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Track Listings

1	Big in Japan
2	Lowside of the Road
3	Hold on
4	Get Behind the Mule
5	House Where Nobody Lives
6	Cold Water
7	Pony
8	What's He Building?
9	Black Market Baby
10	Eyeball Kid
11	Picture in a Frame
12	Chocolate Jesus
13	Georgia Lee
14	Filipino Box Spring Hog
15	Take It with Me
16	Come on Up to the House

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This is the latest release from Tom Waits in nearly 6 years and is possibly the most anticipated record in Tom Wait's 26-year career, according to MTV online. This album includes more edgy experimental sounds that appeal to fans from the Island years and incredible ballads that will appeal to Tom's earliest fans. Track list includes: "Big in Japan,' "Lowside of the Road," "Hold On," "Get Behind the Mule," "Cold Water," "Pony,' "What's He Building?," "Black Market Baby," "Eyeball Kid," "Picture Frame,' "Chocolate Jesus," "Georgia Lee," "Filipino Box Spring Hog," "Take It with Me," "Come on Up to the House"

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Seven years passed between the release of Bone Machine and Mule Variations. During that time Tom Waits eschewed cutting another "conventional" (the term used loosely here) song collection, occupying his time with acting projects, a soundtrack (Night on Earth), a stage project (The Black Rider), and sundry smaller diversions. What's surprising about Mule Variations is how little he's strayed from the old Bone yard through the years. As with his Grammy-winning 1992 outing, Waits intersperses the tough and the tender, mixing exercises in creative noisemaking with tunes that fall on just the right side of maudlin. As with Bone Machine's "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me," "What's He Building?" is an experiment in word jazz that owes a debt to its creator, Ken Nordine. Waits has again assembled a crew of attuned sidemen (including Primus and steadfast backers Ralph Carney, Larry Taylor, and Joe Gore). And, as always, Waits and his wife-cosongwriter-coproducer Kathleen Brennan exhibit an uncanny ear for the arcane. In the end, Mule Variations is the aural equivalent of a salvage shop that, while largely familiar, still has a few secluded chambers and trap doors. --Steven Stolder

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.88 x 5.47 x 0.39 inches; 2.82 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ ANTI
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2004142
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1999
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ ANTI
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00000IGGA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Lyudmila Saitova

Manufacturing issues

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2022

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Great album but I cannot seem to get my hands on a copy that isn't defective. I bought a copy of this record a year ago and there were massive matching scuffs on the first side of both discs that cause very bad skips. It was clear that there was an issue with the pressing plant. I finally repurchased this album and although, visually it seemed fine, upon playing, my brand new copy still skips all over the place. Unfortunately it seems like the vinyl manufacturers keep releasing faulty copies of this record.

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Tom Waits latest and greatest.

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 1999

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Buy this album.
There you go. That's pretty much everything I have to say. Tom Waits has found his voice, and if his entire repertoire, his entire history were to disappear from the Earth tomorrow, Mule Variations by itself would be enough to justify his place in music history.
The first song, Big in Japan, leads you to expect the same atonality and tribal-rhythm driven poundings that he delivered on his Bone Machine album. And those elements are there; but they are softened and tempered by a compassion and humanity that emanates from practically every chord struck.
His lyrics here combine the poetic doggerel of his Small Change years without striking the same false and affected (if fun) notes found there:
Down by the Riverside motel,
it's 10 below and falling
by a 99 cent store she closed her eyes
and started swaying
but it's so hard to dance that way
when it's cold and there's no music

(from "Hold On")
Every song on the album has a lyric that will stay with you for days after hearing it: "She's a diamond that wants to stay coal." "Well its got to be a chocolate Jesus, keep me satisfied." "Come down off the cross ... we can use the wood."
The music, of course, will stay in your head as well. The traditional blues influence that has always been in Waits' music is more visible here, thanks to more subdued production than on the previous albums. The album is carried on the strength of its writing and on Waits' plaintive voice. This was Tom Waits' first studio album in 6 years. It was worth the wait. Rarely do artists get this much better with age. Waits continually stuns me with his ability to pioneer his own unique sound without falling into a stylistic rut. We are all richer for his very existence.

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As described. A+++

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Michael R. Webster

tom brings it all home

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 1999

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waits' finally does it on this recording! how the hell anyone could concievably combine all the twisted aspects to the musical vision he has been blessing us with over the last twenty plus years is almost mind numbing when you think of it. The coffeehouse folk of his early career (and the great material it yeilded), the amazing blues-jazz of the late seventies (and some shows I shall never forget, THE GAS PUMPS)! Then we veer into the experimental - still hints of his old self - but here he shows genuine musical genius but maybe a bit less heart, but still more than enough to get by. I am a fan of the great ballads, so obviously, I am delighted with this recording. I'm,listening to Hold On as I type. Ranks with Tom T's Blues, Jersey Girl - better - "she closed her eyes and started......swaying, but it's so hard to dance that way, when it's cold and there's no music", man, I really love this song. here are only a handful of genuine lyric and stylistic masters around, and sadly, I don't see anyone bringing up the new guard, relative to the kind of vision waits represents, there's this guy johnny dowd who is kinda working sorta around waits' turf, but jeez, NOBODY does it like Waits. Jazz/poetry/folk/alternative/rock/blues... mix it all up and you get Waits! God bless him all to hell!

