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Closing Time - Transparent Clear Vinyl 50th Anniversary - Sealed

TOM WAITS Closing Time (50th Anniversary 2023 UK/EU limited edition 12-track double album 2-LP pressed on 180-gram Transparent Clear Vinyl, half speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios. The landmark debut album foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles that would come to be associated with Waits. Gatefold picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed. Recommended)

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Release Date 2nd Jun 2023
Release Year 2023 - 1 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label Anti
Complete Stock List Go to Tom Waits
Product Catalogue No 8714092797435
Music Genre Singer/Songwriter, 70s Rock, 70s Artists
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
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Remastered and reissued on Anti. 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.

It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career “Ol' 55” (famously covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking “Martha” and the gentle acoustic folk of “I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You”.

Reissued for the first time as a double LP to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark debut with newly half speed mastering at Abbey Road Studios.

SIDE A
1. Ol' 55
2. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
3. Virginia Avenue

SIDE B
1. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
2. Midnight Lullaby
3. Martha

SIDE C
1. Rosie
2. Lonely
3. Ice Cream Man

SIDE D
1. Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)
2. Grapefruit
3. Closing Time



DOUBLE LP  
Recording Artist Tom Waits
Product Title Closing Time - Transparent Clear Vinyl 50th Anniversary - Sealed
Product Information Tom Waits Closing Time - Transparent Clear Vinyl 50th Anniversary - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To John Hammond
Product Barcode 8714092797435
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