Tom Waits新专辑来了！！！20号发行的，Orphans是专辑名，Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards分别是每张CD副标题老Tom再次发声，却有一个非常古典的名字《孤儿》，而且结合起封面相片，难免会让人想起《汤姆叔叔的小屋》。非常罕见的，这是一张3CD合集，共有56 首曲目，其中有超过30首新歌或未曾发表的现场录音片段。每张CD都有非常Tom感的副标题：《Brawlers》（斗殴者）收录的是沙哑的蓝调, 《Bawlers》（叫骂声）是动听的民谣乡谣与抒情曲，而《Bastards》（私生子）是实验风格作品、短小故事与现场独白、笑话。毫无疑问，这种编排会让很多人感到满意，可以更加专心体验老Tom各种不同的侧面。而真正完整听下来，就会不由自主地感怀起所有古老又亲近的事情来。Rolling Stone : Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards : Review----When Tom Waits claims he doesn't know why he called this three-CD set Orphans, he's being cagey. Orphans obviously began as an outtakes collection -- unreleased work tapes plus old soundtrack, tribute and benefit tracks. Only then, Waits, painfully aware that odds-and-sods projects were lame, decided to fill in some blanks with new songs, couldn't resist rerecording others and ended up with a definitive album. Each disc has its own subtitle: Brawlers for rock, Bawlers for ballads and Bastards for weirdness. Although the promo advertises "56 Songs. 30 New Recordings," only fourteen can be readily found on other albums.Brawlers is Waits blues a la Mule Variations, only broader. His drummer son Casey's basic thump on "Low Down" reminds the ear that Waits generally bellows over pretty intricate beats. He was on the dreamy New Orleans lilt of "Sea of Love" back in 1988, and though Tito Puente might not think so, "Fish in the Jailhouse" is indeed a mambo. Of course, there's also the first of two Ramones covers, and, fitting nowhere but so good they'd fit anywhere, the mandolin-tinged "Bottom of the World" and the unrhymed, seven-minute "Road to Peace," a portrayal of a Palestinian terrorist that blinks even less than Springsteen's.Bawlers is Waits' bread and butter -- professional sentimentalists love the way he mauls slow ones, and six of the soundtrack tunes are here, from Big Bad Love, Pollock and Shrek 2. Waits can get grotesquely goopy when he makes nice, but the new "Tell It to Me" and the recycled "The Fall of Troy" are genre classics right up there with Waits' bumptious claims on "Young at Heart" and "Goodnight Irene." Bastards is messier musically, but its six spoken-word pieces are long overdue for anyone who's guffawed at the shaggy-dog monologues Waits rolls out at shows. In "The Pontiac," a dad reminisces about his cars, the mad entomology lecture "Army Ants" isn't far behind, and "First Kiss" explains something we've always wondered. Waits reached that romantic milestone with a trailer crone who made up her own language, wore rubber boots and could fix anything with string. Just like our Tom. 专辑曲目: Disc: 1 1. Lie to Me 2. LowDown 3. 2:19 4. Fish in the Jailhouse 5. Bottom of the World 6. Lucinda 7. Ain't Goin' Down to the Well 8. Lord I've Been Changed 9. Puttin' on the Dog 10. Road to Peace 11. All the Time 12. The Return of Jackie and Judy 13. Walk Away 14. Sea of Love 15. Buzz Fledderjohn 16. Rains on Me Disc: 2 1. Bend Down the Branches 2. You Can Never Hold Back Spring 3. Long Way Home 4. Widow's Grace 5. Little Drop of Poison 6. Shiny Things 7. World Keeps Turning 8. Tell It to Me 9. Never Let Go 10. Fannin Street 11. Little Man 12. It's Over 13. If I Have to Go 14. Goodnight Irene 15. The Fall of Troy 16. Take Care of All My Children 17. Down There by the Train 18. Danny Says 19. Jayne's Blue Wish 20. Young At Heart Disc: 3 1. What Keeps Mankind Alive 2. Children's Story 3. Heigh Ho 4. Army Ants 5. Books of Moses 6. Bone Chain 7. Two Sisters 8. First Kiss 9. Dog Door 10. Redrum 11. Nirvana 12. Home I'll Never Be 13. Poor Little Lamb 14. Altar Boy 15. The Pontiac 16. Spidey's Wild Ride 17. King Kong 18. On the Road