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Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years (Remastered) (1987/2023)

Posted By: delpotro

Date: 25 Aug 2024 15:02:06

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years (Remastered) (1987/2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 273 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 130 Mb | 00:56:39
Cabaret, Experimental Rock, Blues, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Universal Music, Island Records

Franks’ Wild Years emerged in 1987. Between the subtitle Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts, the album title’s callback to the Swordfishtrombones character, and the presence of “Frank’s Theme,” the record could be viewed as an account of Frank’s misadventures. But Waits is a born three-card monte man, so that could all be obfuscation.

The important thing is that the album features some of Waits’s most beautiful songs, balancing delicately between his distorted-memory m.o. and a knack for timeless balladry that could give Stephen Foster a run for his money. Blair, Ribot, and company were still lending things an off-kilter edge, and Waits continued to delve into portraying unreliable narrators like the hellfire and brimstone preacher in “Way Down in the Hole” (repurposed decades later as the theme to The Wire) and the three-sheets-to-the-wind lounge lizard in “Straight to the Top/I’ll Take New York.” Meanwhile, the tenderhearted “Innocent When You Dream” and wistful, bittersweet “Train Song” are tear-inducing.

Frank’s travelogue, whether geographical or psychological, encompasses a multitude of moods. If Dali dreamed a tango, it might sound something like “Temptation,” and “Yesterday Is Here” could be the theme for the greatest metaphysical Western never made.

All the voices in Tom Waits' head come out on this CD: the growler (of course), the crooner, the preacher, the screecher, and the Vegas cheese ball. The instrumentation is equally eclectic. (Yep, that's Waits himself playing the "rooster" on the album's best song, "I'll Be Gone.") More memorable moments: "Innocent When You Dream" (both times), the vocal howling at the end of "Blow Wind Blow," and the lovely coughing fit after "I'll Take New York." Frank's Wild Years is the musical remains of a theatrical collaboration between Waits and Kathleen Brennan, originally staged in 1986. It contains nuggets of important practical advice, sure–"never drive a car when you're dead" (from "Telephone Call from Istanbul")–but mostly these songs are fantasy freaks. Frank's is big-time dreamer. It's a dreamy album. Sweet dreams. –Dan Leone

AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
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.) The result on record may not be theatrical, exactly, but it certainly is affected. It also has the quality of an inside joke that listeners are not being let in on.

Tracklist:
01. Hang On St. Christopher
02. Straight to the Top (Rhumba)
03. Blow Wind Blow
04. Temptation
05. Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
06. I’ll Be Gone
07. Yesterday Is Here
08. Please Wake Me Up
09. 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

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Tom Waits / Franks Wild Years

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