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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     7 90572-1

PRINTED IN U.S.A.      ORIGINAL PRESSING

      GATEFOLD SLEEVE

HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 0 7567-90572-1 1

Label Code: none

LABEL: ISLAND - BLACK LABEL w/ I/PALM & LOGO at BOTTOM - SILVER/BLUE TEXT

Catalog on cover : (spine) 7 90572-1     

Catalog on labels: 90572-1 (ST-1L-876459-SP) / 90572-1 (ST-1L-876460-SP)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): ST-1L-876459-A-DMM   SP1-1   MASTERDISK DMM

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): ST-1L-876460-B-DMM   MASTERDISK SP1-1

On labels: rim text reads "Island Records Inc...............A Warner Communications Company"

All songs written by Tom Waits except........

Published by Jalma Music..........(ASCAP)

Produced by Tom Waits

? 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

Island Records...........Printed in U.S.A..........criminal prosecution

tracklisting

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

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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)