Tom Waits' hese og
rufsete stemme må uten tvil være en av rockens mest karakteristiske.
Fra debuten "Closing Time" i 1973 og frem til "Swordfishtrombones" i
1983 inneholdt musikken hans mye blues og visse jazzelementer men uten jazzens
iver for improvisasjon. Sangene handler gjerne om livets
skyggesider, Waits blir regnet som en av rockens beste
tekstforfattere. Tidlig på 80-tallet
forandret Waits stil. Han tok inn mer utradisjonelle
instrumenter som diverse blåsere og rytmeinstrumenter og musikken ga
assosiasjoner til teater. Dette ble også
viktige elementer i scene-oppsettet til hans konserter, han er ekstremt
kresen ved valg av konsertlokaler og har av den grunn ikke holdt
konserter i Norge i senere år. Waits ble
etter hvert en svært lite tradisjonell rockartist. Denne nye
stilen ga "Sword-fishtrombones" et helt særegent lydbilde, et lydbilde
som har fulgt Waits frem til i dag. Hans neste utgivelse "Rain
Dogs" må, sammen med Swordfish, betraktes som noen av rockens største
høydepunkt. Etter en bølgedal med et par noe svakere utgivelser
rundt 1990 har han nå kommet sterkt tilbake og beviser på nytt hvor
stor han egentlig er. På sitt siste album fra 2004,
Real Gone,
har Waits endret en del på lydbildet til et skarpere sound.
Om dette var særlig vellykket kan nok diskuteres men låtene og
tekstene holder fortsatt samme høye nivå. Konsertopptaket "Big
Time" er foreløpig kun utgitt på VHS. Siden dette formatet ikke
lenger kan regnes som særlig relevant kan jeg nå glede meg over å
ha fått tak i en DVD-Bootleg av denne konserten. |
Nytt på denne
side:
Closing
Time
(1973) LP (4,5/5)
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1.
Ol' '55
2. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
3. Virginia Avenue
4. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
5. Midnight Lullaby
6. Martha
7. Rosie
8. Lonely
9. Ice Cream Man
10. Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings of Your Love)
11. Grapefruit Moon
12. Closing Time |
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The Heart of
Saturday Night
(1974) LP (3,5/5)
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1.
New Coat of Paint
2. San Diego Serenade
3. Semi Suite
4. Shiver Me Timbers
5. Diamonds On My Windshield
6. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
7. Fumblin' With The Blues
8. Please Call Me, Baby
9. Depot, Depot
10. Drunk On The Moon
11. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House) |
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Nighthawks At The Diner
(1975) CD
(3,5/5)
Live
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1. (Opening
Intro)
2. Emotional Weather Report
3. (Intro)
4. On A Foggy Night
5. (Intro)
6. Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
7. (Intro)
8. Better Off Without A Wife
9. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)
10. (Intro)
11. Warm Beer And Cold Women
12. Intro)
13. Putnam County
14. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
15. Nobody
16. (Intro)
17. Big Joe And Phantom 309
18. Spare Parts II And Closing |
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Small Change
(1976) LP (4,5/5)
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1.
Tom Traubert's Blues
2. Step Right Up
3. Jitterbug Boy
4. I Wish I Was In New Orleans
5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
6. Invitation To The Blues
7. Pasties And A G-string
8. Bad Liver And A Broken Heart
9. The One That Got Away
10. Small Change
11. I Can't Wait To Get Off Work |
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Foreign
Affairs
(1977) LP (3/5)
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1.
Cinny's Waltz
2. Muriel
3. I Never Talk To Strangers
4. Medley:
a) Jack & Neal
b) California Here I Come
5. A Sight For Sore Eyes
6. Potter's Field
7. Burma Shave
8. Barber Shop
9. Foreign Affair |
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Blue Valentine
(1978) LP
3,5/5
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1.
Somewhere (From "Westside Story")
2. Red Shoes By The Drugstore
3. Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
4. Romeo Is Bleeding
5. Wrong Side of The Road
6. Whistlin Past The Graveyard
7. Kentucky Avenue
8. A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun
9. Blue Valentines |
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Heartattack And Vine
(1980) LP
3/5
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1.
Heartattack And Vine
2. In Shades
3. Saving All My Love For You
4. Downtown
5. Jersey Girl
6. 'Til The Money Runs Out
7. On The Nickel
8. Mr. Siegal
9. Ruby's Arms |
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Swordfishtrombones
(1983) LP
5/5
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1. Underground
2. Shore Leave
3. Dave The Butcher
4. Johnsburg, Illinois
5. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six
6. Town With No Cheer
7. In The Neighborhood
8. Just Another Sucker On The Vine
9. Frank's Wild Years
10. Swordfishtrombone
11. Down, Down, Down
12. Soldier's Things
13. Gin Soaked Boy
14. Trouble's Braids
15. Rainbirds |
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Rain Dogs
(1985) LP/CD
5/5
LP |
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1. Singapore
2. Clap Hands
3. Cemetery Polka
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
5. Tango Till They're Sore
6. Big Black Mariah
7. Diamonds & Gold
8. Hang Down Your Head
9. Time
10. Rain Dogs
11. Midtown
12. 9th & Hennepin
13. Gun Street Girl
14. Union Square
15. Blind Love
16. Walking Spanish
17. Downtown Train
18. Bride of Raindog
19. Anywhere I Lay My Head |
CD |
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Franks Wild Years
(1987) LP
4/5
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1. Hang On St.
