Tom Waits - Mule Variations
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Artist: Tom WaitsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-04-27
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Big In Japan
- Lowside Of The Road
- Hold On
- Get Behind The Mule
- House Where Nobody Lives
- Cold Water
- Pony
- What's He Building?
- Black Market Baby
- Eyeball Kid
- Picture In A Frame
- Chocolate Jesus
- Georgia Lee
- Filipino Box Spring Hog
- Take It With Me
- Come On Up To The House
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Free Music Review: The dice is laughin at the man that he throwed
Hit: 5 Stars
Been listening to Tom Waits on and off since I saw him one time in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in the 80s, doing his Franks Wild Years routine. Halfway through he tells his band to smoke a cigarette, switches off all the lights and stands there all alone with this electric miner's lamp up against his face. Smokes a cigarette himself, right there on stage. He goes on to belt out in his unbelievable voice a couple of songs that just about tore down the whole damn house--looked like some sort of crazy-haired Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet so he did. Said a funny thing too about New York, said it's a great town for shoes! Been thinking about Mister Waits again coz I've been listening to Mule Variations all morning, mostly that song Cold Water which I can't honestly get enough of or over even. Talk about yer doghouse blues! The sure touch of Sam Beckett in this number is echoed in the great photo of Tom on the back of the album, the one with him in the long black overcoat holding the umbrella. Begob but this felly is just the dead spit of how I've always pictured Mercier! Not that it makes a blind bit of difference mind you but I like to think so. Mule Variations plays very well with Bone Machine and both beef up right brawny like when hammered out at high volume.
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After Tom Waits's six-year stint indulging in other artistic endeavors, hearing his familiar growl is like revving up a beloved old motorcycle after driving around in an SUV. The hard-earned wisdom and arcane sensibilities of this set make it one of strongest releases of his entire eclectic catalog. --Matthew CookeSeven years passed between the release of Bone Machine and Mule Variations. During that time Tom Waits eschewed cutting another "conventional" (the term used loosely here) song collection, occupying his time with acting projects, a soundtrack (Night on Earth), a stage project (The Black Rider), and sundry smaller diversions. What's surprising about Mule Variations is how little he's strayed from the old Bone yard through the years. As with his Grammy-winning 1992 outing, Waits intersperses the tough and the tender, mixing exercises in creative noisemaking with tunes that fall on just the right side of maudlin. As with Bone Machine's "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me," "What's He Building?" is an experiment in word jazz that owes a debt to its creator, Ken Nordine. Waits has again assembled a crew of attuned sidemen (including Primus and steadfast backers Ralph Carney, Larry Taylor, and Joe Gore). And, as always, Waits and his wife-cosongwriter-coproducer Kathleen Brennan exhibit an uncanny ear for the arcane. In the end, Mule Variations is the aural equivalent of a salvage shop that, while largely familiar, still has a few secluded chambers and trap doors. --Steven Stolder
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