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Fans of his acclaimed 2002 pair of discs will have to settle for just one album this time out, co-produced by Waits with Kathleen Brennan. Marc Ribot and Les Claypool guest.
| LABEL: | Epitaph |
| RELEASE DATE: | 05 October 2004 |
| DISCS: | 1 disc |
| GENRE(S): | Rock |
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The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Hein gave it a10:
Forget all your fucked up 80s revival bands. This is the real sugar!!!
junior w gave it a 9:
Crackle boom, cough, thump, pop, pop, zoom, crackle and boom. Haroomph. Oooh, yeah, Haroomph. This album reclaims twaits honor after a few releases which seemed a bit cartoonish even for waits. The songs here are less about music and more about art. Waits has come to terms with his pallette and knows how to use it.
David M gave it a 9:
This album rocks. Very primitive load and aggressive sound. This is very raw, electric guitar sounding music., stripped down to the most purest form. One more thing, to all you people out their who think "CIRCUS" doesn't belong on this "ARE YOU STONED???" This is a friggin TOM WAITS CD !!! A CIRCUS RACONTEUR SONG BELONGS ON A TOM WAITS CD!!! C'MON PEOPLE!! THIS IS A GREAT POETIC RANT THAT UNCATEGORICALLY IS A THUMBPRINT OF TOM WAITS!!!!
ANDREW M gave it a 9:
Creeps up on you and bites you in the ass. This is Tom at his experimental best. If you loved Swordfishtrombones and Bone Machine, then this is for you. Toms dirty filthy rock root album ever.
Benjamin S gave it a 6:
Tom's strengths are in lyrics, songwriting, characterful singing and other forms of vocalizing, and aural atmospheres created in his music. On this album the lyrics are strong, the songwriting is more blues lines and gospel lines than melodic songs with a few exceptions, the characterful singing isn't close to the range of characters explored in previous recordings, and the aural atmospheres lack the surprises and depth of other releases. For the most part, this feels like Tom jamming rather than carefully crafting his music. Not his best effort, nowhere close to Alice, his most musically complex CD, or even in his Gospel/Folk/Coutry Blues does it range as far as Bone Machine or Mule Variations. Also, Circus doesn't belong on this recording. Just OK.
sophia star(israel) gave it a 10:
one more original, chaleging, smart, and highly beautifull albume for mr.waits to put in my collection! highly recomended to those who have their ears tuned up the right way!!
Paul S gave it a 10:
I'm always saddened by the fact that so many people feel a need to define and/or review an album based on previous releases. Comments like; "well, it's similar to Bone Machine, but..." or "Different from Alice and Blood Money, but..." I think this is because professional reviewers are somewhat unimaginative and it's easier to define by comparison than actually review the album on its own merit. Real Gone is a great album, truly one of the most unique listening experiences in years. Tom Waits maintains his title as "king-of-the-risk takers" by throwing everything up against the side of the barn and seeing what sticks. In this case, most of it does, in a beautiful, tragic and more than a little funny, way. This is a "screaming in the car" album if ever there was one. Enjoy it.
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