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Franks Wild Years - Opaque Gold Vinyl 180 Gram - Remastered - Sealed

TOM WAITS Franks Wild Years (2023 UK/EU limited edition 17-track LP pressed on 180-gram Opaque Gold Vinyl, the classic 1987 album newly remastered from the original production master tape under the supervision on Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Gatefold picture sleeve with original cover artwork, gold hype sticker & factory sealed. Recommended)

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$37.79, £29.99  
Product Availability In stock. Order now for shipping on Monday 24th February
Release Date 22nd Sep 2023
Release Year 2023 - 2 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Island UMe
Complete Stock List Go to Tom Waits
Product Catalogue No B0038250-01
Music Genre Singer/Songwriter, 70s Rock, 70s Artists
Country Comes from USA Comes from 'USA'
 
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Five albums released by singer-songwriter Tom Waits for Island Records between 1983 and 1993 are being reissued. The first three include Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Franks Wild Years (1987), releasing to stores on Sept. 1. Two more, Bone Machine (1992) and The Black Rider (1993) are releasing Oct. 6.

The albums have been remastered in high-resolution 192kHz/24-bit audio from original sources — an original EQ'd 1/2" production master for Swordfishtrombones, and 1/2" flat master tapes for the rest. Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering serves as mastering engineer, and Alex Abrash at AA Mastering has cut the new vinyl lacquers. 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. There is a hilarious touch of operatic styling by Waits himself in the song "Temptation." His vocal character varies wildly throughout the work's 17 songs, and is no more impressive than when the gruff, growly singer turns to impeccable Sinatra-esque phrasing on the Vegas number, "Straight To The Top." 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. Titles evoke Frank's dime-store Odyssey: "Straight To The Top," "Blow Wind Blow," "Temptation," "I'll Be Gone." NME ranked the work the No. 5 album of 1987.

Newly remastered for the first time ever in high-resolution 192kHz/24-bit audio 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. Franks Wild Years includes tracks such as "Cold Cold Ground," "Way Down In The Hole" — versions of which were used as the theme music of HBO's series The Wire and Temptation.

Available on 180-gram opaque gold vinyl.

Act I
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

Act II
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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Recording Artist Tom Waits
Product Title Franks Wild Years - Opaque Gold Vinyl 180 Gram - Remastered - Sealed
Product Information Tom Waits Franks Wild Years - Opaque Gold Vinyl 180 Gram - Remastered - Sealed USA vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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