5 Easy Pieces

----Infobox Album | Name = 5 Easy Pieces
Type = Box set
Artist = Scott Walker


Released = 24 November 2003
Recorded =
Genre = Various
Length = 345:54
Label = Mercury Records
Producer = Various
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ft6zefrk3gf6 link]
*"The Guardian" Rating|3|5 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1094603,00.html 28 Nov 2003]
*"The Independent" Rating|4|5 [http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article72507.ece 19 Dec 2003]
*"The Observer" (favourable) [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,,1103851,00.html 14 Dec 2003]
*Pitchfork Media (9.5/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23261/Scott_Walker_5_Easy_Pieces 13 Jan 2004]
*"The Daily Telegraph" (favourable) [http://www.education.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/22/bmcds22.xml#t 21 Nov 2003]
*"The Times" (favourable) 5 Dec 2003
Last album = "Pola X (soundtrack)"
(1999)
This album = "5 Easy Pieces" (box set)
(2003)
Next album = "The Drift"
(2006)|

"5 Easy Pieces" is a box set anthology of the career (to date) of Scott Walker. It was released in November 2003. The set comprises five themed CDs and a 56 page booklet.

Track listing

All tracks written by Scott Walker, unless otherwise noted. (NB: Walker is sometimes credited as Scott Engel or N. S. Engel; these instances are noted as such in the listing.)All tracks performed by Scott Walker, except † by The Walker Brothers, and ‡ by Ute Lemper.

CD 1: In My Room

"The complete bedsit dramas, including the kitchen sink"
# "Prologue/Little Things" – 3:39 (Scott Walker, Ady Semel)
# "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore" † – 3:45 (Randy Newman)
# "In My Room" † – 2:32 (Joaquin Prieto, translated by Lee Julien Pockriss and Paul Vance)
# "After the Lights Go Out" † – 4:06 (John Stewart)
# "Archangel" † – 3:41
# "Orpheus" † – 3:24
# "Mrs Murphy" – 3:19
# "Montague Terrace (In Blue)" – 3:27
# "Such A Small Love" – 4:52
# "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg" – 4:29
# "It's Raining Today" – 3:59
# "Rosemary" – 3:20
# "Big Louise" – 3:08
# "Angels Of Ashes" – 4:19
# "Hero Of The War" – 2:24
# "Time Operator" – 3:36 (Walker, Semel)
# "Joe" – 3:40 (Walker, Semel)
# "The War Is Over (Sleepers-Epilogue)" – 3:36 (Walker, Semel)

CD 2: Where's The Girl?

"Songs of a Lady, Love and Loss"
# "Where's The Girl?" † – 3:11 (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
# "You're All Around Me" † – 2:37 (Scott Walker, Lesley Duncan)
# "Just Say Goodbye" † – 3:36 (Petula Clark, Pierre Delanoë, Tony Hatch)
# "Hurting Each Other" † – 2:42 (Peter Udell, Gary Geld)
# "Genevieve" † – 2:51
# "Once Upon A Summertime" † – 3:50 (Eddie Marnay, Eddie Barclay, Michel Legrand, translated by Johnny Mercer)
# "When Joanna Loved Me" – 3:07 (Robert Wells, Jack Segal)
# "Joanna" – 3:52 (Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent)
# "Angelica" – 4:00 (Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann)
# "Always Coming Back To You" – 2:36
# "The Bridge" – 2:47
# "Best Of Both Worlds" – 3:13 (Melvin R London, Don Black)
# "Two Weeks Since You've Gone" – 2:45
# "On Your Own Again" – 1:45
# "Someone Who Cared" – 2:57
# "Long About Now" (sung by Esther Ofarim) – 2:05 (Walker, Semel)
# "Scope J" ‡ – 10:50 (N. S. Engel)
# "Lullaby (by-by-by)" ‡ – 11:05 (N. S. Engel)

CD 3: An American In Europe

"Home and away: songs from Europe and America"
# "Jackie" – 3:20 (Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel, Gérard Jouannest)
# "Mathilde" – 2:36 (Shuman, Brel, Jouannest)
# "The Girls And The Dogs" – 3:07 (Shuman, Brel, Jouannest)
# "Amsterdam" – 3:04 (Brel, Shuman)
# "Next" – 2:49 (Brel, Shuman)
# "The Girls From The Streets" – 4:08
# "My Death" – 4:56 (Brel, Shuman)
# "Sons Of" – 3:43 (Brel, Shuman, Jouannest)
# "If You Go Away" – 4:58 (Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen)
# "Copenhagen" – 2:24
# "We Came Through" – 1:56
# "30 Century Man" – 1:27
# "Rhymes Of Goodbye" – 3:04
# "Thanks For Chicago Mr James" – 2:15 (Walker, Semel)
# "Cowbells Shakin'" – 1:05 (Walker, Semel)
# "My Way Home" – 3:28 (Walker, Semel)
# "Lines" † – 3:26 (Scott Walker, Geoff Calver)
# "Rawhide" – 3:50
# "Blanket Roll Blues" – 3:12 (Tennessee Williams, Kenyon Hopkins)
# "Tilt" – 5:05
# "Patriot (a single)" – 7:59

CD 4: This Is How You Disappear

"The darkest hour is just before dawn: 15 big hits"
# "The Plague" – 3:34
# "Plastic Palace People" – 6:05
# "Boy Child" – 3:37
# "Shutout" † – 2:46 (Scott Engel)
# "Fat Mama Kick" † – 2:52 (Scott Engel)
# "Nite Flights" † – 4:20 (Scott Engel)
# "The Electrician" † – 6:01 (Scott Engel)
# "Dealer" – 5:08
# "Track 3" "aka" "Delayed" – 3:42
# "Sleepwalkers Woman" – 4:11
# "Track 5" "aka" "It's A Starving" – 3:32
# "Farmer In The City" – 6:35 (Scott Walker, Pete Walsh)
# "The Cockfighter" – 5:58
# "Bouncer See Bouncer..." – 8:34
# "Face On Breast" – 5:14

CD 5: Scott On Screen

"Music from and for films"
# "Light" – 3:20
# "Deadlier Than The Male" † – 2:32
# "The Rope And The Colt" – 2:01 (Andre Hossein, Hal Shapper)
# "Meadow" – 1:24
# "The Seventh Seal" – 4:58
# "The Darkest Forest" – 5:44
# "The Ballad Of Sacco And Vanzetti - Theme From Sacco And Vanzetti" – 3:32 (Joan Baez, Ennio Morricone)
# "The Summer Knows (Theme from Summer Of '42)" – 3:20 (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand)
# "Glory Road (The theme from W.U.S.A.)" – 3:32 (Neil Diamond)
# "Isabel" – 6:39
# "Man From Reno" – 4:21 (Scott Walker, Goran Bregović)
# "The Church Of The Apostles" – 5:50
# "Indecent Sacrifice" – 4:07 (Walker, Bregović)
# "Bombupper" – 0:52
# "I Threw It All Away" – 2:20 (Bob Dylan)
# "River Of Blood" – 1:25
# "Only Myself To Blame" – 3:38 (Don Black, David Arnold)
# "Running" – 1:44
# "The Time Is Out Of Joint!" – 1:09
# "Never Again" – 1:27
# "Closing" – 1:53