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TOM WAITS Closing Time (50th Anniversary 2023 UK/EU limited edition 12-track double album 2-LP pressed on 180-gram Transparent Clear Vinyl, half speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios. The landmark debut album foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles that would come to be associated with Waits. Gatefold picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed. Recommended)
TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
Remastered and reissued on Anti. Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within the apparently narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits and producer Jerry Yester manage a surprisingly broad collection of styles, from the jazzy Virginia Avenue to the up-tempo funk of Ice Cream Man and from the acoustic guitar folkiness of I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You to the saloon song Midnight Lullaby, which would have been a perfect addition to the repertoires of Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett. Waits' entire musical approach is stylized, of course, and at times derivative - Lonely borrows a little too much from Randy Newman's I Think It's Going to Rain Today - and his lovelorn lyrics can be sentimental without being penetrating. But he also has a gift for gently rolling pop melodies, and he can come up with striking, original scenarios, as on the best songs, Ol' 55 and Martha, which Yester discreetly augments with strings. Closing Time announces the arrival of a talented songwriter whose self-conscious melancholy can be surprisingly moving.
It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career “Ol' 55” (famously covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking “Martha” and the gentle acoustic folk of “I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You”.
Reissued for the first time as a double LP to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark debut with newly half speed mastering at Abbey Road Studios.
SIDE A
1. Ol' 55
2. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
3. Virginia Avenue
SIDE B
1. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
2. Midnight Lullaby
3. Martha
SIDE C
1. Rosie
2. Lonely
3. Ice Cream Man
SIDE D
1. Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)
2. Grapefruit
3. Closing Time
Artist - Tom Waits (click link for complete listing)
Title - Closing Time (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2023
Format - 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label - Anti
Catalogue No - 8714092797435 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Additional info - Sealed, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 8714092797435
Condition - Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - TMW2LCL813749
Related Artists - John Hammond.
GENRES
70s Rock, 70s Artists, Singer/Songwriter.
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TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
Remastered and reissued on Anti. Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within the apparently narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits and producer Jerry Yester manage a surprisingly broad collection of styles, from the jazzy Virginia Avenue to the up-tempo funk of Ice Cream Man and from the acoustic guitar folkiness of I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You to the saloon song Midnight Lullaby, which would have been a perfect addition to the repertoires of Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett. Waits' entire musical approach is stylized, of course, and at times derivative - Lonely borrows a little too much from Randy Newman's I Think It's Going to Rain Today - and his lovelorn lyrics can be sentimental without being penetrating. But he also has a gift for gently rolling pop melodies, and he can come up with striking, original scenarios, as on the best songs, Ol' 55 and Martha, which Yester discreetly augments with strings. Closing Time announces the arrival of a talented songwriter whose self-conscious melancholy can be surprisingly moving.
It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career “Ol' 55” (famously covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking “Martha” and the gentle acoustic folk of “I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You”.
Reissued for the first time as a double LP to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark debut with newly half speed mastering at Abbey Road Studios.
SIDE A
1. Ol' 55
2. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
3. Virginia Avenue
SIDE B
1. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
2. Midnight Lullaby
3. Martha
SIDE C
1. Rosie
2. Lonely
3. Ice Cream Man
SIDE D
1. Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)
2. Grapefruit
3. Closing Time
Artist - Tom Waits (click link for complete listing)
Title - Closing Time (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2023
Format - 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label - Anti
Catalogue No - 8714092797435 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Audiophile – This is an Audiophile item. Click link for similar items
Additional info - Sealed, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 8714092797435
Condition - Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - TMW2LCL813749
Related Artists - John Hammond.
GENRES
70s Rock, 70s Artists, Singer/Songwriter.
REFERENCE
Email - sales@rarevinyl.com to contact our sales team.
RareVinyl.com Reference Number - TMW2LCL813749
SELL TO US
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