TOM WAITS Swordfishtrombones UK ISLAND UNPLAYED/MINT
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Nov 8, 2013 Sold Date
Oct 29, 2013 Start Date
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TOM WAITS Swordfishtrombones UK ISLAND UNPLAYED/MINT

TOM WAITS
Swordfishtrombones


UK ISLAND (ILPM 9762) PRESSING OF "Swordfishtrombones"
LOVELY COPY - APPEARS COMPLETELY UNPLAYED

MATRIX: IILPM 9762 A-5U - 1 - / ILPM 9762 B//2 ? 420 EX

 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Lyrically, Waits' tales of the drunken and the lovelorn have been replaced by surreal accounts of people who burned down their homes and of Australian towns bypassed by the railroad -- a world (not just a neighbourhood) of misfits now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 1: Underground / Shore Leave / Dave The Butcher / Johnsburg Illinois / 16 Shells From A 30.6 / Town With No Cheer / In The Neighbourhood
Side 2: Just Another Sucker On The Vine / Franks Wild Years / Swordfishtrombone / Down Down Down / Soldiers Things / Gin Soaked Boy / Trouble Braids / Rainbirds

LABELS: MINT
Factory-fresh labels - no spindle traces or any signs the record has ever been played - the spindle hole is still tight
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: MINT
In keeping with its previously unplayed status my one careful play-check at loud volume found nothing to fault
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Some light shop creases to the extremities but no real wear to speak of - all edges are crisp and sharp
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
The poly-lined black inner sleeve is like-new

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A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £4.50 (1st Class Recorded Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £13.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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 525 (GS 6.6.5 (525))


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