album Tilt, so his voice ha changed from this song., but I like it

12 years ago

salvadory

@MisAnnThorpe i like ashcroft but his solo stuff has the most bloated production- and i love big production but his just comes as bland as do some of his simpleton lyrics- i guess i just feel ashcroft has a great voice but doesnt use it to its full potential with simplistic songs and weak lyrics-more so on recent albums- walker just has a depth and sublime quality that makes "mad richard" look tame and ordinary- id actually say nick cave is our generations walker- to me he gets the balance right

12 years ago

MisAnnThorpe

@salvadory It's funny because I'd never even thought of Richard Ashcroft as being Scott Walker influenced but now that you mention it I could very easily imagine Walker singing Lucky man & in fairness to Ashcroft he would have to go some way to better it. Come to think of it could also imagine him singing The drugs don't work, & maybe Bittersweet symphony & Sonnet. Oh btw, I'm sure you really wanted to know that Valerie was originally written & recorded by The Zutons. Crap name for a crap band.

12 years ago

salvadory

@MisAnnThorpe oh i agree i still prefer whithers version but this a great version in its own right- the late amy winehouse was very good- walker is sublime genius

12 years ago

MisAnnThorpe

@salvadory Sometimes covers are vastly superior to the original. A good example is Amy Winehouse's version of Valerie. Regardless of whether that improvement was mainly due to Mark Ronson or not the original, which I can't remember for sure who it was even by, (possibly The Fratellis?) was noteworthy only because of its utter ordinariness. I was absolutely amazed when I first heard Winehouse's version and I'm not even a fan of hers.