Beautiful Maladies (Waits) (Paperback)

~ Tom Waits (Author)
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Product Description

Forty-seven songs including: The Fall of Troy from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack, FrankÂ’s Wild Years, Good Old World, Jockey Full of Bourbon, A Little Rain, Shoreleave, Rain Dogs and many more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Music Sales America; Songbook edition (December 31, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082561581X
• ISBN-13: 978-0825615818
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #443,984 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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62 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding collection, April 7, 1998

By A Customer

This is a HUGE collection of great songs, in piano/vocal/guitar format. Contents include: 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six / anywhere i lay my head / back in the good old world / big black mariah / black wings / the briar and the rose / cemetery polka / cold cold ground / dirt in the ground / downtown train / earth died screaming / fall of troy / falling down / filipino box spring hog / frank's wild years / gun street girl / hang down your head / hang on st. christopher / i don't wanna grow up / innocent when you dream / i'll shoot the moon / i'll take new york / jesus gonna be here / jockey full of bourbon / johnsburg, illinois / the last rose of summer / a little rain / lucky day / murder in the red barn / november / rain dogs / shore leave / singapore / soldier's things / straight to the top (vegas) / strange weather / tango till they're sore / telephone call from istanbul / temptation / that feel / time / train song / underground / walk away / way down in the hole / whistle down the wind / who are you / yesterday is here

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Notes straight from the Raindog's mouth., August 28, 1997

By A Customer

Have you ever strained to hear exactly what Tom Waits is crooning in his songs? Or do you wonder how many different ways he refers to the moon? If so, this is your guidebook. Beautiful Maladies is a compilation of lyrics and music to most of Tom Waits's songs, as well as photos of the man. If you're a scavenger for Tom Waits paraphernalia, this book can go on the shelf next to your Old Golds and cheap Scotch

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pianists Beware, March 26, 2007

By	25-5 (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews

Tom Waits' ballads are the gems of this compilation, but the piano parts in the transcriptions do not match the recordings. This would make sense where the piano was absent in the original version, as in much of the more raucous material...but the songs in which Waits sings over his own piano accompaniment (Whistle Down the Wind, Soldiers' Things etc.) should have been more faithfully rendered. Only a basic outline of the chord progressions is preserved, with sections missing in some cases. Fortunately, most of Waits' solo introductions are transcribed relatively faithfully. A competent pianist could reconstruct the parts by studying the recordings, but I'm disappointed at what seems to be laziness on the part of the publisher in producing accurate transcriptions.