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BoneMachine |
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Bone Machine is the eleventh studio album by Tom Waits, released in 1992.Recorded in the cellar of a music studio (described by Waits as "just a cement floor and a hot water heater" and chosen because he liked the echo there), the album showcases a Darker and Edgier sound than his previous work. It was Waits's first studio album since Franks Wild Years (1987) and is best recognized for the tracks "Earth Died Screaming," "Goin' Out West," and "I Don't Wanna Grow Up."Not to be confused with the Pixies song of the same name, which can be found on Surfer Rosa (1988). |
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Darker and Edgier |
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Darker and Edgier: The themes and musical arrangements are far darker even than Waits's previous output. Case in point: the first track is about the apocalypse. |
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All Are Equal in Death |
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All Are Equal in Death: "Dirt in the Ground": |
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Evil Sounds Deep |
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Evil Sounds Deep: Waits's voice is at its lowest on the album in "Black Wings," which seems to be concerned with the supreme evil being. |
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The Commandments |
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"Murder in the Red Barn" quotes the Ten Commandments: |
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The Swarm |
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The Swarm: One of the Signs of the End Times in "Earth Died Screaming" is when "the locusts take the sky." |
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Who Are You? |
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Who Are You?: One track carries this title. |
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We All Die Someday |
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We All Die Someday: This is essentially the overall theme of the album. |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: Played with; Waits's face is almost unrecognizable. |
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New Sound Album |
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New Sound Album: More minimalistic and percussion driven—something Waits referred to as "bones rock," as in "stripped down to the bare bones"—than his previous work. Lyrically darker as well. |
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As the Good Book Says... |
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As the Good Book Says...: "Dirt in the Ground" alludes to story of Cain and Abel. "Who Are You" asks: "Murder in the Red Barn" quotes the Ten Commandments: "Black Wings," ironically: |
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Mythology Gag |
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Mythology Gag: In "Whistle Down the Wind," to the album Bone Machine Spiritually Succeeded: |
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Alliterative Title |
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Alliterative Title: "Whistle Down the Wind." |
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Special Guest |
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Special Guest: Les Claypool from Primus plays electric bass on "Earth Died Screaming," drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia drums on "All Stripped Down" and "In the Colosseum," David Hidalgo from Los Lobos plays violin and accordion on "Whistle Down the Wind," and Keith Richards duets along with Waits on "That Feel." |
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Tick Tock Tune |
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Tick Tock Tune: "Earth Died Screaming." |
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Dark World |
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Dark World: It could be a twisted, darkly reflected version of our world that this album takes place in . . . or it could just be ours. |
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The Stars Are Going Out |
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The Stars Are Going Out: Occurs during the apocalypse in "Earth Died Screaming." |
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Second Coming |
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Second Coming: The singer of "Jesus Gonna Be Here" is waiting for this. Truth be told, he sounds a little cracked. |
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Deadly Euphemism |
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Deadly Euphemism: |
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Lyrical Tic |
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Lyrical Tic: Half-articulated Wells at the beginnings of lines are frequent. |
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Concept Album |
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Concept Album: Virtually every song on the album features death as a theme or explores it directly. |
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Small Town Boredom |
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Small Town Boredom: Exaggerated in "Whistle Down the Wind," which delves into the deep, desperate grief engendered by a life spent in a suffocating small town. |
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Power Gives You Wings |
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Power Gives You Wings: "Black Wings": |
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Counting to Three |
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Counting to Three: Waits does this in "Such a Scream." |
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Death Song |
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Death Song: In "Whistle Down the Wind," the narrator implies that he is planning to kill himself. |
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Growing Up Sucks |
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Growing Up Sucks: "I Don't Wanna Grow Up": |
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AwesomeMcCoolName |
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Awesome Mccoolname: In "Goin' Out West", he considers changing his name to Hannibal or "maybe just Rex." |
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Devil, but No God |
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Devil, but No God: There is most certainly a devil in the world of Bone Machine, but if God exists at all, he isn't interested in you. To make matters worse, the Jesus the singer of "Jesus Gonna Be Here" is waiting for is strongly implied by "Black Wings" to be the devil. |
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Hell Is That Noise |
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Hell Is That Noise: Many of the sounds on the album can make listeners wonder this. Answers range from unusual instruments to odd machines and random objects. |
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Jesus Was Way Cool |
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Jesus Was Way Cool: "Jesus Gonna Be Here," where Jesus apparently drives around in a fancy car: |
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Non-Appearing Title |
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Non-Appearing Title: The phrase "Bone Machine" never appears in any of the songs, although the word "bone" does appear in over half. |
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Gladiator Games |
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Gladiator Games: "In the Colosseum," about the violent spectacle in the Colosseum. |
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Meaningful Echo |
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Echoed in the next track, "Dirt in the Ground": |
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True Beauty Is on the Inside |
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True Beauty Is on the Inside: "All Stripped Down." In a very twisted way, of course. This is Tom Waits. |
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Angels in Overcoats |
