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Bone Machine
Rock · 1992 · 16 tracks

Bone Machine

Tom Waits

A skeletal, percussive masterpiece of apocalyptic blues. Recorded in a concrete room, it sounds like the world ending in a junk shop.

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It's like a blues band playing in a haunted junkyard while the world ends.

A grimly humorous and deeply visceral exploration of mortality set against a backdrop of industrial-blues clatter.

Bone Machine · vs · Tom Waits
Desert+4.0σ

Desert saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks
01
Earth Died Screaming
3:39
02
Dirt in the Ground
4:09
03
Such a Scream
2:09
04
All Stripped Down
3:03
05
Who Are You
3:57
06
The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me
1:51
07
Jesus Gonna Be Here
3:22
08
A Little Rain
2:59
09
In the Colosseum
4:51
10
Goin’ Out West
3:20
11
Murder in the Red Barn
4:29
12
Black Wings
4:38
13
Whistle Down the Wind
4:36
14
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
2:32
15
Let Me Get Up on It
0:55
16
That Feel
3:13
Moments Worth Waiting For
The primal, rhythmic thud of the Conundrum percussion on the opening track.
The transition from the spoken-word dread of The Ocean Doesn't Want Me into the gospel-stomp of Jesus Gonna Be Here.
The sudden, jarring shift to a jagged surf-rock riff on Goin' Out West.
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