• Rossitto and Lee Kolima. Swordfishtrombones was ranked the second best album of 1983 by NME. In 1989, Spin named Swordfishtrombones the second greatest album...
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    Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart, as heard on the loose trilogy Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Franks Wild Years (1987). Waits starred...
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  • track from Swordfishtrombones. Per Steve Hochman, "This rags-to-rags tale completes the trilogy that began with 1983's Swordfishtrombones (featuring the...
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  • which he forged from Swordfishtrombones onwards. AllMusic critic William Ruhlmann wrote, "Rain Dogs can't surprise as Swordfishtrombones had." Nevertheless...
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  • shift towards more experimental sound beginning with the 1983 album Swordfishtrombones, which Waits produced on a dare from Brennan. Her first co-writing...
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    B-52s. Tom Waits' shift in artistic direction, starting with 1983's Swordfishtrombones, was, Waits claims, a result of his wife Kathleen Brennan introducing...
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  • Neighborhood" is a song by Tom Waits appearing on his 1983 album Swordfishtrombones. It was released as a single in October 1983 by Island Records. (*)...
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  • album Swordfishtrombones) - 1:52 "Singapore" (originally on the album Rain Dogs) - 2:45 "Shore Leave" (originally on the album Swordfishtrombones) - 4:18...
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  • Thirty-Ought-Six" is a song by Tom Waits appearing on his 1983 album Swordfishtrombones. In 1988, it was released as a single in support of his live performance...
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  • spoken to Alice by the Cheshire Cat. Like many of Waits's albums since Swordfishtrombones, Alice has eclectic orchestration. Here he makes use of the Stroh...
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