Christopher
2. Straight To The Top (Rhumba)
3. Blow Wind Blow
4. Temptation
5. Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
6. I'll Be Gone
7. Yesterday Is Here
8. Please Wake Me Up
9. Franks Theme
10. More Than Rain
11. Way Down In The Hole
12. Straight To The Top (Vegas)
13. I'll Take New York
14. Telephone Call From Istanbul
15. Cold Cold Ground
16. Train Song
17. Innocent When You Dream (78) |
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Big Time
(1988) CD 3/5
Live
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1. 16
Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six
2. Red Shoes
3. Underground
4. Cold Cold Ground
5. Straight To The Top
6. Yesterday Is Here
7. Way Down In The Hole
8. Falling Down
9. Strange Weather
10. Big Black Mariah
11. Rain Dogs
12. Train Song
13. Johnsburg, Illinois
14. Ruby's Arms
15. Telephone Call From Istanbul
16. Clap Hands
17. Gun Street Girl
18. Time |
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Big Time
(1988) DVD-Bootleg
?/5
Live. Visstnok
offisielt utgitt på DVD i Tyskland, men svært vanskelig å oppdrive.
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1. Just
Another Sucker On The Vine
2. Franks Wild Years
3. Shore Leave
4. Way Down In The Hole
5. Hang On St. Christopher
6. Telephone Call From Istanbuls
7. Cold Cold Ground
8. Straight To The Top - Vegas
9. Strange Weather
10. Gun Street Girl
11. 9th And Hennepin
12. Clap Hands
13. Time
14. Rain Dogs
15. Train Song
16. 16 Shells From A 30.6
17. I'll Take New York
18. More Than Rain
19. Johnsburg, Illinois
20. Innocent When You Dream
21. Big Black Mariah |
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Night On Earth
(1991) CD (2/5)
Filmmusikk
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1.
Back In The Good Old World
2. Los Angeles Mood
3. Los Angeles Theme
4. New York Theme
5. New York Mood
6. Baby I'm Not A Baby Anymore
7. Good Old World (Waltz)
8. Carnival
9. On The Other Side of The World
10. Good Old World (Gypsy instrumental)
11. Paris Mood
12. Dragging A Dead Priest
13. Helsinki Mood
14. Carnival Bob's Confession
15. Good Old World (Waltz) vocal
16. On The Other Side of The World (Instrumental)
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Bone Machine
(1992) LP
4,5/5
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1. Earth Died
Screaming
2. Dirtin The Ground
3. Such A Scream
4. All Stripped Down
5. Who Are You
6. The Ocean Doesen't Want Me
7. Jesus Gonna Be Here
8. A Little Rain
9. In The Colosseum
10. Goin' Out West
11. Murder In The Red Barn
12. Black Wings
13. Whistle Down The Wind
14. I Don't Wanna Grow Up
15. Let Me Get Up On It
16. That Feel |
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The Black Rider
(1993) CD (2/5)
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1. Lucky Day
Overture
2. The Black Rider
3. November
4. Just The Right Bullets
5. Black Box Theme
6. T' Ain't No Sin
7. Flash Pan Hunter/Intro
8. That's The Way
9. The Briar And The Rose
10. Russian Dance
11. Gospel Train/Orchestra
12. I'll Shoot The Moon
13. Flash Pan Hunter
14. Crossroads
15. Gospel Train
16. Interlude
17. Oily Night
18. Lucky Day
19. The Last Rose of Summer
20. Carnival |
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Asylum Years
(1996) CD
Compilation
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1. Diamonds On My
Windshield
2. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
3. Martha
4. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)
