Tom Waits Mule Variations
Q: Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999."
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- Released: April 27, 1999
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Anti
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - 5/13/99, p.94
3 Stars (out of 5) - "If you're a fan...you'll get your long-awaited fix....Continuing BONE MACHINE's experiments in artfully scuffed sound...with scratches, hisses and gabbling field recordings..."Spin - 5/99, p.147
"...MULE VARIATIONS is named for a hybrid animal--the offspring of a male ass and a female horse. It's a pretty good description of Waits's aesthetic: Always messing with at least two genres per song, he sticks things together and makes them breed..."Entertainment Weekly - 4/30/99, p.93
"...the album restores the wizened humanity--and a more traditional sense of songcraft--to his music....At a time when rhythmic soundscapes have become as important in pop as melody, MULE VARIATIONS presents Waits as the biggest freak of all: the last of the classic American tunesmiths." - Rating: B+Q - 1/00, p.86
Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999."Q - 5/99, p.112
4 Stars (out of 5) - "...the warmth and humor of MULE VARIATIONS' songs are allowed to shine through their lo-fi, bucolic blues skeletons. It's varied fare, the mood swinging beatifully between the charmingly cranky and clattering...and the lusciously sentimental..."Alternative Press - 6/99, p.81
5 (out of 5) - "...His marvelously expressive voice sounds richer than ever....And as always, his instrumental foundation is impeccable - spare, understated and true. But Waits' greatest strength is in his interpretive skills. He simply writes great lyrics..."The Wire - 1/00, p.67
Included in Wire Magazine's "50 Records Of The Year ['99]"The Wire - 4/99, pp.73-4
"...Each [song] simmers with in a carefully constructed atmosphere, like a dark goulash concocted with patience but no recipie book. The soundscapes are extraordinary, as is the tension between precisely judged production and passionately spontaneous performance..."CMJ - 1/10/00, p.3
Ranked #1 in CMJ's "Top 30 Editorial Picks [for 1999]."CMJ - 4/26/99, p.3
"...one of his finest efforts yet....Tom refuses to soften with age..."Melody Maker - 5/1/99, p.38
4.5 stars (out of 5) - "...True to form, MULE VARIATIONS clanks, rattles, hammers, squawks, crackles and frequently swoons throughits generous 70 minutes. Nobody else makes music quite like this..."Mojo (Publisher) - p.65
Ranked #21 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[I]t's a veritable Jimmy Stewart of an album -- by turns irascible, sentimental and life-affirming."Mojo (Publisher) - 1/00, p.30
Ranked #1 in Mojo Magazine's "Best of 1999"Mojo (Publisher) - 5/99, pp.92-94
"...Waits has written and sung about the weird, sweet, tortured lives of real people. MULE VARIATIONS is more of the queer, wonderful same..."NME (Magazine) - 4/24/99, p.40
7 (out of 10) - "...quite batty, often fabulously so....mutating jazz, blues, parade music, show tunes, fairground banter, immigrant songs and beatnik spiel into a classy vernacular..."Tracks:
- 1.Big In Japan
- 2.Lowside of The Road
- 3.Hold On
- 4.Get Behind The Mule
- 5.House Where Nobody Lives
- 6.Cold Water
- 7.Pony
- 8.What's He Building?
- 9.Black Market Baby
- 10.Eyeball Kid
- 11.Picture In A Frame
- 12.Chocolate Jesus
- 13.Georgia Lee
- 14.Filipino Box Spring Hog
- 15.Take It With Me
- 16.Come On Up To The House
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- UPC: 045778654727
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