Die Tourboooker haben sich erbarmt und der Samiam und The Draft-Tour noch Daten in den 3 größten Musikstädten Deutschlands, Berlin, Hamburg und Köln, hinzugefüht. Alle Termine aufgelistet in den Kommentaren sind, Obi Wan.Die Flowerpornoes haben ein Label gefunden, auf dem das neue Album nächstes Jahr erscheinen wird. Von Tom Liwa kann man sich derweil hier das Neil Young-Cover On The way Home herunterladen.Vergangenen Freitag ist das neue Maximilian Hecker-Album I’ll be A Virgin, I’ll be A Mountain bei V2 erschienen. Auf große Tour ghet es auch; Daten stehen in den Kommentaren.Gerade angelaufen ist auch die Joycehotel-Tour. Daten ebenfalls in den Kommentaren, hingehen empfohlen!Am 20. November erscheint das neue Tom Waits-Album. und man kann sich auf einiges freuen: Orphans, so der Titel, wird nicht ein normales Einzelalbum, es wird auch kein Doppelalbum, nein gleich 3 CDs umfasst das Paket. Das macht 54 neue Songs! Mit dem MP3 zum Lied Bottom of The World findet man hier eine erste Geschmacksprobe; die (umfangreiche) Tracklist und interessante Liner-Notes findet man in den Kommentaren.Bevor die Chicks On Speed nächstes Jahr mit einem neuen Album vorbeigucken wird im November eine Single namens Art Rules veröffentlicht. Als DJ Team Live sind sie am 14. Oktober im Mood Lounge & Music Club in Karlsruhe.Und auf ihrem Label Chicks On Speed Records erscheint außerdem ein interessantes Sampler-Projekt. Girls Monster umfasst, wie die neue Waits, 3 CDs die unter der Maxime „Female Artists“ zusammengestellt wurde. So reihen sich bekannte Künstlerinnen wie Björk, Le Tigre, Hanin Elias (Atari Teenage Riot) neben völlig unbekannte Leute ein. Die Tracklist gibt’s an gewohnter Stelle.
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Tom Waits – Tracklist & Linernotes Tom Waits: Orphans BRAWLERS 01. Lie To Me 02. LowDown 03. 2:19 04. Fish In The Jailhouse 05. Bottom Of The World 06. Lucinda 07. Ain't Goin' Down To The Well 08. Lord I've Been Changed 09. Puttin' On The Dog 10. Road To Peace 11. All The Time 12. The Return Of Jackie and Judy 13. Walk Away 14. Sea Of Love 15. Buzz Fledderjohn 16. Rains On Me
BAWLERS 01. Bend Down The Branches 02. You Can Never Hold Back Spring 03. Long Way Home 04. Widow's Grove 05. Little Drop Of Poison 06. Shiny Things 07. World Keeps Turning 08. Tell It To Me 09. Never Let Go 10. Fannin Street 11. Little Man 12. It's Over 13. If I Have To Go 14. Goodnight Irene 15. The Fall Of Troy 16. Take Care Of All My Children 17. Down There By The Train 18. Danny Says 19. Jayne's Blue Wish 20. Young At Heart
BASTARDS 01. What Keeps Mankind Alive 02. Children's Story 03. Heigh Ho 04. Army Ants 05. Books Of Moses 06. Bone Chain 07. Two Sisters 08. First Kiss 09. Dog Door 10. Redrum 11. Nirvana 12. Home I'll Never Be 13. Poor Little Lamb 14. Altar Boy 15. The Pontiac 16. Spidey's Wild Ride 17. King Kong 18. On The Road
When I was small I always thought that songwriters sat alone at upright pianos in cramped smoky little rooms with a bottle and an ashtray and everything came in the window blew through them and came out of the piano as a song…and in a weird way that is exactly what happens.
What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear.
At the center of this record is my voice. I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice, I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer…I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument.
Kathleen and I wanted the record to be like emptying our pockets on the table after an evening of gambling, burglary, and cow tipping. We enjoy strange couplings, that’s how we got together. We wanted Orphans to be like a shortwave radio show where the past is sequenced with the future, consisting of things you find on the ground, in this world and no world, or maybe the next world. Whatever you imagine that to be.
