Waits, Tom / Orphans, Brawlers & Bastards
Album: | Orphans, Brawlers & Bastards | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Waits, Tom | Added: | Jan 2007 | |
Label: | Anti, Inc. |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2007-02-11 | Pull Date: | 2007-04-15 |
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Week Ending: | Apr 15 | Apr 8 | Apr 1 | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Mar 11 | Mar 4 | Feb 25 |
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Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Dec 05, 2023: | Eclectic Circus
Lie To Me |
4. | Mar 29, 2012: | The Songsmith Show
Army Ants |
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2. | Apr 04, 2014: | The Songsmith Show
Ain't Goin' Down To The Well |
5. | Jul 16, 2010: | The Songsmith Show
Army Ants |
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3. | Dec 07, 2012: | The Songsmith Show
Army Ants, Puttin On The Dog |
6. | Jun 18, 2010: | The Songsmith Show
Army Ants |
Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2007-02-12
Reviewed 2007-02-12
Visionary songwriter and actor Tom Waits produces a Limited edition 3 CD set with 24 rare and 30 new songs with his full throated gravelly raspy squawking voice and cool instrumentation NO FCCs detected
BRAWLERS bluesy Gospel failed relationships juke joint stomp
1: Fast pounding beat, growly vocal, nice e-guitar.
2: mid tempo pounding beat-wailing/growl "my baby's lowdown"
***3: Bluesy Waits big rhythm, mini scourching e-fuzz guitar."my baby is leaving on the 219" ( train song)
4: mid tempo, big rhythm louder wail/growl, e-guitar & pounding beat.
5: slow Celtic waltz sound think the Pogues.
6: slow industrial foundry rhythm, squawking/wailing Waits + harmonica
7: mid tempo, softer whispering vocal bass+ harmonica
8: max gravelly Gospel Waits
9: softer hushed Waits, mellow instrumentation
***10: 3:slow to mid full throated gravel Waits on the horrors of war " along the road to peace"
11: mellow industrial foundry rhythm, softer gravel/squawk build to big instrumental rock/blues guitar
12: big instrument sound real gravel vocal almost screeching
13: almost Gospel sounding big vocal minimal instrumentation
14: max gravel vocal " the sea of love"
15: faint dog bark, low down blues.
16: max gravel vocal/wail " it rains on me"
BAWLERS downtrodden numbers, Celtic, country ballads waltz & classical
1: a lullaby
2: slow gravelly
3: mellow softer
4: slow Waltz Waits
5: a tango, hushed gravel Waits
6: slow vocal with banjo picking and clarinet.
7: slow piano & vocal.
8: soft slow dance slow bass plucking mellow Nashville country twangy guitar
9: loude mildly distorted vocal + squeeze box
**10: sad folkie ballad with gentle guitar picking.
11: sad with late night/last call piano & sax
12: sad with piano & sax + brushes on the snare.
13: crying in his beer vocal with piano.
14: too many beers " Good Night Irene" with chorus.
15: down in the dumps Irish Waits
16: Salvation Army sidewalk band Waits.
**17: slow piano raspy Waits "down there where the train goes slow"
18: full throated gravel/rasp Waits, acoustic guitar (slow)
19: real slow guitar&vocal + trumpet.
**20: cool "young at Heart" + whistling and twangy e-guitar
BASTARDS experimental styles
1: almost a Cabaret performance, big kick drum
2: storyteller intro., heavy breathing Waits
**3: industrial foundry soundscape, scratchy voice Waits + harmonica
***4: reminds me of William Burroughs, entomology lecture with plucking strings.
5: classic Waits, big beat plucked strings "Books of Moses"
*6: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice
7: almost a sea shanty
***8: storyteller Waits
***9: faster backup sound, distorted Waits ( sounds like through a megaphone)
10: feedback & distortion back up beeps & boops
11: storyteller Waits
12: slow song, sad with piano
13: old timey tune sound, howl at the moon Waits.
***14: tolling bells intro.,slow "I'am an old altar boy"
***15: history of Waits' cars, by the side of the road car talk.
16: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice, full raspy Waits.
17: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice, full raspy storyteller Waits. . . "King Kong"
18: Big full sound-very nice- full raspy gravel distorted Waits:,, D Farrell 02/2007
BRAWLERS bluesy Gospel failed relationships juke joint stomp
1: Fast pounding beat, growly vocal, nice e-guitar.
2: mid tempo pounding beat-wailing/growl "my baby's lowdown"
***3: Bluesy Waits big rhythm, mini scourching e-fuzz guitar."my baby is leaving on the 219" ( train song)
4: mid tempo, big rhythm louder wail/growl, e-guitar & pounding beat.
5: slow Celtic waltz sound think the Pogues.
6: slow industrial foundry rhythm, squawking/wailing Waits + harmonica
7: mid tempo, softer whispering vocal bass+ harmonica
8: max gravelly Gospel Waits
9: softer hushed Waits, mellow instrumentation
***10: 3:slow to mid full throated gravel Waits on the horrors of war " along the road to peace"
11: mellow industrial foundry rhythm, softer gravel/squawk build to big instrumental rock/blues guitar
12: big instrument sound real gravel vocal almost screeching
13: almost Gospel sounding big vocal minimal instrumentation
14: max gravel vocal " the sea of love"
15: faint dog bark, low down blues.
16: max gravel vocal/wail " it rains on me"
BAWLERS downtrodden numbers, Celtic, country ballads waltz & classical
1: a lullaby
2: slow gravelly
3: mellow softer
4: slow Waltz Waits
5: a tango, hushed gravel Waits
6: slow vocal with banjo picking and clarinet.
7: slow piano & vocal.
8: soft slow dance slow bass plucking mellow Nashville country twangy guitar
9: loude mildly distorted vocal + squeeze box
**10: sad folkie ballad with gentle guitar picking.
11: sad with late night/last call piano & sax
12: sad with piano & sax + brushes on the snare.
13: crying in his beer vocal with piano.
14: too many beers " Good Night Irene" with chorus.
15: down in the dumps Irish Waits
16: Salvation Army sidewalk band Waits.
**17: slow piano raspy Waits "down there where the train goes slow"
18: full throated gravel/rasp Waits, acoustic guitar (slow)
19: real slow guitar&vocal + trumpet.
**20: cool "young at Heart" + whistling and twangy e-guitar
BASTARDS experimental styles
1: almost a Cabaret performance, big kick drum
2: storyteller intro., heavy breathing Waits
**3: industrial foundry soundscape, scratchy voice Waits + harmonica
***4: reminds me of William Burroughs, entomology lecture with plucking strings.
5: classic Waits, big beat plucked strings "Books of Moses"
*6: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice
7: almost a sea shanty
***8: storyteller Waits
***9: faster backup sound, distorted Waits ( sounds like through a megaphone)
10: feedback & distortion back up beeps & boops
11: storyteller Waits
12: slow song, sad with piano
13: old timey tune sound, howl at the moon Waits.
***14: tolling bells intro.,slow "I'am an old altar boy"
***15: history of Waits' cars, by the side of the road car talk.
16: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice, full raspy Waits.
17: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice, full raspy storyteller Waits. . . "King Kong"
18: Big full sound-very nice- full raspy gravel distorted Waits:,, D Farrell 02/2007
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