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Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, Hammond B-3 organ, vocal harmonium, synthesizer, harmonium, keyboards, percussion); Fred Tackett (guitar, banjo); Carlos Guitarlos (guitar); Anthony Clark Stewart (bag pipes); Francis Thumm, Richard Gibbs (glass harmonica); Joe Romano (trumpet, trombone); Randy Aldcroft, Joe Romano, Bill Reichenbach, Dick "Slyde" Hyde (trombones); Ronnie Barron (Hammond organ); Victor Feldman (Hammond B-3 organ, percussion); Larry Taylor (acoustic bass, bass); Greg Cohen (acoustic bass); Stephen Taylor, Arvizu Hodges (drums, percussions); Carl Spangler (programming). Recorded in August 1982. Composer: Tom Waits. Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, guitar, fiddle, harmonium, synthesizer); Crystal Gayle (vocals); Fred Tackett (guitar, electric guitar, banjo); Carlos Guitarlos (guitar, electric guitar); Dennis Budimir (guitar); Anthony Stewart, Anthony Clark (bagpipe); Stephen Hodges (harmonica, drums); Francis Thumm (harmonica, glass armonica, anklung); Les Thompson (harmonica); Pete Jolly (accordion, piano); Teddy Edwards (saxophone); Randall Aldcroft (baritone saxophone, trombone, horns, baritone horn); Joe Rimano, Joe Romano (trumpet, trombone); Chuck Findley, Jack Sheldon (trumpet); Dick Hyde, Richard Hyde, Bill Reichenbach Jr. (trombone); Donald Waldrop (tuba); Gayle LaVant (horns); Bob Alcivar (piano); Eric Bikales (organ); Ronnie Barron (keyboards); Emil Richards (vibraphone); Victor Feldman (marimba, bass drum, snare drum, congas, tambourine, percussion); Greg Cohen, Larry Taylor (acoustic bass); Big John Thomassie, Larry Bunker, Shelly Manne (drums); Richard Gibbs (glass armonica); Jeff Porcaro (percussion); Clark Spangler (programming); John Lowe, Lanny Morgan (wind). Audio Mixer: Biff Dawes. Recording information: Leeds Instrument Rental (08/1982); Sunset sound (08/1982). Unknown Contributor Role: Francis Thumm. Arrangers: Francis Thumm; Tom Waits. Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits' previous albums had employed; instead, the dominant sounds on the record were low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-miked arrangements (most of them by Waits) that sometimes were better described as "soundscapes." Lyrically, Waits' tales of the drunken and the lovelorn have been replaced by surreal accounts of people who burned down their homes and of Australian towns bypassed by the railroad -- a world (not just a neighborhood) of misfits now have his attention. The music can be primitive, moving to odd time signatures, while Waits alternately howls and wheezes in his gravelly bass voice. He seems to have moved on from Hoagy Carmichael and Louis Armstrong to Kurt Weill and Howlin' Wolf (as impersonated by Captain Beefheart). Waits seems to have had trouble interesting a record label in the album, which was cut 13 months before it was released, but when it appeared, rock critics predictably raved: after all, it sounded weird and it didn't have a chance of selling. Actually, it did make the bottom of the best-seller charts, like most of Waits' albums, and now that he was with a label based in Europe, even charted there. Artistically, Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of which Waits had not seemed capable (though there were hints of this sound on his last two Asylum albums), and in career terms it reinvented him. ~ William Ruhlmann Though Tom Waits had spent most of the '70s establishing himself as one of America's most distinctive singer-songwriters, SWORDFISHTROMBONES found him reinventing himself and creating one of the most original sounds in popular music. Leaving behind his Kerouac-influenced lyrics and lounge-lizard piano-bar stylings for an unprecedented eclectQ (10/92, p.100) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...one of the pivotal albums of the '80s...an American melting-pot music such as had never been heard before..." NME (Magazine) (9/25/93, p.19) - Ranked #16 among The 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s. Swordfishtrombones Music | List Price | $9.95 (You save $3.46) | | Category | Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs, Singer/Songwriter | | Label | Island | | Orig Year | 1983 | | All Time Sales Rank | 2221  | | CD Universe Part number | 1056823 | | Catalog number | 842469 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 15, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Tom Waits | | Engineer | Biff Dawes | | Recording Time | 41 minutes | | Personnel | Bill Reichenbach Tom Waits - vocals, Hammond B-3 organ, vocal harmonium, synthesizer, harmonium, keyboards, percussion Larry Taylor - acoustic bass, bass Greg Cohen - acoustic bass Richard Gibbs - glass harmonica Joe Romano - trumpet, trombone Ronnie Barron - Hammond organ Stephen Taylor Stephen Taylor Francis Thumm
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Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones Songs Swordfishtrombones Music Review Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars)   Genius, genius genius! Tom is out of this world, genius , talented., maverick, witty, poetic , clever and rockin'.
'Shoreleave ' here as great lyrics and a great feel to it. He's way cool, man!
Buy this record. brilliant Submitted by fionarice (ireland) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
My first CD I just began listening to his music and I picked up this CD. My god, it's so unusual, but amazingly interesting and fun. I love a CD that defies everything you've ever heard. Music is boring if there isn't something like this thrown into the mix every once and awhile. Submitted by Aaron, age 17 (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
Tom's Masterpiece Do yourself a favor - pick this up and grab 'Rain Dogs' also while you're at it. Submitted by Kevin (St. Louis) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
serb jungle 3 stars says you don't like a word jumble that much. Submitted by Rogo (England) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
I love a good word jumble!!!! When people jumble up three or four words into one, I think it makes the music fun to listen to. Also, Tom's voice on this one is different than anything his die hard fans are used to. He sings mainly in falsetto and rarely does he have his common 10-15 minute piano solos that he is known for. All in all, this album is a jumble, but one that makes you want to get up and dance, dance, dance; and then jog a little; then sleep. Submitted by a reviewer (Wallingford, CT, USA) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
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