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The Best of the Walker Brothers Import

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (June 11, 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: MSI:UNIVERSAL/POLYGRAM
  • ASIN: B0000075Y6
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,590 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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While certainly a decent Walker Brother's collection, I'd have to say you'd be better off buying their "Images" and "Portrait" cds which contain generous bonus tracks and numerous excellent songs not found here (such as Scott's "Geneieve"). The Walker Brothers (incidently they aren't brothers nor are any of them named Walker) recorded legacy is not that large so I'm not so sure that a greatest hits package is really the right way to go. If you just want "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" you could probably find that on any one of numerous sixties compilations, if you want to dig deeper you should go to their albums.
I always like to think of the Walker Brothers as the Righteous Brothers meet Edgar A. Poe. They share that orchestrated white soulish type sound of the Righteous Brothers but with a darker more adventurish edge.
The best known Walker Brother songs are all here, along with some lesser known gems like "After the Lights Go Out" or "Mrs Murphy". There are also a few amazing Scott Walker compositions, most notably "Archangel" that equal the standard of his solo work.
Since the Walker Brothers are still pretty hazy to most people a more enlightening set of liner notes would probably have been helpful as well.
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I can't say I know terribly much about the Walker Brothers, but a quick scan of their discography suggests there may not be all that much to know. An American vocal trio who enjoyed a string of British hits from 1965-67 and a brief comeback a decade later, they would seem the sort of act amply served by compilations. AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT must surely rank as a good one, at least as far as the Walkers' early work is concerned.
Merging - at times even overlapping - Motown and Phil Spector sensibilities with grand theatrical frills and heartrending delivery, the Walker Brothers crafted some of the sixties' most dramatic ballads, the best of which have lost nothing after forty years. Scott Engels/Walker's full, clear low tenor, a compellingly effective instrument even when interpreting outright schmaltz, generally takes the lead (with good reason), though the other "Walkers," John and Gary, provide more than worthy support and (in John's case) occasional solos. To be sure, not everything works: there's some truly over-the-top stuff here, with soap opera lyrics, swirling horror-movie organs, hair-curling violins and an ambience worthy of Broadway at its brightest. But when these guys are good, they're unbeatable. The Drifters-influenced title track, "Love Her," "Make It Easy on Yourself," "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" and "Don't Say Goodbye" are all masterpieces, big and brash with just enough weeping melodrama to stick them permanently into the listener's memory after one or two plays. A number of other winners are in here too, as well as a few fairly laughable tracks; all fit, nevertheless. This is superlative mid-sixties pop, and I doubt that anyone, of whatever age, couldn't find something to love on this disc.
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If you were a fan of the Walkers Brothers before Scott took off for strange-land you'll enjoy this album. It's really the only one you need to buy. It has the three 60's mega hits-Sun Ain't, Make It Easy,and My Ship. It also contains some great little knowns and B sides like Another Tear Falls,Saddest Night In the World, and some other super tear in your beer entries. If you want to dig deeper into Scott's pre-Prozac world thanby all means spring for more lp's but this one does the job quite well.
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THE SONG: "THE SUN AIN'T GONNA SHINE ANYMORE" KEPT GOING AROUND IN MY HEAD, WHICH WAS PART OF THE REASON WHY I BOUGHT THIS CD. THE ONLY OTHER SONG I HAD EVER HEARD ON THIS CD IS "MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF". FOR A GROUP WHOSE MUSIC I WAS COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF UNTIL THE LATE 1980'S, I'M WONDERING HOW DID I MISS THEM BEFORE THEN. "THE WALKER BROTHERS" ARE SOMETIMES MISTAKEN FOR "THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS", ESPECIALLY WHEN PEOPLE HEAR: "THE SUN AIN'T GONNA SHINE ANYMORE". THOUGH THIS IS A VERY ENJOYABLE ALBUM, ALL OF THE SELECTIONS ARE GOOD, AND THE SOUND WELL MASTERED, I WANT TO KNOW: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE END OF "THE SUN AIN'T GONNA SHINE ANYMORE"?
AT THE VERY END, JUST BEFORE THE SONG FADES OUT, IT SAYS "WOO-OOO-OOO-OOOOOOOO". OR IS IT, "OOO-OOO-OOO-OOOOOOOO"?. I KNOW THAT THIS PROBABLY SOUND VERY SILLY, BUT I MISS THAT PART ON THE SONG. IT DOESN'T TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE SONG OR EVEN FROM THE ALBUM. UNFORTUNATELY IF AN ALBUM HAVEN'T BEEN HEARD ALL THE WAY THROUGH THERE ISN'T ANY WAY OF KNOWING HOW A SONG MAY APPEAR ON THAT ALBUM. I GAVE THIS ALBUM FIVE STARS BECAUSE OF HOW I PERSONALLY FEEL ABOUT THE SONGS ON THIS ALBUM. THEY ARE: TERRIFIC, FANTASTIC, WONDERFUL. NOT BAD FOR A GROUP WHO HAD A WIDER FOLLOWING THEN "THE BEATLES".
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What a great group they were and what a pity they broke up. All the hits are there and very easy to listen to but what happened to "No Regrets". Listening to it made me glad I lived through the sixties and seventies. They were great years!
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One of the sexiest voices I have ever heard This CD is worth every note... np wonder they opened with the BEATLES... Melodic
deep sexy voice songs are beautiful This is a great Cd Thank you from the bottom of my HEART AMAZON U R THE GREATEST! No doubt!
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