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- Original Release Date: 1 Jan 1993
- Format - Music: MP3
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Hope I Don't Fall in Love with You | 5:01 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 2. Ol '55 | 4:07 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 3. Mockin' Bird | 3:27 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 4. In Between Love | 3:01 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 5. Blue Skies | 2:13 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 6. Nobody | 2:47 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 7. I Want You | 1:22 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 8. Shiver Me Timbers | 3:48 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 9. Grapefruit Moon | 4:36 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 10. Diamonds on My Windshield | 3:10 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 11. Please Call Me, Baby | 3:43 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 12. So It Goes | 2:31 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 13. Old Shoes | 4:25 | Album Only |
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is without doubt the finest introduction to Tom Waits. Absorbing lyrical content and a youthful Waits voice. It's not easy listening, his voice shows the beginnings of its slide into razor-blades and incoherence, but it is thoroughly amazing. 'Hope I don't fall in love with you' is THE greatest unrequited love song ever written. 'Shiver Me Timbers' is a remarkable sea shanty, and 'Diamonds on My Windshield' is just a gorgeous 'road song'. It's melancholy, slightly morbid, thoroughly miserable and totally wonderful.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The proportion of material on this second 'Early Years' volume that did eventually get released on subsequent albums is higher than on The Early Years, Vol. 1, with 'Ol' 55', 'I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You', 'Grapefruit Moon', and 'Old Shoes' on Closing Time, 'Shiver Me Timbers', 'Diamonds On My Windshield' and 'Please Call Me baby' on The Heart Of Saturday Night, and 'Nobody' appearing on Nighthawks At The Diner.
So only five of the thirteen tracks presented here can't be had elsewhere, the exact opposite of the ratio on the previous volume. One might therefore conclude that the people putting these two albums together were cynically spreading material across two albums that could've made just one. Well, that may even be true, but I couldn't care less: Tom Waits is a real bona fide singularity, a genuine artist going his own way, and I love him. Having the different (presumably demo?) versions of the album tracks is just peachy as far as I'm concerned.
Like volume one, the country feel is strong on much of this material, showing that initially Waits had a more pronounced cowboy twang. He hits a few off notes, vocally, on this compilation, more noticeably than on volume one, but the quality of material is more consistent, and overall, higher. As with volume one, this isn't the very tip-top of Tom at his peak. But, dang it, he's so be-damned good, that it's still five-star fare. Love Waits? Buy it!
So only five of the thirteen tracks presented here can't be had elsewhere, the exact opposite of the ratio on the previous volume. One might therefore conclude that the people putting these two albums together were cynically spreading material across two albums that could've made just one. Well, that may even be true, but I couldn't care less: Tom Waits is a real bona fide singularity, a genuine artist going his own way, and I love him. Having the different (presumably demo?) versions of the album tracks is just peachy as far as I'm concerned.
Like volume one, the country feel is strong on much of this material, showing that initially Waits had a more pronounced cowboy twang. He hits a few off notes, vocally, on this compilation, more noticeably than on volume one, but the quality of material is more consistent, and overall, higher. As with volume one, this isn't the very tip-top of Tom at his peak. But, dang it, he's so be-damned good, that it's still five-star fare. Love Waits? Buy it!
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There is little musical indication on this CD of the twisted genius that Waits, reinventing himself in the 1980's with 'Swordfishtrombones', would become. Thematically, though, his work has always stayed true to his world of messed-up love affairs, after-hours sleazy bars, and alcohol-fuelled melancholia. A collection of simple blues-based melodies for voice and guitar/piano, highlights are 'Diamonds on my Windshield', 'Ol'55', and 'Grapefruit Moon'. Of interest to all Waits fans and for those who want an introduction to his world which is easier than his more challenging, but ultimately more rewarding, later work.
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