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
Week Ending: Apr 15 Apr 8 Apr 1 Mar 25 Mar 18 Mar 11 Mar 4 Feb 25
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
2. Apr 04, 2014: The Songsmith Show
Ain't Goin' Down To The Well
5. Jul 16, 2010: The Songsmith Show
Army Ants
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
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

Track Listing
1. Lie To Me   28. Its Over
2. Lowdown   29. If I Hove To Go
3. 2:19   30. Goodnight Irene
4. Fish In The Jailhouse   31. The Fall Of Troy
5. Bottom Of The World   32. Take Care Of All My Children
6. Lucinda   33. Down There By The Train
7. Ain't Goin' Down To The Well   34. Danny Says
8. Lord I've Been Changed   35. Jayne's Blue Wish
9. Puttin On The Dog   36. Young At Heart
10. Road To Peace   37. What Keeps Mankind Alive
11. All The Time   38. Children's Story
12. The Return Of Jackie And Judy   39. Heigh Ho
13. Walk Away   40. Army Ants
14. Sea Of Love   41. Books Of Moses
15. buzz fledderjohn   42. Bone Chain
16. Rains On Me   43. Two Sisters
17. Bend Down The Branches   44. Frist Kiss
18. You Can Never Hold Back Spring   45. dog door
19. Long Way Home   46. Redrum
20. Widow's Grove   47. Nirvana
21. Little Drop Of Poison   48. Home I'll Never Be
22. Shiny Things   49. Poor Little Lamb
23. World Keeps Turning   50. Altar Boy
24. Tell It To Me   51. The Pontiac
25. Never Let Go   52. Spidey's Wild Ride
26. Fannin Street   53. King Kong
27. Little Man   54. on the road