| | Step Right Up: The Songs Of Tom Waits CD (1 Customer Review)
Fifteen-song tribute album to Waits, dominated by alternative rockers, although a couple of previously released items (Tim Buckley's 1973 cover of "Martha," and 10,000 Maniacs' 1992 cassette single B-side "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You") were licensed for the project. It's above-average as tribute discs go, with a diverse lineup (Alex Chilton, Dave Alvin, Pale Saints, Frente!, Archers of Loaf, Pete Shelley, the Wedding Present) taking care to invest their contributions with some imagination. Some Tom Waits fans may find the interpretations too aggressive and arty, and on occasion the approaches are annoying (the Violent Femmes' smirking walk through "Step Right Up," Jeffrey Lee Pierce's white-boy rap on "Pasties and a G-String"). It deserves points for not just throwing together lukewarm variations on the originals, though, but trying to come up with something different, as Drugstore does on its Velvet Underground-like version of "Old Shoes." Other highlights are the Tindersticks' torpid loungeoid cover of "Mockin' Bird," and Magnapop's sultry reading of one of Waits' grimmest pieces, "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis." ~ Richie Unterberger
Tindersticks,P.Shelley,Violent Femmes,A.Chilton,D.Alvin,Weddi
Recorded between 1973 and 1995.
Tributee: Tom Waits.
Audio Remasterer: Dave Schultz.
Producers: Drugstore (track 1); Philip Tennant (track 3); The Wedding Present (track 4); Dave Vartanian, Brian Ritchie (track 5); Alex Chilton (track 6); Brian Paulson (track 7); Tony Cohen (track 8); Gary Dobbins (track 9); Magnapop (track 10); Greg Leisz (track 11); Graeme Naysmith (track 12); Denny Rendell (track 13); Frente! (track 14); Paul Fox (track 15).
Engineers: Victor Van Vugt (track 2); The Wedding Present (track 4); Dave Vartanian, Brian Ritchie (track 5); The Master Frequency (track 9); Sandy Solomon (track 10); Steve Whitfield (track 12).
Step Right Up: The Songs Of Tom Waits Music Step Right Up: The Songs Of Tom Waits Songs | 1. | Mockin' Bird - Tindersticks |
| 2. | Old Shoes - Drugstore |
| 3. | Better Off Without a Wife - Pete Shelley |
| 4. | Red Shoes by the Drugstore - The Wedding Present |
| 5. | Step Right Up - Violent Femmes |
| 6. | Downtown - Alex Chilton |
| 7. | Heart of Saturday Night - Jonathan Richman |
| 8. | You Can't Unring a Bell - Immortal Souls/These Immortal Souls |
| 9. | Pasties and a G-String - Jeffrey Lee Pierce |
| 10. | Invitation to the Blues - Giant Sand |
| 11. | Ol' 55 - Dave Alvin |
| 12. | Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Magnapop |
| 13. | Romeo Is Bleeding - MC 900 Ft. Jesus |
| 14. | Ruby's Arms - Frente! |
| 15. | Martha - Tim Buckley |
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