THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE NOVEMBER 23RD RELEASE DATE. Glitter and Doom is a two disc 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. Disc One 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. Disc Two is a bonus co   [ read more ]

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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 that, like mo   [ read more ]

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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 a per   [ read more ]

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Tom Waits is one of the most influential musicians in the world today, an artist who never rests on his laurels. He continues to reinvent music, push boundaries, and create new sounds. On "Real Gone," the up-tempo tracks are some of the rawest and most kinetic he's ever laid down. He's never sounded like he's had this much fun, while the ballads are among his most beautiful and even chilling at times. The 15 tracks feature primal blues, Jamaican rock-steady grooves, rhythms and melodies both African and Lat   [ read more ]

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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 beautiful atmosphere made of sorrow and reverie, insanity and resignation, rises like a mist in Alice. It's a lyrical melancholia, a feeling that creeps in on the arms of Stroh violins and un   [ read more ]

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Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album, "Bone Machine" is a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative -- and often harrowing -- effect. In keeping with the title's grotesque image of the human body, "Bone Machine" is obsessed with decay and mortality, the ease with which earthly existence can be destroyed.

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This collection goes far beyond a simple career retrospective, with over thirty songs, from his own versions he gave to other artists to things recorded in the garage with his kids. Also includes Tom's unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, and Leadbelly. Each of the three CDs is separately grouped and sub-titled "Brawlers", "Bawlers" and "Bastards" to capture the full spectrum of Waits' ranging and roving musical styles. "Brawle   [ read more ]

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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 are rooted in reality: jealousy, rage, the human meat wheel...They are more carnal. I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pre   [ read more ]

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REGULAR DIGIPAK VERSION. This collection goes far beyond a simple career retrospective, with over thirty songs, from his own versions he gave to other artists to things recorded in the garage with his kids. Also includes Tom's unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, and Leadbelly. Each of the three CDs is separately grouped and sub-titled "Brawlers", "Bawlers" and "Bastards" to capture the full spectrum of Waits' ranging and rovin   [ read more ]

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Released in 1999, this album was an instant classic, in that Tom Waits style. You know...dark chamber style music, southern blues-ish folk and crazy carnival music all on one album and brought together by an amazing voice. This LP is super hard to find these days so if you have never heard this album or Waits before, check it out, and if you have...you know you want it on vinyl!

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Like its predecessor, The Early Years, Vol. 2 consists of demos recorded by Tom Waits in 1971, two years before he released his debut album, Closing Time. "Hope I Don't Fall in Love With You," "Ol' 55," "Grapefruit Moon," and "Old Shoes" later turned up on that album, while "Shiver Me Timbers," "Diamonds on My Windshield," and "Please Call Me Baby" appeared on Waits' second album, The Heart of Saturday Night, in 1974. The release of the two Early Years albums demonstra   [ read more ]

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For his third album, Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits set up a nightclub in the studio, invited an audience, and cut a 70-minute, two-LP set of new songs. It's an appropriate format for compositions that deal even more graphically and, for the first time, humorously with Waits' late-night world of bars and diners. The love lyrics of his debut album had long since given way to a comic lonely-guy stance glimpsed in "Emotional Weather Report" and "Better Off Without a Wife." But what really ma   [ read more ]

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