scott walker - the old man's back again (mp3)

i caught the last three quarters of an hour of a rather good bbc rockumentary on scott walker last night which prompted me to post this little quickie.

i think like most people, i'm pretty well aquainted (thanks mum) with the walker brothers (they weren't actually brothers though, nor in fact were any of them even called walker - lying bastards) but i knew absolutely nothing of scott's (real name noel scott engel) solo stuff until i bought air's excellent late night tales compilation which has this from scott's fourth solo album, and his first composed entirely of his own songs, 1969's scott4.

it's the bass, no the strings, no the chanting, no his voice: okay, the whole thing's truly awesome. it's just a monster of a song, it's immense, it's phil spector does ennio morricone and it makes me wonder how on earth i haven't picked-up on any of this until now.

he was a good looking lad too, what with is mark scholes hair.