Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine

Genere: Experimental Rock, Beat Poetry.

Style: Pop Rock, Progressive, Art Rock.

Similar artists: Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Howlin' Wolf.

Recording year: Asylum, 1980.

Heartattack and Vine, Tom Waits' first album in two years and his last of seven for Asylum Records, is a transitional album, with tracks like the rhythm-heavy title song and "'Til the Money Runs Out" foreshadowing the sonic experiments of the Island albums, while piano-with-orchestra tracks like "Saving All My Love for You" and "On the Nickel" (written as a motion-picture title tune) hark back to Waits' Randy Newman-influenced early days. It is just as well that Waits never entirely gave up on the ballad material; "Jersey Girl," a Drifters-style song, is a winner, and it was appropriated by Bruce Springsteen on his 1981 tour. Also, at least at this point, the rougher tunes all tended to sound the same.











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Tom Waits - Mule variations

Género: Experimental Rock, Beat Poetry

Artistas similares: Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Howlin' Wolf

Año de grabación : Anti/Epitaph, 1999.


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Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.

Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places – although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists, "Jersey Girl," performed by Bruce Springsteen and "Downtown Train," performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.

Tom Waits grew steadily less prolific after redefining himself as a junkyard noise poet with Swordfishtrombones, but the five-year wait between The Black Rider and 1999's Mule Variations was the longest yet. Given the fact that Waits decided to abandon major labels for the California indie Epitaph, Mule Variations would seem like a golden opportunity to redefine himself and begin a new phase of his career. However, it plays like a revue of highlights from every album he's made since Swordfishtrombones. Of course, that's hardly a criticism; the album uses the ragged cacophony of Bone Machine as a starting point, and proceeds to bring in the songwriterly aspects of Rain Dogs, along with its affection for backstreet and backwoods blues, plus a hint of the beatnik qualities of Swordfish. So Mule Variations delivers what fans want, in terms of both songs and sonics. But that also explains why it sounds terrific on initial spins, only to reveal itself as slightly dissatisfying with subsequent plays. All of Waits' Island records felt like fully conceived albums with genuine themes. Mule Variations, in contrast, is a collection of moments, and while each of those moments is very good (some even bordering on excellent), ultimately the whole doesn't equal the sum of its parts. While that may seem like nitpicking, some may have wanted a masterpiece after five years, and Mule Variations falls short of that mark. Nevertheless, this is a hell of a record by any other standard. Waits is still writing terrific songs and matching them with wildly evocative productions; furthermore, it's his lightest record in years — it's actually fun to listen to, even with a murder ballad here and a psycho blues there. In that sense, it's a unique item in his post-Swordfish catalog, and that may make up for it not being the masterpiece it seemed like it could have been.

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Tom Waits - Big Time

Género: Experimental Rock, Beat Poetry

Artistas similares: Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Howlin' Wolf

Año de grabación : Island, 1998.

Big Time is an 18-track live album running nearly 68 minutes, its material drawn mostly from Tom Waits' trio of recent studio albums, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Franks Wild Years. (One track, "Falling Down," is a previously unissued studio recording. The performance of "Strange Weather" marks Waits' first recording of a song he and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, wrote for Marianne Faithfull.) It's challenging music, made somewhat more accessible in a live context. Waits' performances tended to be somewhat over the top on the studio versions of these songs, but before a live audience his theatrics seem more appropriate, and he even includes a mini-set of piano ballads. Still, it takes him until the seventh tune, "Way Down in the Hole," to bring the audience to life, and he rarely speaks, in marked contrast to the earlier live-in-the-studio album Nighthawks at the Diner. But Big Time makes a useful sampler of Waits' later work that might enable a listener to determine whether to invest in the studio recordings.

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Tom Waits - Beautiful Maladies, The Island Years

Género: Experimental rock, Beat poetry

Artistas similares: Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Howlin' Wolf

Año de grabación: Island, 1998.



Thomas Alan Waits, nació en Pomona, California en diciembre de 1949; pianista, cantante, compositor y actor estadounidense, famoso por sus canciones de tono áspero, inspiradas en escritores como Charles Bukowski y otros de la generación Beat, en especial Jack Kerouac.

En 1967 comenzó a trabajar en los cabarés de Los Ángeles, ambiente que le influyó mucho para las canciones de su primer disco, Closing Time (1973), aunque este álbum se vio eclipsado por The Eagles y Tim Buckley, pero fue con el álbum Heart of Saturday Night (1974) el que dio a conocer su personal estilo. Más tarde en 1975 con el disco en directo Nighthawks at the Diner combina canciones muy personales (entre ellas Better off without a wife) con entretenidos monólogos introductorios.

