Bone Machine

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This is Waits's most harrowing album ever, thanks not only to such heartwarming sentiments as "What does it matter, a dream of love or a dream of lies / We're all going to be in the same place when we die" but also to the ravaged, shamanistic croak with which he delivers them. Death hangs like a bad suit on songs like "Jesus Gonna Be Here," "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me," and "Murder in the Red Barn." But the album is musically entrancing and richly poetic--"Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?" Waits asks a perennially unfaithful lover in "Who Are You." There's also room for some foolishness, as with "I Don't Wanna Grow Up," which has been memorably covered by the Ramones, and a boozy sing-along (with Keith Richards), "That Feel." --Daniel Durchholz

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The abnormal has become the norm for Tom Waits, so, once again, Bone Machine is laden with odd timbres, archaic acoustics, and raw vocals. This time, however, Waits has built his songs around a Harry Partch-inspired fascination with primitive percussion. With a crew of Northern California musicians along to add spare adornments, Waits fashions pretty, sentimental tunes ("A Little Rain," Whistle Down the Wind") and hellish stampedes of clanging metal and hoarse shouting ("Earth Died Screaming," "Let Me Get Up on It," the latter the 53-second distillation of Bone Machine quintessence-just Waits distorted bellowing and banging. Bone Machine is both appalling and appealing. There are elements to this album that seem designed to drive away the faint of heart, and then there are melodies that melt in your hand. --Steve Stolder

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Bone Machine

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Tom Waits
Manufacturer: Island
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ASIN: B000001DVZ
Release Date: 1992-09-08

Tracks:

Earth Died Screaming
Dirt In The Ground
Such A Scream
All Stripped Down
Who Are You
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
Jesus Gonna Be Here
A Little Rain
In The Colosseum
Goin' Out West
Murder In The Red Barn
Black Wings
Whistle Down The Wind
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Let Me Get Up On It
That Feel

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This is Waits's most harrowing album ever, thanks not only to such heartwarming sentiments as "What does it matter, a dream of love or a dream of lies / We're all going to be in the same place when we die" but also to the ravaged, shamanistic croak with which he delivers them. Death hangs like a bad suit on songs like "Jesus Gonna Be Here," "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me," and "Murder in the Red Barn." But the album is musically entrancing and richly poetic--"Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?" Waits asks a perennially unfaithful lover in "Who Are You." There's also room for some foolishness, as with "I Don't Wanna Grow Up," which has been memorably covered by the Ramones, and a boozy sing-along (with Keith Richards), "That Feel." --Daniel Durchholz

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The abnormal has become the norm for Tom Waits, so, once again, Bone Machine is laden with odd timbres, archaic acoustics, and raw vocals. This time, however, Waits has built his songs around a Harry Partch-inspired fascination with primitive percussion. With a crew of Northern California musicians along to add spare adornments, Waits fashions pretty, sentimental tunes ("A Little Rain," Whistle Down the Wind") and hellish stampedes of clanging metal and hoarse shouting ("Earth Died Screaming," "Let Me Get Up on It," the latter the 53-second distillation of Bone Machine quintessence-just Waits distorted bellowing and banging. Bone Machine is both appalling and appealing. There are elements to this album that seem designed to drive away the faint of heart, and then there are melodies that melt in your hand. --Steve Stolder

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the middle ground.......2007-03-15

this is for you fols who dont like the early stuff but you aren't ready for real gone. it won the grammay in 1992 for best alternative album.telling you it is at least worth a listen. i promise you that you wont be disapointed.

serendipity.......2007-02-12

i found this cd in a ditch beside a dirt road out in the middle of nowhere. having no jewel case, it was badly scratched. when i first played it i got scared by the sounds it made. yet i could not stop listening. and as i listened over and over again i realized that i had no need to be afraid; for, i discovered, i was hearing the music of angels. mad drunken angels, to be sure; but angels nonetheless. i listened harder and the tunes became epiphanies. I was turned in new directions, and i became me. Murphy's Law was rescinded.

A masterpiece of mayhem.......2007-01-14

Tom Waits's experimental edge, which began largely with SWORDFISHTROMBONES, finds its pinacle in BONE MACHINE. This is an album that would later be largely replicated with REAL GONE (a record that is so loud and busy, it takes several listens to get to the point), but is much more direct than the future album: MACHINE is about decay, both physical and psyhological, and how the erosion of time affects us all.

The gutteral "Earth Died Screaming" opens the album, while the beautiful "That Feel" (co-written with and featuring Keith Richards) closes out the set. In between, the songs range from busy, bustling stoms ("All Stripped Down"), sentimental ballads ("A Little Rain"), recitations ("The Ocean Doesn't Want Me"), even off-beat gospel ("Jesus Gonna Be Here"). The overall effect is an album that comes off as brilliant--which is simply because it IS brilliant. Tom Waits is a musical genius; his experimental edge, combined with a knack for poetic lyrics and a hooky melody (also melodies that seem to make no sense at all) pushes him far above his peers. Actually, it's safe to say that Waits has no peers--he is in a class all his own, making music like only he could. If you've never heard anything like Tom Waits, it's ok--because there ISN'T anything else like him.

