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Blue Valentine
Rock · 1978 · 10 tracks

Blue Valentine

Tom Waits

A transition into electric blues and hard-edged noir storytelling. Gritty, rain-slicked narratives of the urban underbelly delivered in a whiskey-soaked rasp.

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It's like a black-and-white movie for your ears, recorded in a bar at 3 am.

A rain-slicked, whiskey-soaked journey through the lonely heart of the city.

Blue Valentine · vs · Tom Waits
Electric Guitar+1.6σ

The instrumentation foregrounds electric guitar notably more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
Somewhere (from ‘West Side Story’)
3:53
02
Red Shoes by the Drugstore
3:15
03
Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
4:33
04
Romeo Is Bleeding
4:53
05
$29.00
8:16
06
Wrong Side of the Road
5:14
07
Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
3:18
08
Kentucky Avenue
4:50
09
A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun
5:37
10
Blue Valentines
5:50
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition from the 'Silent Night' piano intro into the heartbreaking narrative of track 3.
The sprawling, eight-minute blues jam of track 5 that captures a slow-motion financial collapse.
The haunting, solo electric guitar that weeps through the title track's closing moments.
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