Frank's Wild Years 2023 Remaster edition
Tom Waits
Frank's Wild Years 2023 Remaster edition
Tom Waits
Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an iteration of the track "Frank's Wild Years" from Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.The album divides the story neatly into two acts and although titled "un operachi romantic", there is no opera in Franks. While Franks featured a 14-member cast on stage, the album is all-Waits - yet suggests a multitude of characters by virtue of his chameleon vocals.
The album is a startling group of lost dreams, bad dreams, dreams that might not even be dreams. The music is nightmarish, ethereal, beautiful. Think broken calliopes played by genius children, horns played at dawn in a graveyard, banjos leaking through practice room walls.
Newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½" flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored.
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Released | September 1, 2023 |
EAN/UPC | 0602448894977 |
Genre | Rock |
Dimensions | 10 × 125 × 145 mm · 108 g |
Track list
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- Hang On St. Christopher
- Straight To The Top (Rhumba)
- Blow Wind Blow
- Temptation
- Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
- I'll Be Gone
- Yesterday Is Here
- Please Wake Me Up
- Franks Theme
- More Than Rain
- Way Down In The Hole
- Straight To The Top (Vegas)
- I'll Take New York
- Telephone Call From Istanbul
- Cold Cold Ground
- Train Song
- Innocent When You Dream (78)
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