{"product_id":"tom-waits-franks-wild-years-2023-remaster-180g-vinyl-preorder","title":"Tom Waits- Frank's Wild Years (2023 Remaster 180g Vinyl) ( Vinyl )","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally 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\u003cbr\u003eWaits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an\u003cbr\u003eiteration of the track “Frank’s Wild Years” from Waits’ 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003eoperatic styling by Waits himself in the song “Temptation.” His vocal character varies wildly throughout the work’s 17 songs, and is no more impressive\u003cbr\u003ethan when the gruff, growly singer turns to impeccable Sinatra-esque phrasing on the Vegas number, “Straight To The Top.” While Franks featured a 14-\u003cbr\u003emember 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\u003cbr\u003elost dreams, bad dreams, dreams that might not even be dreams. The music is nightmarish, ethereal, beautiful. Think broken calliopes played by genius\u003cbr\u003echildren, horns played at dawn in a graveyard, banjos leaking through practice room walls. Titles evoke Frank’s dime-store Odyssey: “Straight To The\u003cbr\u003eTop,” “Blow Wind Blow,” “Temptation,” “I’ll Be Gone.” NME ranked the work the number five album of 1987.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewly remastered for the first time ever from the original 1⁄2” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by\u003cbr\u003eChris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been\u003cbr\u003erestored. 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\u003cbr\u003eHBO’s series The Wire – and “Temptation.” Available on 180g black vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack List:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.Hang On St. Christopher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.Straight To The Top (Rhumba)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.Blow Wind Blow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.Temptation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.I'll Be Gone\u003cbr\u003e7.Yesterday Is Here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.Please Wake Me Up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.Franks Theme\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. More Than Rain \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12.Way Down In The Hole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13.Straight To The Top (Vegas)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.I'll Take New York \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.Telephone Call From Istanbul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.Cold Cold Ground\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17.Train Song\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18.Innocent When You Dream (78)\u003c\/p\u003e Shop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e 24\/7.\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57416111554895,"sku":"602448898333","price":4.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/8725\/2047\/files\/l7mhvsuvwn1obtnaxzyv.jpg?v=1775556683","url":"https:\/\/vibesvinyl.com\/products\/tom-waits-franks-wild-years-2023-remaster-180g-vinyl-preorder","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}