Tom Waits – Blue Valentine
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Asylum Records – 6E-162 |
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New Zealand |
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Genre: |
Pop |
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Tracklist
| A1 | Somewhere (From "West Side Story") | 3:50 | |
| A2 | Red Shoes By The Drugstore | 3:11 | |
| A3 | Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis | 4:30 | |
| A4 | Romeo Is Bleeding | 4:50 | |
| A5 | $29.00 | 8:12 | |
| B1 | Wrong Side Of The Road | 5:11 | |
| B2 | Whistlin Past The Graveyard | 3:14 | |
| B3 | Kentucky Avenue | 4:47 | |
| B4 | A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun | 5:34 | |
| B5 | Blue Valentines | 5:50 |
Companies, etc.
- Manufactured By – WEA Records Limited
- Distributed By – WEA Records Limited
- Marketed By – WEA Records Limited
- Printed By – Image Printing
- Recorded At – Filmways/Heider Recording
- Mastered At – Elektra Sound Recorders
Credits
- Art Direction, Design – Ron Coro
- Electric Piano – Da Willie Gonga* (tracks: A2, A3, A5)
- Engineer [2nd] – Ralph Osborne*
- Engineer, Producer – Bones Howe
- Guitar – Ray Crawford (tracks: A4, B1, B5)
- Mastered By – Terry Dunavan
- Photography By – Elliot Gilbert
- Vocals, Piano, Electric Guitar – Tom Waits
- Written-By – Tom Waits (tracks: A2 - B5)
Notes
On back cover tracks A1 and A5 have the playing order switched.
On the inner gatefold the playing order is: Side one: A5, A2, A3, A4. Side two: A1, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5.
The labels list the correct playing order but B5 is printed as 'Blue Valentine', like the album title; it is correct on the cover.
On the inner gatefold the playing order is: Side one: A5, A2, A3, A4. Side two: A1, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5.
The labels list the correct playing order but B5 is printed as 'Blue Valentine', like the album title; it is correct on the cover.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Label A, etched A): 6E 162A
- Matrix / Runout (Label B, etched B): 6E 162A
Other Versions (5 of 123)
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Blue Valentine (Cassette, Album) | Asylum Records | 453 088, K 453 088 | Europe | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold) | Asylum Records | 6E-162 | US | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, RCA Pressing, Gatefold Sleeve) | Asylum Records | 6E-162 | Canada | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | Asylum Records | K 53088 | UK | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (Cassette, Album, Winchester, Dolby System) | Asylum Records | TC-5162 | US | 1978 |
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Reviews
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No one nailed songs filled with brawlers, booze, bums and burnouts of the American dream quite like Tom Waits and Blue Valentine is one of his best albums in a career strewn with many incredibly great albums!
Even from the earliest days Tom had a knack for a lovely tune, take for example “Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis” which besides having a fabulous title, is a wonderfully sad tale set to a late night piano and Tom’s three-pack-a-day gravelly croon. I also love the jazzin’ beatnik groove of “Romeo Is Bleeding”, another cool story with a classic dying hero twist ed by soulful organ stabs, sauntering bass and a meandering early-hours sax solo.
Elsewhere we get the deliciously creepy noir -and Nick Cave fav- “Red Shoes By The Drugstore”, the tear-jerking cinema-scope ballads “Kentucky Avenue” and “Wrong Side Of The Road”, which blend Toms vocal with a great bluesy arrangement, and there’s even a magnificent take on ‘Somewhere’ from the musical West Side Story.
My absolute favourite though, would have to be the closing hours, late night slide of ‘Blue Valentines’, a slo-mo drunkard’s lament of love and loss sung in Waits finest phlegmy growl.
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