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| Scott Walker discography | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Studio albums | 15 |
| EPs | 1 |
| Soundtrack albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 15 |
| Singles | 15 |
| Music videos | 4 |
| Box sets | 2 |
Scott Walker is the stage name of the American singer-songwriter Noel Scott Engel (1943–2019), former lead singer with The Walker Brothers. He lived in the United Kingdom from the 1960s until his death.
His earliest material was released under his own name in the late 1950s. His most successful period in his career was between the years 1965 and 1970 where in he released three albums with The Walker Brothers, before going on to record a number of popular albums as a solo artist.
Walker's career faltered critically and commercially in the 1970s where he became stuck in a cycle of releasing lacklustre albums of MOR covers. In the mid-1970s Walker reformed The Walker Brothers with mixed results. Their final album together; Nite Flights (1978) was a sonic breakthrough for Walker. His subsequent solo albums developed and expanded this new direction.
For a detailed listing of Scott Walker's albums and singles with The Walker Brothers, see: The Walker Brothers discography.
Studio albums
[edit]| Year | Album details | Chart positions | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
BEL [2] |
GER [3] |
IRL | ||||||||||
| 1967 | Scott
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3 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1968 | Scott 2
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1 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1969 | Scott 3
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3 | — | — | — | ||||||||
Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series
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7 | — | — | — | |||||||||
Scott 4
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— | — | — | — | |||||||||
| 1970 | 'Til the Band Comes In
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— | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1972 | The Moviegoer
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— | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1973 | Any Day Now
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— | — | — | — | ||||||||
Stretch
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— | — | — | — | |||||||||
| 1974 | We Had It All
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— | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1984 | Climate of Hunter
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60 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 1995 | Tilt
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27 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2006 | The Drift
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51 | 49 | 97 | 80 | ||||||||
| 2012 | Bish Bosch
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95 | 176 | — | — | ||||||||
| 2014 | Soused (with Sunn O))))
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30 | 190 | 85 | 54 | ||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
Soundtrack albums
[edit]| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Pola X
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| 2016 | The Childhood of a Leader
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| 2018 | Vox Lux
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Live albums
[edit]- Live on Air 1968-1969 (box set) (2019, London Calling)
Compilation albums
[edit]- The Best of Scott Volume 1 (1969, Philips)
- The Romantic Scott Walker (1969, Phillips)
- This is Scott Walker (1972, Phillips)
- This is Scott Walker Vol. 2 – Come Next Spring (1973, Phillips)
- Fire Escape in the Sky – The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker (1981, Zoo Records) UK Indie No. 14[14]
- Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel (1981, Philips)
- The Best of Scott Walker (1982, Philips)
- Boy Child – The Best of 1967–1970 (1990, Polygram Records)
- No Regrets – The Best of Scott Walker and The Walker Brothers 1965–1976 (1992, Polygram) UK No. 4[1]
- It's Raining Today – The Scott Walker Story (1967-1970) (US only 1996, Razor & Tie)
- Scott Walker in 5 Easy Pieces (box set) (2003, Mercury Records)
- The Collection (2004, Spectrum Music)
- Classics & Collectibles (2005, Universal Music Group)
- The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore – The Best of Scott Walker and The Walker Brothers (2006, Universal) UK No. 24[1]
- The Collection 1967–1970 (box set) (2013, Universal)
Extended plays
[edit]| Year | EP details |
|---|---|
| And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball? |
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Singles
[edit]Solo singles 1967–present
[edit]All non-UK singles list the country of release in brackets. B-sides vary in some territories.
| Year | A-side | B-side | Chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
IE [15] | ||||
| 1967 | "Mathilde" (JP) | "My Death" | N/R | N/R | Scott |
| "Jackie" | "The Plague" | 22 | — | Scott 2 | |
| 1968 | "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore" (US) [A] | "You're All Around Me" | N/R | N/R | Take It Easy (Walker Brothers album) |
| "Joanna" | "Always Coming Back To You" | 7 | — | — | |
| "The Rope and the Colt" (FR) | "Concerto pour guitare (Scene d'amour)" [B] | N/R | N/R | ||
| 1969 | "If You Go Away" (JP) | "Two Ragged Soldiers" | N/R | N/R | Scott 3 |
| "Lights of Cincinnati" | "Two Weeks Since You've Gone" | 13 | 20 | — | |
| 1970 | "The Seventh Seal" (JP) | "The Old Man's Back Again" | N/R | N/R | Scott 4 |
| 1971 | "'Til the Band Comes In" (NL) | "Jean the Machine" | N/R | N/R | 'Til the Band Comes In |
| "Jean the Machine" (JP) | "Joe" | N/R | N/R | ||
| "Thanks For Chicago Mr. James" (JP) | "The Hills of Yesterday" | N/R | N/R | ||
| "I Still See You" | "My Way Home" | — | — | — | |
| 1972 | "The Impossible Dream" (JP) | "The Look of Love" | N/R | N/R | Scott Sings Songs from His T.V. Series |
| 1973 | "The Me I Never Knew" | "This Way Mary" | — | — | Any Day Now |
| "A Woman Left Lonely" | "Where Love Has Died" | — | — | Stretch | |
| 1974 | "Delta Dawn" | "We Had It All" | — | — | We Had It All |
| 1984 | "Track Three" | "Blanket Roll Blues" | — | — | Climate of Hunter |
| 1993 | "Man from Reno" (with Goran Bregovic) (FR) | "Indecent Sacrifice" (with Goran Bregovic) | N/R | N/R | — |
| 1995 | "Patriot (A Single)"[16] [C] | "The Cockfighter" | N.A. | N.A. | Tilt |
| "Tilt"[17] [C] | "Farmer In The City" | N.A. | N.A. | ||
- Notes
- A^"I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore" was issued as a Scott Walker single in the US by Smash Records. The song and its b-side are actually Walker Brothers songs originally released in 1965 on the trio's début album; Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers.
