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Foreign Affairs

~ Tom Waits (Artist)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (16 Jan 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Asylum
  • ASIN: B000002GYF
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,091 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Cinny's Waltz
2. Muriel
3. I Never Talk To Strangers
4. Sight For Sore Eyes
5. Potter's Field
6. Burma Shave
7. Barber Shop
8. Foreign Affair

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS is the most ambitious of Waits' '70s albums. In addition to the West Coast jazz style his early work drew so heavily on (here he goes to the source, with vet Shelly Manne on the drum stool), there's also a bit of lavish orchestration to solidify the classy bygone-era feel of Waits' songs. Perfect losers' love songs like "Muriel" were always his bread and butter, but the elegant'40s-ish balladry of "INever Talk to Strangers" (a good-humored beaty-wooed-by-the-beast duet) and the epic beat poetry excursion "Potter's Field" were the furthest extensions to date of Waits' ambitions. Ironically, things are most interesting when the arrangements are scaled down, as on the contagiously sentimental barroom ballad "Sight For Sore Eyes".