Tom Waits Discography : The Years ANTI-Records
It is difficult to remember any song from that album: the touching Hold On, the very road Get Behind the Mule, the huge chorus of Cold Water, the brilliant The Eyeball Kid percussion, the comic book character created by Eddie Campbell; or immeasurable Chocolate Jesus. The latter, with a more sarcastic letters and genius of the story: “Do not go to church on Sunday / Do not get on my knees to pray / Do not memorize the books of the Bible / I got my own special way / Bit I know Jesus loves me / Maybe just a little bit more / I fall on my knees Every Sunday / At Zerelda Lee’s candy store / Well it’s got to be a chocolate Jesus / Make me feel good inside / Got to be a Chocolate Jesus / Keep me satisfied “.
In 2002 Tom Waits decide to take out two albums at once: Alice and Blood Money, both based in two theatrical productions in the mid 90′s. The first in a stage production of Robert Wison on Lewis Carroll’s alleged obsession with the girl who inspired his Alice in Wonderland. I’m Still Here In one account, during a celebration at the University of Oxford is asked Alice, who currently has over eighty years, to say a few words. With effort comes on stage, try the gentle tapping microphone and starts talking … This lyrical surrealism is also reflected in the music, as in the vocal Kommienezuspadt curious experiment, which has a lot of meaningless sounds. And is that Mr. Waits is fond of inventing words and sounds … Blood Money is based on the Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, which part of a history of 1837 in which a German soldier who has lived through several wars lends itself to successive experiments doctors in exchange for money. The consequences will be devastating and the music will be the perfect condiment for this intense story, dark and violent. Everything is terrible and cruel life too often has no place here. Hard work, you stir the bowels.
With Real Gone, 2004, Waits recovers much of the crudity and coarseness of Bone Machine. For this work he recorded hours of beats, growls and all kinds of sounds made with your own voice you would use material percussive element in most of the songs. Hoist That Rag In Ribot slides his Afro-Cuban flavored catchy melodies, while shouts his head and mutters Waits. It is ideal disk to start listening, no, but for those familiar with his discography is a deep and delicious immersion in his universe.
And if to many it seemed excessive release in 2002 of two disks simultaneously, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, just four years later they were subjected to migraines. Because this work is enormous: three discs, 56 songs and over three hours in total. A devotee’s paradise and a nightmare for many Firestone.Orphans build a new building on the foundations of its many different facets: Brawlers revisits and reinvents the sound of albums like Rain Dogs and Mule Variations, Bawlers appear in the ballads and romanticism of early records, and Bastards are the most avant-garde in the five original songs and a handful of versions by various authors such as Daniel Johnston, Kerouac or Bukowski. If Orphans began as a collection of B-sides, rarities and discards the fact is that ultimately became a real musical biography.
From this immense work, we had the opportunity to hear live, with Glitter & Doom Live, and in a few weeks we will have the opportunity to finally hear a new studio work is titled Bad as me, the very title of the song has been released as an advance.
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