{"product_id":"beautiful-maladies-the-island-years","title":"Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years","description":"Amazon.com\n\nTom Waits pulled off a neat trick with the 1983 release of Swordfishtrombones: he disengaged himself from the present (and his own recent achievements) and allied himself with the past. And yet no one could accuse him of becoming mired in nostalgia. A decade before the phrase lo-fi gained favor, Waits purposely ravaged his songs by stomping them into peculiar shapes and utilizing arcane instruments and recording techniques to further bend them into new kinds of aural sculptures. The result was a genuine musical breakthrough. Beautiful Maladies gathers 23 tracks from Waits's seven post-Swordfishtrombones Island LPs. These pretty\/ugly tracks provide a riveting view of Tom's wild years. While at least four Waits Island titles qualify as essentials, Beautiful Maladies and the 1988 live set, Big Time, provide compact introductions to a matchless body of work. --Steven Stolder\n\nProduct description\n\n24 track best of his Island Label recordings includes \"Downtown Train\" \u0026amp; \"Frank's Wild Years\"\n\nReview\n\nElusive, melancholy, gritty and hopelessly untrendy, Waits embodies alternative rock's ideal. -- USA Today\n\nWith a track-listing hand-picked by Waits himself, it succeeds in touching all emotional bases--you know, the usual: love, death, failure, abject despair, existentialism-- with a display of filthy irreverence and furious intellect. He's like Springsteen with a personality disorder. -- New Musical Express\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B000007QQL\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B000007QQL.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Tom Waits\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41561454936122,"sku":"DBV.B000007QQL.G","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B000007QQL-0.jpg?v=1785209134","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/beautiful-maladies-the-island-years","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}