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Get Behind The Mule (Spiritual) (RSD25 EDITION)

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    Tom Waits

    Mule Variations - 2024 Reissue

      Mule Variations offers the most complete picture of Tom Waits of any of his albums.

      Edgy stomps, humour and experimentation are interspersed with some of the most beautiful and personal songs he's ever written.

      TRACK LISTING

      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

      Tom Waits

      Blood Money - 2024 Repress

        Blood Money came out over 20 years ago, right after the massive success of 1999's Grammy-winning Mule Variations LP and tour.

        The resulting LPs were acclaimed upon their release but also overshadowed by their high- profile predecessor. Over the last two decades, more fans and critics have come to embrace these works as some of Waits' finest.

        TRACK LISTING

        Misery Is The River Of The World
        Everything Goes To Hell
        Coney Island Baby
        All The World Is Green
        God's Away On Business
        Another Man's Vine
        Knife Chase
        Lullaby
        Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
        The Part You Throw Away
        Woe
        Calliope
        A Good Man Is Hard To Find

        Tom Waits

        Heartattack And Vine - 2024 Repress

          Released in 1980, Heartattack and Vine was Waits' final album on Elektra Asylum and it built on the raw blues approach of blue valentine with the incendiary title track, the funky, organ driven "Downtown" and the stomping Nola blues of "Mr Siegal"

          This album also contains some of Waits' most popular ballads, including "Jersey Girl" which was famously a hit for Bruce Springsteen. "On the Nickle" is a moving song about the homeless people who lived on 5th street in Downtown.

          TRACK LISTING

          Heartattack And Vine
          In Shades
          Saving All My Love For You
          Downtown
          Jersey Girl
          'Til The Money Runs Out
          On The Nickel
          Mr. Siegal
          Ruby's Arms

          Tom Waits

          The Black Rider - 2023 Reissue

            Celebrate 5 of Tom Waits’ albums from the Island years, all of which have had an incredible impact on music history.

            All remastered to HD audio.

            TRACK LISTING

            Side A
            Lucky Day Overture
            The Black Rider
            November
            Just The Right Bullets
            Black Box Theme
            'Tain't No Sin
            Flash Pan Hunter/Intro
            That's The Way
            The Briar And The Rose
            Russian Dance
            Side B
            Gospel Train/Orchestra
            I'll Shoot The Moon
            Flash Pan Hunter
            Crossroads
            Gospel Train
            Interlude
            Oily Night
            Lucky Day
            The Last Rose Of The Summer
            Carnival

            Tom Waits

            Bone Machine - 2023 Reissue

              Celebrate 5 of Tom Waits’ albums from the Island years, all of which have had an incredible impact on music history.

              All remastered to HD audio.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. The Earth Died Screaming
              2. Dirt In The Ground
              3. Such A Scream
              4. All Stripped Down
              5. Who Are You
              6. The Ocean Doesn'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

              Tom Waits

              Franks Wild Years - 2023 Reissue

                Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an iteration of the track “Frank’s Wild Years” from Waits’ 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.The album divides the story neatly into two acts and although titled “un operachi romantic”, there is no opera in Franks. There is a hilarious touch of operatic styling by Waits himself in the song “Temptation.” His vocal character varies wildly throughout the work’s 17 songs, and is no more impressive than when the gruff, growly singer turns to impeccable Sinatra-esque phrasing on the Vegas number, “Straight To The Top.” While Franks featured a 14-member cast on stage, the album is all-Waits—yet suggests a multitude of characters by virtue of his chameleon vocals. The album is a startling group of lost dreams, bad dreams, dreams that might not even be dreams. The music is nightmarish, ethereal, beautiful. Think broken calliopes played by genius children, horns played at dawn in a graveyard, banjos leaking through practice room walls. Titles evoke Frank’s dime-store Odyssey: “Straight To The Top,” “Blow Wind Blow,” “Temptation,” “I’ll Be Gone.” NME ranked the work the number five album of 1987.

                Newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored. Franks Wild Years includes tracks such as “Cold Cold Ground,” “Way Down In The Hole” – versions of which were used as the theme music of HBO’s series The Wire – and “Temptation.”

