20 Landmark Songs Of The 60s

15. The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6YWDm0GSU Scott Walker there would be no Jim Morrison, no Jarvis Cocker and no benchmark for what it meant to be a cool, detached poet in pop music. He was pop music's original existentialist, and that's what made him a wonder. What made him even more of a wonder is that he pulled off all of this despite being the 60's heart throb equivalent of Harry Styles. He dressed up the glamour of his supermodel good looks with songs of the blues and heartbreak and with 'The Sun Ain't gonna shine anymore' played an ingenuous trick on the record buying public, here was a hit with a catchy chorus that had some of the saddest and solitary lyrics you will ever hear, can you imagine One Direction singing a line such as "Loneliness is a cloak you wear, a deep shade of blue, is always there"? What made the song so magical was that it taped into what was going on in the music of the time, multi-tracked vocals, strings, flirting with Phil Spector's 'Wall of sound', to create a heady ballad that sounded light-years ahead of anything recorded so far in the history of pop. Scott Walker would go onto make equally intensely serious records, but here he laid down his game plan and this was an unstoppable work of art.