The Moviegoer (album)

The continued unavailability of The Moviegoer is believed to be due to Walker's dissatisfaction with his albums from the early to mid-1970s, as well as the 1969 Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series album, all of which were made up entirely of cover versions and which he describes in the documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man as his "wilderness years". Walker blocked CD re-releases of T.V Series, The Moviegoer and Any Day Now (1973), while Stretch (1973) and We Had It All (1974) were re-released on CD in 1997 by an independent label without Walker's own approval.{{cite book In spite of the album's deletion, the majority of the songs were released on Scott Walker compilation CDs during the 2000s. "Glory Road", "The Summer Knows", and "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti" are included on the 2003 5 Easy Pieces box set, while "Loss Of Love", "Come Saturday Morning", "That Night", "This Way Mary", "A Face In The Crowd", "Speak Softly Love" and "Easy Come Easy Go" can be found on 2005's Classics & Collectibles. Only "Joe Hill" and "All His Children" remain unavailable. ==Reception==

In common with Walker's 1970s output, The Moviegoer was poorly received by critics but has been reassessed since Walker was critically reappraised in the decades following The Walker Brothers' 1978 album Nite Flights. In their Walker biography A Deep Shade of Blue, Mike Watkinson and Pete Anderson recommend the album to only the most die-hard of Scott Walker fans, but cite "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti" as the album's undoubted highlight for its Spaghetti-Western feel vaguely reminiscent of "The Seventh Seal" from Scott 4. Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing retrospectively for Allmusic summarises The Moviegoer as a "harmless mainstream pop album [delivered] without much care". ==Track listing==

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• Scott Walker – Vocals • Johnny Franz – Producer • Peter J. Olliff – Engineering • Robert Cornford – Orchestra director ==Release history==