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Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones Free FREE TOM WAITS SWORDFISHTROMBONES PDF David Smay | 144 pages | 15 Feb 2008 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 9780826427823 | English | London, United Kingdom Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic More Images. Please enable Javascript to take full advantage of our site features. Edit Master Release. JazzRock. Blues RockLoungeTom Waits Swordfishtrombones. Francis Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones Arranged By. Frank Mulvey Art Direction. Michael Solomon 2 Coordinator. Bill Jackson Engineer. Peggy McCreary Engineer. Richard McKernan Engineer. Arlyne Rothberg Management. Bill Gerber Management. Jeff Sanders Mastered By. But considering where he was coming from, Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones is such a wide range of music here- I'd say a perfect balance between what was and what will be. So many different feelings and energy at every turn. Just a brilliant album. This Canadian pressing sounds very good. Reply Notify me Helpful. So alive. Note: only pressing i heard from this album. No crackle at all, recommended. FromThisPosition June 7, Report. MrShocktime May 3, Report. Did anyone else receive either with theirs? The quality is actually spectacular! One of the best vinyl records I own. Reply Notify me 1 Helpful. Add all to Wantlist Remove all from Wantlist. Have: Want: Avg Rating: 4. Listened by hipp-e. First Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones about My Music by chris. Absolutely Classic Albums by Joost Best albums of by dj-maus. Shore Leave. Dave The Butcher. Johnsburg, Illinois. Town With No Cheer. In The Neighborhood. Frank's Wild Years. Down, Down, Down. Soldier's Things. Gin Soaked Boy. Trouble's Braids. Island RecordsIsland Records. Sell This Version. Island Records. Asylum Records. Helicon Records. IMCD 48, Simply Vinyl. Island RecordsUniversal. IMCD 48, Island MastersIsland Records. Island RecordsIsland Masters. Island Records 2Island Records 2. Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones Sound By Roton. Poker Sound. Remix 4. Tom Waits - Wikipedia Connect your Spotify account to your Last. Connect to Spotify. A new version of Last. Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. Scrobbling is when Last. Learn more. Javascript is required to view shouts on this Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones. Go directly to Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones page. View full artist profile. View all similar artists. View all trending tracks. Loading player…. Scrobble from Spotify? Connect to Spotify Dismiss. Search Search. Add artwork View all artwork. Length 15 tracks, Release Date 1 September Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones Waits, released in September It was the first album that Waits produced himself and is marked as such by a sense of artistic freedom that would increasingly characterize his later work. Stylistically different from his previous LPs, Swordfishtrombones moves away from the piano and string orchestra arrangements of the late seventies replacing them instead with unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract songwriting approach. Swordfishtrombones peaked at on Billboard's Pop Albums and Billboard 20… read more. It was the first album that Waits produced himsel… read more. It was the first album that Waits produced himself and is marked as such by a sense of… read more. Related Tags blues singer- songwriter tom waits rock jazz Add tags View all tags. Tracklist Sorted by: Running order Running order Most popular. Buy Loading. More Love this track. Play album Buy Loading. Scrobble Stats? What is scrobbling? Artist images more. He started his career in the early s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughsand poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. 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And he drastically altered a musical approach that had Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits ' previous albums had employed; instead, the dominant sounds on the record were low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-miked arrangements most of them by Waits that Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones were better described as "soundscapes. The music can be primitive, moving to odd time signatures, while Waits alternately howls and wheezes in his gravelly bass voice. Waits seems Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones have had trouble interesting a record label in the album, which was cut 13 months before it was released, but when it appeared, rock critics predictably raved: after all, it sounded weird and it didn't have a chance of selling. Actually, it did make the bottom of the best-seller charts, like most of Waits ' albums, and now that he was with a label based in Europe, even charted there. Artistically, Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of which Waits had not seemed Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones though there were hints of this sound on his last two Asylum albumsand in career terms it reinvented him. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. Release Date September, Track Listing. Tom Waits. Shore Leave. Dave the Butcher. Johnsburg, Illinois. Town With No Cheer. 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