Closing Time
Tom Waits - CD
- Artist: Tom Waits
- Year: 1973
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 075596083621
- Item Number: 59608362
- Release date: 10/16/1990
- 1. Ol' 55
- 2. I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You
- 3. Virginia Avenue
- 4. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
- 5. Midnight Lullaby
- 6. Martha
- 7. Rosie
- 8. Lonely
- 9. Ice Cream Man
- 10. Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)
- 11. Grapefruit Moon
- 12. Closing Time
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Closing Time by Tom Waits on CD
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. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
- Artist: Tom Waits
- Year: 1973
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 075596083621
- Item Number: 59608362
- Release date: 10/16/1990
- Label: Wea/Elektra Entertainment
- Genre: Pop/Rock
- Style: Singer/Songwriter
- Album Time: 45:45
- Alice
- Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
- Big Time
- Blood Money
- Blue Valentine
- Blue Valentine (Import)
- Bone Machine
- Closing Time (Import)
- Foreign Affairs (Import)
- Franks Wild Years
- Glitter and Doom Live
- Heartattack & Vine
- Heartattack and Vine (Import)
- Mule Variations
- Mule Variations [Japan Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Nighthawks at the Diner
- Nighthawks at the Diner (Import)
- Orphans (Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)
- Rain Dogs
- Real Gone
- Small Change
- Swordfishtrombones
- Swordfishtrombones
- The Asylum Years (Import)
- The Black Rider
- The Classic Interviews
- The Early Years, Vol. 1
- The Early Years, Vol. 2
- The Heart of Saturday Night
- The Heart of Saturday Night (Import)
- Used Songs (1973-1980)
- Swordfishtrombones
- Mule Variations
- Blood Money
- Alice
- Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
- Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
- Real Gone
- Glitter & Doom Live
- Bad as Me
- Bad as Me
- Bad as Me - Deluxe Edition
- The Heart of Saturday Night
- Blue Valentine (Import)
- Foreign Affairs (Import)
- Closing Time (Import)
- The Heart of Saturday Night
- Small Change
- Nighthawks at the Diner
- Closing Time
- Closing Time (Import)
- WAITS,TOM: HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT
- Small Change (Import)
- Rain Dogs
- Bone Machine
- Swordfishtrombones (Import)
- Rain Dogs (Import)
- Franks Wild Years (Import)
- Big Time (Import)
- Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years (Import)
- Mule Variations (Import)
- Franks Wild Years (Import)
- Rain Dogs (Import)
- The Asylum Years
- Tom Waits : Asylum Years
- The Early Years, Vol. 1
- The Early Years, Vol. 2
- 'Round Midnight: The Minneapolis Broadcast 1975
- The Document
- Romeo Bleeding: Live from Austin
- Mule Variations
- Real Gone
- Bad as Me [Deluxe Edition] (Import)
- The Asylum Years (Import)
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