Bone Machine.......2007-01-12

Bone Machine is an album, or a piece of art in general, that confronts all the bleak and emotional thoughts you may have on mortality in a way that only those with hearts of stone or minds of mush could turn away. Like Astral Weeks, or 3rd/Sister Lovers, you cannot go away from this album without having some change in mood. Albums like this or the afformentioned really are the epitome of expression, when you actually feel every word that pours from their lips, trembling or howling or straining. They are perfect albums in this context.
But this is a review of Bone Machine, not a critical analysis of the importance of emotional integrity in pop music. Bone Machine leaves you feeling blue but not depressed. It makes you think, about the way life can just so easily be swept up from under you at any given moment, and how you truly have to seize every opportunity and take every risk your mind tells you not to do, but in your heart you think it's right. If "we're all gonna be dirt in the ground" then why not live life now. While every song on here is a stunner, the songs that have really been a beacon of light for me are the last 4(minus Let Me Get Up On That, an instrumental). I have spent the past month driving home at midnight after being in a smokey coffee house for hours on end, hyped up and weary, and feeling the cold wind sting my face while ash hit my eyes from the tip of my cigarette while listening to Whistle Down the Wind, and just thought about how I've been in this town my whole life and need a change, and that I'm rusting here, never getting around, doing the same thing. I Don't Wanna Grow Up could very well be the anthem of my post adolescent confusion and delusion, a plea for eternal youth in the midst of adulthood and the uncertainty of what will happen the rest of my life or even the next day. That Feel, a true motivational song, a perfect sendoff from an album of such morbid contemplation. That Feel is that urge to just keep going on, that it's all gonna turn around, and you can never get rid of that zest for life, no matter how old you get, or how hard you've live, and having Keith Richards croak along with Tom, two haggard survivors who really let the longevity of their lives show in this performance. "Cross my wooden leg, and i swear on my glass eye". With a line like that, how could you resist? Bone Machine is the perfect place for Waits beginners too. Rain Dogs may be too out there and too long for the uninitiated, and with Small Change, or any of the older stuff, you don't get a real feel for the more experimental aspects of his later work. Bone Machine is the perfect mixture of boomers, bangers, ballads and blues. Get yourself a pack of unfiltered cigarettes and go for a ride on a dark night with this. You'll never be the same.

Dark? Sad? Difficult listening? I dunno about all that..........2006-11-18

Throughout the reviews for "Bone Machine", you'll see warnings that this music is harrowing, obsessed with death, "not the place to begin with Tom Waits."

Pshaw. This album makes me grin ear-to-ear, all the way through. This one contains some of Tom's most lovely ballads: "Who Are You", and the amazing "A Little Rain". It has some of his funniest lyrics: "Murder in the Red Barn" comes to mind.

"Cause there's nothin' strange
About an axe with bloodstains in the barn

There's always some killin'
You got to do around the farm"

The poetry on "Bone Machine" is truly (to use an overused phrase), mind-blowing. Hell, I might even go to church if they sang honest songs about mortality like the chillingly beautiful "Dirt in the Ground"! "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" is his best spoken word piece ever. "Jesus Gonna Be Here" just flat rocks out.

Be clear about this: "Bone Machine" is not background music: it demands attention. But the bottom line: be not afraid. Strap on the headphones, pour a tall glass, and take the ride.

Nightclubbing Vol 1 Compiled and Mixed By DJ Vanbellen

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Nightclubbing Vol 1 Compiled and Mixed By DJ Vanbellen
Ashley Beedle Presents Revolutions in Dub , The Bladed Posse , Sticky People , Make You My Man , Ralphi Rosario , Dangerous Minds , Robin Breaks Present 3630 , Platinum Grooves , Bone Machine , and 7th Movement
Manufacturer: Blueprint
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000LD3ZN0

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17 Tracks

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Track Info on This Item.......2006-11-29

Tracks:
1. Ashley Beedle Presents Revolutions in Dub - Deep Dish Jumpin' At The Bar Pt 1
2. The Bladed Posse - Right Now
3. Sticky People - Make You My Man - Paradox Stomp Mix
4. Ralphi Rosario - Sudando Bailando
5. Crime - Flight In 2 Fantasy
6. Robin Breaks Present 3630 - Project EP - I Get Dubbed
7. Platinum Grooves Anthem Vol 2 - You Can't Touch Part 1
8. Mood II Swing - Call Me
9. Bone Machine The Mini Mall Ep - Pianic - Amster Jammix
10. Dangerous Minds - Live in Unity
11. Johnick - Play the World
12. Strictly 4 The Underground - Livin' 4 The Underground
13. Kenlou - The Bounce
14. The Underground Congregation - Lovin Flowin Underflow Mix
15. Adrian Morrison - The Week
16. K-Scope Project 2 - Planet K
17. 7th Movement - Odyssey Dub Star Disco Mix

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Bone Machine
Tom Waits
Manufacturer: Island
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006HBCF
Release Date: 2002-10-07

Tracks:

Earth Died Screaming
Dirt in the Ground
Such a Scream
All Stripped Down
Who Are You
Ocean Doesn't Want Me
Jesus Gonna Be Here
Little Rain (For Clyde)
In the Colosseum
Goin' Out West
Murder in the Red Barn
Black Wings
Whistle Down the Wind (For Tom Jans)
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Let Me Get up on It
That Feel

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Dogs
Bone Machine
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000NQK5Q0

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1994, Indie, USA. Out of print 10 track debut CD by Bone Machine, a super hard rock/hair metal outfit fronted by none other than Ted Poley of Danger Danger/Melodica fame. Fans of Eyes, Danger Danger, and similiar Jersey-area hard rock/hair metal outfits will enjoy these guys.