Franks Wild Years: An Operachi Romantico in Two Acts by Tom Waits [CD]

Description: 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 Chicagos Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. 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 works 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. 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.

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Track #1: Hang On St Christopher

Track #2: Straight to the Top (Rhumba)

Track #3: Blow Wind Blow

Track #4: Temptation

Track #5: Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)

Track #6: I'll Be Gone

Track #7: Yesterday Is Here

Track #8: Please Wake Me Up

Track #9: Frank's Theme

Track #10: More Than Rain

Track #11: Way Down in the Hole

Track #12: Straight to the Top (Vegas)

Track #13: I'll Take New York

Track #14: Telephone Call from Istanbul

Track #15: Cold Call Ground

Track #16: Train Song

Track #17: Inocent When You Dream (78)