Product Code: WET30288687
Original price was: $35.99.$21.59Current price is: $21.59.Tom Waits Franks Wild Years (1987) is a theatrical, whiskey-soaked fever dream of an album, blending cabaret, avant-garde jazz, blues, and carnival-like surrealism. Based on Waits' stage play of the same name, it follows the story of a drifter chasing the American Dream, with songs that feel like scenes from a dark, offbeat musical. Tracks like Hang On St. Christopher and Way Down in the Hole pulse with gritty energy, while Innocent When You Dream offers a haunting lullaby-like refrain. Full of odd instrumentation, gravelly vocals, and cinematic storytelling, Franks Wild Years is a brilliantly strange and evocative piece of Waits unique world.
ACT I
1 Hang On St. Christopher
2 Straight Up To The Top (Rhumba)
3 Blow Wind Blow
4 Temptation
5 Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
6 I'll Be Gone
7 Yesterday Is Here
8 Please Wake Me Up
9 Franks Theme
ACT II
10 More Than Rain
11 Way Down In The Hole
12 Straight To The Top (Vegas)
13 I'll Take New York
14 Telephone Call From Istanbul
15 Cold Cold Ground
16 Train Song
17 Innocent When You Dream (78)
