 | Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years |
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Product Description
This CD can be considered somewhat rare now.
Track Listing
- Hang On St. Christopher
- Temptation
- Clap Hands
- The 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)
- I Don't Wanna Grow Up
- Time
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #111550 in Music
- Released on: 1998-06-16
- Number of discs: 1
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .17 pounds
Features
- 23 of his BEST Songs during his Island Records Years
- Liner notes included
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Tom 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
New Musical Express
With a track-listing hand-picked by Waits himself, it succeeds in touching all emotional bases--you know, the usual: love, death, failure, abject despair, existentialism-- with a display of filthy irreverence and furious intellect. He's like Springsteen with a personality disorder.
USA Today
Elusive, melancholy, gritty and hopelessly untrendy, Waits embodies alternative rock's ideal.