TOM WAITS Bone Machine 1992 LP UK 1st UK Press ISLAND ILPS9993 512580-1EX

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	$		54

LP

ARTIST: TOM WAITS

TITLE: BONE MACHINE

LABEL + YEAR:  ISLAND ILPS9993 512580-1; UK 1st PRESS 1992

CONDITION VINYL: EX

CONDITION SLEEVE: TEXTURED SLEEVE VG+ DUE TO A SEAM SPLIT TO THE TOP EDGE: THIS HAS BEEN REPAIRED FROM THE INSIDE WITH ARCHIVAL TAPE.

WITH PICTURE LYRIC INNER

DESCRIPTION: CLASSIC WAITS!!!!!!!

Side A:

EARTH DIED SCREAMING

DIRT IN THE GROUND

SUTCH A SCREAM

ALL STRIPPED DOWN

WHO ARE YOU THIS TIME

THE OCEAN

JESUS GONNA BE HERE

A LITTLE RAIN

Side B:

IN THE COLOSSEUM

GOING OUT WEST

MURDER IN THE RED BARN

BLACK WINGS

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND

I DON’T WANNA GROW UP

LET ME GET UP ON IT

THAT FEEL

Review by Steve Huey

Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album, Bone Machine is a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative -- and often harrowing -- effect. In keeping with the title's grotesque image of the human body,

Bone Machine is obsessed with decay and mortality, the ease with which earthly existence can be destroyed. The arrangements are accordingly stripped of all excess flesh; the very few, often non-traditional instruments float in distinct separation over the clanking junkyard percussion that dominates the record. It's a chilling, primal sound made all the more otherworldly (or, perhaps, underworldly) by Waits' raspy falsetto and often-distorted roars and growls.

Matching that evocative power is Waits' songwriting, which is arguably the most consistently focused it's ever been. Rich in strange and extraordinarily vivid imagery, many of Waits' tales and musings are spun against an imposing backdrop of apocalyptic natural fury, underlining the insignificance of his subjects and their universally impending doom.

Death is seen as freedom for the spirit, an escape from the dread and suffering of life in this world -- which he paints as hellishly bleak, full of murder, suicide, and corruption. The chugging, oddly bouncy beats of the more uptempo numbers make them even more disturbing -- there's a detached nonchalance beneath the horrific visions.

Even the narrator of the catchy, playful "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" seems hopeless in this context, but that song paves the way for the closer "That Feel," an ode to the endurance of the human soul (with ultimate survivor Keith Richards on harmony vocals). The more upbeat ending hardly dispels the cloud of doom hanging over the rest of Bone Machine, but it does give the listener a gentler escape from that terrifying sonic world. All of it adds up to Waits' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible.

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