Tom Waits - Bone Machine (w/ guest Joe Galuppo)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Bill and Brian are joined by podcaster and musician Joe Galuppo (diningroomradio.net and joegaluppo.bandcamp.com) to talk about Tom Waits' Bone Machine (1992, Atlantic). Waits, with his idiosyncratic musicianship and distinctive voice, emerged from a 5 year hiatus to create one of the tentpole albums of his career. Joe talks about how his cool dad, noting his son's taste for the unusual, pointed him toward Tom Waits. Brian, Bill, and Joe then discuss how death permeates the album as a theme, the echo-filled concrete studio it was recorded in, Wait's unique vocal performance, a train made of bones, Fight Club and masculinity, Frank Zappa, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I'm going out of best Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast. My name's Bill.
0:32.6	And I'm Brian. What were we just listening to you right there, Brian?
0:35.7	Going Out West by Mr. Tom Waits, off of September 8th, 1992's Bone Machine.
0:43.4	If you've never listened to the podcast before, I'm going to give you a little bit of introduction right here.
0:48.2	All right.
0:48.6	What we do here every week is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:53.2	We're going to try and have a conversation around the music
0:56.4	that you know that fans have about why they love it, why they think it's cool
1:01.2	We're going to get into a little bit of just our own relationship with the music and then a short bio and then we're gonna get to a track-by-track review of the whole album.
1:11.3	Let's do it. I'm ready. I got my space suit on. Let's blast off.
1:16.3	All right. So we're not going to do it alone, Brian.
1:18.5	You know, I was wondering what that giant slab of carbonite was doing in this room.
1:24.0	So you want to go thaw this sucker out?
1:25.8	Yeah, let's go thaw this thing out.
1:28.3	And welcome Joe Galupo back to the podcast.
1:31.6	Hey, guys.
1:32.5	Thanks for having me.
1:33.7	That was a quick thaw, by the way.
1:35.4	How's your vision?
1:37.8	It's pretty good.
1:39.2	A little bit of nausea.
1:43.0	That's just fine with the unfreezing process.
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