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Foreign Affairs - Tom Waits
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  1. Cinny's Waltz
  2. Muriel
  3. I Never Talk to Strangers
  4. Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come
  5. A Sight for Sore Eyes
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  1. Cinny's Waltz
  2. Muriel
  3. I Never Talk to Strangers
  4. Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come
  5. A Sight for Sore Eyes
  6. Potter's Field
  7. Burma-Shave
  8. Barber Shop
  9. Foreign Affair
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Tom Waits' fifth album for Asylum foreshadowed changes that would alter his career over the next six years. It signals a musical restlessness that fueled his next two records (Blue Valentine and Heartattack and Vine), and resulted in his writing a film score and leaving the label for Island, where he was given greater artistic control. He leans less on comic relief here and more on fully formed story songs. The album contains more ballads than most of his records do, but they were the most effective vehicles for the kind of ...

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