Monday, December 23, 2024

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years (1987)

Year: August 17, 1987 (CD 1989)
Label: Island Records (Germany), IMCD 50, 842 357-2
Style: Experimental, Rock, Jazz
Country: Pomona, California, U.S. (December 7, 1949)
Time: 56:46
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 292 Mb

Charts: US #115, AUS #83, AUT #24, GER #49, NLD #21, NOR #13, SWE #17, UK #20. Canada: Gold.
It is the third in a loose trilogy that began with Swordfishtrombones. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play of the same name. The play had its world premiere at the Briar St. Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on June 22, 1986, performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. "If I Have to Go" was used in the play, but released only in 2006 on Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards. The theme from "If I Have to Go" was used under the title "Rat's Theme" in the documentary Streetwise as early as 1984. The title is derived from "Frank's Wild Years", a track from Swordfishtrombones.
"This rags-to-rags tale completes the trilogy that began with 1983's Swordfishtrombones (featuring the song 'Frank's Wild Years,' in which the protagonist torches his suburban SoCal house and heads north on the Hollywood Freeway). Then came 1985's Rain Dogs, which mixed Brecht-Weill drama with Captain Beefheart bizarreness for an effect that conjured up a Saturday-night fish fry in the freak show of a decrepit circus... The story basically follows Frank on a hazy, ill-fated Orphic journey 'Straight to the Top (Vegas)' (as one song is titled) through 'Temptation,' 'Way Down in the Hole' and, finally, out on the 'Cold Cold Ground.' At the road's end lies 'Innocent When You Dream (78),' a moral that is told to Frank early on but doesn't hit home until the end, when it is heard in a lovely, tinnily nostalgic rendition.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks_Wild_Years)

01. Hang On St Christopher (02:46)
02. Straight To The Top (Rhumba) (02:30)
03. Blow Wind Blow (03:35)
04. Temptation (03:53)
05. Innocent When You Dream (Barroom) (04:16)
06. I'll Be Gone (03:12)
07. Yesterday Is Here (02:31)
08. Please Wake Me Up (03:35)
09. Frank's Theme (01:49)
10. More Than Rain (03:52)
11. Way Down In The Hole (03:30)
12. Straight To The Top (Vegas) (03:26)
13. I'll Take New York (03:58)
14. Telephone Call From Istanbul (03:11)
15. Cold Call Ground (04:07)
16. Train Song (03:20)
17. Innocent When You Dream (78) (03:10)

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