Tom Waits - Tom Waits Lp Bundle [New Vinyl LP]

Artist: Tom Waits

Title: Tom Waits Lp Bundle

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Rock

UPC: 762184247724

Release Date: 2018

Record Label: Exclusive Bundle

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Lie to Me (Remastered)
2. Lowdown (Remastered)
3. 2:19 (Remastered)
4. Fish in the Jailhouse (Remastered)

DISC 2:
1. Bottom of the World (Remastered)
2. Lucinda (Remastered)
3. Ain't Goin' Down to the Well (Remastered)
4. Lord I've Been Changed (Remastered)

DISC 3:
1. Puttin' on the Dog (Remastered)
2. Road to Peace (Remastered)
3. All the Time (Remastered)

DISC 4:
1. The Return of Jackie and Judy (Remastered)
2. Walk Away (Remastered)
3. Sea of Love (Remastered)
4. Buzz Fledderjohn (Remastered)
5. Rains on Me (Remastered)

DISC 5:
1. What Keeps Mankind Alive (Remastered)
2. Children's Story (Remastered)
3. Heigh Ho (Remastered)
4. Army Ants (Remastered)
5. Book of Moses (Remastered)

DISC 6:
1. Bone Chain (Remastered)
2. Two Sisters (Remastered)
3. First Kiss (Remastered)
4. Dog Door (Remastered)
5. Redrum (Remastered)

DISC 7:
1. Nirvana (Remastered)
2. Home I'll Never Be (Remastered)
3. Poor Little Lamb (Remastered)
4. Altar Boy (Remastered)
5. The Pontiac (Remastered)
6. Spidey's Wild Ride (Remastered)

DISC 8:
1. King Kong (Remastered)
2. On the Road (Remastered)
3. Dog Treat (Remastered)
4. Missing My Son (Remastered)

DISC 9:
1. Bend Down the Branches (Remastered)
2. You Can Never Hold Back Spring (Remastered)
3. Long Way Home (Remastered)
4. Widow's Grove (Remastered)
5. Little Drop of Poison (Remastered)
6. Shiny Things (Remastered)

DISC 10:
1. World Keeps Turning (Remastered)
2. Tell It to Me (Remastered)
3. Never Let Go (Remastered)
4. Fannin Street (Remastered)

DISC 11:
1. Little Man (Remastered)
2. It's Over (Remastered)
3. If I Have to Go (Remastered)
4. Goodnight Irene (Remastered)
5. The Fall of Troy (Remastered)

DISC 12:
1. Take Care of All My Children (Remastered)
2. Down There By the Train (Remastered)
3. Danny Says (Remastered)
4. Jayne's Blue Wish (Remastered)
5. Young at Heart (Remastered)

The Tom Waits LP Bundle is a collection of 56 songs that went far beyond a simple career retrospective. It dipped back as far as 1984 with the bulk of it's songs hailing from the mid-nineties onward. Over 2/3 of the material had never been heard when originally released in 2006 and had 30 newly recorded songs. Orphans also featured a number of songs finding a home on a Waits' album for the first time. They included Waits' unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht and Leadbelly. These outtakes, rarities and the previously unreleased material were separately grouped into themes and named, Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. And now these titles will be released individually. Brawlers is a collection of raucous blues and full-throated juke joint stomps Bawlers is a collection of Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano and classic lyrical Waits' songs Bastards is a collection of experimental music and strange tales.

Brawlers (Remastered)

Brawlers presents probably the best-known of Tom Waits' personalities, filled as it is with vocal cord damage, found percussion, old-timey arrangements, and cartoon-buzz lead guitar. It's also the disc that flirts most dangerously with cliché, filled as it is with his well-trod inventory of Americana underbelly images: trains, jailhouses, barrooms, etc. However, the secret of Waits' act is how well he deploys these should-be-tired cultural touchstones; at the very least, he sounds more comfortable in the role of a boxcar-hopper than he does reciting the ripped-from-the-headlines Middle East folk song "Road to Peace". Certainly it helps that he continues to buck the aging rocker career trend of increasing cleanliness, wrapping these songs in dirt-grit production that keeps the Big Bopper warble of "Lie to Me" or the garage 12-bar Ramones cover "The Return of Jackie and Judy" from sounding like a House of Blues exhibit.

Bawlers (Remastered)

Bawlers, on the surface, is every bit as soothing as Brawlers is abrasive. But for all the gentle piano and brass embellishments, the mood is far from serene, inhabiting the bittersweet, sentimental borderline between a bender and hangover. Given that this sound goes back to Waits' earliest days, the timeframe is wider here than elsewhere in the set, yet it holds together with a late-night woozy consistency while veering from AM-radio jazz ("You Can Never Hold Back Spring") to folk ("Widow's Grove"), and intimate ("World Keeps Turning") to show-stoppingly anthemic ("Never Let Go", "Down There By the Train"). More than any other disc, Bawlers is proof that Waits can pull these kind of nightclub-act songs out of his derby hat at will, able to channel the archetypal piano-man character with minimal effort.

Bastards (Remastered)

Collecting all the odd items that don't fall into a simple quiet-loud dichotomy, Bastards reveals Waits at his most theatrical, filled with weird spoken-word monologues, gypsy-opera arrangements, acapella experiments, and demented covers. Few people can make music that's authentically frightening without crossing the line into campy silliness, yet this is another skill Waits can lay claim to; look no further than the Disney nightmare of his "Heigh Ho" or the ghoulish nature documentary of "Army Ants". There may be nothing else on these three discs as striking as "Dog Door", his collaboration with Sparklehorse that traps Waits' repertoire of voices in a funhouse of synths and tape loops, a thrilling (and teasingly rare) modern take on his familiar formula.

The Tom Waits LP Bundle

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