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Probably my all-time favorite Waits album.

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2018

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Along with " Frank's Wild Years " this album represents some of Tom Waits' most adventurous music (and that's saying something) and my favorite album. It is also Waits' first album with the Anti/Epitaph label, following five albums with Island Records (check out the wonderful collection " Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years "). The range of music on this album is daunting, from the big-beat "Big in Japan" and "Filipino Box Spring Hog" to the much mellower "Get behind the Mule" and "Take It with Me." I always especially liked his paranoid spoken-word "What's He Building in There?" "Mule Variations" represents a wonderful period of Tom Waits' music.

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Pablo

The quintessential Tom Waits

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2013

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If someone were to ask me "Who's Tom Waits?", I'd say, "Go listen to Mule Variations and you'll know".

To me, this is the distillation of all his phases, and as an album it's the best of his work.

Here, you'll find representations of his barroom balladeer days ("Picture in a Frame", "Take It with Me"), aural poetry ("What's He Building?"), Primus collaborations ("Big in Japan"), post-Beefheart experimentalism ("Eyeball Kid", "Filipino Box Spring Hog"), streetcorner gospel ("Come on Up to the House"), hobo plaints ("Pony", "Cold Water"), down-and-outers ("Hold On"), laments ("Georgia Lee"), and wry wit ("Chocolate Jesus").

In my opinion, this is not only Tom Waits' best record, it's among the very best records in American music, and 20th century Western music.

Yeah, it's that good.

If you don't dig it at first, give it time, let it get under your skin.

I can't recommend it highly enough. A masterpiece.

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Fábio Roberto Barros Mello

Mule Variations

Reviewed in Brazil on August 7, 2021

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Mais um ótimo álbum de um músico pouco falado. Descobri o Tom Waits por acaso, nem me lembro ao certo quando foi. Recordo-me apenas da descrição: voz rouca, blá-blá-blá e piano percussivo. A combinação produz resultado singular. É o que me atrai nele. O destaque de hoje é que, ouvindo o álbum neste momento, me lembrei das músicas do Muddy Waters que deixei tocando ontem. Sinto que o Tom Waits parece ter absorvido crueza daquelas canções e passou a compor as suas próprias sem deixar de lado essa característica. O Mule Variations é bem produzido, o som é limpo e muito agradável de ouvir. Ao mesmo tempo, alguns timbres abrasivos e a rouquidão da voz estão presentes. Esse álbum faz conexão entre o blues rural e o urbano, o antigo e o novo, talvez dizendo que tristeza e sofrimento são atemporais e universais.

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M Resendiz

It's Tom Waits

Reviewed in Mexico on July 18, 2017

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If you haven't heard this album, what are you waiting?
If you have heard it then you know this is one of Tom Waits greatest albums

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孝一

詩人トムウェイツ

Reviewed in Japan on November 18, 2007

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Big in Japanでおっまた過激なのか！とかまえてしまいたしたが２曲目以降は基本的に穏やかで叙情的。Hold On なんかほんとに美しい曲。やっぱこの人アサイラム時代から本質は変わってないんですよ。セルフプロデュースで無国籍でポンコツサウンドになろうと美メロでほんとにいい曲次から次に書くし。このアルバムはやっぱトムは本物の詩人だなーと。ブルースが基調になってるらしい。人気あるのも納得の一枚。

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Phil TXF

O Incomparável Tom Waits

Reviewed in Brazil on March 3, 2021

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Mule Variations é uma obra prima do incomparável gênio Tom Waits!
Esta edição em vinil da ANTI- label, deixa a desejar no quesito cuidado e acabamento... A minha unidade chegou com uma lasca no disco 1 e o disco 2 veio com alguns fiapos da prensagem.
Optei por não devolver pois não havia outra unidade para aquisição e o disco não apresenta falha nas músicas.

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der Tiroler

Frechheit!

Reviewed in Germany on February 15, 2023

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Klebeband war auf zwei Seiten aufgeschnitten; das innenliegende Vinyl lag dann ungeschützt ohne weiteren Schutz darin. Folge: zwei Ecken des Covers sichtbar beschädigt;
Da das nicht das erste Mal war, überdenke ich beim nächsten Mal ernsthaft meine prime-Mitgliedschaft!
Über Tom Waits muss ich nix sagen.

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