Tom Waits ORIG OZ LP Swordfishtrombones NM ’83 Island L38135 Alt Rock

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Tom Waits ORIG OZ LP Swordfishtrombones NM ’83 Island L38135 Alt Rock

Original OZ LP released in 1983 on Island Records. Cat: L38135.
This record is part of a recent collection bought from a Festival Records Rep. Stunning condition, many never played….

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 Lyrically, Waits' tales of the drunken and the lovelorn have been replaced by surreal accounts of people who burned down their homes and of Australian towns bypassed by the railroad -- a world (not just a neighborhood) of misfits now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).

Tracks: FUnderground/ Shore leave/ Dave the butcher/ Johnsburg, Illinois/ 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six/ Town with no cheer/ In the neighbourhood/ Just another sucker on the vine/ Frank’s wild years/ Swordfishtrombone/ Down, down, down/ Soldier’s things/ Gin soaked boy/ Trouble’s braids/ Rainbirds.

There are a few very light spindle marks on labels. Record is like new and in Near Mint condition. Cover has very light ring wear and a small light crease mark on bottom edge and is in Excellent condition.

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Wrapping method: All records are sent in stiff cardboard mailers then wrapped in brown paper and sealed around edges with brown packaging tape. Records are taken out of sleeve to avoid seam splits and ring wear.

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 841 (GS 7.0.16 (841))

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