Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
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Artist: Tom WaitsBrand: WAITS,TOM
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1990-05-11
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Product features:
- WAITS TOM FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- Cinny's Waltz
- Muriel
- I Never Talk to Strangers
- Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come
- A Sight for Sore Eyes
- Potter's Field
- Burma-Shave
- Barber Shop
- Foreign Affair
Free Music Notes for Foreign Affairs
Free Music Review: A musical tour de force, the pinnacle of Waits!
Hit: 5 Stars
Foreign Affairs wanders across nine tracks, exploring lonely souls, capricious youth, bar pick-ups, haircuts, and billboard advertisements for shaving. Through "traveling abroad" Waits refocused himself on America and that which is uniquely American. The open-road freedom of "Jack and Neal" is both a tribute to Kerouac and Cassidy and a tribute to the distinct freedom of the American road, the dreams that stretch out before one, and the promise of the West. The theme is revisited on "Burma Shave," where the promise of the horizon ends up a twisted wreck by the side of the road. The song, written as a tribute to Presley, is among Wait's finest creations. There's more here too. As a bouncer Waits often wrote down overheard conversations, and "I Never Talk to Strangers" with Bette Midler is precisely that, an everyday conversation set to piano and tenor sax. Likewise, "Muriel" is a lamentation over swizzle sticks and cigarettes for the one that got away. Waits along with Hopper, is the greatest chroniclery of American lonliness. The intimacy of his sound surpasses that of the printed word, and so draws the listener in that by the end of the CD you are sure your shirt smells like a stale barroom... END
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