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Swordfishtrombones
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Swordfishtrombones Swordfishtrombones the second greatest album of all
time.[1] In 2006, Q placed the album at #36 in its list of "40
Best Albums of the ’80s."[2]
Track listing
All tracks written by Tom Waits. Arranger Frances
Thumm. Recorded by Tim Boyle and Biff Dawes. Mixed by
Biff Dawes at Sunset Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Side One
No. Title Length
1. "Underground" 1:58
2. "Shore Leave" 4:12
Studio album by Tom Waits 3. "Dave the Butcher" (Instrumental) 2:15
Released September 1983 4. "Johnsburg, Illinois" 1:30
5. "16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six" 4:30
Recorded August 1982
Sunset Sound, Hollywood 6. "Town with No Cheer" 4:22
Genre Experimental rock 7. "In the Neighborhood" 3:04
Side Two
Length 40:31
No. Title Length
Label Island
1. "Just Another Sucker on the Vine" (In- 1:42
Producer Tom Waits strumental)
Tom Waits chronology 2. "Frank’s Wild Years" 1:50
3. "Swordfishtrombone" 3:00
One from the Heart Swordfishtrombones Rain Dogs
(1982) (1983) (1985) 4. "Down, Down, Down" 2:10
5. "Soldier’s Things" 3:15
Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-song- 6. "Gin Soaked Boy" 2:20
writer Tom Waits, released in September 1983. It was the
7. "Trouble’s Braids" 1:18
first album that Waits produced himself.
Stylistically different from his previous LPs, the al- 8. "Rainbirds" (Instrumental) 3:05
bum moves away from the piano and string orchestra
arrangements of the late 1970s, replacing them instead
with unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more ab-
Personnel
stract songwriting approach.[citation needed] • Tom Waits - Vocal (1, 2, 4, 5-7, 9-14), Chair (2),
The album peaked at #164 on the Billboard Pop Albums Hammond B-3 Organ (3), Piano (4, 15), Harmonium
and 200 albums charts. In 1989, Spin Magazine named (6, 8), Synthesizer (6), Freedom Bell (6)
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• Victor Feldman - Bass Marimba (1, 2), Marimba
(2,10), Shaker (2), Bass Drum with Rice (2), Bass Boo
Notes
Bams (3), Brake Drum (5), Bell Plate (5), Snare (5, 11), [1] "The 25 Greatest Albums of All Time". Spin 5 (1):
Hammond B-3 Organ (7), Snare Drum (7), Bells (7), p. 46. April 1989. http://books.google.com/
Conga (10), Bass Drum (10), Dabuki Drum (10), books?id=h-bxxO5B-
Tambourine (11), African Talking Drum (14) xsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA46#v=onepage&q&f=false.
• Larry Taylor - Acoustic Bass (1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14), Retrieved 14 August 2007.
Electric Bass (10) [2] Q August 2006, Issue 241
• Randy Aldcroft - Baritone Horn (1, 7), Trombone (2) [3] Ruhlmann, William. Swordfishtrombones at
• Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges - Drums (1, 2, 5, 11, Allmusic. Retrieved 29 July 2005.
13), Parade Drum (7), Cymbals (7), Parade Bass Drum [4] Christgau, Robert (March 24, 1984). "Christgau’s
(14), Glass Harmonica (15) Consumer Guide: Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones".
• Fred Tackett - Electric Guitar (1, 5, 13), Banjo Guitar The Village Voice. http://www.robertchristgau.com/
(2) xg/cg/cgv3-84.php. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
• Francis Thumm - Metal Aunglongs (2), Glass Also posted at "Tom Waits > Consumer Guide
Harmonica (15) Album". Robert Christgau.
• Greg Cohen - Bass (4), Acoustic Bass (10, 12, 15) http://www.robertchristgau.com/
• Joe Romano - Trombone (5), Trumpet (8) get_album.php?id=3996. Retrieved 19 October
• Anthony Clark Stewart - Bagpipes (6) 2005.
• Clark Spangler - Synthesizer Program (6) [5] Shewey, Don (November 24, 1983). "Tom Waits
• Bill Reichenbach - Trombone (7) Swordfishtrombones > Album Review". Rolling Stone
• Dick (Slyde) Hyde - Trombone (7) (409). Archived from the original on 22 October
• Ronnie Barron - Hammond Organ (9) 2007. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/
• Eric Bikales - Organ (11) albumreviews/swordfishtrombones-19831124.
• Carlos Guitarlos - Electric Guitar (11) Retrieved 24 October 2011.
• Richard Gibbs - Glass Harmonica (15)
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