Now RIAA-certified Gold, Tom Waits‘ “Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards” is a spectacular musical journey, which visits most every genre of American song tradition. This box set redefines the words “Deluxe” or “Collectors Edition.” With 7 LPs of 180 gram vinyl, six previously unreleased songs, a 32-page book featuring lyrics and insight, and a beautiful hardbound box, the collection captures the full scope of Tom Waits’ shamanic powers as a vocalist, literary lyricist, romantic melodist, innovative arranger and pioneer of sonic worlds.
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1 Tomwaitsfan1 // Dec 9, 2009 at 1:38 pm
FAB!! FAB!! FAB!! GET IT FROM PLAY.COM FOR A ‘MEASLY’ £109. This rather than HMV at £150 or Amazon at not much less, (unless you were quick with their pre-order). We’re all TOTALLY MAD!!!!!! But don’t we love him.
2 ANDRE HUNT // Dec 21, 2009 at 8:59 am
Trying on this new suit may initially make you feel like you may need some new shoes to go with it.
You may find yourself first turning to the side, and seeing how it looks in your mirror, or imagining yourself driving in it, with the top down. Perhaps you found yourself pulling over to the curb and listening to the bawling rain, warming up your hands before you headed out into what has become a brawling storm, and when you did, found yourself with no road, and gripping that shifter as tight as you could, you felt every bump in that road. We’ve been out on that road, and many years ago found ourselves out to the end of a pier in the worst rainstorm of the year, when the wind blew the rain sideways and right through us, grinning madly…I’ll never forgot that day, and I will never forget Mr. Waits, who has saved me from this world many, many times. Some stories may take you for a ride, but these will leave you with a heart pinned to your arm. And if you have to go, will you remember that we do belong here, and have been asked only to be true, and when we get out, we may find that Tom has slipped a couple of his parking tickets in our pockets…not a bad deal after all. The seven LP box set for Orphans is a gorgeous massive tome of print and sound that loves to be hoisted into one’s lap. It’s sheer weight and size gives great pleasure, and it’s presence in a room dominates in a proud and glorious fashion. Wonderful sound from 180 gram vinyl. Record sleeves are enlarged text from Orphans smaller 78′ record style sleeves, and hold great facts and mysterious knowledge all in giant print in it’s original yellowed newspaper look. There is no mention of the source of these newsprint scans, but they were a gift to Mr. Waits many years ago, all pasted in a photo album in the 1880’s. they didn’t have API to fill up the pages in newpapers back then…So they filled the pages with these riches of unusual and odd facts….
3 Maarten van Diggelen // Jan 23, 2010 at 8:32 am
When will the vinyl release of ORPHANS be available again!? Thanks, Maarten
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