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someguy
08-17-2006, 09:38 PM
TOM WAITS TO RELEASE 3CD SET --ORPHANS: BRAWLERS, BAWLERS AND BASTARDS— NOVEMBER 21 ON ANTI-

WAITS JUST CAME OFF EXCEEDINGLY SUCCESSFUL AND SPECTACULAR 9 DATE TOUR OF THE SOUTH AND MIDWEST CLIMAXING WITH FIRST CLUB DATE IN 3 DECADES AT CLEVELAND’S HOUSE OF BLUES

The one and only TOM WAITS is set to release a 3CD set titled ORPHANS: BRAWLERS, BAWLERS AND BASTARDS. It’s a wide-ranging collection of 54 songs, including 30 new recordings, equaling over three hours of rare and never-before heard music with a 94 page booklet.

“Orphans are rough and tender tunes. Rhumbas about mermaids, shuffles about trainwrecks, tarantellas about insects, madrigrals about drowning,” says Waits. “Scared, mean, orphans songs of rapture and melancholy. Songs that grew up hard. Songs of dubious origin rescued from cruel fate and now left wanting only to be cared for. Show that you are not afraid and take them home. They don’t bite, they just need attention.”

Each of the three CDs is separately grouped and sub-titled – “Brawlers,” “Bawlers” and “Bastards” – to capture the full spectrum of Waits’ ranging and roving musical styles. “Brawlers” is chock full of raucous blues and full-throated juke joint stomp, “Bawlers” contains Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano and classic lyrical Waits’ songs, while “Bastards” is filled with experimental music and strange tales.

In addition to the new work, Orphans features a number of tracks finding a home on a Waits’ album for the first time - songs originally recorded for the cinema, the theatre and other projects. They include Waits’ unique interpretations of songs by such extraordinarily diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, Leadbelly, Kerouac and Bukowski.

Tracklisting:

Songs of Orphans:

Disc One: Brawlers

01 Lie to Me
02 LowDown
03 2:19
04 Fish in the Jailhouse
05 Bottom of the World
06 Lucinda
07 Ain't Goin' Down to the Well
08 Lord I've Been Changed
09 Puttin' on the Dog
10 Road to Peace
11 All the Time
12 The Return of Jackie and Judy
13 Walk Away
14 Sea of Love
15 Buzz Fledderjohn
16 Rains on Me

Disc Two: Bawlers

01 Bend Down the Branches
02 You Can Never Hold Back Spring
03 Long Way Home
04 Widow's Grove
05 Little Drop of Poison
06 Shiny Things
07 World Keeps Turning
08 Tell It to Me
09 Never Let Go
10 Fannin Street
11 Little Man
12 It's Over
13 If I Have to Go
14 Goodnight Irene
15 The Fall of Troy
16 Take Care of All My Children
17 Down There By the Train
18 Danny Says
19 Jayne's Blue Wish
20 Young at Heart

Disc Three: Bastards

01 What Keeps Mankind Alive
02 Children's Story
03 Heigh Ho
04 Army Ants
05 Books of Moses
06 Bone Chain
07 Two Sisters
08 First Kiss
09 Dog Door
10 Redrum
11 Nirvana
12 Home I'll Never Be
13 Poor Little Lamb
14 Altar Boy
15 The Pontiac
16 Spidey's Wild Ride
17 King Kong
18 On the Road

Cover art is HERE (http://media.anti.com/tom_waits/orphans/orphans_album_art_hi.jpg)

Can't wait.

bnuz_17
08-17-2006, 09:46 PM
Wow, that made my day. I love everything Tom Waits. That is some cool cover art too. I heard about "Orphans" a while back but I didn't know it would be this massive. I CAN'T WAIT!

Romero's Dead
08-17-2006, 10:29 PM
Tom Waits looks like Hellboy.

Lazy Boy
08-17-2006, 10:44 PM
Huge Tom Waits fan. Can't wait.

Tayzlor
08-18-2006, 12:15 AM
This is, no doubt, THE release for 2006.

Maybe after Dylan though.

bowieee
08-19-2006, 07:15 PM
Originally posted by someguy
TOM WAITS TO RELEASE 3CD SET --ORPHANS: BRAWLERS, BAWLERS AND BASTARDS— NOVEMBER 21 ON ANTI-

WAITS JUST CAME OFF EXCEEDINGLY SUCCESSFUL AND SPECTACULAR 9 DATE TOUR OF THE SOUTH AND MIDWEST CLIMAXING WITH FIRST CLUB DATE IN 3 DECADES AT CLEVELAND’S HOUSE OF BLUES

The one and only TOM WAITS is set to release a 3CD set titled ORPHANS: BRAWLERS, BAWLERS AND BASTARDS. It’s a wide-ranging collection of 54 songs, including 30 new recordings, equaling over three hours of rare and never-before heard music with a 94 page booklet.

