Lords Of The New Church: Lords Of The New Church 1982 + Is Nothing Sacred? 1983

 

Lords of the New Church were a British-American rock band. A supergroup, the line-up originally consisted of four musicians from 1970s punk bands. This line-up comprised vocalist Stiv Bators (ex-the Dead Boys), guitarist Brian James (ex-the Damned), bassist Dave Tregunna

(ex-Sham 69) and drummer Nick Turner (ex-the Barracudas). Launched in 1981, the band released three studio albums prior to their dissolution in 1989. During this time, they underwent several line-up changes. the Lords' music had elements of punk, it was more melodic, better-produced, and played with a higher degree of professionalism. This alienated some of the hardcore punk audience, but brought the Lords a much wider and more diverse fan base. 
                

By the time the Lords' self-titled debut album appeared in 1982, Turner had replaced Scabies to

form the lineup that would remain fixed throughout the band's most productive years.Though the album was well-received, the Lords became more notorious for their live shows, or more specifically for Bators's crazed abandon as a performer. A devotee of Iggy Pop, Bators had in his Dead Boys days developed a reputation for being unafraid to risk his life in pursuit of rock & roll glory. 
              

He suffered innumerable on-stage injuries during his career, the most famous being the time he

reportedly nearly hung himself during a Lords show. As the story goes, a favorite stunt of Bators' where he looped the mic cord around his neck went awry, resulting in his being clinically dead for several minutes. 
              

Is Nothing Sacred?, their second album released in September 1983, saw the band diversifying

musically, incorporating new wave, classic rock and ska, along with synths, horns and a greater emphasis on the bass. Like their first album, Is Nothing Sacred? was produced by the band themselves, except for its first single - a cover version of "Live for Today" (No. 91 UK) - which was produced by Todd Rundgren. Their third album, 1984's The Method to Our Madness, peaked at No. 158 on the US Billboard 200, while the single "M Style" reached No. 97 on the UK Single Chart. 
                    

Bators died after being struck by a car in Paris in 1990. James said in 2007: "The only other person

I've really been able to write with was Stiv Bators ... Me and Stiv were fantastic. I've never really had that with anybody else. ... it was like the riff master and the lyric master working together."
                     

LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH 1982 (SPECIAL EDITION) 2018

                     

Although their roots were in punk rock, their debut album announced to the world that the Lords of the New Church were not your average punk band. They had ambitions: they would be the last beacon of truth in a world nearing its end. And while you can't call The Lords of the New Church entirely successful -- for every high point like "Open Your Eyes" or "Russian Roulette" there's a clunker like "Portobello" or "Eat Your Heart Out" -- you can't fault their effort. Guitarist Brian James and the Tregunna/Turner rhythm section provide a wide-screen setting, with guest musicians adding synths and horns to the guitar bass, and drums foundation.
                         

                 

Lords Of The New Church – Lords Of The New Church Special Edition
Label: Blixa Sounds – ETA 806
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered Jul 20, 2018
Country: US
Released: 1982    
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Punk

CD1. LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH LP originally released by Illegal / I.R.S. records in 1982    

                  

01. New Church   3:31
Written-By – James, Bator
02. Russian Roulette   3:48
Written-By – Chimes, T. James
03. Question Of Temperature   2:56
Written-By – Henny, Schnug, Appel
04. Eat Your Heart Out   2:35
Written-By – James, Bator
05. Portobello   2:59
Written-By – James, Bator
06. Open Your Eyes   3:30
Written-By – James, Bator
07. Livin' On Livin'   3:25
Written-By – James, Bator
08. Li'l Boys Plays With Dolls   3:42
Written-By – James, Bator
09. Apocalypso   3:11
Written-By – James, Bator
10. Holy War   4:25
Written-By – James, Bator

