Real Gone (album)
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Producer | Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits | |||
Tom Waits chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 78/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Blender | [3] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[4] |
The Guardian | [5] |
Mojo | [6] |
NME | 7/10[7] |
Pitchfork | 8.0/10[8] |
Q | [9] |
Rolling Stone | [10] |
Spin | A−[11] |
Real Gone is the sixteenth studio album by
The album features some of the few political songs Waits has written, the most explicit being "Day After Tomorrow", a song Waits has described as an "elliptical" protest against the Iraq War.
It was chosen by the editors of
A remixed, remastered version of the album was released by
Background
Per
Written and produced by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, his wife and long-time collaborator, Real Gone features 15 tracks of funk, Jamaican rock-steady, blues both urban and rural, rhythms and melodies both Latin and African and, for the first time, no piano. The crash and collide of rhythms and genres within a song creates a hybrid unlike any music he has and the sonic mayhem and nonsense rhyme ride to "Top of the Hill" are both punctuated by a live band and turntable playing along to Waits' home recorded voice percussion.[12]
The album features Waits
The album features references to real people and events. "Don't Go Into That Barn" was based on a
Track listing
- "Top of the Hill" – 4:55
- "Hoist That Rag" – 4:20
- "Sins of My Father" – 10:36
- "Shake It" – 3:52
- "Don't Go into That Barn" – 5:22
- "How's It Gonna End" – 4:51
- "Metropolitan Glide" – 4:13
- "Dead and Lovely" – 5:40
- "Circus" – 3:56
- "Trampled Rose" – 3:58
- "Green Grass" – 3:13
- "Baby Gonna Leave Me" – 4:29
- "Clang Boom Steam" – 0:46
- "Make It Rain" – 3:39
- "Day After Tomorrow" – 6:56
- "Chick a Boom" – 1:17 (hidden track)
Personnel
- Brain – percussion(tracks 1–5, 7, 10 and 12), claps (track 4)
- Les Claypool – bass (tracks 2, 4 and 12)
- Harry K. Cody – guitar (tracks 5 and 7), banjo (track 6)
- Mark Howard – bells (track 9), claps (track 4)
- Marc Ribot – guitar (tracks 1–4, 8, 11, 12, 14 and 15), banjo (track 3), cigar box banjo (track 10)
- Larry Taylor – bass (tracks 1, 3, 5–8, 10–12, 14 and 15), guitar (tracks 4 and 5)
- Casey Waits – drums (tracks 8, 9 and 14), turntables (tracks 1 and 7), percussion (tracks 2 and 5), claps (track 4)
- Tom Waits – vocals, guitar (tracks 3, 6, 7, 11 and 15), chamberlin (track 9), percussion (track 5), shakers (track 12), beatboxing (tracks 1, 7, 12, 13 and 16)
- Trisha Wilson – claps (track 4)
Chart positions
Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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Australian ARIA Albums Chart[15] | 27 |
Austrian Top 40[16] | 11 |
Belgian Albums Chart (Vl)[17] | 7 |
Belgian Albums Chart (Wa)[18] | 40 |
Canadian Albums Chart[19] | 11 |
Danish Albums Chart[20]
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5 |
Dutch Top 100[21]
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10 |
Finnish Albums Chart[22]
|
23 |
French SNEP Albums Chart[23]
|
39 |
German Albums Chart[24]
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19 |
Irish Albums Chart[25] | 9 |
Italian FIMI Albums Chart[26]
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8 |
Portuguese AFP Albums Chart[27] | 8 |
Swedish Albums Chart[28] | 9 |
Swiss Hitparade Albums Chart[29]
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16 |
UK Albums Chart[30] | 16 |
US Billboard 200[31] | 28 |
US Billboard Independent Albums[31] | 1 |
US Billboard Internet Albums[31] | 28 |
Certifications
‹See Tfd›‹See Tfd›Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI)[32] | Silver | 60,000‡ |
United States | — | 202,000[33] |
Summaries | ||
Europe | — | 250,000[34] |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
References
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- ^ Jurek, Thom. "Real Gone – Tom Waits". AllMusic. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ Sinagra, Laura (October 2004). "Tom Waits: Real Gone". Blender (30): 130. Archived from the original on October 19, 2004. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
- ^ Seymour, Craig (October 8, 2004). "Real Gone". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on June 28, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ Petridis, Alexis (October 1, 2004). "Tom Waits, Real Gone". The Guardian. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ "Tom Waits: Real Gone". Mojo (131): 110. October 2004.
- ^ "Tom Waits: Real Gone". NME: 64. October 2, 2004.
- ^ Petrusich, Amanda (October 3, 2004). "Tom Waits: Real Gone". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ "Tom Waits: Real Gone". Q (220): 128. November 2004.
- ^ Wolk, Douglas (October 28, 2004). "Real Gone". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ "Breakdown". Spin. 20 (11): 118. November 2004. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ "Tom Waits - Real Gone (Remastered)".
- ^ Kemp, Sam (January 19, 2003). "The dark story behind 'Don't Go Into That Barn' by Tom Waits". Farout.
- ^ Brown, Patricia Lee (May 6, 2003). "In a Barn, a Piece of Slavery's Hidden Past". The New York Times.
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