Scott 2

He had a nice voice but it’s a big no from me.

No. The most commercially successful song on this album was Jackie which was banned by the BBC. I guess this proves the "any publicity is good publicity". So the first song is banned for being offensive and the rest of the album is forgettable. Why are we listening to this?!

No

Man, I really hated this

New greep album shitty theatrical bs like this obsolete

So awful

Well I see now who Neil Hannon and Alex Kapranos have been listening to. I wanted to like this but it wore on me more the more I listened to it, and by the end I was thoroughly sick of it.

Not a fan of his voice

Same crap, different album.

The insipid lyrics and the pretentious delivery make this a horrible listen. Did we really need two Scott Walker albums?

This was like a combo of a poor man's Sinatra and Tom Jones. It was pretty awful.

He's got a powerful voice, but this all just came off as really cheesy.

Not for me 1/5

Not it

Weird album. More like a movie soundtrack. Didn't enjoy.

I listened to this a long time ago and forgot to rate it. I hated it the second time as much, if not more, than the first play.

I've never heard of this before. As the first song, Jackie, started playing, my eyes grew wide, and I mouthed "wow". Not sure what I expected but it certainly wasn't this. The song is filled with borderline inappropriate lyrics, and then halfway through I discover the singer was actually "Jackie". Didn't see that coming either! As much as I'd love to live-blog this album, I'll give the abridged version: - Psychedelic Cattle-driving song (the aforementioned "Jackie") - Weird Tom Jones - Vanilla Neil Diamond - Creepy James Bond Theme - Really creepy Spanish-themed soundtrack song ("Next", but could be called "Jackie Strikes Again") - Song to Murder Hookers To - Bad Trippy Beatles - Slightly Creepy Engelbert Humperdinck - Raunchy Rogers and Hammerstein - Sappy Burt Bacharach - If Ernest Hemingway was more misogynistic - Frank Sinatra sings a bad song. Glad I've heard this monstrosity, but will definitely never listen to this again.

Next.

Didn't enjoy it.

Not for me at all

Very William Shatner vibes, not my style

I totally hated this

Incel Musical Theater

Nope

I went into it thinking “no way it’s as bad as Scott 4,” which is technically correct… it’s even worse. It’s like show tunes without the show. Cheesy, self-indulgent nonsense.

Complete not my thing.

A pretty interesting style of performance, but not really my thing.

like showtunes, not my thing

Didn’t really care for it.

I will preface by saying I did not finish the album……. But what I did experience made me feel *insane* and I don’t even know what to do with the fact that it’s titled Scott 2

I came across this album a few weeks ago in an article on the most influential albums. I gave it a crack then and didn't see what all the fuss was about, and after giving it another shot, I still don't get it

Scott 2 is an incredibly fitting name for this album. Scott 2 good songs on it, and the rest is a snooze fest.

Scott Walker? More like Scott Walk me out back and shoot me

Are you fucking kidding with this? It's like a bad joke. HARD PASS.

This is really out there. Like Space Ghost in a velvet suit.

Such a weird album...especially for the time. Not really a fan however. 1.5/5

Trash, interesting and self indulgent

No not my music. I know he is influential but I don’t like it at all..

Wtf is this

Not a fan of his voice.

not my thing... always sounded like soundtrack music for 60's movies, and then I realized it was in fact music from soundtracks of the 60s

I can't believe I had to listen to another version of the awful panto dame spoken word song from last week. See said Alex Harvey 'Next' review for my feelings on this album except I did not enjoy it this time.

Not today buddy

aggressively dogshit

Next!

I'm not going to lie, after hearing the first song, I thought this was a satire crooning album a la Richard Cheese. And I would have enjoyed the hell out of it if that were the case. But no, he was being serious. I think. What a weird, tone deaf album.

Not my style

Scott number 2 is about right, this album was sh*t.

Is this a Martin Short character? He lost me at Gonorrhea. 0/5

I liked Black Sheep Boy. Everything after that was god awful.

