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Closing Time by Tom Waits

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Ol'55 4:00 9,939
2 I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With.. 3:56 262
3 Virginia Avenue 3:10 74,307
4 Midnight Lulaby 3:27 330
5 Martha 4:23 93,481
6 Lonely 3:11 64,220
7 Little Trip to Heaven 3:01 14,140
8 Closing Time 4:20 66,103
9 Tom Traubers Blues 6:40 29
10 Step Right Up 5:40 87,420
11 Jitterbug Boy 3:39 38,003
12 I Wish I Was in New Orleans 4:51 34,424
13 The Piano Has Been Drinking 3:40 38,247
14 Invitation to the Blues 5:21 55,181
15 Somewhere 3:51 18,219
16 Blue Valentine 5:49 6,148
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About this album

Elektra / Wea (1990) Released: 12 Oct 1990 16 tracks (68:59)
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.
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  • FridaLouise

    Almost forgot this. Lovely, so sympathetic for a lonely soul in the night.

    last month

  • KHsonicdude23

    I love this album. It might not be as complex as Tom Waits later albums, but I prefer jazzy dive-bar Tom Waits to experimental blues hobo Tom Waits anyway.

    March 2012

  • Leinad-95

    This album never gets old

    February 2012

  • DaJuWi

    heavenly

    January 2012

  • kelspooky

    "I tried Rain Dogs first... I didn't really take to it. I'm only three tracks into this so far, but it sounds really really good." Happened the same with me. Now I like Rain Dogs, but this one is a lot easier to love. I feel like every song is a masterpiece.

    November 2011

  • Pseudovolhv

    without a choice

    October 2011

  • velvet_a

    well, I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With you.

    September 2011

  • kinemascopio

    absolutely perfect! <3

    August 2011

  • JvPutten

    His voice is so different then on Small Changes. What the hell happened to him?

    July 2011

  • Mutanteakordeon

    Omg M A S T E R P I E C E, you HAVE to listen this

    July 2011

  • dany_f87

    So underrated is crazy

    June 2011

  • bacteriatastic

    *_*

    June 2011

  • ubermenschean

    Pure gold.

    April 2011

  • poliphili92

    Yes, it's masterpiece. I love the atmosphere of the album, melancholic evening songs, and of course Tom voice.

    April 2011

  • WatEenKutMuziek

    very atmospheric album.

    March 2011

  • baacardi

    I tried Rain Dogs first... I didn't really take to it. I'm only three tracks into this so far, but it sounds really really good.

    January 2011

  • Waendor

    This album is a musical perfection.

    November 2010

  • PollyMcShane

    Love, love, love, love this album.

    November 2010

  • Paloten4eg

    Ice Cream Man is mad, love it!

    November 2010

  • Dead_Zeppelin

    Not my first waits album, but my favorite.

    September 2010
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