If a record really works at all, it should be made like a homemade doll with tinsel for hair and seashells for ears stuffed with candy and money. Or like a good woman’s purse with a Swiss army knife and a snake bite kit.
Orphans contains songs for all occasions. Some of the songs were written in turmoil and recorded at night in a moving car, others were written in hotel rooms and recorded in Hollywood during big conflamas. That’s when conflict weds drama. At any rate these are the ones that survived the flood and were rescued from the branches of trees after the water’s retreat.
Gathering all this material together was like rounding up chickens at the beach. It’s not like you go into vault and check out what you need. Most of it was lost or buried under the house. Some of the tapes I had to pay ransom for to a plumber in Russia. You fall into the vat. We started to write just to climb out of the vat. Then you start listening and sorting and start writing in response to what you hear. And more recording. And then you get bit by a spider, go down the gopher hole, and make a whole different record. That was the process pretty much the last three years.
Then we met Karl Derfler, a wizard engineer who works at Bay Side Studios in Richmond, CA, in the science fiction part of town. A battlefield medic, he did a Lazarus on a number of the songs and recorded all the new material.
On Orphans there is a mambo about a convict who breaks out of jail with a fishbone, a gospel train song about Charlie Whitman and John Wilkes Boothe, a delta blues about a disturbing neighbor, a spoken word piece about a woman who was struck by lightening, an 18th century Scottish madrigal about murderous sibling rivalry, an American backwoods a cappella about a hanging. Even a song by Jack Kerouac and a spiritual with my own personal petition to the Lord with prayer…There’s even a show tune about an old altar boy and a rockabilly song about a young man who’s begging to be lied to.
I think you will find more singing and dancing here than usual. But I hope fans of more growling, more warbling, more barking, more screeching won’t be disappointed either.
Tom Waits August 2006
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards is a spectacular musical journey, which visits most every genre of American song tradition.
The diverse 56-song, 3-disc collection captures the full scope of Tom Waits’ shamanic powers as a vocalist, literary lyricist, romantic melodist, innovative arranger and pioneer of sonic worlds.
This deluxe limited edition release, written and produced by Waits and his longtime collaborator and wife, Kathleen Brennan contains 30 new and never before heard recordings, plus rare songs taken from collaborations with artists in film, literature and music—complete with a 94-page handmade booklet of lyrics and rare photos. The set, which took over three years to compile and record, is grouped by genre with songs guaranteed to move and shake the heart, the body, the mind and most unquestionably the soul.
Each of the CD’s are separately arranged and sub-titled – “Brawlers,” “Bawlers” and “Bastards” to encapsulate the full range of Waits’ nomadic scope of musical styles.
Brawlers is packed with full throated juke joint stomp, boogies and riotous blues. It’s roadhouse Waits,..He chugs, whistles and screams. It’s primal steaming surreal blues. He channels the Stones, Beefheart, Muddy Waters and T-Rex. One new one, “Low Down” is raw garage rock with Waits’ 20 year old son, Casey on drums and San Francisco’s white trash blues icon, Ron Hacker, on guitar.
Bawlers – Lonesome ballads about the sadness at the end of the road are framed by tender songs of innocence and green hope. The plaintive hill country laments of, “Tell It To Me” and the cautionary tale, “Fannin Street” blend poignantly with saloon songs of betrayal and despair (“The World Keeps Turning”) Celtic waltzes and bitter cabaret torch songs like, “It’s Over” and “Little Drop Of Poison”, all of which explore what the heart gives and what it takes away.
