Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
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Free Music Review: Dark and Humorous, Classic Waits
Hit: 5 Stars
A Tom Waits album is the aural equivalent of walking down a dark twisty path with a cantankerous old uncle who mixes Old Testament wisdom with dirty jokes. Franks Wild Years is another entry in this fine tradition.
As you may already know, this album is taken from an opera that Tom and Kathleen wrote. If you are interested in further explorations of this project, check out Big Time - both the album and the movie (available only on VHS). The studio version of Down in the Hole is great, but the live version is truly amazing and even hilarious. Check it out!
Free Music Review: Sentimental but genuine
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't know why but this album always seems to get left out when people speak of the great Tom Waits albums. This was the first one that I hear and therefore the onle I'm closest to. Aside fom my personal feelings, I honestly feel like this is the album where Tom finally reconciles his need to experiment with his love of great american songwriting.
If you've never heard Tom Waits before, I also think this is an perfect starting point. Being made halfway through his career you get a sense both of where he came from and glimses of where he's going.
Free Music Review: Criminally underrated, magnificent music
Hit: 5 Stars
Though most critical acclaim aimed at Tom Waits focuses primarily on 1985's Rain Dogs or Grammy-winner Bone Machine from '92, the album in between is, in my humble opinion, not only Waits' best, but one of the best from anyone at any time. Waits can be so ecclectic at times that it comes at the sake of continuity, but Franks Wild Years walked the line as no other album did. 17 songs of pure genius from the wild and aggressive Hang on St. Christopher to the glorious final 3 tracks, any one of which would have made the album worth the fifteen bucks.Free Music Review: He makes all the mistakes, but....
Hit: 5 Stars
A friend of mine describes Tom Waits as sounding like Bruce Springsteen with throat cancer! Tom's songs are filled with coughing, singing out of tempo, sour notes, and of course that horrendous voice of his. It's sort of like a garbage can's rotting contents of music. But dammit, it's really good! It's catchy, believe it or not - if you are not already a fan. Because he breaks all the rules it makes you wonder what it is that "good" music consists of. Mozart would probably tear his hair out if he heard it, but dammit, Tom Waits is really good!Free Music Review: One of a kind
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite CD's too; but I don't know if it makes sense to compare it to other Tom Waits, or any other album for that matter. While it -- and Waits -- owes much to many musical genre's, Frank's Wild Years is an original. Nothing I've ever listened to prepared me for the haunting surrealism, and yet many of the songs are heartbreakingly sentimal. And no two songs are alike. I must say that for me it was definitely an acquired taste. I can appreciate one reviewer's comment "it gave me the willies".