TOM WAITS Franks Wild Years LP ISLAND 1987 UK orig+foc MARC RIBOT-DAVID HIDALGO
€
27
$
31
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
WE ARE POSTING EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
SO IN ORDER TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING WE ADVISE YOU TO ENQUIRE
ABOUT POSTAGE COST BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY BID/PURCHASE THE ITEM
PLEASE ASK FOR ANY INFORMATION
TOM WAITS
with LARRY TAYLOR, MARC RIBOT, DAVID HIDALGO, RALPH CARNEY, GREG COHEN, MICHAEL BLAIR, etc.
In the 1970s, Tom Waits combined a lyrical focus on desperate, low-life characters with a persona that seemed
to embody the same lifestyle, which he sang about in a raspy, gravelly voice. From the '80s on, his work became increasingly theatrical as he moved into acting and composing. Growing up in Southern California, Waits attracted the attention of manager Herb Cohen, who also handled FrankZappa, and was signed by him at the beginning of the 1970s, resulting in the material later released as The Early Years and The Early Years, Vol. 2. His formal recording debut came with Closing Time (1973) on Asylum Records, an album that contained "Ol' 55," which was covered by labelmates the Eagles for their On the Border album. Waits attracted critical acclaim and a cult audience for his subsequent albums, The Heart of Saturday Night (1974), the two-LP live set Nighthawks at the Diner (1975), Small Change (1976), Foreign Affairs (1977), Blue Valentine (1978), and Heart Attack and Vine (1980). His music and persona proved highly cinematic, and, starting in 1978, he launched parallel careers as an actor and as a composer of movie music..."FRANKS WILD YEARS"
1987 LP ISLAND RECORDS ITW3 STEREO
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
GATEFOLD COVER + PLAIN BLACK INNER SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 5 014474 100031
LABEL: ISLAND - WHITE LABEL w/ PALM & LOGO on the LEFT + RAINBOW RIM - BLACK TEXT
Label Code: none
Catalog on cover : (spine & rear) ITW3
Catalog on labels: ITW 3 (ITW 3-A) / ITW 3 (ITW 3-B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched & Stamped): ITW3 AII A//1?420 EX 1 1 3
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched & Stamped): ITW3 BII B//1?420 EX 1 1 9
On labels: rim text reads "All rights...............prohibited"
Produced by Tom Waits
Copyright Control
? 1987 Island Records Inc
On front cover: UN OPERACHI ROMANTICO IN TWO ACTS
On inside panels: Lyrics & Credits
On back cover: Notes + Tracklist
Produced by Tom Waits
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)
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
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 most inspired by German art song and carnival music, presenting songs in spare, stripped-down arrangements consisting of instruments like marimba, baritone horn, and pump organ and singing in a strained voice that has been artificially compressed and distorted. The songs themselves often are conventional romantic vignettes, or would be minus the oddities of instrumentation, arrangement, and performance. For example, "Innocent When You Dream," a song of disappointment in love and friendship, has a winning melody, but it is played in a seesaw arrangement of pump organ, bass, violin, and piano, and Waits sings it like an enraged drunk. (He points out the arbitrary nature of the arrangements by repeating "Straight to the Top," done as a demented rhumba in act one, as a Vegas-style Frank Sinatra swing tune in act two.)...(AllMusic)
price rating