- B^"Concerto pour guitare (Scene d'amour)", the b-side of "The Rope and the Colt", is not a Scott Walker song. It is performed by André Hossein. Walker's A-side and Hossein's b-side were each recorded for from the film Une Corde... Un Colt.
- C^"Patriot (A Single)" and "Tilt" are promo singles. They were released to promote Walker's 1995 album; Tilt. There were also respectively titled Scott 1 and Scott 2.
Pre-Walker Brothers singles
[edit]Prior to forming The Walker Brothers, Scott Walker recorded a series of songs under various names, most commonly as Scott Engel. Walker also collaborated with John Stewart in a series of short-lived groups, such as The Moongooners, The Chosen Few, The Newporters, and The Dalton Brothers.
Many of these recordings were later released on compilation albums credited to Scott Walker, including Looking Back with Scott Walker (Ember, 1968) and In the Beginning (Castle, 2001).
- "When is a Boy a Man" b/w "Steady As a Rock" (RKO Unique, 1957) (as Scotty Engel)
- "Livin' End" b/w "Good For Nothin'" (Orbit, 1958) (as Scott Engel)
- "Charley Bop" b/w "All I Do Is Dream Of You" (Orbit, 1958) (as Scott Engel)
- "Bluebell" b/w "Paper Doll" (Orbit, 1958) (as Scott Engel)
- "Golden Rule of Love" b/w "Sunday" (Orbit, 1959) (as Scott Engel)
- "Comin' Home" b/w "I Don't Want to Know" (Orbit, 1959) (as Scott Engel)
- "Take This Love" b/w "Till You Return" (Hi-Fi, 1959) (as Scott Engel)
- "Anything Will Do" b/w "Mr Jones" (Liberty, 1961) (as Scott Engel)
- "Anything Will Do" b/w "Forevermore" (Liberty, 1962) (as Scott Engel)
- "Devil Surfer" b/w "Your Guess" (Challenge, August 1963) (as Scott Engel)
- "Moon Goon Stomp" b/w "Long Trip" (Candix, February 1962) (as The Moongooners)
- "Willie and The Hand Jive" b/w "Moongoon Twist" (Essar, December 1962) (as The Moongooners)
- "Jump Down" b/w "Wish You Were Here" (Marsh, October 1962) (as The Chosen Few)
- "Adventures In Paradise" b/w "Loose Board" (Scotchdown, August 1963) (as The Newporters)
- "I Only Came To Dance With You" b/w "Without Your Love" (Martay, 1963) (as The Dalton Brothers)
- "I Only Came To Dance With You" b/w "Greens" (Tower, 1966) (as Scott Engel and John Stewart, recorded as The Dalton Brothers in 1963)
Music videos
[edit]| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | "Track Three" | |
| 1993 | "Man From Reno" (with Goran Bregovic) | |
| 2006 | "Jesse" | Graham Wood and Ian Freeman |
| 2012 | "Epizootics!" | Olivier Groulx |
| 2014 | "Brando" (with Sunn O)))) | Gisèle Vienne |
Contributions
[edit]- Cemetery Without Crosses OST (1969) – "The Rope and the Colt"
- The Go-Between OST (1971) – "I Still See You"
- Toxic Affair OST (1993) – "Man From Reno" (with Goran Bregovic)
- To Have And To Hold OST (1996) – "I Threw It All Away"
- The World Is Not Enough OST (1999) – "Only Myself To Blame"
- Plague Songs (2006) – "Darkness"
- Two Suns (2009) – "The Big Sleep" (with Bat for Lashes)
Production
[edit]| Year | Artist | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Gary Walker | "You Don't Love Me" (Single) | Co-produced with John Stewart |
| Gary Walker | "Twinkie-Lee" (Single) | Co-produced with John Stewart | |
| The Motions | Their Own Way | ||
| 1968 | Gary Walker & The Rain | "Spooky" (Single) | |
| John Walker | "Woman" (Single) | ||
| Terry Smith | Fall Out | ||
| 1969 | Ray Warleigh | Ray Warleigh's First Album | |
| John Walker | "Yesterday's Sunshine" (Single) | ||
| 1975 | The Walker Brothers | No Regrets | Co-produced with Geoff Calver |
| 1976 | The Walker Brothers | Lines | Co-produced with Geoff Calver |
| 1978 | The Walker Brothers | Nite Flights | Co-produced with Dave MacRae |
| 1984 | Scott Walker | Climate of Hunter | Co-produced with Peter Walsh |
| 1995 | Scott Walker | Tilt | Co-produced with Peter Walsh |
| 1999 | Various artists | Pola X | |
| 2000 | Ute Lemper | Punishing Kiss | "Scope J" and "Lullaby (By-By-By)" only, both co-produced with Peter Walsh |
| 2001 | Pulp | We Love Life | Co-Produced with Peter Walsh |
| 2006 | Scott Walker | The Drift | Co-produced with Peter Walsh |
| Various artists | Plague Songs | "Darkness" only, co-produced with Peter Walsh | |
| 2007 | Scott Walker | And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball? (EP) | Co-produced with Peter Walsh |
