Tom Waits - Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
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Artist: Tom WaitsBrand: Tom
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-16
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Hang on St. Christopher
- Temptation
- Clap Hands
- Black Rider
- Underground
- Jockey Full of Bourbon
- Earth Died Screaming
- Innocent When You Dream (78)
- Straight to the Top
- Frank's Wild Years
- Singapore
- Shore Leave
- Johnsburg, Illinois
- Way Down in the Hole
- Strange Weather [Live]
- Cold Cold Ground [Live]
- November
- Downtown Train
- 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six
- Jesus Gonna Be Here
- Good Old World (Waltz) [Version]
- I Don't Wanna Grow Up
- Time
Music reviews of Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
Music Review: You need it for the live version of "Cold, Cold Ground"
Rating: 4 Stars
Here's the question - Do I need this one if I already own verything from "Heartattack and Vine" on up?
The answer is "Yes". Waits' singing on the live version of "Cold, Cold Ground" murders the studio one. Murders it!
Not recommended as an introduction to the curious since there are a ton of songs in Tom's catalog that could put this collection to shame.
Then again, anything that has "16 Shells From A Thirty Ought-Six", "Clap Hands", "Jockey Full Of Bourbon", "Straight To The Top" and "Hang On St. Christopher" is no lightweight collection either.
Description of Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
Same as USA VersionTom Waits pulled off a neat trick with the 1983 release of Swordfishtrombones: he disengaged himself from the present (and his own recent achievements) and allied himself with the past. And yet no one could accuse him of becoming mired in nostalgia. A decade before the phrase lo-fi gained favor, Waits purposely ravaged his songs by stomping them into peculiar shapes and utilizing arcane instruments and recording techniques to further bend them into new kinds of aural sculptures. The result was a genuine musical breakthrough. Beautiful Maladies gathers 23 tracks from Waits's seven post-Swordfishtrombones Island LPs. These pretty/ugly tracks provide a riveting view of Tom's wild years. While at least four Waits Island titles qualify as essentials, Beautiful Maladies and the 1988 live set, Big Time, provide compact introductions to a matchless body of work. --Steven Stolder
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