Ummm. Show tune to open, shit to follow and then country, crooning, more shit. wtf? This was a #1 album in UK? I was 2, so may have missed the zeitgeist, but thank God I did.

So pompous, so melodramatic, so grandiose, so misogynistic, so homophobic. And that’s just the vocal…. This is a something only a creepy uncle could love when he’s taking time off from making women feel uncomfortable…

The album is named "Scott 2," which felt like a bad sign. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but this was so big and overblown that I just started laughing when they went ahead and doubled up his voice so he could echo himself (badly).

Wow, what an experience. I don’t know who this record is for. Every song is like its own terrible little musical.

Goooong!

This was like if Frank Sinatra attempted to be Tom Waits. It's real cheesy and dumb.

Nope, musical-sounding songs. Broadway perhaps?

Good Lord, why is this listed here? It's like having your drunk uncle grab the karaoke machine crooning for an hour of cringe lyrics.

Cat: Yikes

Really dated. Didn't care for a single song on the album.

thank god that's over, pointless noise buzzing in my ears for 40 minutes. half forgot that i was even listening. wouldn't even use as background music, whack. 1/5

Fuck this guy

Was t his a joke?

Not my music taste

This feels like an album that I'm far from the right demographic and time period necessary to come close to enjoy it. For the most part, I can't get past the voice even when the lyrics or instrumental are engaging. My favorite songs were his covers, making me wonder if I would like the originals more. My grandpa would probably skip this if it came on too. 2.5/10

This is something I'd expect to hear in a low budget western film another pop/country album about as good as the genre could probably be and that's just from the first song Jackie.

A frank sinatra saying punk lyrics. Is unfinishable to annoying.

To be honest, this makes me think of the Gaither Gospel Band, a 80s southern gospel vocal group. I don't like it. I do really like some of the orchestration, but it's a miss for me otherwise. If there was no singing, I'd say this was a really good instrumental album. But I'm getting the ick from this.

A man way too in love with his own voice (whose defining feature is a too-slow vibrato).

TRASH SEXIST TRASH

Wildly inconsistent and the lyrics were bad. It was not enjoyable. No need to listen or even consider. It is better than 1 but not a 2. I will round down.

Gross

It's a rare talent to have someone with an admittedly strong voice, backed by the classic '60s pop sound, to create music that's so bland. This record reminds me of someone like Barry Manilow - but for all of Manilow's corniness and cheesiness, I'd much rather listen to his music.

Boring. Also he said f*g.

Thats a large portion Oh frig no, definitely not one for me.

I get that Scott Walker is supposed to be this rogue crooner who earned the respect of the gritty auteurs, but everything about this felt dated to my ear. I will admit a bias - even Tony Bennett and Tom Jones do nothing for me, so he was fighting an uphill battle. For every song that had moments that drew my attention, songs like The Girls and the Dogs would come along to make me cringe. I just can't get on board

This sounds like an album of show tunes. Not for me.

This sucked. Smaltzy and boring. Could not finish it.

Frustratingly sexist, garbage vibrato, lounge-lizard, disco-adjacent trash vocals laid on top of Specter's lifeless brick turd production. I hated everything about this pretentious, cheesy, corpse of a record.

Horrible.

Mikä vitun musikaali tää on? :D Ei nyt silleensä huonoa mutta olihan tää nyt aika paskaa :d

I don't really have patience for you scott walker.

Grew on me a little. The man definitely has a golden voice but I wasn’t feeling this one

Doesn't measure up to other crooners

I put the divine comedy on and really enjoyed it. This was shit.

Cheese deluxe. Gross. No thanks. Go away.

Yeah that was pretty awful.

WTF was that? Some weird blend of orchestral pop backed gross male behavior novelty songs… Jacques Brel covers? Stop. No thank you.

This is horrible. This is so much worse then anything i expected.

This was a chore to get through

Not a fan of this at all. Seems like super self-indulgent pretentious 60's horny music. I feel like I really didn't need to listen to this before I died, but here we are.