BONUS TRAXS        

    
11. Girls Girls Girls   3:03
Written-By – James, Bator
12. Young Don't Cry   3:44
Written-By – James, Bator
13. Open Your Eyes (Single Version)   3:16
Written-By – James, Bator

Flac Size: 365 MB
            
CD2. LIVE FROM MY FATHER's PLACE OCTOBER, 1982    

                    

01. New Church   4:04
Written-By – James, Bator
02. Question Of Temperature   3:03
Written-By – Henny, Schnug, Appel
03. Girls Girls Girls   3:02
Written-By – James, Bator
04. Livin' On Livin'   3:16
Written-By – James, Bator
05. Eat Your Heart Out   3:02
Written-By – James, Bator
06. Russian Roulette   3:33
Written-By – Chimes, T. James
07. Fortune Teller   2:57
Written-By – Toussaint
08. Open Your Eyes   3:37
Written-By – James, Bator
09. Li'l Boys Plays With Dolls   3:26
Written-By – James, Bator
10. Holy War   6:08
Written-By – James, Bator
11. Portobello   2:32
Written-By – James, Bator
12. Apocalypso   3:02
Written-By – James, Bator
13. New Church   4:40 
Written-By – James, Bator

Flac Size: 297 MB

OPEN YOUR EYES LYRICS

                 

Video games train the kids for war
Army chic in high-fashion stores
Law and order's done their job
Prisons filled while the rich still rob

                           

      

Assassination politics
Violence rules within' our nation's midst
Well ignorance is their power tool
You'll only know what they want you to know

                  

The television cannot lie
Controlling media with smokescreen eyes
Nuclear politicians picture show
The acting's lousy but the blind don't know

                

Open your eyes
See the lies right in front of ya
Open your eyes

                 

They scare us all with threats of war
So we forget just how bad things are
You taste the fear when you're all alone
They gonna git'cha when you're on your own

                

The silence of conspiracy
Slaughtered on the altar of apathy
You gotta wake up from your sleep
'Cause meek inherits earth six feet deep

                      

Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya
Open your eyes

LINE - UP

Vocals – Stiv Bators
Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals – Dave Tregunna
Drums, Backing Vocals – Nicky Turner
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Brian James

LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - IS NOTHING SACRED? 1983

          

"Dance with Me" -- funky, slinky, and goth-tinged with lyrics that invoke voodoo and bondage -- is one of the Lords' best songs and, coincidentally, one of their biggest hits. "Live for Today," a surprisingly straight cover of the Grass Roots classic with slick production and keyboards by Todd Rundgren, closes the album on an uplifting though incongruous note. 
             

The Lords Of The New Church – Is Nothing Sacred?
Label: Track Record – TRK 1022CD
Format:    CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered 2003
Country: UK
Released: 1983    
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Punk

TRAXS

              

01. Dance With Me    3:24
02. Bad Timing    3:40
03. Johnny Too Bad    3:58
04. Don't Worry Children    3:43
05. The Night Is Calling    4:56
06. Black Girl White Girl    3:40
07. Goin' Downtown    3:50
08. Tale Of Two Cities    4:21
09. World Without End    5:26
10. Partners In Crime    2:41
11. Live For Today   3:42
Engineer [Additional] – Chris Anderson
Producer, Engineer, Synthesizer – Todd Rundgren
12. Opening Nightmares    3:41
13. Sorry For The Man    5:51
14. Lord's Prayer    5:36

LINE - UP

Lead Vocals – Stiv Bator
Alto Saxophone, Trumpet – Simon Lloyd
Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals – Dave Tregunna
Drums, Backing Vocals – Nicky Turner
Synthesizer, Keyboards – Matt Black
Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet – Rudi Thomson
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Brian James

NOTES

Track 11 recorded at Utopia Sound Studio, Lake Hill, N.Y. and mastered at Sterling Sound, N.Y.C.
Inner spine reads: "Truth is the sword of us all".
Tracks 12 to 14 are bonus for this reissue but aren't listed as such on the rear.

