Released September 8, 1992 Bone Machine
(1992) The Black Rider
(1993) Release date 8 September 1992 | Length 53:30 Artist Tom Waits Label Island Records | |
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Recorded Prairie Sun Recording, Cotati, California Producer Tom Waits; Associate producer: Kathleen Brennan Genres Rock music, Experimental rock, Experimental music Awards Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album Similar Tom Waits albums, Rock music albums | ||
Tom waits bone machine full album
Bone Machine is a critically acclaimed and award-winning album by Tom Waits, released in 1992 on Island Records. It won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, and features guest appearances by Los Lobos' David Hidalgo, Primus' Les Claypool and Brain, and The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards.
Contents
- Tom waits bone machine full album
- Tom waits bone machine 1992 full album wmv
- Recording and production
- Artwork
- Covers and soundtracks
- Legacy
- Track listing
- Credits
- Songs
- References
Bone Machine marked a return to studio material for Waits, coming a full five years after his previous studio album, Franks Wild Years (1987). The album is often noted for its dark lyrical themes of death and murder, and for its rough, stripped-down, percussion-heavy blues rock style.
Bone Machine was included on many Best Albums of the 1990s lists, including Pitchfork Media where it was number 49, and Rolling Stone where it was number 53.
Tom waits bone machine 1992 full album wmv
Recording and production
Bone Machine was recorded and produced entirely at the Prairie Sun Recording studios in Cotati, California in a room of Studio C known as "the Waits Room," in the old cement hatchery rooms of the cellar of the buildings.
Mark "Mooka" Rennick, Prairie Sun studio chief said:
[Waits] gravitated toward these "echo" rooms and created the Bone Machine aural landscape. [...] What we like about Tom is that he is a musicologist. And he has a tremendous ear. His talent is a national treasure.
Waits said of the bare-bones studio, "I found a great room to work in, it's just a cement floor and a hot water heater. Okay, we'll do it here. It's got some good echo." References to the recording environment and process were made in the field-recorded interview segments made for the promotional CD release, Bone Machine: The Operator's Manual, which threaded together full studio tracks and conversation for a pre-recorded radio show format.
Artwork
The cover photo, which consists of a blurred black-and-white, close-up image of Waits in a leather skullcap with horns and protective goggles, was taken by Jesse Dylan, the son of Bob Dylan. He wears this same outfit in the video for "Goin' Out West" and "I Don't Wanna Grow up".
Covers and soundtracks
A number of the songs from Bone Machine have been used in a number of film soundtracks, and have been covered by artists in varying genres.
"Earth Died Screaming" is featured in the 1995 film 12 Monkeys."Dirt in the Ground" was featured on the 1998 movie, "Jerry and Tom." "Jesus Gonna Be Here" is featured in the 2005 film Domino, in which Waits appears, and has been covered by the gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama on their album "Spirit of the Century" (2001). "Goin' Out West" is featured in the 1999 film Fight Club and has been covered by Queens of the Stone Age, Gomez, Widespread Panic, Gov't Mule, and Australian blues guitarist Ash Grunwald. "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" was covered by Ramones for their final studio album ¡Adios Amigos!, by Holly Cole on her album of Tom Waits covers Temptation (1995), by Petra Haden and Bill Frisell on their collaboration Petra Haden & Bill Frisell (2003), by Hayes Carll on his Trouble in Mind (2008), by Scarlett Johansson on her debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008), by Squeeze on the deluxe version of their album Cradle To The Grave, and by Emily Kinney's character, Beth Greene, on the The Walking Dead fourth-season episode, "Infected" (Kinney's musical influences also includes Waits among others). Danish band Kellermensch covered "Dirt in the Ground" on their debut album.
Legacy
The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Track listing
Songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, except where noted.
Credits
Produced by Tom Waits. Associate Producer: Kathleen Brennan
Recorded by Biff Dawes, except " Whistle Down the Wind" and "A Little Rain" recorded by Joe Marquez. Mixed by Tchad Blake, Biff Dawes, and Joe Marquez. "That Feel" mixed by Joe Blaney at Studio 900. 2nd Engineer: Joe Marquez, 3rd Engineer: Shawn Michael Morris
Musical Security Guard: Frances Thumm. Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk
Songs
1Earth Died Screaming3:41
2Dirt in the Ground4:11
3Such a Scream2:11