“Orphans are rough and tender tunes. Rhumbas about mermaids, shuffles about trainwrecks, tarantellas about insects, madrigrals about drowning,” says Waits. “Scared, mean, orphans songs of rapture and melancholy. Songs that grew up hard. Songs of dubious origin rescued from cruel fate and now left wanting only to be cared for. Show that you are not afraid and take them home. They don’t bite, they just need attention.”

Each of the three CDs is separately grouped and sub-titled – “Brawlers,” “Bawlers” and “Bastards” – to capture the full spectrum of Waits’ ranging and roving musical styles. “Brawlers” is chock full of raucous blues and full-throated juke joint stomp, “Bawlers” contains Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano and classic lyrical Waits’ songs, while “Bastards” is filled with experimental music and strange tales.

In addition to the new work, Orphans features a number of tracks finding a home on a Waits’ album for the first time - songs originally recorded for the cinema, the theatre and other projects. They include Waits’ unique interpretations of songs by such extraordinarily diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, Leadbelly, Kerouac and Bukowski.

Tracklisting:

Songs of Orphans:

Disc One: Brawlers

01 Lie to Me
02 LowDown
03 2:19
04 Fish in the Jailhouse
05 Bottom of the World
06 Lucinda
07 Ain't Goin' Down to the Well
08 Lord I've Been Changed
09 Puttin' on the Dog
10 Road to Peace
11 All the Time
12 The Return of Jackie and Judy
13 Walk Away
14 Sea of Love
15 Buzz Fledderjohn
16 Rains on Me

Disc Two: Bawlers

01 Bend Down the Branches
02 You Can Never Hold Back Spring
03 Long Way Home
04 Widow's Grove
05 Little Drop of Poison
06 Shiny Things
07 World Keeps Turning
08 Tell It to Me
09 Never Let Go
10 Fannin Street
11 Little Man
12 It's Over
13 If I Have to Go
14 Goodnight Irene
15 The Fall of Troy
16 Take Care of All My Children
17 Down There By the Train
18 Danny Says
19 Jayne's Blue Wish
20 Young at Heart

Disc Three: Bastards

01 What Keeps Mankind Alive
02 Children's Story
03 Heigh Ho
04 Army Ants
05 Books of Moses
06 Bone Chain
07 Two Sisters
08 First Kiss
09 Dog Door
10 Redrum
11 Nirvana
12 Home I'll Never Be
13 Poor Little Lamb
14 Altar Boy
15 The Pontiac
16 Spidey's Wild Ride
17 King Kong
18 On the Road

Cover art is HERE (http://media.anti.com/tom_waits/orphans/orphans_album_art_hi.jpg)

Can't wait.

I've heard alot of these and they were a bitch to track down during the glory years of Napster getting them all in one set is too good to be true.

Yeah!

The Heart Collector
08-19-2006, 09:44 PM
did you end up seeing him on this tour, bowiee?

Psychocandy
08-20-2006, 09:14 AM
This looks great. I've been a big fan of Waits since I picked up Mule Variations. Since then i've pretty much gotten hold of all his albums. I love collections like this. Often they are more representative of what's going on in an artist's head than the actual albums they put out. Roll on November 21st.

bowieee
08-20-2006, 07:24 PM
Originally posted by The Heart Collector
did you end up seeing him on this tour, bowiee?

Sadly no, it would have cost about 800 bones in total and would have put me in debt. I totally regret passing on it now. Someday........ Someday Dammit I'll see that man.

How Fucking awesomy awesome was the Show you saw?

The Heart Collector
08-20-2006, 08:37 PM
Pretty awesome.

Whenever he sang the lines "WALTZING MATILDA... WALTZING MATIIIIIIIIIIIIIILDAAAA" I was soooo happy.

The 2nd encore, when he closed with TIME it was pretty sweet too.

someguy
10-25-2006, 04:08 PM
I've heard the set and it's pretty astounding.

bowieee
10-25-2006, 05:01 PM
I love his version of Heigh Ho.

Also a live dvd is being released alongside this on the same day. Now they need to hurry up and remaster Big Time and release a super deluxe edition of that film.

The Heart Collector
10-25-2006, 05:18 PM
I like it, though I found the whole 'lets put my face real close to the microphone to make my voice sound funny' thing that a lot of the songs had to be sort of annoying.

'Lord I've Been Changed' is trippin.

XHendrix24
10-25-2006, 05:46 PM
Completely badass.

Hell of a lot of music to attempt to listen to in one sitting, though (even one of the CDs).

But Bone Machine and Rain Dogs have been getting the job done lately in that regard.

drago25
10-26-2006, 08:18 AM
Holy can't wait.

BadCoverVersion
10-31-2006, 07:31 PM
I love it...my favourites are the talky moments...

Rains On Me
Young At Heart
MISSING MY SON