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Album • 1992

Bone Machine

Tom Waits16 songs • 53 minutesExplicit

Bone Machine is the eleventh studio album by American singer and musician Tom Waits, released by Island Records on September 8, 1992. It won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and features guest appearances by David Hidalgo, Les Claypool, Brain, and Keith Richards. The album marked Waits' return to studio albums, coming five years after Franks Wild Years. Recorded in a room in the cellar area of Prairie Sun Recording studios, described by Waits as "just a cement floor and a hot water heater", the album is often noted for its rough, stripped-down, percussion-heavy style, as well as its dark lyrical themes revolving around death and decay. The album cover—a blurry, black-and-white, close-up image of Waits screaming while wearing a horned skullcap and protective goggles—was taken by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of Bob Dylan. The photo is taken from a freeze frame of the Dylan and Jim Jarmusch directed video for "Goin' Out West". They also directed a video for "I Don't Wanna Grow Up". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Ma...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    The Earth Died Screaming
  2. 2
    Dirt In The Ground
  3. 3
    Such A Scream
  4. 4
    All Stripped Down
  5. 5
    Who Are You
  6. 6
    The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
  7. 7
    Jesus Gonna Be Here
  8. 8
    A Little Rain
  9. 9
    In The Colosseum
  10. 10
    Goin' Out West
  11. 11
    Murder In The Red Barn
  12. 12
    Black Wings
  13. 13
    Whistle Down The Wind
  14. 14
    I Don't Wanna Grow Up
  15. 15
    Let Me Get Up On It
  16. 16
    That Feel

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