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Tom Waits Frank's Wild Years Label Island Erstveröffentlichung 01.01.2000 Format CD Lieferzeit 4 – 7 Werktage Preis 9,95 € (inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versand)

This rags-to-rags tale completes the trilogy that began with 1983's Swordfishtrombones . Then came 1985's Rain Dogs, which mixed Brecht-Weill drama with Captain Beefheart bizarreness for an effect that conjured up a Saturday-night fish fry in the freak show of a decrepit circus. The songs are alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) bitter and hopeful. Everything from sleazy strip-show blues to cheesy waltzes to supercilious lounge lizardry is given spare, jarring arrangements using various combinations of squawking horns, bashed drums, plucked banjo, snaky double bass, carnival organ and jaunty accordion (the last provided by Los Lobos' David Hidalgo on two tracks). But it's Waits's gravel-pit voice, from which he digs a number of distinct characterizations, that remains the most striking instrument. - Steve Hochman

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