TOM WAITS Swordfishtrombones 1983 UK ISLAND ORIGINAL + PRESS CLIPPINGS NEAR MINT
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TOM WAITS Swordfishtrombones 1983 UK ISLAND ORIGINAL + PRESS CLIPPINGS NEAR MINT
TOM WAITSSwordfishtrombones
1983 UK ISLAND (ILPS 9762) FIRST PRESSING
SUPERB COPY WHICH HAS SEEN LITTLE USE AND PLAYS LIKE-NEW
WITH THE BONUS OF SEVERAL PRESS CLIPPINGS FROM NME AND SOUNDS FROM OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1983
MATRIX: ILPS 9762 A-1U - 1 - 2 - JS KENDUN / ILPS 9762 B-1U - 1 - 2 JS KENDUN
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 (to him, now) 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Lyrically, Waits' tales of the drunken and the lovelorn have been replaced by surreal accounts of people who burned down their homes and of Australian towns bypassed by the railroad -- a world (not just a neighbourhood) of misfits now have his attention.
The music can be primitive, moving to odd time signatures, while Waits alternately howls and wheezes in his gravelly bass voice.
He seems to have moved on from Hoagy Carmichael and Louis Armstrong to Kurt Weill and Howlin' Wolf (as impersonated by Captain Beefheart).
Waits seems to have had trouble interesting a record label in the album, which was cut 13 months before it was released, but when it appeared, rock critics predictably raved: after all, it sounded weird and it didn't have a chance of selling.
Actually, it did make the bottom of the best-seller charts, like most of Waits' albums, and now that he was with a label based in Europe, even charted there - thanks to "The Tube' exposure.
Artistically, Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of which Waits had not seemed capable (though there were hints of this sound on his last two Asylum albums), and in career terms it reinvented him.
Side One: Underground / Shore Leave / Dave The Butcher / Johnsburg Illinois / 16 Shells From A 30.6 / Town With No Cheer / In The Neighbourhood
Side Two: Just Another Sucker On The Vine / Franks Wild Years / Swordfishtrombone / Down Down Down / Soldiers Things / Gin Soaked Boy / Trouble Braids / Rainbirds
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with one or two light spindles
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new with just some harmless wispy hairlines from the inner
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with practically nothing to fault.
A couple of tiny low-level ticks noted but absolutely nothing really.
A great copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Apart from a little rub on the edges/corners the cover is crisp, clean and unmarked with all spine text clear
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Tracked)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £25.00 (International Tracked)
DUE TO THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES I WILL ONLY BE POSTING ONCE A WEEK ON FRIDAY
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any 1292 (GS 8.3.6 (1292))
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