Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years [1987] [h33t] [Robbie60] [FLAC]

Tom Waits Frank's Wild Years Label: Island Records Released: 1987 Source: Original CD Size Torrent: 313 MB Format: FLAC This rags-to-rags tale completes the trilogy that began with 1983's Swordfishtrombones (featuring the song "Frank's Wild Years," in which the protagonist torches his suburban SoCal house and heads north on the Hollywood Freeway). Then came 1985's Rain Dogs, which mixed Brecht-Weill drama with Captain Beefheart bizarreness for an effect that conjured up a Saturday-night fish fry in the freak show of a decrepit circus. But the down-and-out losers, boozers and life abusers of this presentation are the same folk Waits has lived with all along. The story basically follows Frank on a hazy, ill-fated Orphic journey "Straight to the Top (Vegas)" (as one song is titled) through "Temptation," "Way Down in the Hole" and, finally, out on the "Cold Cold Ground." At the road's end lies "Innocent When You Dream ( 78 )," a moral that is told to Frank early on but doesn't hit home until the end, when it is heard in a lovely, tinnily nostalgic rendition. The songs are alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) bitter and hopeful. Everything from sleazy strip-show blues to cheesy waltzes to supercilious lounge lizardry is given spare, jarring arrangements using various combinations of squawking horns, bashed drums, plucked banjo, snaky double bass, carnival organ and jaunty accordion (the last provided by Los Lobos' David Hidalgo on two tracks). But it's Waits's gravel-pit voice, from which he digs a number of distinct characterizations, that remains the most striking instrument. Personnel Jay Anderson - bass Michael Blair - drums, conga, percussion, maracas, marimba, orchestra bells, glockenspiel Kathleen Brennan - vocal arrangements Angela Brown - background vocals Ralph Carney - sax, baritone horn, violin, tenor sax Greg Cohen- bass, alto horn, horn arrangements, Leslie bass pedals David Hidalgo - accordion Leslie Holland - background vocals Lynne Jordan - background vocals Marc Ribot - guitar, banjo William Schimmel - piano, pump organ, accordion, Leslie bass pedals, cocktail piano Larry Taylor - bass, upright bass Moris Tepper - guitar Francis Thumm - prepared piano, pump organ Tom Waits - vocals, pump organ, Optigan, guitar, vocal stylings, rooster, piano, Farfisa, Mellotron, drums, conga, tambourine Track Listing 1. "Hang on St. Christopher" 2:46 2. "Straight to the Top (Rhumba)" 2:30 3. "Blow Wind Blow" 3:35 4. "Temptation" 3:53 5. "Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)" 4:15 6. "I'll Be Gone" 3:12 7. "Yesterday Is Here" 2:29 8. "Please Wake Me Up" 3:36 9. "Frank's Theme" 1:49 10. "More Than Rain" 3:52 11. "Way Down in the Hole" 3:30 12. "Straight to the Top (Vegas)" 3:26 13. "I'll Take New York" 3:58 14. "Telephone Call from Istanbul" 3:12 15. "Cold Cold Ground" 4:07 16. "Train Song" 3:20 17. "Innocent When You Dream ( 78 )" 3:08

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tonyromano777 (2011-03-06)

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