Flac Size: 442 MB

Cold Cave: Love Comes Closer (Deluxe Edition) 2019 + Cherish The Light Years 2011 - Full Cold Moon 2014

 

Cold Cave is the solo project for musician Wesley Eisold, described as a "collage of darkwave,

noise, and synthpop." A number of reviewers note the affinity with early 1980s post-punk and early synthpop, in particular Joy Division and New Order. Cold Cave was founded in 2007 by Wesley Eisold, vocalist of hardcore groups Give Up the Ghost (previously known as American Nightmare), Some Girls, and Heartworm Press founder. Cold Cave represents Eisold's first venture into instrumentation. Eisold was born with one hand which led him to electronic music. 
                     

The project of Wes Eisold, Cold Cave's collage of darkwave and synth pop ranges from desperate to

hopeful, from harsh to romantic -- often within the course of a single song. Eisold presented this contrast of light and dark most rawly on Cold Cave's early singles and 2009's full-length debut Love Comes Close, which paired his commanding baritone with gritty electronics on emotive songs that put the project at the forefront of the early 21st century's darkwave revival. 
                    

On 2011's Cherish the Light Years, Cold Cave went big, transforming their lo-fi intimacy into

maximalist anthems, but as their music evolved, their D.I.Y. individuality remained. As they released singles (many of which were collected on 2014's Full Cold Moon) and EPs including 2018's You & Me & Infinity and 2021's Fate in Seven Lessons EP, their commitment to brooding, danceable, heartfelt music was as strong as ever. 
                           

On April 12, 2023, it was announced that Cold Cave will tour in support of Depeche Mode's "Memento

Mori" World Tour and will be at the following European dates and cities: May 16 & 18 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. May 20 in Antwerp, Belgium. May 23 in Stockholm, Sweden. May 26 in Leipzig, Germany. May 28 in Bratislava, Slovakia. In March 2025, the band was featured on vocals on a track called "So Then..." on a new album released by Chris Liebing.

                       

COLD CAVE - LOVE COMES CLOSE (2009) DELUXE EDITION 2019

                     

Among the frostiest and darkest groups re-imagining and subverting electronic pop, Philadelphia's Cold Cave are perfectly named, and their debut album even more so. Love Comes Close could mean love

falls tantalizingly short, or that it's too close for comfort; in Cold Cave's world, it does both. Wes Eisold, Caralee McElroy (formerly of Xiu Xiu, whose fascination with heart-on-sleeve lyrics and rudimentary electronics is an unspoken influence on, or at least a kindred spirit to this group) and Prurient's Dominick Fenrow hone in on the bleakest and most romantic aspects of synth pop and industrial music, crafting something equally robotic and emotive. 
                          

Cold Cave – Love Comes Close - Anniversary 2LP
Label: Heartworm Press – Heartworm #80
Format: Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Neon Yellow
Country: US
Released: Nov 6, 2019
Genre: Electronic
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop, Experimental

TRACKS

                       

01. Cebe And Me   3:43
02. Love Comes Close  4:25
Guitar – Sean Martin 
03. Life Magazine   2:55
Bass – Sean Martin 
04. The Laurels Of Erotomania   2:52
05. Heaven Was Full  3:42
06. The Trees Grew Emotions And Died   4:03
Guitar – Sean Martin 
07. Hello Rats   1:49
08. Youth And Lust   4:02
09. I.C.D.K.   3:48
10. Double Lives in Single Beds   2:47
11. Theme From Tomorrowland   4:46
12. Now That I'm In The Future   3:12
13. Our Tears Help The Flowers Grow   4:18
14. Heaven's Gate   5:46

Flac Size: 365 MB

COLD CAVE - CHERISH THE LIGHT YEARS 2011

                          

Cold Cave's debut album, Love Comes Close, was so strong and original, so filled with heart-stopping songs built around hissing electronics and dancefloor-ready beats, that it must have been hard for Wes

Eisold and Caralee McElroy to think about bettering it. Especially after McElroy left the group. Despite these changes and the inherent challenges of the follow-up, Cherish the Light Years succeeds almost completely. It’s a different kind of record, to be sure; everything about it feels bigger, sleeker, and more assured from the vocals to the production. It’s an impressive sound that the band and producer Chris Coady (who did similar work on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It’s Blitz) have created.
                    

Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years
Label: Matador – OLE-921-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Apr 5, 2011
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop

TRACKS

                            

01. The Great Pan Is Dead   4:06
Bass – Matt Sweeney
Cello – Justin Kantor
Guitar – Sean Martin 
Viola – Beth Meyers
Violin – Gillian Rivera
02. Pacing Around The Church   3:26
Electronics – Dominick Fernow
Guitar, Bass – Daryl Palumbo
03. Confetti   5:37
Cello – Justin Kantor
Guitar – Tonie Joy
Guitar, Bass – Daryl Palumbo
Viola – Beth Meyers
Violin – Gillian Rivera
04. Catacombs   3:22
Electronics – Dominick Fernow
Songwriter, Guitar – Sean Martin 
05. Underworld USA   4:59
Songwriter, Guitar – Sean Martin 
06. Icons Of Summer   5:50
Synthesizer – Daryl Palumbo
Tracking By [Additional Tracking] – Kris Lapke
07. Alchemy And You   3:28
Guitar – Nick Zinner
Guitar, Bass – Daryl Palumbo
Trumpet – Eric Beyondo
08. Burning Sage   4:03
Bass – Tonie Joy
Electronics, Synthesizer – Dominick Fernow
Synthesizer – Jennifer Clavin
09. Villains Of The Moon   5:44
Guitar, Bass – Daryl Palumbo

Flac Size: 323 MB

COLD CAVE - FULL COLD MOON 2014

                 

Full Cold Moon is a compilation album by American synthpop project, Cold Cave. It was released on

May 13, 2014, through project leader Wesley Eisold's own record label, Heartworm Press. The album features the band's limited edition singles that were released through Heartworm Press and Deathwish, Inc., in chronological order. The release of the album was announced on April 21, 2014, through Cold Cave's official Instagram page. 
                      

Cold Cave – Full Cold Moon
Label: Heartworm Press – Heartworm #60
Format: CD, Compilation
Country:U S
Released: May 13, 2014
Genre: Electronic
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop, EBM, Industrial

TRACKS

                         

01. A Little Death To Laugh    3:38
02. Young Prisoner Dreams Of Romance    1:24
03. Tristan Corbière    3:18
04. Oceans With No End    4:33
05. People Are Poison    3:56
06. Black Boots    3:35
07. Meaningful Life    4:57
08. God Made The World    5:04
09. Dandelion    2:47
10. Nausea, The Earth And Me    6:26
11. Don’t Blow Up The Moon    3:01
12. Beaten 1979    3:33

NOTES

                

1 to 3 from A Little Death To Laugh 7"
4 and 5 from Oceans With No End 7"
6 and 7 from Black Boots 7"
8 from God Made The World 7" (9 is on digital version)
10 to 12 from Nausea, The Earth And Me digital-only release. 

Flac Size: 307 MB

Tom Waits: 6 Albums (1973 - 1987)

 

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, composer and

actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underworld and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, jazz, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk and experimental techniques verging on industrial music.
                   

Since the '70s, Waits has charted a path from playing fleabag dive bars to opera theaters and prestigious concert halls all over the world. His recordings -- from early masterpieces such as Small

Change and Blue Valentine and the twisted, dramatic, and black, humorous art songs on the trilogy of Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Frank's Wild Years, to the deconstructed experimental soundworlds erected for Bone Machine and Mule Variations -- have charted the lives and circumstances of the humble, forgotten, evil, demented, abandoned, cursed, and just plain down-on-their-luck humans to places of honor in our pantheon in a spirit akin to the photographs of Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. 
            

