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Cover Artist Title Format Released Label Catalog No Genre Notes Reviews
Waits, Tom Euro Visions CD 2000 Rock: General Rock Recorded from European concert dates in 99 and 00, using concert soundboard.
Waits, Tom Euro Visions CD 2000 Bootleg Rock: General Rock Recorded from European concert dates in 99 and 00, using concert soundboard.
Waits, Tom Alice CD 2002 ANTI- Alternative & Punk: Art Rock It's been long time since Tom Waits recorded an album as saturated with tenderness as this one. The carny-barker noise merchant who has immersed himself in brokenness and reportage from life's seamy, even hideous underbelly for decades has created, along with songwriting and life partner Kathleen Brennan, a love song cycle so moving and poetic that it's almost unbearable to take in one sitting. Alice is alleged to be the "great lost Waits masterpiece." Waits and Brennan collaborated with Robert Wilson on a stage production loosely based on Alice Liddell, the young girl who was the obsession and muse of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. The show ran in Europe for a time and the production's 15 songs were left unrecorded until now. Alice forgoes the usual nightmare lyric sequences, warped, circus-like melodies, and sonic darknesses that have been part and parcel of Waits' work since Swordfishtrombones. Instead, this song cycle is, for the most part, steeped in jazz ballads, old waltzes, European folk songs, theatrical love paeans, and music not so easily identified. The instrumentation is different, with the utilization of a small chamber orchestra (the violins are Stroh violins, instruments outfitted with a metal horn on the end for amplification purposes), marimbas, piano, organ, woodwinds, and reeds, and the complete absence of guitars. The set opens with the title track, a smoky jazz ballad that may echo Waits' work from the 1970s, but is actually miles beyond it in scope. Here there is no purposely postured nuance or affectation of persona. The lyric is plaintive and full of pathos; it's almost a suicide note set to the most romantic melodic invention lounge jazz is capable of. As Waits sings, "The only strings that hold me here/Are tangled up around the pier/And so a secret kiss/Brings madness with the bliss/And I will think of this/When I'm dead and in my grave/Set me adrift/I'm lost over there/But I must be insane/To go on skating on your name/And by tracing it twice I feel through the ice/Of Alice/There's only Alice," the world turns inside out and the listener can no longer decide if this is a man or a ghost reporting from beneath the pond's surface. If love brings this, if obsession has such a cost, how can they be steeped in tenderness this transparent and plain? Elsewhere, Waits manages to delve into the voice of the turned-out lover, the rejected stone, the lost madman, as he does on "We're All Mad Here" and "Everything You Can Think." But even here there is a reflective dimension, nearly childlike in their simple embrace of loss, dispossession, and descent into the maelstrom of the human soul. Ghosts whisper in the mix, spirits float through the air, and demons passionately possess the protagonists. In the simpler, melting melodies of "Lost in the Harbour," "No One Knows I'm Gone," and the haunting tango at the heart of "Watch Her Disappear," obsession with the unmentionable (let alone the unattainable) is offered as an empathy for powerlessness, buoyed up by an instrumental crutch, arranged to give a voice to those who dare not speak publicly. The melodies on Alice are easily the most direct Waits has written since Blue Valentine, but are more elegant than even those found on Foreign Affairs or Black Rider. Alice is no step back, but a further step toward oblivion - the place where the sound of desolation, the melody of loneliness, and the confused darkness at the root of the human heart come together and speak as one in a nursery rhyme for adults.
Waits, Tom Blood Money CD 2002 Epitaph Alternative & Punk: Art Rock Anti 6629-2
Waits, Tom Real Gone CD 2004 ANTI- Alternative & Punk: General Alternative
Waits, Tom Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [Disc 1] CD 2006 Anti, Inc. Alternative & Punk: General Alternative Brawlers
Waits, Tom Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [Disc 2] CD 2006 Anti, Inc. Alternative & Punk: General Alternative Bawlers
Waits, Tom Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [Disc 3] CD 2006 Anti, Inc. Alternative & Punk: General Alternative Bastards
Waits, Tom Burma Shave DVD 2006
Waits, Tom Under Review 1983-2006 DVD 2007
Wakeman, Rick Journey to the Centre of the Earth LP 1974 A&M
Wakeman, Rick White Rock LP 1976 A&M
Wakeman, Rick Criminal Record LP 1977 A&M
Wakeman, Rick Rhapsodies MC 6A+B 1979
Wakeman, Rick 1984 MC 1981 Charisma Records Vocals: Chaka Khan, Kenny Lynch, Steve Harley, Tim Rice, Jon Anderson
Wakeman, Rick Silent Nights MC 1985
Wakeman, Rick Country Airs MC 1986
Wakeman, Rick Journey To The Centre Of The Earth DVD 2001
Ulf Wakenius Love Is Real CD 2008 VidZone Digital Media Jazz: General Jazz
Wallin, Totte Kanotsyndromet LP 1980 Metronome
Muddy Waters Vol. 2 - She Moves Me CD Blues: General Blues
Muddy Waters Chicago - London CD 1990 Blues: General Blues
Muddy Waters Hoochie Cochie Man CD 1992 Blues: General Blues Muddy Waters, Volume 3
Roots
Muddy Waters Rolling Stone CD 1992 Blues: General Blues Muddy Waters, Volume 1
Roots
Muddy Waters Muddy Waters - Live CD 1992 Blues: General Blues





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