                TRACK LISTING

                Side A
                Hang On St. Christopher
                Straight To The Top (Rhumba)
                Blow Wind Blow
                Temptation
                Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
                I'll Be Gone
                Yesterday Is Here
                Please Wake Me Up
                Franks Theme
                Side B
                More Than Rain
                Way Down In The Hole
                Straight To The Top (Vegas)
                I'll Take New York
                Telephone Call From Istanbul
                Cold Cold Ground
                Train Song
                Innocent When You Dream (78)

                Tom Waits

                Rain Dogs - 2023 Reissue

                  Noted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits’ albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute, 19-track monster, Rain Dogs is a kind of mutant, late 20th century musical “Canterbury Tales” with a shape-shifting band. There are banjos and marimbas and bowed saw and parade drum and howling horns (and Keith Richards and Marc Ribot) on this rollicking, rough-hewn opus—and Waits, using his voice in increasingly weird-and-wild ways. The songs are stories, sagas, laments, breakdowns, character studies, comedies and cabaret numbers. There’s the aching “Hang Down Your Head,” and the moving anthem, “Downtown Train,” which was covered by Patti Smith and Rod Stewart.Waits coined the term, “rain dog,” a reference to dogs who lose their way when touchstone scents are washed away in storms. Among the lost dogs on the album: gruff, wandering merchant marines (“Singapore”), an accordion player in a slaughterhouse (“Cemetery Polka”), a “jockey full of bourbon” (also the song title), an abandoned, withdrawn woman (“Time”), a “gun street girl,” the old drunks and hustlers of Union Square, and even Waits, himself: Aboard a shipwreck train / Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs / For I am a Rain Dog, too...

                  Originally released in 1985 on Island Records, the album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored. Rain Dogs includes tracks such as “Downtown Train,” “Clap Hands” and “Jockey Full Of Bourbon.”

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Side A
                  Singapore
                  Clap Hands
                  Cemetery Polka
                  Jockey Full Of Bourbon
                  Tango Till They're Sore
                  Big Black Mariah
                  Diamonds And Gold
                  Hang Down Your Head
                  Time
                  Side B
                  Rain Dogs
                  Midtown
                  9th & Hennepin
                  Gun Street Girl
                  Union Square
                  Blind Love
                  Walking Spanish
                  Downtown Train
                  Bride Of Rain Dog
                  Anywhere I Lay My Head

                  Tom Waits

                  Swordfishtrombones - 2023 Reissue

                    2023 Marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went from ‘70’s-era “bluesy, boozy” wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist—while retaining his innate lyricism, melodic invention, humanity. As he put it in a 1983 interview: “I tried to listen to the noise in my head and invent some junkyard orchestral deviation—a mutant apparatus to drive this noise into a wreck collection.” It’s a Waits-arranged pastiche, a variety of atmospheres from different sound planets. There is the warped, marching-army-ants music of “Underground,” an impressionist chant about people living below cities, but there was also the poignancy of the spare piano ballad, “Soldier’s Things,” the good bar yarn, “Frank’s Wild Years”, the tender, minimalist paean to Waits’ wife and muse, Kathleen, “Johnsburg, Illinois,” and the raggedy anthem to neighborhood chaos, “In the Neighborhood.”“On Swordfishtrombones, Waits has made a breakthrough – he’s found music as evocative as his words. Waits’s grumble of a voice now bounces off a peculiar assortment of horns and percussion and organ and keyboards, as if he’d led a Salvation Army band into a broken-down Hong Kong disco. It’s as if he’s shifted from monologues to screenplays…” – Jon Parales January 1984 – GQ Magazine.

                    The album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original EQ’ed ½” production master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    Side A
                    Underground
                    Shore Leave
                    Dave The Butcher
                    Johnsburg, Illinois
                    16 Shells From A 30.6
                    Town With No Cheer
                    In The Neighbourhood
                    Side B
                    Just Another Sucker On The Vine
                    Frank's Wild Years
                    Swordfishtrombone
                    Down, Down, Down
                    Soldier's Things
                    Gin Soaked Boy
                    Trouble's Braids
                    Rainbirds

                    Tom Waits

                    Brawlers

                      For the first time, Tom Waits will make available as individual records his 2006 classic 56 song release Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. 

                      The collection of 56 songs went far beyond a simple career retrospective. It dipped back as far as 1984 with the bulk of it’s songs hailing from the mid-nineties onward. Over 2/3 of the material had never been heard when originally released in 2006 and had 30 newly recorded songs. Orphans also featured a number of songs finding a home on a Waits’ album for the first time. They included Waits’ unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht and Leadbelly. These outtakes, rarities and the previously unreleased material were separately grouped into themes and named, Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. And now these titles will be released individually. 

                      Brawlers is a collection of raucous blues and full-throated juke joint stomps.


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