Everything Under The Sun/Once Upon A Summertime/Experience/Blueberry Hill/Orpheus/Stand By Me/I Wanna Know/I Will Wait For You/It Makes No Difference Now/I Can’t Let It Happen To You/Genevieve/Just Say Goodbye
Third and final album of new material from the Walker Brothers before their split. Over the next few years Scott Walker would release a series of acclaimed solo albums. (UK:6)
"The Walker Brothers are not noted for their albums, but the care given to their singles was repeated throughout this, their third album. Their dilemma always was, it seems, which direction to go in. The big, deep ballads that brought them commercial success are represented here, but so is 'Spectoresque' pop, as on their marvellous version of Stand By Me. Scott also has three diverse songs, aimed at deeper waters, but was yet to achieve the level of maturity displayed on his four numbered solo albums. Of the three, I'd say Genevieve is the most potent, while Orpheus is typical of the style he'd develop."
"The Walker Brothers third and final album of the 1960s was as wildly uneven as their other pair. Affecting pop/rock ballads and operatic crooner vehicles were interspersed with absolutely inappropriate uptempo blue-eyed soul and rock covers. However, Scott Walker's songwriting and singing exhibited a growth that foreshadowed some of the more ambitious aspects of his early solo albums."
"The last album Scott, John and Gary made in the '60s is also something of a contrast to the increasingly psychedelic times. Released just as they were on the way out - their singles were charting ever lower. It's a curious mix of material to appease their mental teen fan base, MOR minded mums and dads including even those wanting real substance to their pop entertainment."
"Scott's three compositions are the main reason to buy this album. Experience is a silly, wonderfully entertaining Germanic waltz. Scott's lyrics are as inventive as usual. Orpheus is my favourite, one of Scott's darkest, most seductive songs."
"I don't think there is a more melodramatic, powerful ballad ever recorded than Just Say Goodbye, with it's gorgeous romantic arrangement, and nobody did them better than Scott and John. It ends their brief 60s career perfectly."
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