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| | Mule Variations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mule Variations is an album by Tom Waits, released 1999 by the Anti sub-label of Epitaph Records. | | | Related promo CD As a promotional limited offer, a mini-album titled Hold On was later released with two of the tracks from the Mule Variations album plus two previously unreleased tracks. | | | It was Waits' first studio album since 1992's Bone Machine (the later The Black Rider was a collection of songs originally written for a play). |
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| | Tom Waits: The Mule Variations ---Ink Blot Magazine |
| | The Mule Variations, his long-awaited new release, is perhaps his first album that doesn't sound like it's just stopping off at your stereo before it pulls out and trucks on to a whole new musical destination. | | | The Mule Variations is his latest release, and his first for Epitaph Records. | | | Born in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949, Tom Waits was "discovered" as a musician by Herb Cohen in the early 1970's. |
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| | Mule Variations - Tom Waits |
| | Mule Variations (Epitaph Records) all the more triumphant is the sense of an artist coming full circle by integrating his more extreme sonic innovations with richly crafted songwriting and adding a little dash of hope to the proceedings. | | | At a time when most of his musical contemporaries are devoting their dwindling energies to Miller Lite music and tired "unplugged" rehashes, the nearly 50-year-old Tom Waits is at a creative peak, recording on his own terms for a relatively small punk rock label and giving electrifying performances before sellout crowds around the country. | | | Even the outtakes from Mule Variations are first rate: "Buzz Fledderjohn", available only on import editions of the album, is a spooky ode to a neighbor’s yard, while "Fish in the Jailhouse" has emerged as a foot-stomping staple of Waits’ current concert tour. |
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| | Tom Waits - Mule Variations (Ani/Epitaph) - Drawer B Review |
| | Mule Variations is the first Tom Waits record to make a concerted effort to tip its hat to all of Waits' schizophrenic styles from the avant guard clanks and scronks of Swordfishtrombones to the more commercial songwriting of Rain Dogs and even on to the apocalyptic, death obsessed Bone Machine. | | | Fortunately, Mule Variations is as relevant as any of his records in the eighties, if slightly less groundbreaking, and it will undoubtedly be one of the most revered records released this year. | | | He ended his fifteen-year relationship with Island Records with a collection of his greatest (of the Island years) last year, and he signed with the punk label, Epitaph. |
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| | The Oberlin Review \\ Arts Article |
| | Mule Variations, consisting of 16 new songs, is certainly not a disappointment. | | | After six years of silence, Tom Waits has finally released a new album. | | | While previous albums may have taken multiple listenings to appreciate, Mule Variations has an instantaneous impact. |
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| | Skyscraper Magazine |
| | So much of the new album, Mule Variations is...this is a bluesier record than some of your later stuff. | | | And listening to it, the songs, they seem like an introduction to all the various styles that you've worked in over the years. | | | But there's something that's very different, because Mule Variations is being released on Epitaph Records. |
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| | Mule Variations is the most thematically different album of Tom Waits's career. | | | Comment: Listening to Mule Variations I can appreciate all the subtle and discreet sounds that are embedded in the recordings, giving such a rich and personal view of Tom Waits. | | | People who think this is a retro album aren't paying attention. |
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| | Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999) - RUTHLESS |
| | Mule Variations is the most recent release by Tom Waits, not his best album, but still fantastic. | | | At a concert in Austin he once said that he had two kinds of songs: grim reapers and grim weepers, and both are well represented here. | | | If Tom Waits was playing Reno on August 1st at midnight, Burning Man would be canceled and the desert would be emptied of all but a few ravers, because everyone worth talking to in any counterculture genre knows that Tom is the badass. |
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| | Salon Entertainment Ain't nothin' funny about a drunk |
| | "Mule Variations" is Waits' 13th proper solo album, his first since 1992's "Bone Machine." He was on Island then; he's on the SoCal punk imprint Epitaph now, presumably free to explore his sonic obsessions, boiler-room rhythms, field-recorded chain-gang calls and battle-stripped jazz and blues without sweating the bottom line. | | | Sonically, "Mule" is vintage Tom; as usual, Waits co-wrote 12 of the album's 16 songs with his wife and partner in crime, Kathleen Brennan, and instrumentalists Joe Gore, Ralph Carney, Stephen Hodges and Marc Ribot all turn up again. | | | Tom Waits' new album, "Mule Variations," includes a tribute to a character called the Eyeball Kid. |
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| | Eye - On Disc - 04.29.99 |
| | Mule Variations is not so much an album as a neighborhood, with houses half-sunk in the muck and abandoned Studebakers in the yards. | | | "Hold On," like "Jersey Girl" from 1980's Heartattack and Vine, an album that Mule Variations surprisingly resembles, is one of the finer Bruce Springsteen songs that Springsteen never wrote. | | | But a six-year wait leads to high expectations, and maybe a new Tom Waits album shouldn't sound so much like an old Tom Waits album. |
