Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
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Free Music Review: casper milquetoast
Hit: 5 Stars
As anyone into music will attest, most of the real quality stuff lies beneath the surface and sometimes you have to rummage around to find it.If you're intrigued by Tom and fancy a rummage, then look no further than 'Swordfishtrombones'.
Toms' work re-defines the term 'grower'. It can be hard work to a first time listener, but eventually you grow into it, and then it just keeps on giving.
Waits's music has so much grit and texture, roughness and rawness, smoothness yet harshness, beauty and uglyness... It's complex but simple; warm and cold; dry but damp; old but always new. 'Swordfishtrombones' never fails to amuse and amaze.
It seems to have a life of it's own and exists in the strange world that Tom has created for it, but if you get amongst it, you will always return and find something intriguing. It's a musical pawn shop.
What is 'casper milquetoast' anyway?
Free Music Review: Unexpected Treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
A few years ago I had bought Tom Waits newest release Alice. After being spendedly shocked, a friend recommended Swordfishtrombones. I went and picked it up and was blown away. From the opening track Underground to Rainbirds Tom Waits grabs and maintains the attention of any listener. With interesting lyrics from love ballads for his wife, to the hate of suberbia, Waits knows how to make a tune. One of my favorite tracks on the album is Shore Leave. A great investigation into the mind of a poor sailor on his night off in some foreign land. The album seems to be riddled with soldiers, love, and distaste of the city. The title track is one of the smoothest, interesting stories that Waits paints so vividly you'd swear you saw the whole thing in person. In conclusion, I would recommend any album of his to anybody, but my first would be Swordfishtrombones. Buy it! You won't be disappointed.Free Music Review: HITTING HIS STRIDE
Hit: 5 Stars
Tom Waits output from the seventies was very good. His Beat influenced barfly personna playing a blues/jazz/Tin Pan Alley hybrid made him a unique artist. With Swordfishtrombones he took unique to a new level. Employing odd instrumentation, bare bones percussion and Marc Ribot's dirty guitar sound, Waits created the sound of a demented carnival. The lyrics also take a giant step forward. Johnsburg, Ill., A Soldier's Things and Frank's Wild Years show the for detail of a great fiction writer. 16 Shots(From a 30:6) and Gin Soaked Boy sound like authentic blues from the delta. This is the sound of a master bringing his art into focus. And this was only the beginning (See Raindogs, Bone Machine and his two latest efforts Alice and Blood Money). One of my all time favorites.Free Music Review: Overrated? I don't think so.
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is an absolute classic, and a milestone in Waits' career--it marks the moment he turned his back on the bourbon-and-cigarettes persona that he'd exhausted and began the innovations as a musician and storyteller that have made him indispensable. The emotional highlights--"Johnsburg, Illinois" and "Soldier's Things"--are matched by dark humor ("Frank's Wild Years"), percussive stomps (I will never forget the first time I heard "16 Shells from a 30.06"), and heartbreaking, howling lyricism ("Shore Leave"). Yes, I suppose in a sense the album is incomplete, if only because once the last notes of "Rainbirds" have faded away, I feel compelled to listen to it again. Tom's greatness starts with this album.Free Music Review: An amazing collection of offbeat music, not for the timid
Hit: 5 Stars
I have arrived at Tom Waites at the age of 52, and find myself wondering why the hell I never discovered his music before. This is not for the timid, it's a mixture of primal and raw music. Itis jarring, discordant, grainy and addicting. There is more than a hint of Kurt Weill to the whole album, and the ensuing mixture strikes a chord that sets my own soul buzzing with sympathetic vibrations. I think you have to have a dark and twisted streak to appreciate this album. You have to know the taste of too many cigarettes, the pounding of Scotch induced hangovers, and the scent of cheap perfume on a cold, empty pillow. I love