Tom Waits was born in a middle-class family in Pomona, California and grew up there. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk

circuit. He moved to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His debut album was Closing Time (1973) and The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) and Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) followed. He toured the United States, Europe, and Japan finding greater critical and commercial success with Small Change (1976), Blue Valentine (1978), and Heartattack and Vine (1980). During that time, Waits entered the world of film, acting in Paradise Alley (1978) where he met Kathleen Brennan.
                           

In 1980, Waits married Brennan, split from his manager and record label, and moved to New York City. With Brennan's encouragement and frequent collaboration, he pursued a more eclectic and

experimental sound influenced by Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart, as heard on the loose trilogy Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Franks Wild Years (1987). Waits' tunes have since provided Marianne Faithfull, Dion, and others with material. His profile in the world had risen. He was able to secure all-star sidemen including guitarists Marc Ribot, Chris Spedding, and Keith Richards, bassists Larry Taylor and Greg Cohen, percussionists Michael Blair and Bobby Previte, and saxophonist Ralph Carney.  
              

In 1990, he collaborated with theater director Robert Wilson on the musical The Black Rider, the songs for which were released on the album of the same name. Waits and Wilson reunited for the musicals

Alice (1992) and Woyzeck (2000). In 2002, the songs from them were released on the albums Alice and Blood Money. Waits won Grammys for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Contemporary Folk Album for Bone Machine (1992) and Mule Variations (1999). Waits went on to release Real Gone (2004), the compilation Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006), the live album Glitter and Doom Live (2009) and Bad as Me (2011). 
               

Tom Waits has taken influence from a wide variety of different artists and styles from across time. In his early career, he took influence from Bob Dylan's folk music and the pre-war composers Irving

Berlin, Cole Porter, and Hoagy Carmichael. Frank Sinatra and the 1940s and 1950s word-jazz and poetry of Beat and Beat-influenced writers such as Jack Kerouac, Lord Buckley and Charles Bukowski were a big influence on his albums in the 1970s. By 1982, his musical style shifted away from a lot of these earlier influences and took inspiration from a wider array of sources. Influences included; the Rolling Stones, avant-garde composer Harry Partch, Howlin' Wolf and Captain Beefheart's late-1960s experimental rock.
                 

01. TOM WAITS - CLOSING TIME 1973

                 

Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within his chosen narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits and producer Jerry

Yester manage to deliver a surprisingly broad collection of styles, from the jazzy "Virginia Avenue" to the uptempo off-kilter funkiness of "Ice Cream Man." The acoustic guitar folkiness of the tender "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You" is an upside-down take on the Laurel Canyon sound, while the saloon song "Midnight Lullaby" would have been a perfect addition to the repertoires of Frank Sinatra and/or Tony Bennett. Waits' entire musical approach is highly stylized and, in its lesser moments, somewhat derivative of some of his own heroes: "Lonely" borrows from Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today."  
                       

Tom Waits – Closing Time
Label: Elektra – 5061-2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Released: Oct 16, 1990
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Pop
Style: Smooth Jazz, Piano Blues, Ballad

TRACKS

                  

01. Ol' '55    3:55
02. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You    3:52
03. Virginia Avenue    3:22
04. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)    3:41
05. Midnight Lullaby    3:10
06. Martha    4:26
07. Rosie    3:56
08. Lonely    3:11
09. Ice Cream Man    3:05
10. Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)    3:55
11. Grapefruit Moon    4:46
12. Closing Time    3:58

LINE - UP

Tom Waits – vocals, piano, guitar, harmonium, harpsichord, celeste
Delbert Bennett – trumpet
Shep Cooke – guitar, backing vocals on "Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)"
Peter Klimes – guitar, pedal steel guitar on "Rosie"
Bill Plummer – double bass
John Seiter – drums; backing vocals on "Ol' 55" and "Rosie"

