Title: “Train song”
Format: Album track
Written by: Tom Waits
Performed by: Tom Waits
Genre: Rock
Taken from: Franks Wild Years
Year: 1987
Acclaim: n/a
If I had to pick my least favourite Waits album it would not be
Franks Wild Years, however it is far from my favourite. In fact, of the six albums released by him between 1978 and 1992, this would definitely be the one I play least. It has some great songs, but I feel some of them are a little below par, and this is not helped by the fact that two of the songs come in two different versions, which, though there are seventeen tracks on the album, for me cuts down on the original songs. There are some ones I enjoy though, and this is one of them.
Things I like about this :
1. The desperate howl of Waits as he sings this
2. The accordion
3. The idea in the lyric
4. Sparse kind of melody; Waits' vocal definitely carries the song
Things I don't like about this:
Nothing
Rating: 