| 2008 | Acoustic Ladyland | "Salt Water (Scott Walker Mix)" (Single) | |
| 2012 | Scott Walker | Bish Bosch | Co-Produced with Peter Walsh |
| 2014 | Scott Walker & Sunn O))) | Soused | Co-Produced with Peter Walsh |
| 2016 | Scott Walker | The Childhood of a Leader | Co-Produced with Peter Walsh |
| 2018 | Various artists | Vox Lux | 10 of the 20 tracks |
Tribute albums
[edit]- Angel of Ashes: A Tribute to Scott Walker (2005, Tansformadores)
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (May 26, 2009, Lakeshore Records)
- Songs from Montague Terrace (September 16, 2013, All Souls Music)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "The Official Charts Company – Scott Walker". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 12, 2009.
- ↑ "ultratop.be – Scott Walker". 2006–2012 ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ↑ "charts.de – Discographie Scott Walker". 2012 Media Control. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Anon. (August 19, 1967). "Scott Walker LP next week" (PDF). New Musical Express. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 20, 2024. Retrieved June 16, 2025 – via WorldRadioHistory.
His [Scott Walker's] first solo LP, Scott, has been scheduled for release by Philips next Friday (25th) [August 1967]. But there are still no plans for a solo single.
- ↑ Anon. (March 30, 1968). "Scott, Gary Tours" (PDF). Disc and Music Echo. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 21, 2024. Retrieved October 22, 2025 – via WorldRadioHistory.
His second album, titled Scott II is released on April 5
- ↑ Anon. (March 8, 1969). "Scott LP Titles" (PDF). New Musical Express. p. 10. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 21, 2024. Retrieved October 22, 2025 – via WorldRadioHistory.
Scott Walker's next LP Scott 3 has been set for release by Philips on March 21.
- ↑ Coxhill, Gordon (June 14, 1969). "New Albums" (PDF). New Musical Express. p. 12. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 7, 2025. Retrieved October 22, 2025 – via WorldRadioHistory.
Scott Sings Songs From His TV Series, released on Philips (SBL 7900) on June 20
- ↑
- Anon. (October 18, 1969). "Plus New Discs From: Zager-Evans, Dekker, Herman, Scott, Clodagh, Creedence & Temptations" (PDF). New Musical Express. p. 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 21, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2025 – via WorldRadioHistory.
Scott Walker's Scott 4, comprising all self-penned compositions, is issued by Philips on November 7.
- Anon. (October 25, 1969). "Scott Changes Name!" (PDF). New Musical Express. p. 10. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 28, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2025 – via WorldRadioHistory.
This will apply to his new Scott 4 album - which is released in a fortnight.
- Anon. (October 18, 1969). "Plus New Discs From: Zager-Evans, Dekker, Herman, Scott, Clodagh, Creedence & Temptations" (PDF). New Musical Express. p. 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 21, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2025 – via WorldRadioHistory.
- ↑ Watkinson, Mike; Anderson, Pete (1994). Scott Walker – A Deep Shade Of Blue (1st ed.). London: Virgin Books. p. 156. ISBN 1-85227-482-4.
- ↑ Watkinson, Mike; Anderson, Pete (1994). Scott Walker – A Deep Shade Of Blue (1st ed.). London: Virgin Books. p. 168. ISBN 1-85227-482-4.
- ↑ Watkinson, Mike; Anderson, Pete (1994). Scott Walker – A Deep Shade Of Blue (1st ed.). London: Virgin Books. p. 169. ISBN 1-85227-482-4.
- ↑ Watkinson, Mike; Anderson, Pete (1994). Scott Walker – A Deep Shade Of Blue (1st ed.). London: Virgin Books. p. 173. ISBN 1-85227-482-4.
- ↑ Watkinson, Mike; Anderson, Pete (1994). Scott Walker – A Deep Shade Of Blue (1st ed.). London: Virgin Books. p. 175. ISBN 1-85227-482-4.
- ↑ Lazell, Barry (July 1, 2003). Indie Hits: The Complete UK Independent Charts 1980–1989. Cherry Red Books. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-9517206-9-1.
- ↑ "The Irish Charts – All there is to know". www.irishcharts.ie. Retrieved February 12, 2009.
- ↑ "Scott 1 (CD, Single, Promo) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved February 12, 2009.
- ↑ "Scott 2 (CD, Single, Promo) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved February 12, 2009.