TOM WAITS 'Frank's Wild Years'  Audiophile 180g Vinyl LP

wrote a song called "Frank's Wild Years" for his 1983 album, then used the title (minus its apostrophe) for a musical play he wrote with his wife, , and toured with in 1986. The 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 ' 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 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 swing tune in act two.) The result on record may not be theatrical, exactly, but it certainly is affected. 

GEMA LC0407

Vinyl - near mint

Cover - near mint

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