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Universal acclaim- based on 170 Ratings
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ToddWNov 27, 2006
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Dec 18, 2019At the end of the day Tom Waits didn't make it, and the 70's never happened. All these different eras of Tom Waits were repugnant. Over all Tom's stylizations are behind the times, like he never heard about it, and just does his schtick.
Awards & Rankings
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Orphans is a major work that goes beyond the origins of the material and drags everything past and present with sound and texture into a present to be presented as something utterly new, beyond anything he has previously issued.
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This set stands alongside Waits's finest work.
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An outstanding musical creation... that nods to almost every known genre of American music, and some that have yet to be named.