Awesome Music: The vast majority of his output, barring his "wilderness years". Even among his vast catalog, some standouts include:
The slow buildup and orchestral crescendo in "The Electrician", capped off with Scott's powerful and ghostly vocals.
"The Seventh Seal", the impressive retelling of Ingmar Bergman's famous film. Among his most accessible songs, it also counts as one of his most epic, with Scott effectively conveying the scope and scale of the film in just 4 minutes.
"Get Behind Me" from the same album. Not only is the arrangement beautiful and chorus a total ear worm, but the lyrics are some of his best.
Broken Base: Some of his fans, such as Marc Almond, revere his Walker Brothers and late 60s solo work, and can't stand the more avant-garde stuff from Tilt onwards. He also has younger fans who love everything from Tilt onwards and regard his earlier stuff as bizarrely middle-of-the-road.
Covered Up: His versions of Jacques Brel's "Mathilde", "Jackie" and "Ne Me Quitte Pas" ("If You Go Away") are often considered the definitive English versions.
Creator Worship: The man tended to inspire near religious devotion in his fans, even among other acclaimed musicians such as David Bowie and Julian Cope. The latter even put together a compilation of his recordings entitled Fire Escape in the Sky: The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker.
Fan Nickname: 'Til The Band Comes In is sometimes referred to by fans as Scott 5.
Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Jackie", Scott listed a number of names he'd be known by after he performed certain acts. One of them being "Handsome Jack".
Narm: His delivery of the absurd lyric "A CUTE CUTE in a STUPID-ASS way!" in "Jackie." The original French in Jacques Brel's version (beau, beau, beau et con à la fois) makes much more sense, but is hard to convey in English with the right number of syllables.
The majority of his music come Nite Flights. The entirety of each album starting from Tilt live on it.
Much of "The Electrician" builds a creepy, dangerous atmosphere, and it gets worse once you find out the lyrics are about CIA torture of dissidents during Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile.
"Jolson And Jones" off The Drift, especially if you don't expect the sudden pig squealing.
