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In 2002, Tom Waits tour tickets simultaneously released two albums, Alice and Blood Money. Both collections had been written almost ten years previously and were based on theatrical collaborations with Robert Wilson; the former a musical play about Lewis Carroll, and the latter an interpretation of Georg Büchner's play fragment Woyzeck. Both albums revisit the tango Tin Pan Alley and spoken-word influences of Swordfishtrombones, while the lyrics are both profoundly cynical and melancholic, exemplified by the misanthropically titled "Misery is the River of the World" and "Everything Goes to Hell." "Always Keep a Diamond in Your Mind," which Tom Waits tour tickets wrote for Wilson's Woyzeck, did not appear on Blood Money; however, it did emerge on Solomon Burke's album Don't Give Up on Me of the same year. While Tom Waits tour tickets has played the song live a number of times, no official version has ever been released. The same year, Tom Waits concert tickets Palladium Ballroom-tx contributed a version of "The Return of Jackie and Judy" by The Ramones to the compilation album We're a Happy Family—A Tribute to Ramones, which was released in 2003 on Columbia.
On 10 July 2007, Tom Waits tour tickets Palladium Ballroom-tx released the download-only digital single "Diamond In Your Mind." The version of the song was recorded with the Kronos Quartet, with Greg Cohen, Philip Glass, and The Dalai Lama at the benefit concert "Healing The Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation" at Avery Fisher Hall, recorded on 21 September 2003.
Waits' new emphasis on experimenting with various styles and instrumentation reached its pinnacle on 1985's Rain Dogs, a sprawling nineteen-song collection considered by many fans and critics to be among Tom Waits's finest works to date (the album was ranked #21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 397 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.) Contributions from renowned guitarists Marc Ribot, Robert Quine, and Keith Richards contributed to Waits' ever-increasing move away from piano-based songs, in juxtaposition with an increased emphasis on instruments such as marimba, accordion, double bass, trombone, and banjo. The album also spawned the 12″ single "Downtown Train/Tango Till They're Sore/Jockey Full of Bourbon," with Jean Baptiste Mondino filming a promotional video for "Downtown Train" (which would later become a hit for Rod Stewart), featuring a cameo from boxing legend Jake La Motta. The album peaked at #188 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart; however, its reputation has come to far outshine low initial sales.
Waits has steadfastly refused to allow the use of Tom Waits's songs in commercials and has joked about other artists who do. ("If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't Tom Waits just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it?") He has filed several lawsuits against advertisers who used Tom Waits's material without permission. He has been quoted as saying, "Apparently, the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad—ideally, naked and purring on the hood of a new car," Tom Waits said in a statement, referring to the Mercury Cougar. "I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor."
The following year, Waits—despite not releasing a studio album proper—was extremely busy working on movie soundtracks, acting, and contributing to a number of music projects by other artists. First, Tom Waits tour Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets appeared on the Primus album Sailing the Seas of Cheese as the voice of "Tommy the Cat," which exposed him to a new audience in alternative rock. This was the first of several collaborations between Tom Waits concert Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets and the group; Les Claypool (Primus' singer and bassist) would appear on several subsequent Tom Waits tour Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets releases. The same year saw Tom Waits concert tickets provide spoken word contributions to Devout Catalyst, an album by one of Waits' greatest influences, Ken Nordine, on the songs "A Thousand Bing Bangs" and "The Movie." He also contributed vocals to two songs ("Little Man" and "I'm Not Your Fool Anymore") on jazz tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards' album Mississippi Lad. Edwards was extremely complimentary of Waits' contributions, saying:
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Waits had earlier played either piano or guitar, but Tom Waits began to tire of these instruments, saying, "Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone." The instrumentation and orchestration in these and later albums were often quite eclectic. Waits' self-described "Junkyard Orchestra" included wheezing pump organs, clattering percussion (sometimes reminiscent of the music of Harry Partch), bleary horn sections (often featuring Ralph Carney playing in the style of brass bands or soul music), nearly atonal guitar (perhaps best typified by Marc Ribot's contributions), and obsolete instruments (many of Waits' albums have featured a damaged, unpredictable Chamberlin, and more recent albums have included the little-used Stroh violin).
