THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE DECEMBER 8TH RELEASE DATE. Glitter and Doom is a collection of the best of the best tracks from Tom Waits' sold out, highly acclaimed Glitter and Doom tour of the US and Europe in the summer of 2008. The gatefold LP is designed to sound like one evening's performance, even though the seventeen tracks are selected from ten cities - from Paris to Birmingham; Tulsa to Milan; and Atlanta to Dublin. A bonus compendium (avail   [ read more ]

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THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE DECEMBER 8TH RELEASE DATE. VINYL FORMAT. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards is a spectacular musical journey, which visits most every genre of American song tradition, and this box set redefines the words "Deluxe" or "Collectors Edition." With seven LPs of 180 gram vinyl, six previously unreleased songs, a 32-page book featuring lyrics and insight, and a beautiful hardbound box, the collection captures the full sco   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Blood Money and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Blood Money is etched. It's scratched out in bold, dark lines with marimba, trumpet and bass clarinet and contains some of Tom Waits most memorable melodies. The songs are declarative, sardonic, unforgiving, musical dispatches from the bottom of the heap. "Blood Money is flesh and bone, earthbound," said Waits. "The songs ar   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Alice and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! RESTOCK. VINYL FORMAT. "Alice" is one of the most distinctive of all Waits' creations, occupying its own corner in the odd-angled room that is Tom Waits' body of work. While there are the familiar parts -- the redoubtable ragged voice, jazz ballads and poignant musings on death and longing -- the whole is strange and exotic. A devastatingly beautif   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation ? marimba, accordion, various percussion ? as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs was very much a follow-up to Swordfishtrombones, which is to say that it sounded for the most part like The Threepenny Opera being sung by Howlin' Wolf. Rain Dogs could not surprise as Swordfishtrombones had, and in his attempt to continue in the direction suggested by that album, Waits occasionally bordered on the chaotic (which may only be to say   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Live songs recorded for the documentary Romeo Bleeding: Live in Austin. A bruising, bluesey set from Tom Waits via 1978. Listen up for classics ("Small Change," "Summertime") as well as "Silent Night" and "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis." If you can't see Waits live yourself, this is the next best thing!

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VINYL FORMAT. One From the Heart is the score to Francis Ford Coppola's film of the same name. "The result is one of the most beautifully wrought soundtrack collaborations in history. Along with producer Bones Howe, Waits and Gayle cut their duets largely from the studio floor, live with the small combo-style studio band that included the saxophonist Teddy Edwards, drummer Shelly Manne, trumpeter Jack Sheldon, pianist Pete Jolly, and bassist Greg Cohen, among others. The opening cut, a Wa   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Swordfishtrombones was Waits first release after he unloaded his manager, his producer, and his record label. As might be expected, the resulting record is a far cry from the piano-driven lovelorn ballads of his past. Instead, Swordfishtrombones is full of "...low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-miked arrangements (most of them by Waits) that sometimes were better described as 'soundscapes.'" (All Music Guide)

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VINYL FORMAT. Tom Waits wrote a song called "Frank's Wild Years" for his 1983 Swordfishtrombones album, then used the title (minus its apostrophe) for a musical play he wrote with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and toured with in 1986. The Franks Wild Years album, drawn from the show, is subtitled, "un operachi romantico in two acts," though the songs themselves do not carry the plot. Rather, this is just the third installment in Waits' eccentric series of Island Records albums in which he seems    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Import. "Tom Waits tells the same stories all the time - the small-time gangster who gets blown away by the big boys, the tough whore who sleeps with a torn-up teddy bear under her pillow, the barely employed sucker who spends his spare time and puny paycheck at the local saloon - but he makes each one sound different. That's why he's a great storyteller. On Blue Valentine, the small-time gangster dies in a movie-theater balcony with a bullet in his heart and Cagney on the sc   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. If Closing Time, Tom Waits' debut album, consisted of love songs set in a late-night world of bars and neon signs, its follow-up, The Heart of Saturday Night, largely dispenses with the romance in favor of poetic depictions of the same setting. On "Diamonds on My Windshield" and "The Ghosts of Saturday Night," Waits doesn't even sing, instead reciting his verse rhythmically against bass and drums like a Beat hipster. Musically, the album contains the same mixture of folk, blues,    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 180 GRAM VINYL! Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within the apparently narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits and producer Jerry Yester manage a surprisingly broad collection of styles, from the jazzy "Virginia Avenue" to the up-tempo funk of "Ice Cream Man" and from the acoustic guitar folkiness of "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You" to the saloon song "Midnight Lullaby," which would have been   [ read more ]

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