GUEST MUSICIANS

Arni Egilsson – bass guitar on "Closing Time"
Jesse Ehrlich – cello on "Martha"
Tony Terran – trumpet solo on "Closing Time"

Flac Size: 244 MB

02. TOM WAITS -  NIGHTHAWKS  AT THE DINER 1975

                   

Tom Waits' first two albums, 1973's Closing Time and 1974's The Heart of Saturday Night, documented his estimable strengths as a songwriter, but they didn't always give much of a sense of the personality that came through in his live performances. In front of an audience, Waits transformed himself into

something resembling a minor character from a Jack Kerouac novel, a witty but bedraggled hipster from the seedy side of Los Angeles. His third album, 1975's Nighthawks at the Diner, was designed to show off Waits as an entertainer as well as a tunesmith; producer Bones Howe set up a nightclub facsimile in a recording studio, paired Waits with a solid band of jazz-inclined studio musicians, brought in an audience, and recorded what was in essence his first live album. As entertainment, Nighthawks at the Diner is one of Waits' most thoroughly enjoyable albums. 
                        

Tom Waits – Nighthawks At The Diner
Label: Asylum Records – E2-2008
Format: CD, Album, Club Edition, Reissue 1989
Country: US
Released: 1975    
Genre: Rock, Blues
Style: Blues Rock

TRACKS 

                   

 
01. (Opening Intro)    2:59
02. Emotional Weather Report    3:43
03. (Intro)    2:18
04. On A Foggy Night    3:49
05. (Intro)    1:55
06. Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)    4:13
07. (Intro)    3:22
08. Better Off Without A Wife    3:53
09. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)    11:27
10. (Intro)    0:55
11. Warm Beer And Cold Women    5:21
12. (Intro)    0:48
13. Putnam County    7:34
14. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)   6:23
Written-By – Chuck E. Weiss
15. Nobody    2:49
16. (Intro)    0:41
17. Big Joe And Phantom 309   6:30
Written-By – Tommy Faile
18. Spare Parts II And Closing    5:14

LINE - UP

Tom Waits – vocals, piano, guitar
Pete Christlieb – tenor saxophone
Bill Goodwin – drums
Jim Hughart – upright bass
Mike Melvoin – piano, electric piano

Flac Size: 410 MB

03. TOM WAITS - SMALL CHANGE 1976   

                        

The fourth release in Tom Waits' series of skid row travelogues, Small Change proves to be the

archetypal album of his '70s work. A jazz trio comprising tenor sax player Lew Tabackin, bassist Jim Hughart, and drummer Shelly Manne, plus an occasional string section, back Waits and his piano on songs steeped in whiskey and atmosphere in which he alternately sings in his broken-beaned drunk's voice (now deeper and overtly influenced by Louis Armstrong) and recites jazzy poetry. It's as if Waits

were determined to combine the Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson characters from Casablanca with a dash of On the Road's Dean Moriarty to illuminate a dark world of bars and all-night diners. Of course, he'd been in that world before, but in songs like "The Piano Has Been Drinking" and "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart," Waits gives it its clearest expression. 
                  

Tom Waits – Small Change
Label: Asylum Records – CD 1078
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 1989
Country: Canada
Released: 1976    
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Rock & Roll

TRACKS

                  

01. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)    6:40
02. Step Right Up    5:39
03. Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone WIth Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body And The Mug And Artie)    3:41
04. I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)    4:50
05. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (A Evening With Pete King)    3:37
06. Invitation To The Blues    5:20
07. Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)    2:32
08. Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)    4:46
09. The One That Got Away    4:00
10. Small Change (Got Rained On WIth His Own .38)    5:03
11. I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)    3:20

LINE - UP

Tom Waits – vocals, piano
Harry Bluestone – violin, concertmaster strings
Jim Hughart – bass guitar
Ed Lustgarten – cello, orchestra manager strings
Shelly Manne – drums
Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone
Jerry Yester – arranger and conductor of string section

