Scott Walker - Thanks For Chicago, Mr. James
Taken from his first non-numbered solo record, Til The Band Comes In, although I knew this track for years before I became a Scott fan due to its inclusion on Joan Of Arc’s album Live In Chicago, 1999 (that album is a personal obsession I will address at a later date). Although Scott was later to talk disparagingly of pretty much his entire career, there is just no denying his voice, or his creepy way with an oblique lyric…there always seem to be lots of things unsaid, other motives playing themselves out off-screen, not enough information to quite decipher the plot of his mini-movies…or maybe I’m just listening really hard to the orchestra all the time :)
