Review of Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2007) by Bester L — 18 Jan 2008
It's actually a more interesting story if you're not familiar with the man and his music: sixties icon who figured in gauzy ballads and country-rock pastiches that AM Gold radio stations scratched on for eons, lost his way in the early seventies.
.. then visited upon the subsequent decades one gloriously weird and adventurous album each. Walker calls himself "the Orson Welles of the record industry" but he's got it exactly wrong - Welles started with Citizen Kane and was thereafter progressively beaten into a state of mendacity; Walker fizzled out a long time ago, and now makes his Citizen Kane over and over again.
Strangely enough, the interviews reveal him to be a nice, level-headed guy. WHich is not what you'd think from hearing his albums.
This review of Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2007) was written by Bester L on 18 Jan 2008.
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man has generally received positive reviews.
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