Flac Size: 262 MB

04. TOM WAITS - HEARTATTACK AND VINE 1980   

                     

Heartattack and Vine is Tom Waits' seventh and final album for Asylum. As such, it's transitional. As

demonstrated by its immediate predecessors, 1978's excellent Blue Valentine and 1977's Foreign Affairs, he was already messing with off-kilter rhythms even in the most conventionally structured blues and jazz songs, with nastier-sounding guitars -- he plays a particularly gnarly style of rhythm on this entire album. Five of these nine tracks are rooted in gutbucket blues with rock edges and primal R&B beats.
                  

Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
Label: Elektra – 295-2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 1989
Country: US
Released: 1980    
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Alternative Rock

TRACKS

                 

01. Heartattack And Vine   4:42
02. In Shades   4:04
03. Saving All My Love For You   3:39
04. Downtown   4:43
05. Jersey Girl   5:09
06. 'Til The Money Runs Out   4:20
07. On The Nickel   6:17
08. Mr. Siegal   5:13
09. Ruby's Arms   5:35

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Tom Waits – vocals, electric guitar, piano
Bob Alcivar – string arrangement, orchestral arrangement, conductor
Ronnie Barron – Hammond organ, piano
Roland Bautista – electric guitar, twelve-string guitar
Greg Cohen, Jim Hughart, Larry Taylor – bass guitar
Victor Feldman – percussion, chimes, glockenspiel
Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
Michael Lang – piano
"Big John" Thomassie – drums
Jerry Yester – orchestral arrangement, conductor

Flac Size: 206 MB

05. TOM WAITS - SWORDFISHTROMBONES 1983

                   

Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and

much less of the piano work that Waits' previous albums had employed; instead, the dominant sounds on the record were low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-miked arrangements (most of them by Waits) that sometimes were better described as "soundscapes." Lyrically, Waits' tales of the drunken and the lovelorn have been replaced by surreal accounts of people who burned down their homes and of Australian towns bypassed by the railroad -- a world (not just a neighborhood) of misfits now have his attention. 
                   

Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
Label: Island Records – 255 774, Island Records – CID 9762
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 1987
Country: Europe
Released: 1983    
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock

TRACKS

                   

01. Underground      2:01
02. Shore Leave      4:18
03. Dave The Butcher    2:21
04. Johnsburg, Illinois    1:34
05. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six    4:33
06. Town With No Cheer      4:28
07. In The Neighborhood      3:07
08. Just Another Sucker On The Vine    1:47
09. Frank's Wild Years     1:54
10. Swordfishtrombone    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    3:15  

LINE - UP

Tom Waits – vocals (1:1–2, 1:4–7, 2:2–7), chair (1:2), Hammond B-3 organ (1:3), piano (1:4, 2:5, 2:8), harmonium (1:6, 2:1), synthesizer (1:6), freedom bell (1:6)
Victor Feldman – bass marimba (1:1–2), marimba (1:2, 2:3), shaker (1:2), bass drum with rice (1:2), bass boo bams (1:3), Brake drum (1:5), bell plate (1:5), snare (1:5, 2:4), Hammond B-3 organ (1:7), snare drum (1:7), bells (1:7), conga (2:3), bass drum (2:3), Dabuki drum (2:3), tambourine (2:4), African talking drum (2:7)
Larry Taylor – acoustic bass (1:1–2, 1:5, 1:7, 2:2, 2:4, 2:6–7), electric bass (2:3)
Randy Aldcroft – baritone horn (1:1, 1:7), trombone (1:2)
Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges – drums (1:1–2, 1:5, 2:4, 2:6), parade drum (1:7), cymbals (1:7), parade bass drum (2:7), glass harmonica (2:8)
Fred Tackett – electric guitar (1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 2:6), banjo (1:2)
Francis Thumm – metal aunglongs (1:2), glass harmonica (2:8)
Greg Cohen – bass (1:4), acoustic bass (2:3, 2:5, 2:8)
Joe Romano – trombone (1:5), trumpet (2:1)
Anthony Clark Stewart – bagpipes (1:6)
Clark Spangler – synthesizer program (1:6)
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (1:7)
Dick Hyde – trombone (1:7)
Ronnie Barron – Hammond organ (2:2)
Eric Bikales – organ (2:4)
Carlos Guitarlos – electric guitar (2:4)
Richard Gibbs – glass harmonica (2:8)

