{{for|the 1970 film|Five Easy Pieces}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = 5 Easy Pieces | type = Box set | artist = Scott Walker | cover = 5 Easy Pieces - Scott Walker.jpg | alt = | released = 24 November 2003 | recorded = 1964–1995 | venue = | studio = | genre = Various | length = 345:54 | label = Mercury Records | producer = Various | prev_title = Pola X | prev_year = 1999 | next_title = The Drift | next_year = 2006 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-five-easy-pieces-mw0000741107 |title= Scott Walker: In Five Easy Pieces |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |website=Allmusic |access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref> | rev2 = ''The Guardian'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/nov/28/popandrock.shopping9 |title=Scott Walker: In 5 Easy Pieces |authorlink=Adam Sweeting |last=Sweeting |first=Adam |date=28 November 2003 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Independent'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/new-box-sets-scott-walker-72507.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504135427/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/new-box-sets-scott-walker-72507.html |archive-date=2019-05-04 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=New Box Sets: Scott Walker In 5 Easy Pieces (Mercury) |last=Gill |first=Andy |date=19 December 2003 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref> | rev4 = ''The Observer'' | rev4Score = favourable<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/omm/reviews/story/0,,1103851,00.html |title=And the rest |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=14 December 2003 |newspaper=The Observer |access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref> | rev5 = Pitchfork | rev5Score = (9.5/10)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8763-5-easy-pieces/ |title=Scott Walker: 5 Easy Pieces |last=Plagenhoef |first=Scott |date=12 January 2004 |website=Pitchfork |access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref> | rev6 = ''The Daily Telegraph'' | rev6Score = favourable<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3607025/CD-reviews-Bruce-Springsteen-and-more.html |title=CD reviews: Scott Walker in 5 Easy Pieces |last=Campion |first=Chris |date=21 November 2003 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref> | rev7 = ''The Times'' | rev7Score = favourable<ref>''The Times'', 5 December 2003.</ref> }}
'''''5 Easy Pieces''''' is a box set anthology of the career (to 2003) 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, ‡ by Ute Lemper, and 2.16 by Esther Ofarim .
===CD 1: In My Room=== ''The complete bedsit dramas, including the kitchen sink''<!--These subtitles for each disc appear on the back of the box--> # "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''<!--These subtitles for each disc appear on the back of the box--> # "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''<!--These subtitles for each disc appear on the back of the box--> # "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 (Jerry Fuller) # "Rawhide" – 3:50 # "Blanket Roll Blues" – 3:12 (Tennessee Williams, Kenyon Hopkins) # "Tilt" – 5:05 # "Patriot (a single)" <!--NB "(a single)" is part of the song title, not an annotation--> – 7:59
===CD 4: This Is How You Disappear=== ''The darkest hour is just before dawn: 15 big hits''<!--These subtitles for each disc appear on the back of the box--> # "The Plague" – 3:34 # "Plastic Palace People" – 6:05 # "Boy Child" – 3:37 # "Shutout"<!--This is as the title appears on the original album; on the box set it's "The Shut Out"--> † – 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" a.k.a. "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''<!--These subtitles for each disc appear on the back of the box--> # "Light" – 3:20 # "Deadlier Than The Male" † – 2:32 # "The Rope and the Colt" (Andre Hossein, Hal Shapper) – 2:01 # "Meadow" – 1:24 # "The Seventh Seal" – 4:58 # "The Darkest Forest" – 5:44 # "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti" – (Theme from ''Sacco e Vanzetti'') (Joan Baez, Ennio Morricone) – 3:32 # "Theme from ''Summer of '42'' (The Summer Knows)" - (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand)" – 3:20 # "Glory Road" (The Theme from ''W.U.S.A.'') (Neil Diamond) – 3:32 # "Isabel" – 6:39 # "Man From Reno" (Scott Walker, Goran Bregović) – 4:21 # "The Church of the Apostles" – 5:50 # "Indecent Sacrifice" (Walker, Bregović) – 4:07 # "Bombupper" – 0:52 # "I Threw It All Away" (Bob Dylan) – 2:20 # "River of Blood" – 1:25 # "Only Myself to Blame" (Don Black, David Arnold) – 3:38 # "Running" – 1:44 # "The Time Is Out of Joint!" – 1:09 # "Never Again" – 1:27 # "Closing" – 1:53
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