Tras Small Change (1976), sus siguientes discos no consiguieron situarse en las listas de éxitos. En esos años interpretó pequeños papeles en películas como La cocina del infierno (1978) o Corazonada (1981, de Francis Ford Coppola), para la que también compuso la música.

Volvió a las listas de ventas en la década de 1980 con Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) y Frank’s Wild Years (1987), discos en los que confluyeron una gran variedad de estilos desde el blues hasta el tango, que dieron a sus canciones una atmósfera especial que le aseguró el éxito de ventas y la aceptación del gran público. También participó en películas como Bajo el peso de la ley (1986, de Jim Jarmusch), Drácula (1992, de Coppola) y Vidas cruzadas (1993, de Robert Altman) con papeles de más importancia que en sus anteriores incursiones en el cine. Asimismo, compuso la música de la película Noche en la Tierra (1991, de Jim Jarmusch) y al año siguiente, graba Bone Machine (1992). Un año más tarde colaboró con William S. Burroughts en la ópera cómica de carácter siniestro The Black Rider.

El disco que te presentamos en esta ocasión 'Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years' es una recopilación de 22 tracks provenientes de 6 álbums que van de 1980 a 1992, es decir: 'Swordfishtrombones', 'Frank's Wild Years', 'Big Time', 'Bone Machine' y 'The Black Rider'.

Un excelente disco para quien guste de escuchar trompetas con sordinas, una voz de arrabal y composiciones completamente originales.

Thomas Alan Waits, was born in Pomona, California in December of 1949; pianist, singer, composer and actor, famous by its songs of rough tone, inspired by writers like Charles Bukowski and others of the Beat generation, especially Jack Kerouac.

In 1967 he began to work in cabarés of Los Angeles, atmosphere that influenced much to him for the songs of its first record, 'Closing Time' (1973), although this album was eclipsed by The Eagles and Tim Buckley, but was with the album 'Heart of Saturday Night' (1974) that presented his personal style. Later in 1975 with the disc 'Nighthawks at the Diner' combines very personal songs (among them 'Better off without a wife') with entertained introductory monologues.

After 'Small Change' (1976), their following discs were not able to be placed in the lists of successes. In those years it interpreted small papers in films as 'Hell kitchen' (1978) or Hunch (1981, of Francis Ford Coppola), for which also it composed music. It returned to the lists of sales in the decade of 1980 with 'Swordfishtrombones' (1983), 'Rain Dogs' (1985) and 'Frank's Wild Years' (1987), discs in which came together a great variety of styles from the blues to the tango, that gave to his songs a special atmosphere that ensured the success sales and the acceptance to the great public. Also it participated in films as 'Under the weight of the law' (1986, of Jim Jarmusch), Drácula (1992, of Coppola) and 'Lives crossed' (1993, of Robert Altman) papers of more importance than in his previous incursions in the cinema. Also, 1991 composed music of the film 'Night in the Earth' (, of Jim Jarmusch) and the following year, it records Bone Machine (1992). A year later collaborated with William S. Burroughts in the humorous opera of sinister character The Black Rider.

The disc that FOH presented this occasion is ' Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years' . Tracks originating of 6 albums that go from 1980 to 1992, that is to say: ' is a compilation 'Swordfishtrombones' , ' Frank' s Wild Years' , ' Big Time' , ' Bone Machine' and ' The Black Rider'.

An excellent record for those who like to listen trompets with dampers, a completely original voice of suburb and good compositions.

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Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Friends - A Flowerdance Collection

En esta ocasión, Fields Of Haze se honra en presentar a sus visitantes, una pieza de verdadera colección, la compilación de canciones preferidas tanto por Nick Cave como por Tom Waits, cada uno de ellos exponentes importantes de su corriente musical; uno del movimiento post punk en una línea nihilista otoñal y el otro de un jazz experimental con tonos de cabaret underground. Incluye duetos tan extraños como Tom Waits y Peter Murphy, o Nick Cave y Concrete Blonde, o Tom Waits y Elvis Costello, ...


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In this occasion, Fields Of Haze have the honour to present to his visitors, a piece of true collection, the compilation of favourite songs of Nick Cave as Tom Waits, each one of them important in its trend; one belonging to the post punk movement in an autumnal nihilist line and the other from an experimental jazz with night club underground tones. It includes strange duos like Tom Waits and Peter Murphy, or Nick Cave and Concrete Blonde, or Tom Waits and Elvis Costello,…

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Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Friends

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