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Tom Waits, Franks Wild Years
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1622401
Disk length: 56m 48s (17 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1987
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Hang On St. Christopher | 2:46 |
| 2. Straight To The Top (Rhumba) | 2:30 |
| 3. Blow Wind Blow | 3:35 |
| 4. Temptation | 3:53 |
| 5. Innocent When You Dream (Barroom) | 4:16 |
| 6. I'll Be Gone | 3:12 |
| 7. Yesterday Is Here | 2:31 |
| 8. Please Wake Me Up | 3:35 |
| 9. Franks Theme | 1:49 |
| 10. More Than Rain | 3:52 |
| 11. Way Down In The Hole | 3:30 |
| 12. Straight To The Top (Vegas) | 3:26 |
| 13. I'll Take New York | 3:58 |
| 14. Telephone Call From Istanbul | 3:11 |
| 15. Cold Call Ground | 4:07 |
| 16. Train Song | 3:20 |
| 17. Innocent When You Dream (78) | 3:09 |
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Review
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
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