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Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1684841

Disk length: 1h 9m 54s (22 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1983

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Underground 2:00
2. Shore Leave 4:17
3. Dave The Butcher 2:19
4. Johnsburg, Illinois 1:30
5. 16 Shells From A Thirty Ought Six 4:30
6. Town With No Cheer 4:27
7. In The Neighbourhood 3:07
8. Just Another Sucker On The Vine 1:43
9. Franks Wild Years 1:52
10. Swordfishtrombone 3:06
11. Down, Down, Down 2:14
12. Sondier's Things 3:21
13. Gin Soaked Boy 2:24
14. Trouble's Braids 1:17
15. Rainbirds 3:07
16. Allen Ginsberg America 4:56
17. The World Keeps Turning 4:15
18. Pista De Audio 18 4:41
19. Pista De Audio 19 3:28
20. Pista De Audio 20 2:18
21. Pista De Audio 21 4:20
22. Pista De Audio 22 4:29

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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

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 42m 3s (-28m 9s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 51s (-29m 57s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 51s (-29m 57s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 50s (-29m 56s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 50s (-29m 56s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 50s (-29m 56s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 50s (-29m 56s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 49s (-29m 55s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 47s (-29m 53s)

Swordfishtrombones

Tracks: 15 (-7 tracks), Disk length: 41m 45s (-29m 51s)

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