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Tom Waits - Bone Machine Audio CD

A fair review of the Tom Waits "Bone Machine" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Tom Waits reviews here, or go back to the Tom Waits tabs.

Tom Waits Band: Tom Waits
Title: Bone Machine
Rating:
Release Date: 1992-09-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Earth Died Screaming 2: Dirt in the Ground 3: Such a Scream 4: All Stripped Down 5: Who Are You 6: Ocean Doesn't Want Me 7: Jesus Gonna Be Here 8: Little Rain (For Clyde) 9: In the Colosseum 10: Goin' Out West 11: Murder in the Red Barn 12: Black Wings 13: Whistle Down the Wind (For Tom Jans) 14: I Don't Wanna Grow Up 15: Let Me Get up on It 16: That Feel

Bone Machine
Recently I was discussing how taste in music can be mysterious. So you should get the album. How one person can like something and somebody else doesn't and why that is, or how that is. How some music sometimes takes you awhile to get into and really appreciate. My buddy remarked that Tom Waits is an acquired taste. In my case the first time I heard Tom Waits, I have no idea if was his early stuff or later, but I loved it instantly. It was years ago, I was riding around in a car and my friend had a box full of cassette tapes and put in a Tom Waits tape and I asked who it was cause I'd never heard anything like it. I love Wait's vocals and his lyrics maybe just as much. The obsession with death and just sheer weirdness of "Bone Machine". The overall sound of it isn't like anything else. I heard it hungover once and it made feel like puking though, so that's another memory I have. Avoid while hungover. Made me really depressed too: "we're all gonna be Just dirt in the ground". But there is humor to carry you through it and lots of percussion if you like that in your music. I also like this: "I don't wanna float a broom/Fall in love and get married and then boom/How the hell did it get here so soon?/I don't wanna grow up. " The man's a poet. You could pick better lines maybe, but I love those. And as for Waits as a performer, I caught a show last year and it was one of the best performances I've ever seen by anybody. I'm recommending you see him live too, if you get a chance.


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I will never be the same after have listened to "who are you"
But in my opinion, THE track is "who are you", which relates a non-profitable love, and probably a story with no future, or with an already known end, a sad one. A very distinct and experimental album by Tom Waits, combining every sort of emotions, from the dark, slight blues "dirtin' the ground", to the "almost happy" "I don't wanna grow up".
One of my favourite records by Tom Waits, and a must have to every Tom Waits fan or music lover.


Opened a new world of music
We all stopped and just listened to a couple tracks before asking the clerk who it was. One day in 1992 a couple friends and I were browsing through albums at our local record store when Bone Machine started blaring over the store's stereo. Each one of us walked out with this CD in hand. Sixteen years later this is still one of my favorite albums and it gets regular rotation at home, in the car, and at work.

If you've never heard Tom Waits before, listen to the samples first. If you can handle his voice this is a must have.

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Why bother reading this? Is five stars enough?
However though, if you like an artist with his own voice, than Tom is your man. If you don't know who Tom Waits is, it's okay. This guy, as a song writer (paired up with his wife, Kathleen Brennan), puts you in those situations, it's nearly impossible to explain, but one listen to songs such as Murder in The Red Barn, and it comes clear. It can be pretty scary too, and as a matter of fact, these songs about death can convey death in ways you never imagined. Nearly every death metal band can't touch this. Best of all, his lyrics are direct and easy to understand. Normally, one might criticize him for that, but despite all this, his songwriting is untouchable. It's just his magic that seems to work.

Okay, there are two "meh" piano ballads, with Tom Waits trying to croon. He was A great crooner back in the day (just check out Closing Time), but Whistle Down The Wind and A Little Rain are a bit grating.
There kind of forgettable, and his voice just doesn't work that well on these tracks. It may have some cool lyrics and meaning, but it doesn't sound that great to me. IF that's not good enough for you, then _____ you. I just don't care for it because I don't like the attempts to go back to his old crooning voice.

Aside from that, the rest of the stuff is pretty much gold. Murder In the Red Barn, Earth Died Screaming, and The Ocean Doesn't Want Me are so greatly done, The Ocean Doesn't Want Me in particular, is _________ creepy. ICP sounds juvenile compared to this song. You know what? Forget trying to explain this. If you can appreciate music that's well written, Tom Waits is your man. All the words in the world can't do him justice. Some albums just may need a review. He does not.

9. 0/10.


Excellence in Weirdness
I absolutely love Tom Waits, his music defines a very specific mood and hits the nail on the head when it comes to making the definitive "man music, music for men. Swinging from soul, to purely exciting garage noise, Tom Waits has gone from a singer in the back room of a bar, after hours only, singing quiet, heartfelt songs to big, noisy, deep voiced crooner of ballads that involve killers, thieves, heartbreak, crooked old men and other nasty fellows. " .


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