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| | CD Reviews: Paul Westerberg, Tom Waits, Tom Petty (NY Rock) |
| | Mule Variations is a truly great record that delivers a potpourri of musical styles, themes and moods, all backed by Tom's melancholy, happy-hour poetry and bartender philosophy. | | | Bizarre songs like "Big in Japan" and "Low Side of the Road" are backed by wild beats spirited from the amalgam of iron pipes, steel rods and pieces of wood and skeleton that form a drunk xylophone called the Bone Machine which Tom has constructed for himself over the years. | | | In further alcoholic singer/songwriter news, Tom Waits also checks in this month with the much anticipated Mule Variations, his first album in nearly six years and his first for punk label Epitaph. |
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| | RollingStone.com: Mule Variations : Tom Waits : Review |
| | Mule Variations, Waits' first studio album in six years, contains the most blues of any album he's made. | | | The amazing thing about Waits is that he's still offering up his affectations like a new singer-songwriter on the first time out, still dreaming up wild, desperate fantasy scenarios of lawless small-town America during the B-movie era. | | | What Tom Waits does to the blues is something like what newspapers do to bright colors - in the way that a picture of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling ends up looking like roast beef in the morning edition, Waits' arty, seasick imagination turns a rural American song form into a garish, surreal fantasy. |
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| | Mule.net: Press |
| | In 2000, shortly after the release of their critically acclaimed record, Life Before Insanity, the close musical kinship that the group had developed came to a tragic end when bassist Allen Woody was found dead in a Manhattan hotel room from unknown causes. | | | They have so much material that after a year on the road behind their latest release, Deja Voodoo, they are in a quandary whether to play their new material live or hoard it for themselves. | | | Formed by Allman Brothers Band alumni Warren Haynes and Allen Woody along with drummer Matt Abts, the group's power trio configuration was formed as a tribute to '60s icons Cream and the James Gang. |
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| | westword.com Music Mule Variations 2004-09-16 |
| | In addition to a number of successful tours, Mule released five albums, culminating with 2000's Life Before Insanity, a disc that was poised to be its commercial breakthrough. | | | "The Allmans is more of a blues band, and the Mule is more of a rock band. | | | As for his own band, Haynes says, "The Mule is something we built from the ground floor. |
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| | Tom Waits: Mule Variations: Pitchfork Review |
| | Mule Variations is a great album, and that's all there is to it. | | | So far, reviews of Mule Variations have been mixed, ranging from shameless hero worship (yeah, yeah, like this one), to jaded critics claiming that Waits hit his songwriting peak with 1985's Rain Dogs. | | | Sonically, it picks up where Bone Machine left off, but drops some of that album's artifice: the clattering, trebly out- back- of- the- shed sound is still here and the inexplicable presence of Primus persists, but many of these songs find Waits relaxing his krazy karnival barker persona. |
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| | Music: Mule Variations (Austin Chronicle . 04-26-99) |
| | On the cover of Mule Variations, Tom Waits' first album since 1993's Black Rider and his first non-soundtrack release since 1992's Bone Machine, the singer looks over the shoulder of his battered overcoat and into the camera. | | | His songs are excruciatingly etched portraits, his albums more like books illustrated with these portraits than recordings. | | | My Tom Waits-loving ex-husband once proposed that no new music be recorded for five years so we could catch up. |
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| | Amazon.com: Mule Variations: Music |
| | Waits covers all of the various styles and influences that inform his music with deftness on this album. | | | Mule Variations takes understatement forward, and then it can get very complex without losing the listener. | | | "Mule Variations" is, simply, the most solid piece of work Tom Waits has released since "Rain Dogs". |
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| | ANTI- Album - Mule Variations |
| | "Mule Variations" offers the most complete picture of Tom Waits of any of his albums. | | | Edgy stomps, humor and experimentation are interspersed with some of the most beautiful and personal songs he's ever written. |
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| | Вилли П. NME.COM - Tom Waits - Mule Variations - 20 April 1999 |
| | Now he's back, on a punk record label, to redefine those possibilities. | | | Still, it's not a revolutionary record in the way that 'Swordfishtrombones' or 'Frank's Wild Years' were. | | | You've just heard a rooster on track ten. |
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| | Record Review (Detroit Metro Times) |
