Real Gone

by Tom Waits

Real Gone cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 October 2004
  • Label: Anti-
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:08:56
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Tom Waits abandons his trademark piano for vocal beatboxing and gritty, looped rhythms on 'Real Gone'. The album is raw, primitive, and political, reflecting the anger of the Bush era. It is one of the most experimental and abrasive records in his catalog.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, dissonant, noisy, rhythmic, percussive, experimental, lo-fi, vocal, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. Top of the Hill (03:59)
  2. Hoist That Rag (04:08)
  3. Sins of My Father (10:37)
  4. Shake It (03:58)
  5. Don't Go Into That Barn (05:00)
  6. How's It Gonna End (04:50)
  7. Metropolitan Glide (04:11)
  8. Dead and Lovely (05:41)
  9. Circus (03:55)
  10. Trampled Rose (03:57)
  11. Green Grass (03:12)
  12. Baby Gonna Leave Me (03:49)
  13. Clang Boom Steam (00:46)
  14. Make It Rain (03:38)
  15. Day After Tomorrow (05:58)
  16. Chick A Boom (01:17)

Credits

  • Julianne Deery - coordinator [production coordinator]
  • Casey Waits - crew [production crew]
  • Dylan Barlow - crew [production crew]
  • Kellesimone Waits - crew [production crew]
  • Mason Baird - crew [production crew]
  • Mike Richardson - crew [production crew]
  • Sullivan Waits - crew [production crew]
  • Trisha Wilson - crew [production crew]
  • Chris Blum - design, art direction
  • Ron Bean - graphics
  • Gavin Lurssen - mastered by
  • Mark Howard - mixed by, recorded by
  • Tom Waits - vocals
  • Kathleen Brennan - written-by, producer

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