Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
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Artist: Tom WaitsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-05-11
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Cinny's Waltz
- Muriel
- I Never Talk to Strangers
- Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come
- Sight for Sore Eyes
- Potter's Field
- Burma-Shave
- Barber Shop
- Foreign Affair
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Free Music Review: Waits goes into a traditional jazz direction on his 5th album
Hit: 5 Stars
Following the experimental jazz elements that he explored on 1976's "Small Change", Tom Waits decided to go into a more traditional jazz direction. You can find all the familiar elements of jazz on this release such as piano ("Burma-Shave"), sax ("Medley"), and stand-up bass ("Barber Shop"). He went into a good direction on this release but he took it to a whole new level lyrically and musically on the follow up "Blue Valentine". I do consider this one of his most under-rated albums and I do recommended it for everyone's Tom Waits collection.
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Welcome to the hipster blues. By the time of this 1977 recording, Tom Waits had fully transformed himself into a musical character actor from another era, caught somewhere between Raymond Chandler and the Beat Generation. His vocals here are some of the most mannered performances this side of Bukowski (and probably had something to do with the movie roles he won in the coming years). His use of strings on some of these tracks can occasionally drift dangerously close to schmaltz, but that's easily compensated by such highlights as his duet with Bette Midler on "I Never Talk to Strangers" and the breathless melodrama of "Burma-Shave." Cool. --Steve ApplefordClassic Rock Music CDs
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