| | If Waits didn’t already have a track record for wild eclecticism within the confines of a single record, you’d think Mule Variations was a greatest hits compilation. | | | It’s a curse because his music is so idiosyncratic that Waits — barring the kind of artistic quantum leap of his landmark album Bone Machine — too often runs the risk of becoming a caricature of himself, or at least inadvertently repeating himself, and his fans will call him on it. | | | The tunes are familiar, the offspring of songs from Raindogs, Bone Machine, Black Rider and Swordfishtrombones — all Waits classics — thrown back into, then spewed out of, the brain of one cantankerous music man, altered but not unrecognizable. |
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| | 321 -> Music, Music, Music: Mule Variations by Tom Waits Order now @ 321-music.com |
| | Mule Variations takes understatement forward, and then it can get very complex without losing the listener. | | | Can't get enough of this album, should be put next to most of his classic early albums. | | | "Buzz Flederjonn" was recorded in these sessions but was not released on "Mule Variations". |
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| | Tom Waits - Mule Variations: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
| | So Mule Variations [+] delivers what fans want, in terms of both songs and sonics. | | | Of course, that's hardly a criticism; the album uses the ragged cacophony of Bone Machine [+] as a starting point, and proceeds to bring in the songwriterly aspects of Rain Dogs [+], along with its affection for backstreet and backwoods blues, plus a hint of the beatnik qualities of Swordfish. | | | However, it plays like a revue of highlights from every album he's made since Swordfishtrombones [+]. |
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| | UNo MAS: Tom Waits - Mule Variations |
| | With all that said, I was listening to Mule Variations in the car on the way to the movies (Election- pretty fuckin’ funny) and I asked my girlfriend what she thought of it, she being a fan as well. | | | I’m a big fan and any new Tom Waits album is like a letter from a dear old pen pal, traveling the world, who’s correspondence is intermittent. | | | There’s only a handful of people I would describe as an artist in the field of rock and roll, and Tom Waits is certainly on the list. |
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| | Fast 'n' Bulbous Reviews: Tom Waits * Mule Variations (Epitaph, 1999) |
| | Mule Variations is a more accessible album compared to the dark, theatrical Black Rider and brilliantly jagged Bone Machine, with the welcome return of his heartwrenching maudlin ballads, "Take It With Me" and "Hold On." Some of the songs here sound familiar, like re-writes from Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs. | | | This doesn't make it a lesser album however. | | | She puts you right up there with cherry bombs and clowns" read a fan letter to Tom Waits. |
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| | Review: Tom Waits's The Mule Variations |
| | Mule Variations: primitive tribal stamping feet rhythms, scratchy guitars, country twangs, tender piano melodies, clanking bones, musical engine revving, gospel soul, 1920's dixie, wanderlust, cold water, box spring hogs, watch and chains, and of course-- mules. | | | I heard "Get Behind The Mule" on the radio late last night as I was driving back from a wild Shore weekend, and was glad the material held up after the immidiate glory of OMIGOD A NEW WAITS ALBUM had faded. | | | Although the recording may be slightly muddier then on his other albums, it is so amazing emotional it just is...stunning, basicly. |
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| | village voice > music > Mule Variations: Tom Waits for someone by Luc Sante |
| | It's always hard to review a new Waits record hot off the truck, because the kick-in time of its component songs can be so delayed that the tune you barely notice now may turn out to be your favorite in 2007. | | | After all, she's responsible for the chorus of "Black Market Baby": "She's a diamond that wants to stay coal"—the single best line on the disc. | | | village voice > music > Mule Variations: Tom Waits for someone by Luc Sante |
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| | Buy.com - MULE VARIATIONS - WAITS*TOM - CD |
| | MULE VARIATIONS won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. | | | Since 1993's BLACK RIDER album consisted of music written by Waits and William Burroughs to accompany a Robert Wilson play, hard-liners consider '92's BONE MACHINE to be the last "official" Waits album before the seven-year wait that ended with the release of MULE VARIATIONS. |
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| | LYRICS: Mule Variations: Pony |
| | It is also a place where the music known as "Chicago Blues" originated, a musical form that has influenced virtually all of modern popular music. | | | Arrangements and lyrics published in "Tom Waits - Mule Variations" (Amsco Publications, 2000) | | | Jody Denberg (1999): Was there a point for you when you realized that the sonic atmosphere of your song was almost as important as the lyrics? |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mule Variations - Tom Waits at Epinions.com |
| | One of the strong points of Waits' music is his lyrics; they're a very important element, and the music would definitely be lacking without Waits' strong, interesting lyrics that add so much depth and mix perfectly with the music. | | | It's got a wide range of songs, from catchy, raucous tunes to tender ballads. | | | Format: Audio CD -- new and used from Amazon Marketplace•Used merchandise |
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| | Bluesy shuffles "Get Behind the Mule," "Black Market Baby," "Lowside of the Road," and "Chocolate Jesus" are all more similar than different in terms of style, yet each one is able to come up with at least a few lines or sonic twists that render the song indispensable. | | | While Waits may repeat himself at times, everything about this album sounds utterly unique from anything else on the record shelves, save for other Tom Waits albums. |