5. Grapefruit Moon
6. Small Change
7. Burma Shave
8. I Never Talk To Strangers
9. Tom Traubert's Blues
10. Blue Valentines
11. Potter's Field
12. Kentucky Avenue
13. Somewhere (From 'West Side Story')
14. Ruby's Arms |
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Mule Variations
(1999) CD
4/5
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1. Big In Japan
2. Lowside of The Road
3. Hold On
4. Get Behind The Mule
5. House Where Nobody Lives
6. Cold Water
7. Pony
8. What's He Building?
9. Black Market Baby
10. Eyeball Kid
11. Picture In A Frame
12. Chocolate Jesus
13. Georgia Lee
14. Filipino Box Spring Hog
15. Take It With Me
16. Come On Up To The House |
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Blood Money
(2002) CD
4/5
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1. Misery Is The
River of The World
2. Everything Goes To Hell
3. Coney Island Baby
4. All The World Is Green
5. God's Away On Business
6. Another Man's Vine
7. Knife Chase
8. Lullaby
9. Starving In The Belly of A Whale
10. The Part You Throw Away
11. Woe
12. Calliope
13. A Good Man Is Hard To Find |
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Alice
(2002) CD
4/5
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1. Alice
2. Everything You Can Think
3. Flower's Grave
4. No One Knows I'm Gone
5. Kommienezuspadt
6. Poor Edward
7. Table Top Joe
8. Lost In The Harbour
9. We're All Mad Here
10. Watch Her Disappear
11. Reeperbahn
12. I'm Still Here
13. Fish & Bird
14. Barcarolle
15. Fawn |
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Real Gone
(2004) CD (3,5/5)
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1. Top of The
Hill
2. Hoist That Rag
3. Sins of The Father
4. Shake It
5. Don't Go Into The Barn
6. How's It Gonna End
7. Metropolitan Glide
8. Dead And Lovely
9. Circus
10. Trampled Rose
11. Green Grass
12. Baby Gonna Leave Me
13. Clang Boom Steam
14. Make It Rain
15. Day After Tomorrow |
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Orphans - Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
(2006) Trippel-CD
4,5/5
Compilation med 30 nye låter
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CD 1 - Brawlers
1.
Lie To Me
2. Low Down
3. 2:19
4. Fish In The Jailhouse
5. Bottom of The World
6. Lucinda
7. Ain't Goin' Down To The Well
8. Lord I've Been Changed
9. Puttin' On The Dog
10. Road To Peace
11. All The Time
12. The Return of Jackie And Judy
13. Walk Away
14. Sea of Love
15. Buzz Fledderjohn
16. Rains On Me
CD 2 - Bawlers
1.
Bend Down The Branches
2. You Can Never Hold Back Spring
3. Long Way Home
4. Window's Grove
5. Little Drop of Poison
6. Shiny Things
7. World Keeps Turning
8. Tell It To Me
9. Never Let Go
10. Fannin Street
11. Little Man |
12. It's Over
13. If I Have To Go
14. Goodnight Irene
15. The Fall of Troy
16. Take Care of All My Children
17. Down There By The Train
18. Danny Says
19. Jayne's Blue Wish
20. Young At Heart
CD 3 - Bastards
1.
What Keeps Mankind Alive
2. Children's Story
3. Heigh Ho
4. Army Ants
5. Books of Moses
6. Bone Chain
7. Two Sisters
8. First Kiss
9. Dog Door
10. Redrum
11. Nirvana
12. Home I'll Never Be
13. Poor Little Lamb
14. Altar Boy
15. The Pontiac
16. Spidey's Wild Ride
17. King Kong
18. On The Road |
Burma Shave
(2006) DVD ?/5
Live 1979
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Medley;
1. Summertime Blues/Burma Shave
Medley;
2. Annie's Back In Town/I Wish I Was In New Orleans/Ain't
Gonna Rain
3. Bullets
4. On The Nickel
5. Romeo Is Bleeding
Medley;
6. Silent Night/Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
Medley;
7. Small Change/Hey Big Spender/Small Change
8. Digital Greetings From Hell (Instrumental) |
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Under Review 1983-2006
(2007) DVD ?/5
DVD Omslag |
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Tom Waits performances re-assessed by a panel of
esteemed experts
Rare interviews,
seldom seen footage and unususal photos from the period
Reviews,
comments and criticism
Footage of
and comments on...
Live and
studio recordings
Extras:
The interactive Tom Waits challenge
Meet the panel
Beyond DVD - More Tom Waits |
DVD Cover |
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Diverse
artister
Lost In The Stars; The
Music of Kurt Weill
(1985) LP
(?/5)
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1. Mahoggony
Songspiel (Steve Weisberg)
2. "The Ballad of Mac The Knife" (Sting and Dominic
Muldowney)
3. "The Cannon Song" (Fowler Brothers and Stan Ridgway)
4. "Ballad of The Soldier's Wife" (Marianne Faithful and
Chris Spedding)
5. Johnny Johnston Medley (Van Dyke Parks)
6. "Alabama Song" (Ralph Schuckett m.fl.)
7. "Youkali Tango" (Armadillo String Quartet)
8. "Der Kleine Leutnant Des Lieben Gottes" (John Zorn)
9. "September Song" (Lou Reed)
10. "Lost In The Stars" (Carla Bley with Phil Woods)
11.
"What Keeps Mankind Alive?" (Tom Waits)
12. "Surabaya Johnny" (Dagmar Krause)
13. "Oh Heavenly Salvation" (Mark Bingham with Johnny Adams and
Aaron Neville)
14. "Call From The Grave/Ballad In Which Macheath Begs All Men For
Forgiveness" (Todd Rundgren with Gary Windo)
15. "Speak Low" (Charlie Haden and Sharon Freeman)
16. "In No Man's Land" (Van Dyke Parks) |
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