Tom Waits is to release a three-disc, 54-track set in November, entitled Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards.
The set's scheduled for a November 21 release, through Anti. Accompanying the discs will be a 94-page booklet. The songs vary from rough and tender efforts to tarantellas. The man himself says (quote from Pitchfork):
"Orphans [contains] rough and tender tunes. Rumbas about mermaids, shuffles about train wrecks, tarantellas about insects, madrigals about drowning. Scared, mean, orphaned songs of rapture and melancholy. Songs that grew up hard. Songs of dubious origin rescued from cruel fate and now left wanting only to be cared for. Show that you are not afraid and take them home. They don't bite, they just need attention."
A number of songs are new takes on material penned by the likes of The Ramones, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and Daniel Johnston (among others).
Boo.
Why
do you boo?
because
I don't like Tom Waits...
Boo.
*puts fullerov on the list*
Very nice.
Now come play in England again and don't charge £8,000 pounds. Thanks.
YAY YAY and thrice YAY
for Tom Waits releasing yet more stuff. Real Gone was frickin' amazing!
(if i boo-ed every time a performer i didn't like announced a new release i'd boo my life away, shame on the needlessly negative - you'll turn into stealthy you will, and don't frown at me like that or the wind'll shift and you'll be stuck like that...)
This sounds good
YAY, double YAY, bring the beat back YAY
and we all know that fullerov is wrong.
:D
i like it that
somebody describes their music as a tarantella. i always wondered what the dance of a tarantula sounded like.
Also YAYAYAY!!!!!
Yay
I like the title.
*pre-orders*
announced six months ago
so not reaaaaaaally news.
While I hate to be a smart-arse ...
... actually, no I love it.
"Tarantella" isn't the dance of a tarantula, strictly speaking. It's the name for a dance you do after you've been bitten by a tarantula, which was thought to cure it. Apparently the madder the dance, the better the cure.
At least your friends and family would get a giggle as you died.
and he mentions it
on "tango til they're sore"
fuck yeh!
waits for president!