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
- A Sight For Sore Eyes
- Potter's Field
- Burma-Shave
- Barber Shop
- Foreign Affair
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Free Music Review: I'n Not A Bad Guy Once You Get To Know Me!
Hit: 4 Stars
Yes TW really nailed Small Change in '76. Everything including the cover.......ESPECIALLY THE COVER, marked Waits's masterpiece. It was a tuff act to follow for sure. Foregn Affair released in '77 was almost as good, but not quite as sharp. Yet I've come back to it of late, and it really is a worthy follow-up. Cindy's Waltz is the opener, (just as Waltzing Matilda is the first track off Small Change. Barber Shop also sounds like Step Right Up from SC, only it's not as manic. Foregin Affair is a beautiful ballard and allows TW to really show off his pipes.... Well almost. Foregin Affair, the title track explores Waits's most universal theme, that of wonderlust. Here he really nails, what might be considered the quintessential Tom Waits song...Just beautiful! Much has been written here of the wonderful duet with Bette Midler, I Never Talk To Strangers. I'll tell you not even Louis Armstrong and Villma Middleton could have had more fun with this number. Overall FA ranks pretty high in the Tom Waits catalog. It's kinda' like Tom says in Never Talk To Strangers, "I'm not a bad guy once you get to know me".
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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 ApplefordPop Music CDs
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