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Tom Waits - One from the Heart Audio CD

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Tom Waits Band: Tom Waits
Title: One from the Heart
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Release Date: 2008-02-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Opening Montage: Tom's Piano Intro/Once Upon a Town/The Wages of Love 2: Is There Any Way out of This Dream? 3: Picking Up After You 4: Old Boyfriends 5: Broken Bicycles 6: I Beg Your Pardon 7: Little Boy Blue 8: Instrumental Montage: The Tango/Circus Girl [Instrumental] 9: You Can't Unring a Bell 10: This One's from the Heart 11: Take Me Home 12: Presents 13: Candy Apple Red [#][*] 14: Once Upon a Town/Empty Packets ]*] 15: This One's from the Heart [Multimedia Track]

Crystals finest work
. This is a five star CD . . you should buy it.

For me . . this is all about Crystal Gayle and that is why I bought it.
You will hear some of her best work ever on this and well worth the price.
I can barely get hip on Tom Waits slurred attempts at singing and at times you wish he would just go away.
He is a master musician however and this is a very good release.
Perhaps for the more discriminating,sophisticated conosur of the arts,this is not punk,hip hop or anything popular.


Beautiful
This is one of my favorite albums. . I don't know what it is about it that makes want to go back to it on laid-back evenings.

The only flaw I can see in it is that all songs are sung by either Tom Waits or Crysta Gale, while at least one of the songs (Little boy blue, I think) was interpreted by another actress in the movie.


"Tell me, how long have you been combing your hair with a wrench?"
His music is always varied and I love the way he can convey so many different emotions with the several different voices and styles that he uses. That's a lyric from this album : ) First, I'm a huge Tom Waits fan. I have not seen this film but this is one good soundtrack. The sound here is of a bluesy, smokey jazz kind. I can imagine Waits performing some of these tunes in a bar after hours with the lights down low. The best track here in my opinion is "I Beg Your Pardon". The mood and lyrics are wonderful, as well as the trumpet solo of Jack Sheldon near the end. The band Waits uses sounds great here - probably most notable on "Little Boy Blue" with its fast, catchy walking bass line and Emil Richards going wild on the vibes. Another highlight on the album is "You Can't Unring A Bell" which is is an odd speak-song tune about losing a woman and taking it like a man. But the lyric are so Waits (I especially love the line "you'll need an attorney for this journey. . . junior). The drums and Waits' growl and chuckle near the end are classic - you find music like this anywhere else. I don't care much for Crystal Gayle's voice but she does a pretty job here singing Waits' songs. However,I still think a woman's voice that was a little more bluesy and more subdued would've been better for this music. The orchestral accompaniment on a few of the songs (mostly strings) seems a little unneeded at times and cluttered the music, one of the few things I found weak on the album. But the strings add emotion and drama which is probably essential to what's on screen. This soundtrack does a few low points ("Take Me Home" is a little too sentimental for me - I could see Celine Dion doin this one; good thing it's short in length though). The songs I mentioned above are well worth the price of the album. I'd get the expanded version with the two extra tracks, especially the indispensable "Candy Apple Red". Mood is real important in the music on this album and so my only suggestion is that when you first listen to this album, turn the lights down real low, have a glass of sctoch, close your eyes and imagine you're sitting in a bar with Waits, Gayle and a kickass jazz combo doing their thing. .


In A Mellow Tom
I've never seen the movie before. This is one of my all-time fav Waits albums. . . but hey, who cares when you've got some smoky late night tuneage like this one does! Hands down, this has gotta be Tom's jazziest and smoothest (don't read "slick") sounding releases. Placed just at the end of his beat, barstool jazz period and just before he let his hair down (and hell, anything that wasn't tied down) with his wigged out Raindogs period, "One From The Heart" is the one I can't stop listening to. Mellow. Intriguing. Alluring. Even Crystal Gale offers the perfect supple complement to the Waits croon. And all of Tom's songs are simply first rate!

If your buddies can never get past that patented Waits "growl" or are just looking to get their toes wet with his work, this is the one to start them off with. They'll be hooked.


Great for the Completist, But Not One of Tom's Strongest
I find the most interesting aspect of this disc is that both of their voices are complete oppositets. Many have recommended this disc and stated that the vocals blend well together. Tom's most recent solo releases blast this disc out of the water, but for it's time, it was a good disc. Personally, I would prefer to hear a female vocalist with a little less polished and perhaps more interesting sound. In addition, being a soundtrack disc, the disc sounds very disjointed and the songs do not flow together well. As a backdrop for a movie (which I have never seen) they probably work quite well.


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