I hated this album and the lyrics upset me. Boooooo

I tried to listen to it...started scanning songs and lost interest quickly. Why is this a 1001 album? Is it "what not to do?" Is it because Phil Spector and his "wall of sound" epicness? Whatever - others have done this schtick better.

Not what I expected knowing his top played hit

What the hell? How was this ever popular?

This guy sucks. Every song is this grandeous sweeping gesture over acted horse water.

Delusional brassy ear trash

Thank god that's over. I hated nearly everything about this. Fuckin' awful. 1 star.

not for me

so boring....

Unerträglich. Obwohl die Arrangements eigentlich echt gut sind. Die Songs aber nicht. Die Texte sind ganz gut, die einfallslose Musik aber gar nicht.

Meh

No me ha gustado nada. Esto es prescindible por muy Disney y croner que pueda sonar. Se va a llevar una estrella y gracias.

Nothing about this album aged well.

12 pieces of music that sound absolutely beautiful, likely played by world-class musicians and some asshat comes along and drowns it all out by 'singing' making every song sound exactly the same; no thank you.

Vintage … not in a good way

utter shite

Cringe and gross. I see him being compared to Neil diamond but he's somehow worse which I did not think was possible. Next.

Load of bollocks

What the fuck even was this

Shut up Scott

Effen horrible. Sounds like a bad lounge singer with a bad case of the flu.

Drôle d’album ici. J’ai pas vraiment aimé, mais j’y ai entendu des sonorités qu’on retrouve sur le premier album de The Last Shadow Puppets. La voix ressemble aussi par moment à celle d’Alex Kapranos de Franz Ferdinand.

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg - There's a high-pitched noise throughout this song, it's irritating. Honestly, this style just doesn't jibe with me.

I hope Scott 4 and any other Scott Walker albums that might make this list are better, because this did absolutely nothing for me. Maybe the lyrics are good and that's why it's here?- I found Next a bit interesting but in general wasn't too focused because of the instrumentation and his terrible 60s croon pop voice. Ugh. Black Sheep was okayish, so I'll give this a 1.5.

Pretty bad. Just because it is from the U.K., does not mean it is a must-listen-to.

No, I couldn't get through it.

If you like movie sound tracks you might like this

People who like this concern me.

Not bad reminded me a little of neil diamond got a little bit repetative

This was too much in all the wrong ways. The wall of sound. The sinatra ripoff-homage the outragey-weird lyrics.

If you look at Scott’s lyrics out of context of the music, some of it actually okay poetry. But the aimless music makes it sounds like rambling drivel.

Really not me. Eye opening mind.

Nope, I hate that.

no

Overly theatrical voice, schmaltzy arrangements. At best, tracks are like mediocre Bond theme songs ('best of both worlds'). Unconvincing country pastiche ('black sheep boy'). While the music is cheesy and cliched, the ;lyrics are often strange and unfiltered ('next'). Weirdly honest, yet highly artificial. I did not enjoy this album.

i liked scott 4, but not this one. i did like the song Jackie though. 1/5 stars.

God this sounds so dated. It's weird, the lyrics are actually quite clever pointed, but music is so dull it just stops me from being interested.

Not my cup of tea.

Nope, not for me. And not for anybody else I hope ;)

Ugh...en dan te bedenken dat er ook nog de albums Scott 3 en Scott 4 zijn....

Huh??!? I felt like I was at a modern opera, but then Scott would jump in with insane lyrics. He looked nothing like the deep, strong, tenor he would belt out. The only track I liked was “Next”. So no matter how many Scott’s you made 1-2-3-4 ... I would buy 0. If you have time to waste listen to his song “Jesse” for a true creep out.

What was that?!

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg - There's a high-pitched noise throughout this song, it's irritating. Honestly, this style just doesn't jibe with me.

je n'ai pas de mots mais une expression WEUARK pourtant une belle voix mais ce style avec orchestre décourageant que cela puisse plaire

This is terrible.

Ooof.......

Why, when Neil Diamond exists?

Nem consegui ouvir tudo de tão chato.

Not really ok.

A bit too much like Niel Diamond but not as catchy