Flac Size: 235 MB

06. TOM WAITS - FRANKS WILD YEARS 1987

                   

Tom Waits wrote a song called "Frank's Wild Years" for his 1983 Swordfishtrombones album, then used the title (minus its apostrophe) for a musical play he wrote with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and

toured with in 1986. The Franks Wild Years album, drawn from the show, is subtitled, "un operachi romantico in two acts," though the songs themselves do not carry the plot. Rather, this is just the third installment in Waits' eccentric series of Island Records albums in which he seems most inspired by German art song and carnival music, presenting songs in spare, stripped-down arrangements consisting of instruments like marimba, baritone horn, and pump organ and singing in a strained voice that has been artificially compressed and distorted. 
                        

Tom Waits – Franks Wild Years
Label: Island Records – ITWCD 3
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1987
Genre: Jazz, Rock
Style: Lounge, Folk Rock, Contemporary Jazz

TRACKS
       

ACT I.

    
01. Hang On St Christopher   2:46
02. Straight To The Top (Rhumba)   2:30
03. Blow Wind Blow   3:34
04. Temptation   3:53
05. Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)  4:15
06. I'll Be Gone   3:12
07. Yesterday Is Here   2:31
08. Please Wake Me Up   3:35
09. Frank's Theme   1:50

ACT II.

    
10. More Than Rain   3:52
11. Way Down In The Hole   3:30
12. Straight To The Top (Vegas)   3:24
13. I'll Take New York   4:00
14. Telephone Call From Istanbul   3:12
15. Cold Cold Ground   4:07
16. Train Song   3:20
17. Innocent When You Dream (78)    3:00

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Tom Waits – vocals (all tracks), pump organ (3, 5, 9, 16), Optigan (2, 4, 8, 10), guitar (4, 7, 15), vocal stylings (12), rooster (6), piano (16), Farfisa (14), Mellotron (8), drums (14), conga (2), tambourine (7)
Jay Anderson – bass (8)
Michael Blair – drums, conga, percussion, maracas, marimba, orchestra bells, glockenspiel (1–4, 6, 10–14)
Kathleen Brennan – vocal arrangements (4)
Angela Brown – background vocals (11)
Ralph Carney – saxophone, baritone horn, violin, tenor saxophone (1–2, 4–6, 8, 10–13, 17)
Greg Cohen – bass, alto horn, horn arrangements, Leslie bass pedals (1–6, 10–14, 16–17)
David Hidalgo – accordion (15–16)
Leslie Holland – background vocals (11)
Lynne Jordan – background vocals (11)
Marc Ribot – guitar, banjo (1, 4, 11, 14)
William Schimmel – piano, pump organ, accordion, Leslie bass pedals, cocktail piano (1, 2, 5–6, 10, 12–13, 17)
Larry Taylor – bass, upright bass (2, 7, 8, 15)
Moris Tepper – guitar (4, 6, 10, 14)
Francis Thumm – prepared piano, pump organ (3, 10)

Flac Size: 341 MB 

TOM WAITS ON URBAN ASPIRINES:

                

The Heart Of Saturday Night 1974 HERE
Forain Affairs 1977 HERE
BLUE VALENTINE 1978 HERE
Rain Dogs 1985 HERE
Mule Vatiations 1999 HERE