Franks Wild Years Music Cd

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

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Franks Wild Years      Artist : Tom Waits      List Price : $9.98 USD        Your Price : $7.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-06-15      Studio : Island      Label : Island      Avg. Customer Rating : (52 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Franks Wild Years      Should have Wait(ed)      Rating:      As I have surpassed 700 cds in my library, I thought it was time to add some Tom Waits. I started with Closing Time and absolutely love it, but Frank's Wild Years is one of the WORST cds I have ever purchased. No soul, hokey tunes, not something I like at all. Perhaps Waits fans would like this but, as a Waits novice, I had to give this a second chance and I dislike it even more than when I first listened. This cd will go into my recycle pile. No camparison to Closing Time, absolutely none.     Customer Reviews for Franks Wild Years Cd      Dark and Humorous, Classic Waits      Rating:      A Tom Waits album is the aural equivalent of walking down a dark twisty path with a cantankerous old uncle who mixes Old Testament wisdom with dirty jokes. Franks Wild Years is another entry in this fine tradition. As you may already know, this album is taken from an opera that Tom and Kathleen wrote. If you are interested in further explorations of this project, check out Big Time - both the album and the movie (available only on VHS). The studio version of Down in the Hole is great, but the live version is truly amazing and even hilarious. Check it out! Editorial Reviews for Franks Wild Years Audio Cd      Amazon.com essential recording      All the voices in Tom Waits' head come out on this CD: the growler (of course), the crooner, the preacher, the screecher, and the Vegas cheese ball. The instrumentation is equally eclectic. (Yep, that's Waits himself playing the "rooster" on the album's best song, "I'll Be Gone.") More memorable moments: "Innocent When You Dream" (both times), the vocal howling at the end of "Blow Wind Blow," and the lovely coughing fit after "I'll Take New York." Frank's Wild Years is the musical remains of a theatrical collaboration between Waits and Kathleen Brennan, originally staged in 1986. It contains nuggets of important practical advice, sure--"never drive a car when you're dead" (from "Telephone Call from Istanbul")--but mostly these songs are fantasy freaks. Frank's is big-time dreamer. It's a dreamy album. Sweet dreams. --Dan Leone