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Year: 1992
Label: Island
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Similar artists: Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Richard Thompson, John Cale, Nick Cave, Rod Stewart
Very hard to pick a favorite. Which's yours?
AMG: 4.5
"Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album, Bone Machine is a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative — and often harrowing — effect. In keeping with the title's grotesque image of the human body, Bone Machine is obsessed with decay and mortality, the ease with which earthly existence can be destroyed. The arrangements are accordingly stripped of all excess flesh; the very few, often non-traditional instruments float in distinct separation over the clanking junkyard percussion that dominates the record. It's a chilling, primal sound made all the more otherworldly (or, perhaps, underworldly) by Waits' raspy falsetto and often-distorted roars and growls."
5 comments:
I actually haven't delved into Tom Wait's catalog yet. I have all the album on my hard drive, but haven't gotten around to it. :(
Small Change is my favorite, but Rain Dogs is pretty solid as well.
I like Nighthawks at the Diner.
Bone Machine is my favourite. I always get so stupefied of how cynical yet endearing Tom Waits can sound.
Absolutely Bone Machine is my favorite, but my introduction to Tom Waits was Swordfishtrombones; it blew my mind, and sits in the same pantheon along with first girlfriend, first rave, first time reading Gravity's Rainbow. You get the picture. ;^}
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