Waits, Tom - Franks Wild Years

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180 GRAM VINYL.?

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.?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits

Tracklist

A1 Hang On St. Christopher
A2 Straight To The Top (Rhumba)
A3 Blow Wind Blow
A4 Temptation?
A5 Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
A6 I'll Be Gone?
A7 Yesterday Is Here
A8 Please Wake Me Up?
A9 Franks Theme

B1 More Than Rain?
B2 Way Down In The Hole
B3 Straight To The Top (Vegas)? B4 I'll Take New York??
B5 Telephone Call From Istanbul?
B6 Cold Cold Ground?
B7 Train Song
B8 Innocent When You Dream