Bastards – explores the strange and unusual side of Waits, who is peculiar by nature. Contained here is experimental music and scary tales. There are uncategorizable diversions into this dark side. It tunnels beneath the city with spiels, rants, mouth rhythms, including a poignant reminiscence of car ownership, a Ramones cover and a version of Daniel Johnston’s, “King Kong,” a disturbing bedtime story,(not for children faint of heart),and a poem by Charles Bukowski. It has insects, murder, drowning and insanity. Or as ma says, the full dinner menu. Girl Monster Tracklist: TRACKLISTING
CD ONE
1. Girlmonster Intro 2. Scream Club Vs. Ben Adorable Feat. Peaches - Fine As Fuck 3. Mignon - Demons Of Love 4. Le Tigre - Hot Topic 5. Barbara Morgenstern - Mountain Place 6. Angie Reed - G. G. (Gaudy Good) 7. Pam Hogg - Honeyland 8. Rhythm King And Her Friends - Speedometer 9. Hanin Elias - Get It Back 10. Kevin Blechdom - Me Saw Me Momma 11. Ana da Silva - Full Moon 12. Anat Ben David - Virtual Leisure 13. Sir Alice - Super Hero 14. Chicks On Speed - Plastic Surgery 15. Vivien Goldman - Launderette 16. Tina Weymouth - Incognito 17. Client - Down To The Underground 18. Kids On TV - Break Dance Hunx (Market Value Mix) 19. Boyskout - School Of Etiquette 20. Erase Errata - Dust 21. No Bra - No Woman No Crime
CD TWO
1. Pulsallama - Ungawa Pt. 2 Remix 2. The Slits - Typical Girls (Live) 3. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business 4. Cherry Sunkist - Nameless Dogs 5. Japanese Intelligence Mind Control - Get The Picture 6. Autonervous - Anchors Away 7. Cobra Killer - Mr. Chang 8. Planningtorock - Changes 9. Hanayo - Pita Pata 10. Björk - Storm 11. Tobi Vail - Panic Of The Square 12. Gustav - We Shall Overcome 13. Bonnie Vs. Hunter - Our Inventions 14. Françoise Cactus - You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory 15. LiliPUT - Die Matrosen 16. Katastrophe - Your Girlfriend 17. Lesbians On Ecstasy - Sedition 18. Electric Indigo & Dorit Chrysler - Sheets 19. Cosey Fanni Tutti - Licking The Juice
CD THREE
1. Hotel Motel - Sucker Man 2. Gudrun Gut - Girl Boogie 3. The Creatures - Godzilla (Siouxsie And Budgie's Girl Monster Mix) 4. Soffy O - Maybe A Dog 5. Ella Bandita - New Year's Eve 6. Las Perras Del Infierno - Somos Las Perras 7. Juliette And The Licks - You're Speaking My Language 8. Miss Le Bomb - Pinkitan 9. Cat5 - Sexy 10. Robots In Disguise - Get RID! 11. People Like Us - Fom Fom 12. Michaela Melián - Manifesto 13. Susanne Brokesch - Heroes (History Mix) 14. Scream Club Vs. Leonard DeLeonard - International 15. Crystal Cookie - Crystal Cookie (Lesson 1) 16. Caro Snatch - Say Trees 17. Malaria! - Your Turn To Run 18. The Raincoats - Shouting Out Loud 19. Vivien Goldman w/ Andy Caine & Manasseh Sound - Seven Days 20. Ari Up - Baby Mother (Toxicgirl Strip Mix) 21. Miss Pain - Sell It 2 The Kids (Megaphone Version)
-------------- The artist formerly known as Ulrich.
Die Tourboooker haben sich erbarmt und der Samiam und The Draft-Tour noch Daten in den 3 größten Musikstädten Deutschlands, Berlin, Hamburg und Köln, hinzugefüht. Alle Termine aufgelistet in den Kommentaren sind, Obi Wan.
Die Flowerpornoes haben ein Label gefunden, auf dem das neue Album nächstes Jahr erscheinen wird. Von Tom Liwa kann man sich derweil 
Vergangenen Freitag ist das neue Maximilian Hecker-Album I’ll be A Virgin, I’ll be A Mountain bei V2 erschienen. Auf große Tour ghet es auch; Daten stehen in den Kommentaren.
Und auf ihrem Label Chicks On Speed Records erscheint außerdem ein interessantes Sampler-Projekt. Girls Monster umfasst, wie die neue Waits, 3 CDs die unter der Maxime „Female Artists“ zusammengestellt wurde. So reihen sich bekannte Künstlerinnen wie Björk, Le Tigre, Hanin Elias (Atari Teenage Riot) neben völlig unbekannte Leute ein. Die Tracklist gibt’s an gewohnter Stelle. 
