Tom Waits to release three-disc set

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by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 15 comments 11:27 August 18th, 2006

Tom Waits is to release a three-disc, 54-track set in November, entitled Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards.

The set's scheduled for a November 21 release, through Anti. Accompanying the discs will be a 94-page booklet. The songs vary from rough and tender efforts to tarantellas. The man himself says (quote from Pitchfork):

"Orphans [contains] rough and tender tunes. Rumbas about mermaids, shuffles about train wrecks, tarantellas about insects, madrigals about drowning. Scared, mean, orphaned 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."

A number of songs are new takes on material penned by the likes of The Ramones, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and Daniel Johnston (among others).

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Boo.

fullerov | 18 Aug '06, 11:30 | X | Reply

Why

do you boo?

Cherub_Rock @fullerov | 18 Aug '06, 11:31 | X | Reply

Very nice.

Now come play in England again and don't charge £8,000 pounds. Thanks.

thewarn | 18 Aug '06, 11:33 | X | Reply

because

I don't like Tom Waits...

fullerov @Cherub_Rock | 18 Aug '06, 11:35 | X | Reply

Boo.

thewarn @fullerov | 18 Aug '06, 11:41 | X | Reply

YAY YAY and thrice YAY

for Tom Waits releasing yet more stuff. Real Gone was frickin' amazing!

(if i boo-ed every time a performer i didn't like announced a new release i'd boo my life away, shame on the needlessly negative - you'll turn into stealthy you will, and don't frown at me like that or the wind'll shift and you'll be stuck like that...)

withpaperwings | 18 Aug '06, 11:50 | X | Reply