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Spectcular Music Journey Visiting Every Genre"What's Orphans? I don't know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." Tom WaitsA 54 song masterpiece is what I call this new Tom Waits 3 CD rumble. A phalanx of songs from every period of life and every genre of American music. He has separated these 3 CD's into a concise set of marvelously named originals called 'Orphans"- 'Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards'. His wife Kathleen …
"What's Orphans? I don't know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." Tom WaitsA 54 song masterpiece is what I call this new Tom Waits 3 CD rumble. A phalanx of songs from every period of life and every genre of American music. He has separated these 3 CD's into a concise set of marvelously named originals called 'Orphans"- 'Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards'. His wife Kathleen collaborated with Tom, and they have done his fine whiskey voice justice.Brawler, disc one, was my least favorite, but I have listened 4 times and this set has grown close to my heart. The 16 songs on this disc are a mix of juke box, Muddy Waters blues and honky tonk, clangy tunes. 'Sea of Love' is done with a clever twist.'Bawlers', disc two, is my favorite full of ballads of gone wrong. 20 songs a mixture of saloon songs , Celtic songs and torch songs. 'Tell It To Me' is a country song full of yearning and the rest of the group is as lovely and sad as you would want. They all give a message of the end of the road and hope is strong.'Bastards' is an amalgamation of songs that don't fit elsewhere. 20 songs, some experimental, from Army Ants to King Kong and a poem by Bukowski. Tom Waits has some strange stories to tell on disc 3- 'night, night'. This is the perfect ending to a three series set that frames the art written and sung by Tom Waits.Tom Waits was named as one of VH-1's Most Influential Artists of All Time, and it is no surprise that Waits' body of work has long been covered by other musicians. "There is also a long list of artists who have cited Waits as an inspiration, including Bob Dylan who named Tom as one of his "secret heroes". Boston PhoenixAs Tom Wait said in an interview "The center of this record is my voice. I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice, I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer...I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument". And Tom Waits has given us his best instrument wrapped up in gold. A truly special series of songs for all of us Tom Waits fans. Bravo.Highly Recommended. prisrob 11/22/06
Written by prisrob "pris,"
Somewhat disappointingI like the content of this set, but not its organization. I enjoy Tom's ballads as much as anybody, but I like them interspersed with other things for contrast. An entire disc full of nothing but ballads lacks any sort of tension/release progression and is difficult for even the most hardcore fan to get through in one sitting. I assume most kids these days will simply rip all three discs to their iPod and put it on shuffle mode anyway, but I think this release could have benefitted greatly from a a little less forced homogenization.
Written by orangekay
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CD 1 : Orphans [Deluxe Limited Edition -- Bound 94 page booklet]
format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1Lie to Me?:??Play Buy track 2LowDown?:??Play Buy track 32:19?:??Play Buy track 4Fish in the Jailhouse?:??Play Buy track 5Bottom of the World?:??Play Buy track 6Lucinda?:??Play Buy track 7Ain't Goin' Down to the Well?:??Play Buy track 8Lord I've Been Changed?:??Play Buy track 9Puttin' on the Dog?:??Play Buy track 10Road to Peace?:??Play Buy track 11All the Time?:??Play Buy track 12The Return of Jackie and Judy?:??Play Buy track 13Walk Away?:??Play Buy track 14Sea of Love?:??Play Buy track 15Buzz Fledderjohn?:??Play Buy track 16Rains on Me?:??Play Buy track -
unknown format 2 : Orphans [Deluxe Limited Edition -- Bound 94 page booklet]
format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1Bend Down the Branches?:??Play Buy track 2You Can Never Hold Back Spring?:??Play Buy track 3Long Way Home?:??Play Buy track 4Widow's Grace?:??Play Buy track 5Little Drop of Poison?:??Play Buy track 6Shiny Things?:??Play Buy track 7World Keeps Turning?:??Play Buy track 8Tell It to Me?:??Play Buy track 9Never Let Go?:??Play Buy track 10Fannin Street?:??Play Buy track 11Little Man?:??Play Buy track 12It's Over?:??Play Buy track 13If I Have to Go?:??Play Buy track 14Goodnight Irene?:??Play Buy track 15The Fall of Troy?:??Play Buy track 16Take Care of All My Children?:??Play Buy track 17Down There by the Train?:??Play Buy track 18Danny Says?:??Play Buy track 19Jayne's Blue Wish?:??Play Buy track 20Young At Heart?:??Play Buy track -
unknown format 3 : Orphans [Deluxe Limited Edition -- Bound 94 page booklet]
format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1What Keeps Mankind Alive?:??Play Buy track 2Children's Story?:??Play Buy track 3Heigh Ho?:??Play Buy track 4Army Ants?:??Play Buy track 5Books of Moses?:??Play Buy track 6Bone Chain?:??Play Buy track 7Two Sisters?:??Play Buy track 8First Kiss?:??Play Buy track 9Dog Door?:??Play Buy track 10Redrum?:??Play Buy track 11Nirvana?:??Play Buy track 12Home I'll Never Be?:??Play Buy track 13Poor Little Lamb?:??Play Buy track 14Altar Boy?:??Play Buy track 15The Pontiac?:??Play Buy track 16Spidey's Wild Ride?:??Play Buy track 17King Kong?:??Play Buy track 18On the Road?:??Play Buy track
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Digipak format: 3 x CD record label: ANTI- catalog number: 86844-2 release dates: Nov 21 2006 in United States view details |
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