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Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1653021

Disk length: 41m 51s (15 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1983

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Underground 2:01
2. Dave The Butcher 4:18
3. Shore Leave 2:20
4. Johnsburg, Illinois 1:33
5. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six 4:33
6. Town With No Cheer 4:28
7. In The Neighborhood 3:07
8. Just Another Sucker On The Vine 1:46
9. Frank's Wild Years 1:53
10. Swordfishtrombones 3:08
11. Down, Down, Down 2:16
12. Soldier's Things 3:23
13. Gin Soaked Boy 2:24
14. Trouble's Braids 1:18
15. Rainbirds 3:14

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Review

The first album of the loose trilogy that also includes Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years, Swordfishtrombones marked a radical departure for Waits, whose avant-garde ambitions became plain not so much in his lyrics or subject matter--the songs here deal, as do his older albums, with hard life on the wrong side of the tracks and dreams of escape and transcendence--but in the music, a sound somewhere between German cabaret music from between the wars and contemporary Manhattan rush hour. Odd time signatures, unusual instrumentation (glass harmonicas and brake drums, among others), and Waits's barked vocals make this one of his most individualistic and challenging albums. --Daniel Durchholz

Other Versions

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Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 41m 51s

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 41m 50s (-1m 59s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 41m 50s (-1m 59s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 41m 50s (-1m 59s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 41m 50s (-1m 59s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 41m 49s (-1m 58s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 41m 47s (-1m 56s)

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Tracks: 15, Disk length: 41m 45s (-1m 54s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 42m 3s (+0m 12s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 22 (+7 tracks), Disk length: 1h 9m 54s (+28m 3s)

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