Tom Waits - The Black Rider (1993 Studio Cast)
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Artist: Tom WaitsBrand: Tom
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1993-11-02
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Lucky Day (Overture)
- Black Rider
- November
- Just the Right Bullets
- Black Box Theme
- 'Tain't No Sin
- Flash Pan Hunter (Intro)
- That's the Way
- Briar and the Rose
- Russian Dance
- Gospel Train [Orchestra]
- I'll Shoot the Moon
- Flash Pan Hunter
- Crossroads
- Gospel Train
- Interlude
- Oily Night
- Lucky Day
- Last Rose of Summer
- Carnival
Music reviews of The Black Rider (1993 Studio Cast)
Music Review: IS THIS ALBUM SCHIZOPHRENIC OR IS IT ME?
Rating: 4 Stars
On first listen, I found this album to be unlistenable. Insane cacophony. Not the Waits I like. I don't like the Waits songs about cheeseburgers and bourbon and waitresses and I don't like the Waits songs where it sounds like he's stark raving incomprehensibly speaking in tongues. This sounded like a whole album of the stark raving type. Then one morning as I was too rushed to change the CD player, I inadvertently gave it another listen. It was like a whole new album to me - I liked it, and have continued to like it. I don't like challenging "listens" - execrable music that we are supposed to like to be coolTrout Mask Replica. This is not one of those album. It's an acquired taste that you may not acquire. It is a collection of songs that sounds like something from some dark, dark cabaret with a little spaghettiKraft Noodle Classics, Tangy Italian Spaghetti Dinner, 8-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 24) western music thrown in (give Just The Right Bullets a listen). I'd suggest giving the album a second listen. You might like it. One of the worst writers/most interesting individuals, William Burroughs makes an appearance on this thing on the song T'ain't No Sin. Pretty nutsoThe Peanut Shop of Williamsburg Hand Cooked Virginia Peanuts in Large Colonial Style Drum, 40-Ounce Tins (Pack of 2). Hey kids, see what drugs did to Bill. Don't do drugs or you'll look and act like Bill. I assume that Waits got the song or the idea from a song by Fred Hall & His Sugar Babies (1925 I think)[[ASIN:B000005DZD Fred Hall & His Sugar Babies] with the full title 'Taint No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin And Dance Around In Your Bones). Sick, but in a good way.
Description of The Black Rider (1993 Studio Cast)
Summoned to Hamburg, Germany, to write music for a live stage production of Robert Wilson's The Black Rider, musical mastermind Waits took to the task at hand with gusto, assembling an eclectic crew of musicians to become "the pit band [he'd] always dreamed of." Several years later Waits assembled another "orchestra" in San Francisco to record many of the songs he'd written for the live production. Those tracks are found here, alongside a few rough gems from sessions in Hamburg. You'll find some musical matter familiar to Waits fans: accordions, carnivals, violas, banjos, the devil (a key figure in The Black Rider), a singing saw, bassoons, and trombones. Waits's many voices tell the rather disjointed story with a variety of musical styling, and the assembled whole is pretty much a sum of its parts (but at least they're interesting parts): a touch of Day of the Dead, a whiff of carny, a nod to Brecht, a dash of film noir, and the scent of narcosis (William Burroughs makes an appearance here). Not easy listening, by any means, but a feast for the ears. --Lorry FlemingExperimental Rock CDs
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