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Tom Waits
Franks Wild Years (1987)
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Track List
01) Hang on St. Christopher
02) Straight to the Top (Rhumba)
03) Blow Wind Blow
04) Temptation
05) Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
06) I'll Be Gone
07) Yesterday Is Here
08) Please Wake Me Up
09) Franks Theme
10) More Than Rain
11) Way Down in the Hole
12) Straight to the Top (Vegas)
13) I'll Take New York
14) Telephone Call From Istanbul
15) Cold Cold Ground
16) Train Song
17) Innocent When You Dream (78)

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1987

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Franks Wild Years is an album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play of the same name. The shared title of the album and the play is an iteration of "Frank's Wild Years", a song from Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.

The play had its world premiere at the Briar St. Theatre in Chicago, Illinois on June 22, 1986, performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Various versions of "Way Down in the Hole" were used as the theme music for the HBO series The Wire, including Waits' original version for the second season. The songs "Temptation" and "Cold Cold Ground" were used in Jean-Claude Lauzon's film Léolo (1992). "Cold Cold Ground" was also used in the series Homicide: Life on the Street. "Temptation" and "Straight to the Top (Vegas)" featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005).



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