There have been many incarnations of Tom Waits--the boozy piano balladeer, the arch Kurt Weill acolyte, the bold sonic experimentalist--but the one that pops up on REAL GONE is probably most akin to the raw, howling, modern primitive of BONE MACHINE. As he did on that 1992 album, Waits gets in touch with his inner Captain Beefheart on REAL GONE. Instead of employing arrangements that merely suggest the accompaniment of a FAT ALBERT-style junkyard band, Waits actually sounds like he's hooting and hollering in the middle of a Salvation Army scrapyard, albeit one populated by junkmen with an inherent simpatico for his medium.The absence of piano is significant--Waits's jazzy harmonic underpinning is entirely dismantled here, leaving only the most basic, blues-oriented structures atop which Waits hangs his distinctive poetic imagery, at once surreal and highly detailed. There's an overwhelming sense of darkness ("How's It Gonna End," "Dead and Lovely"), but there are also moments of pure unfettered glee "Metropolitan Glide," "Shake It"), which are often goosed along by Waits's son Casey on turntables and percussion. A perennial romantic, Waits does let in a little melodic sunshine on the poignant closing ballad, "Day After Tomorrow," but for the most part, REAL GONE is a deliriously wild ride.
- Genre: Blues, Rock
- Format: Vinyl
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TRACKS
A1 Top Of The Hill
A2 Hoist That Rag
A3 Sins Of My Father
B1 Shake It
B2 Don't Go Into That Barn
B3 How's It Gonna End
B4 Metropolitan Glide
C1 Dead And Lovely
C2 Circus
C3 Trampled Rose
C4 Green Grass
D1 Baby Gonna Leave Me
D2 Clang Boom Steam
D3 Make It Rain
D4 Day After Tomorrow
D5 Untitled
