Tom Waites - Frank's Wild Years (Limited Edition Opaque Gold) LP | LP Vinyl

Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits\u2019 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago\u2019s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an iteration of the track \u201CFrank\u2019s Wild Years\u201D from Waits\u2019 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.\nThe album divides the story neatly into two acts and although titled \u201Cun operachi romantic\u201D, there is no opera in Franks. There is a hilarious touch of operatic styling by Waits himself in the song \u201CTemptation.\u201D His vocal character varies wildly throughout the work\u2019s 17 songs, and is no more impressive than when the gruff, growly singer turns to impeccable Sinatra-esque phrasing on the Vegas number, \u201CStraight To The Top.\u201D While Franks featured a 14-member cast on stage, the album is all-Waits\u2014yet suggests a multitude of characters by virtue ;