Tom Waits - Frank’s Wild Years (2023 Remaster) (2023) [Hi-Res]

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Title: Frank’s Wild Years (2023 Remaster)
Year Of Release: 1987 / 2023
Label: Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music)
Genre: Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks) [192kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 56:39
Total Size: 2.05 GB / 278 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Hang On St. Christopher (2023 Remaster)
02. Straight To The Top (Rhumba) (2023 Remaster)
03. Blow Wind Blow (2023 Remaster)
04. Temptation (2023 Remaster)
05. Innocent When You Dream (Barroom) (2023 Remaster)
06. I'll Be Gone (2023 Remaster)
07. Yesterday Is Here (2023 Remaster)
08. Please Wake Me Up (2023 Remaster)
09. Franks Theme (2023 Remaster)
10. More Than Rain (2023 Remaster)
11. Way Down In The Hole (2023 Remaster)
12. Straight To The Top (Vegas) (2023 Remaster)
13. I'll Take New York (2023 Remaster)
14. Telephone Call From Istanbul (2023 Remaster)
15. Cold Cold Ground (2023 Remaster)
16. Train Song (2023 Remaster)
17. Innocent When You Dream (78) (2023 Remaster)

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.

Review by William Ruhlmann


  • gibheid
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Thanks denlenz.
  • marijohan
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THX a bunch for this ;o)
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Many thanks for Flac & 24-192.