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The Black Rider
Rock · 1993 · 20 tracks

The Black Rider

Tom Waits

A macabre operetta blending Weimar cabaret, junk-shop percussion, and demonic folklore. Darkly theatrical, deeply surreal, and unmistakably haunted.

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It's like a haunted house ride through a 1920s German opera house, but the devil is the conductor.

A sinister and whimsical descent into a folkloric underworld where the lines between tragedy and comedy are blurred.

The Black Rider · vs · Tom Waits
Forest+4.0σ

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

Tracklist · 20 Tracks
01
Lucky Day (overture)
2:28
02
The Black Rider
3:21
03
November
2:54
04
Just the Right Bullets
3:35
05
Black Box Theme
2:42
06
’T Ain’t No Sin
2:26
07
Flash Pan Hunter (intro)
1:10
08
That’s the Way
1:08
09
The Briar and the Rose
3:51
10
Russian Dance
3:12
11
Gospel Train (orchestra)
2:34
12
I’ll Shoot the Moon
3:51
13
Flash Pan Hunter
3:11
14
Crossroads
2:43
15
Gospel Train
4:43
16
Interlude
0:19
17
Oily Night
4:24
18
Lucky Day
3:43
19
The Last Rose of the Summer
2:07
20
Carnival
1:16
Moments Worth Waiting For
The unsettling contrast of the jaunty, macabre carnival barker introduction in the title track.
The stark, shivering beauty of the musical saw and mournful strings on November.
The chaotic, industrial clatter of the percussion during the Gospel Train sequence.
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