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Angels in Overcoats: The song "Black Wings" invokes this trope. The main character of the song is a very dangerous, Ambiguously Evil, Ambiguously Human entity on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Possibly a Fallen Angel, possibly The Angel Of Death, possibly just a very dangerous human being. |
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Noble Demon |
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Noble Demon: The subject of "Black Wings." "He broke out of every prison," and "they say he once killed a man with a guitar string," yet "he once saved a baby from drowning," and "there are those who say beneath his coat there are wings." |
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Instrumentals |
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Instrumentals: "Let Me Get Up On It" has lyrics, but they might as well be just another instrument. |
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Admiring the Abomination |
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Admiring the Abomination: "Black Wings": |
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Murder Ballad |
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Murder Ballad: "Murder in the Red Barn": |
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Alternative Rock |
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Alternative Rock: And how alternative it is. |
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Carpet of Virility |
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Carpet of Virility: "Goin' Out West": |
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Badass Boast |
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Badass Boast: "Goin' Out West" is one long boast by a character assured of his good looks and badassery, specifically saying he knows karate and voodoo and can handle himself in a high speed chase. He's got the scars and chest hair to prove it. |
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Signs of the End Times |
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Signs of the End Times: "Earth Died Screaming" lists many classics, including locusts and the stars going out. |
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Villain Protagonist |
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"Black Wings," ironically: |
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Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement |
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Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement: "Black Wings": |
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Questioning Title? |
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Questioning Title?: "Who Are You"? |
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Careful with That Axe |
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Careful with That Axe: "Such a Scream" living up to its name. |
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While Rome Burns |
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While Rome Burns: |
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Gothic Country Music |
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comment |
Gothic Country Music: The album plays with this genre, though its instrumentation is a bit weirder. "Murder in the Red Barn" is an iconic example, discussing a mysterious murder in vague, macabre, and decidedly rural terms. In "Whistle Down the Wind," a man dying somewhere in the Great Plains region laments that he never got to leave his small town and do all that he always imagined he would. |
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Caught Up in the Rapture |
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comment |
Caught Up in the Rapture: "All Stripped Down" uses the Rapture as a metonym for death. The singer of "Jesus Gonna Be Here" is very much this. |
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Rugged Scar |
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Rugged Scar: "Goin' Out West": |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_bec25788 |
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Quest to the West |
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Quest to the West: "Goin' Out West" is something of a deconstruction: the singer, brainwashed by media images of idyllic Hollywood happiness, sets out for where he believes people will "appreciate" him. |
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Spoonerism |
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comment |
Spoonerism: A clever variation on the chorus in "In the Colosseum": |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_c368c3ea |
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Satan |
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comment |
Satan: The subject of "Black Wings" seems to be this, unsettlingly crossed with elements of the Jesus story. |
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1.0 |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_c3bafbce |
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Shout-Out |
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comment |
Shout-Out: Near the end of "Earth Died Screaming," Chopin's Funeral March is quoted. From "Who Are You": Another to Hamlet in "Jesus Gonna Be Here": |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_c75df49a |
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Rain of Something Unusual |
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comment |
Rain of Something Unusual: "Earth Died Screaming": |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_c7b319ff |
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Old Flame Fizzle |
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comment |
Old Flame Fizzle: "Who Are You" is a scathing polemic to an old lover. |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_c7fe318d |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion |
| | Bone Machine (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: A subtle one in "Black Wings": |
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-0.3 |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_ccb97ff2 |
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Nightmare Face |
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comment |
Nightmare Face: Waits on the album cover. |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_cf48c17 |
| | Bone Machine (Music) / int_d6de6609 |
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In Harmony with Nature |
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comment |
In Harmony with Nature: The literalist reading of "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me," where a man puts off drowning himself because he believes he can tell that the ocean isn't ready for him. He fantasizes about the further harmony the drowning will achieve: |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_d6de6609 |
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The End of the World as We Know It |
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The End of the World as We Know It: "Earth Died Screaming," interestingly enough placed as the first track of the album: |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_d71d51fd |
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Unusual Euphemism |
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Unusual Euphemism: "Bone Machine" for the human body, as Waits himself explains in the press kit for the album: |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_d848560f |
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Come to Gawk |
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comment |
Come to Gawk: "In the Colosseum": |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_dde7da12 |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: "Murder in the Red Barn": |
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_e624f0e8 |
| | Bone Machine (Music) / int_e680af6f |
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Grief Song |
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comment |
Grief Song: "Dirt in the Ground," for all of humanity at large. |
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Barred from the Afterlife |
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Barred from the Afterlife: "Earth Died Screaming": Echoed in the next track, "Dirt in the Ground": |
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