Heartattack and Vine, Waits' last studio album for Asylum, was released in 1980, featuring a developing sound that included both balladeer tendencies (on "Jersey Girl," for example) as well as rougher-edged rhythm and blues. Though not entirely unprecedented, the album's grittier sound was different for Waits, and foreshadowed the major changes in Tom Waits's music that would take place in the following years. The same year, Tom Waits began a long working relationship with Francis Ford Coppola, who asked Tom Waits tour to provide music for Tom Waits's film One from the Heart. For Coppola's film, Tom Waits tour tickets originally wanted to work with Bette Midler, who previously sang a duet with him on the Billie Holiday-esque track, "I Never Talk to Strangers" from Foreign Affairs; but due to previous engagements, Midler was unavailable. Instead, Tom Waits tour Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets ended up working with singer/songwriter Crystal Gayle as Tom Waits's vocal foil for the album.
John Hammond's Wicked Grin, a collection of Tom Waits concert cover songs, was released in 2001. Tom Waits concert Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets appears on most songs, playing guitar, piano, and/or offering backing vocals. The album also includes the traditional hymn "I Know I've Been Changed," performed as a duet by Hammond and Waits.
In 1989, Tom Waits concert tickets appeared in Tom Waits's final theatrical stage role to date, appearing as Curly in Thomas Babe's "Demon Wine" alongside Bill Pullman, Philip Baker Hall, Carol Kane, and Bud Cort. The play opened at the Los Angeles Theater Center in February 1989 to mixed reviews, although Waits' performance was singled out by a number of reviewers, including John C. Mahoney, who described Tom Waits's performance as "mesmerizing." Tom Waits tour tickets Palladium Ballroom-tx also finished the decade with appearances in three movies: as the voice of a radio DJ in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train; as Kenny the Hitman in Robert Dornheim's Cold Feet; and the lead role of Punch & Judy man Silva in Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale. His only musical output of the year consisted of contributing Tom Waits's cover of Phil Phillips' "Sea of Love" to the soundtrack of the Al Pacino movie of the same name and contributing vocals to The Replacements song "Date to Church," which appeared as a B-side to their single I'll Be You.
In 1993, Levi's used Screamin' Jay Hawkins' version of Waits' "Heartattack and Vine" in a commercial. Tom Waits tour Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets sued, and Levi's agreed to cease all use of the song and offered a full page apology in Billboard. Tom Waits concert tickets found himself in a situation similar to Tom Waits's earlier one with Frito Lay in 2000 when Audi approached him, asking to use "Innocent When You Dream" (from Franks Wild Years) for a commercial broadcast in Spain. Tom Waits tour tickets declined, but the commercial ultimately featured music very similar to that song. Tom Waits concert Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets undertook legal action, and a Spanish court recognized that there had been a violation of Waits' moral rights in addition to the infringement of copyright. The production company, Tandem Campany Guasch, was ordered to pay compensation to Tom Waits concert tickets through Tom Waits's Spanish publisher. Tom Waits tour tickets Palladium Ballroom-tx was later quoted as jokingly saying the company got the name of the song wrong, thinking it was called "Innocent When You Scheme."
After leaving Asylum Records for Island Records, Tom Waits tour tickets released Swordfishtrombones in 1983, a record that marked a sharp turn in Waits' output and which gave rise to Tom Waits's reputation as a musical maverick. The album advances all the musical experimentation of earlier recordings, including variations in instrumentation (e.g., the use of bagpipes in "Town with No Cheer" or the marimba on "Shore Leave") and vocalizing (e.g., the spoken word of "Frank's Wild Years" or the bark of "16 Shells from a Thirty Ought Six") and much less of the traditional piano-and-strings ballad sound with which Tom Waits concert tickets had always previously balanced Tom Waits's recordings. Apart from Captain Beefheart and some of Dr. John's early output, there was little precedent in popular music for Swordfishtrombones or Waits' equally idiosyncratic subsequent albums, Rain Dogs (1985) and Franks Wild Years (1987).
