Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [Recorded 1984-2005, 3CD Box Set] (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 1,02 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 446 MB | Covers - 79 MB
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Alternative Rock, Singer-Songwriter | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Anti (6677-2)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 1,02 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 446 MB | Covers - 79 MB
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Alternative Rock, Singer-Songwriter | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Anti (6677-2)
Orphans is the most unwieldy Tom Waits collection yet. Packaged in a Cibachrome-tinted box are three discs containing 56 songs total. It claims 30 new tunes, but a mere 14 can be found on other records - six others have to be hunted for while the remainder have shown up in various incarnations. This crazy thing began as a collection of outtakes, rarities, soundtrack tunes, and compilation-only cuts - some of which survive here in new form, including tracks from the Ramblin' Jack Elliot tribute, the Bridge benefit, and two Ramones covers, to name a few. In other words, the first conception was as a hodgepodge collection of attic material. Waits checked out the tune selection as it was and said something like "nah, bad idea; this would suck." So, he did what any self-respecting artist with a head full of ideas, two stomping, shuffling feet, and itchy fingers - and time on his hands - would do: he recorded new songs and re-recorded others…