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Bone Machine

Tom Waits · 1992

• Zone: Twilight (level 3 of 5)
• Genre: Rock, Art rock, Blues rock
• Mood: junkyard, rasping, raw
• Sound: scrap-metal percussion, blues-influenced, spoken-word poetry

Bone Machine is raw and experimental, featuring percussion created by scrap metal. It creates a visceral industrial groove and was a turning point for Tom Waits, focusing more on avant-garde poetry than blues.

Track list

1. The Earth Died Screaming
2. Dirt in the Ground
3. Such a Scream
4. All Stripped Down
5. Who Are You
6. The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
7. Jesus Gonna Be Here
8. A Little Rain
9. In the Colosseum
10. Goin' Out West
11. Murder in the Red Barn
12. Black Wings
13. Whistle Down the Wind
14. I Don't Wanna Grow Up
15. Let Me Get Up on It
16. That Feel