Bone Machine, Waits' first studio album in five years, was released in 1992. The stark record featured a great deal of percussion and guitar (with little piano or sax), marking another change in Waits' sound. Critic Steve Huey calls it "perhaps Tom Waits ' most cohesive album... a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of Tom Waits's experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative—and often harrowing—effect... Waits' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't Tom Waits's most accessible." Bone Machine was awarded a Grammy in the Best Alternative Album category. 19 December 1992 saw the premiere of Alice, Waits' second theatrical project with Robert Wilson, at the Thalia Theatre, Hamburg. Paul Schmidt adapted the text from the works of Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, in particular), with songs by Tom Waits concert tickets Palladium Ballroom-tx and Kathleen Brennan presented as intersections with the text rather than as expansions of the story, as would be the case in conventional musical theater. These songs would be recorded by Tom Waits concert tickets as a studio album ten years later on Alice.
Waits has often switched to smaller independent record companies over the years; Tom Waits signed to Asylum Records before they were bought out by Elektra Records and Warner Bros. During Tom Waits's time with Island Records, that label expanded from a small company to a music industry giant. He then signed to Anti Records, a division of Epitaph Records.
1987 saw the release of the album Franks Wild Years (subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts"), which included studio versions from Waits' play of the same name. The album saw a heightened emphasis on brass instrumentation and a further broadening of Waits' musical palette. Rolling Stone summed up the album's myriad styles this way: "Everything from sleazy strip-show blues to cheesy waltzes to supercilious lounge lizardry is given spare, jarring arrangements using various combinations of squawking horns, bashed drums, plucked banjo, snaky double bass, carnival organ and jaunty accordion." Tom Waits tour Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets also continued to further Tom Waits's acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed (an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Tom Waits concert tickets also performed the songs "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "Once More Before I Go." In 1988, Tom Waits concert Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets performed in Big Time, a surreal concert movie and soundtrack which Tom Waits cowrote with Tom Waits's wife.
In reaction to these hardships, Tom Waits tour tickets Palladium Ballroom-tx recorded Small Change (1976), which finds Tom Waits concert tickets Palladium Ballroom-tx in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as "The Piano Has Been Drinking" and "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart" presenting a bare and honest portrayal of alcoholism while also cementing Waits' hard-living reputation in the eyes of many fans. With the album, Tom Waits tour Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets asserted that Tom Waits "tried to resolve a few things as far as this cocktail lounge, maudlin, crying-in-your-beer image that I have. There ain't nothin' funny about a drunk I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk. I ended up telling myself to cut that shit out." The album, which also included long-time fan favorite "Tom Traubert's Blues," featured famed drummer Shelly Manne and was, like Tom Waits's previous albums, heavily jazz influenced, with a lyrical style that owes a debt to Raymond Chandler and Charles Bukowski as well as a vocal delivery influenced by Louis Armstrong.
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets—a theatrical collaboration of Waits, director Robert Wilson, and writer William S. Burroughs—premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre on 31 March 1990. The project was based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, with Wilson responsible for the design and direction, Burroughs for writing the book, and Tom Waits tour tickets for music and lyrics, which were heavily influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. In the same year, Tom Waits tour Palladium Ballroom-tx tickets contributed a cover of Cole Porter's "It's All Right with Me" to Red Hot + Blue, the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization—one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business—which sold over a million copies worldwide. Jim Jarmusch directed a promotional video for the song. He also collaborated with photographer Sylvia Plachy in the same year; Tom Waits's book Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour includes a short Tom Waits tour tickets record to accompany the photographs and text.