Tom Waits - Under Review 1971-1982 & 1983-2006. An Independent Critical Analysis (2007) {S.I.} [2xDVD5]

The ultimate review and critical analysis of tom waits' first decade. Tom Waits - Under Review 1971 -1982 is a 90-minute film, covering Waits' career and hugely influential music from this period. The program charts his rise from bar-room crooner to the extraordinary performer, songwriter and vocalist he had become by the early part of the 1980s. Showing also how he developed as a scintillating raconteur, how he was more than willing to draw on a vast range of unorthodox influences, and how his records progressed in sophistication exponentially during the course of a decade, this film is the most detailed, enlightening and downright entertaining film ever to have emerged on this legendary artist.

Tom Waits Under Review 1983 – 2006 is an 80 minute documentary film, which looks at this extraordinary musician and performer’s music during that period. After Waits’ marriage to Katherine Brennan in 1980, his music became more experimental, challenging and left field, but without any compromise of his craft – the songs were better than ever. Through album after album during the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, Waits stunned his audience time and again. This program looks again at these records, and the man who made them, and in doing so provides the most enlightening, revealing and downright entertaining Tom Waits documentary yet to emerge.

DVD1 Features Include:
*Historical musical performances, re-assessed by a panel of esteemed experts.
*Obscure footage, rare interviews and rarely seen photographs. Review, comment, criticism and insight from; producer of the Closing Time album and Waits' string arranger, Jerry Yester, Waits' producer from 1974 to 1982, Bones Howe-, Tom Waits biographer, Patrick Humphries-, author of The Wild Years-. The Music And Myth Of Tom Waits, Jay S. Jacobs-, Uncut magazine's contributing Editor (and interviewer of Tom Waits on many occasions), Nigel Williamson-, Village Voice music editor and esteemed US critic, Robert Christgau; former Rolling Stone editor, Anthony DeCurtis-, highly respected UK music journalist, Barney Hoskyns and more.
*Live and studio recordings of Waits' classics, such as; Closing Time, Grapefruit Moon, The Piano Has Been Drinking, Jersey Girl, 01'55and others.

Special feature: 'Bone Machine' - Bones Howe on working with Tom Waits.
*Tom Waits interactive gaming feature 'The Hardest Tom Waits Quiz In The World Ever'
*Contributor biographies
*Beyond DVD section

DVD2 Features Include:
*Tom Waits performances re-assessed by a panel of esteemed experts
*Rare interviews, seldom seen footage and unusual photographs from the period
*Review, comment and criticism from; Waits producer Bones Howe; Tom Waits’ official biographer, Patrick Humphries; ex-editor of Rolling Stone magazine, Anthony DeCurtis;Village Voice music editor, Robert Christgau; highly respected British music journalist and author, Barney Hoskins (Mojo, NME); Uncut magazine’s Nigel Williamson; Time Out magazine music editor Andrew Mueller, and musician and author Chris Roberts
*Footage of and comment on Waits’ most notable musical influences during the period
*Live and studio recordings of Waits classics such as; Downtown Train, In The Neighbourhood, Straight To The Top, Innocent When You Dream, Earth Dies Screaming, Clap Hands, Alice, Hoist That Rag and many others

Extras Include:
*The Interactive Tom Waits Challenge
*Full Contributor Biographies
*Beyond DVD










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