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| | Mule Variations Lyrics by Tom Waits |
| | The following is a list of tracks from the Mule Variations album by Tom Waits. |
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| | University Wire : CD REVIEW: Tom Waits' 'Mule Variations' @ HighBeam Research |
| | His latest album, Mule Variations, is no exception. | | | Perhaps I could offer myself as an example of the "basic, human" appeal of Tom Waits' music. | | | Read 'University Wire: CD REVIEW: Tom Waits' 'Mule Variations'' with a FREE Trial for instant access » |
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| | Tom Waits News: Tom Waits' Mule Variations A Fascinating, Worthwhile Journey >> liveDaily |
| | It's that tone that has always made his albums striking, and Waits' first full effort in nearly seven years, Mule Variations, is no exception. | | | All told, Mule Variations offers another shining glimpse into the twisted (yet loving) world of Tom Waits. | | | Having been blessed with one of music's original voices, Waits can be both soothing and abrasive in the same breath. |
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| | A Mule Variations |
| | Song Cold Water found as track 6 on Album Mule Variations | | | Song Hot and Cold Water found as track 4 on Album For All My Little Friends |
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| | Mule.net: Press |
| | Gov't Mule guitarist on successor to FM, listening "with our eyes" | | | Gov't Mule Heads In New Directions: Band Is Back On Track and Coming To The Michigan Theater | | | Release of Album Proves Gov't Mule Back In Form |
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| | The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Album Review: Mule Variations by Tom Waits |
| | Published On By BY DIANE W. Listening to Tom Waits' Mule Variations is like picking a dirty mutt off the streets and taking it home--you're not exactly certain what it is, but it's a howler and a hellraiser for sure. | | | The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Album Review: Mule Variations by Tom Waits |
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| | UReview - Tom Waits - Mule Variations |
| | There is an un-credited harmonicist on this track giving it the groove of the blues. | | | Get Behind The Mule Mr Waits exclaims in his 4th song title. | | | For your chance to win a copy of our "Album of the Week" simply e-mail us with your contact details and you will be automatically entered into the draw! |
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| | 8910591JC - Tom Waits - Mule Variations - Audio CD |
| | You are in for a treat as the Washing Winds take you on a musical journey through Swearingen's music. | | | 8910591JC - Tom Waits - Mule Variations - Audio CD Home | | | Complete song list for "Tom Waits - Mule Variations" - Audio CD: |
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| | SECTION 3 - tom waits "mule variations" |
| | Mule Variations starts off Waits six year absence with "Big In Japan" a cacophony of junkyard sounds threaded by funky sax interplay that gives it the lowdown groove perfect for Waits weathered vocals that croak and squeal throughout. | | | Celine Dion is the shit, Waits is the shinola. | | | While "Hold On" is a sweetened lullaby reminiscent of other Waits forlorn material like "Time" and the aching reality is on par with some of his finest. |
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| | Waits, Tom - Mule Variations at AB-CD.com |
| | On Mule Variations the growling man walks deeper into the cave he's been exploring his entire career, and with each successive album the echoes deepen and the light dims a bit more. | | | 04/20/99-CD TOM WAITS: Mule Variations "You don't just pop on a Tom Waits album; you waltz through a red velvet curtain into a dark, curious and tender world. | | | He walks like he's seen it all, but with eyes still full of wonder. |
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| | Tom Waits Mule Variations -Rock Harp CDs Keyed |
| | The album below has each track keyed so that you will be able to jam to the songs and work out the recorded harmonica parts. | | | Use these links to view other keyed albums either Listed by Artist or Listed by Style of Music or visit the "Most Requested Songs" page. | | | Tom Waits Mule Variations -Rock Harp CDs Keyed |
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| | Jared's Pick - Album Reviews: Tom Waits - Mule Variations |
| | In certain circles, particularly those traveled by musicians, Tom Waits' return to recording after a 6-year absence has been awaited with a fervor that rivals that of The Phantom Menace. | | | Jared's Pick - Album Reviews: Tom Waits - Mule Variations | | | Mule Variations is a summing-up of everything Waits has done in his 25 year career, from the tender piano ballads of his early years to the growling, clanging carnival stomps of his brilliantly experimental 80's work to the distorted cacophony of Bone Machine, his 1991 masterpiece. |
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| | tom waits: mule variations Sep 10, 1999 |
| | But recently, I dared to venture out to the record store, and actually found something decent on the new releases shelf—an album the LA Times called a "contender for album of the year." I grabbed Tom Waits' Mule Variations and ran out of the store... | | | It's hard to listen to Variations for more than half an hour without wanting to jump off Harkness Tower. | | | I am just passin' thru." The song, like the album art, is gray and melancholy, stark and striking. |
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