Random Track of the Day
Friday, October 14 2011
Hooray! Finally, some Waits! The random-o-meter has picked out a great little track, the opener from his 1987 album “Frank's wild years”, which is called “Hang on St. Christopher”.
Hang on St. Christopher --- Tom Waits --- from "Frank's wild years" on Island
Carried on a sort of brass/horns melody, with cool bass and with Waits singing as if he's got a bullhorn to his lips, “Hang on St. Christopher” is weird, but by no means the weirdest track on this album. It's a great opener though, and details the flight of Frank from his burning house towards his new life, detailed first in the song “Frank's wild years” on a previous album, 1983's “Swordfishtrombones”. In order to truly get the lyrical idea behind “St. Christopher”, it's probably helpful to also listen to the aforementioned “Frank's wild years”, which sets the scene.
So here for the first time is a
double Random track of the day, so you can listen to “Frank's wild years” and make some sort of sense of the actual track featured above.
Frank's wild years --- Tom Waits --- from "Swordfishtrombones" on Island
