Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years (LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered)
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Description
Franks Wild Years is the tenth studio album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play of the same name. The shared title of the album and the play is an iteration of "Frank's Wild Years", a song from Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones. The play had its world premiere at the Briar St. Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on June 22, 1986, performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Various versions of "Way Down in the Hole" were used as the theme music for the HBO series The Wire, including Waits' original version for the second season. The songs "Temptation" and "Cold Cold Ground" were used in Jean-Claude Lauzon's film Léolo (1992). "Cold Cold Ground" was also used in the series Homicide: Life on the Street. "Temptation" and "Straight to the Top (Vegas)" featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), and "Innocent When You Dream" featured in the film Smoke (1995). The song "If I Have to Go" was used in the play, but released only in 2006 on Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards. The theme from "If I Have to Go" was used under the title "Rat's Theme" in the documentary Streetwise as early as 1984. "Yesterday Is Here" appears in "The Night Shift", the second episode of the 2023 mystery drama series Poker Face.
Release Info
Artist: Tom Waits
Label: Island Records
Format: LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: US
Label: Island Records
Released: 2023-09-22
Genre: Jazz, Rock
Style: Lounge, Folk Rock, Contemporary Jazz
Tracklist
ACT I
1 Hang On St. Christopher
2 Straight 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 Frank's 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)
