Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years (1987)

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years (1987)

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Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

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Side one

1. "Hang on St. Christopher"   2:46

2. "Straight to the Top (Rhumba)"   2:30

3. "Blow Wind Blow"   3:35

4. "Temptation"   3:53

5. "Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)"   4:15

6. "I'll Be Gone"   3:12

7. "Yesterday Is Here"   2:29

8. "Please Wake Me Up"   3:36

9. "Franks Theme"   1:49

Side two

1. "More Than Rain"   3:52

2. "Way Down in the Hole"   3:30

3. "Straight to the Top (Vegas)"   3:26

4. "I'll Take New York"   3:58

5. "Telephone Call from Istanbul"   3:12

6. "Cold Cold Ground"   4:07

7. "Train Song"   3:20

8. "Innocent When You Dream (78)"   3:08

Tom Waits Band Members / Musicians

Jay Anderson – bass (#8)

Michael Blair – drums, conga, percussion, maracas, marimba, orchestra bells, glockenspiel (#1–4, 6, 10–14)

Kathleen Brennan – vocal arrangements (#4)

Angela Brown – background vocals (#11)

Ralph Carney – saxophone, baritone horn, violin, tenor saxophone (#1–2, 4–6, 8, 10–13, 17)

Greg Cohen - bass, alto horn, horn arrangements, Leslie bass pedals (#1–6, 10–14, 16–17)

David Hidalgo – accordion (#15–16)

Leslie Holland – background vocals (#11)

Lynne Jordan – background vocals (#11)

Marc Ribot – guitar, banjo (#1, 4, 11, 14)

William Schimmel – piano, pump organ, accordion, Leslie bass pedals, cocktail piano (#1, 2, 5–6, 10, 12–13, 17)

Larry Taylor – bass, upright bass (#2, 7, 8, 15)

Moris Tepper – guitar (#4, 6, 10, 14)

Francis Thumm – prepared piano, pump organ (#3, 10)

Tom Waits – vocals, pump organ, Optigan, guitar, vocal stylings, rooster, piano, Farfisa, Mellotron, drums, conga, tambourine

Izzy Stradlin – unconfirmed appearance on rhythm guitar

Franks Wild Years is the 10th studio album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play of the same name. The shared title of the album and the play is an iteration of "Frank's Wild Years", a song from Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.

The play had its world premiere at the Briar St. Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on June 22, 1986, performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Various versions of "Way Down in the Hole" were used as the theme music for the HBO series The Wire, including Waits' original version for the second season. The songs "Temptation" and "Cold Cold Ground" were used in Jean-Claude Lauzon's film Léolo (1992). "Cold Cold Ground" was also used in the series Homicide: Life on the Street. "Temptation" and "Straight to the Top (Vegas)" featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), and "Innocent When You Dream" featured in the film Smoke (1995). The song "If I Have to Go" was used in the play, but released only in 2006 on Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards. The theme from "If I Have to Go" was used under the title "Rat's Theme" in the documentary Streetwise as early as 1984.