Album Rating: 3.5

I don't mind his voice that much...I mean I do a bit but if the song isn't too bluesy I can dig. I'm liking Swordfish more actually. It has the same stuff I liked from this just less of what I didn't like.

Album Rating: 5.0

Check Mule Variations. Sometimes it's kind of ignored next to his 80s/early 90s stuff, but it's every bit as good.

Album Rating: 3.5

got it

Album Rating: 5.0

how can you not trust a face like that

Mule Variations is arguably his most bluesy ever, I doubt you'd like it.

Album Rating: 5.0

Mule Variations isn't even close to as bluesy as Bone Machine, I don't think.



I feel that album's a lot more predicated upon his division between super emotional ballads and those uniquely strange Tom Waits renditions of the underbelly of America. Even the stuff that tends towards a blues background (i.e. Black Market Baby) is based more closely on strange found drums and stark guitar twangs in a way that stuff like Rain Dogs' bluesier cuts (Big Black Mariah, for instance) still haven't quite gotten to yet.

check blood money, has some fucking killer tracks.

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed with Porcupinetheater. Of his big three (this, Bone Machine, and Mule Variations), Variations is his most accessible stuff.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'd say Swordfish is his second best after this, and that has a lot to do with Underground and Frank's Wild Years

Album Rating: 3.5

"Underground"? I like Swordfish cause it's a little more jazzy.

Album Rating: 5.0

true. that fucking song tho

Album Rating: 5.0

They take apart their nightmares and they leave them by the door.

Album Rating: 5.0

i'd tell you all my secrets but i lie about my past



so send me off to bed forevermore!

Album Rating: 4.5

"I'd say Swordfish is his second best after this, and that has a lot to do with Underground and Frank's Wild Years"



The t/t and Town With No Cheer tho

"In the Neighborhood" people

Album Rating: 3.5

^ YES that song rules

Album Rating: 3.5

hey so you guys got your 4.5 back :D Got this on CD along with Swordfishtrombones and definitely still prefer the latter. This one starts good and experimental but I don't think in maintains the experimental vibe that well towards the end.

I prefer Swordfishtrombones as well - it still has this graceful, almost "majestic" vibe that Tom's "jazz" records had and doesn't feel too poppy, which can't be said about Rain Dogs ("Hang Down Your Head", "Blind Love", "Downtown Train").

Album Rating: 5.0

"Time"

Album Rating: 5.0

No love for Frank's Wild Years? I go between this and that record as his best.