'Heart' essential for Waits fans

[Shawn]

The movie -- a romantic Greek myth contemporized, turned into a musical and staged on a massive indoor duplicate of the Las Vegas strip -- was an audacious, spectacular flop that nearly ruined director Francis Ford Coppola.

Its soundtrack, however, is simply spectacular. Composed and performed by the inimitable Tom Waits, 1982's One From the Heart finds the rumpled singer-songwriter at the height of his hipster balladeer powers, delivering a dozen-song slate of lovelorn last-call laments and finger-popping jazz with the help of a crack combo and the occasional orchestra.

Best of all, though, are a handful of duets with Crystal Gayle, who seductively wraps her honeyed tones around Waits' croaking rumble on gems like Picking up After You, creating a musical dialogue that parallels the arc of the onscreen love story.

Truly One From the Heart, this relatively obscure set has long been essential for Waits fans -- and is even more so now, thanks to the inclusion of two previously unissued bonus tracks and a snippet of vintage Waits video.

Pick it up today.

Track Listing

1. Opening Montage - Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle

2. Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream? - Crystal Gayle

3. Picking Up After You - Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle

4. Old Boyfriends - Crystal Gayle

5. Broken Bicycles - Tom Waits

6. I Beg Your Pardon - Tom Waits

7. Little Boy Blue - Tom Waits

8. Instrumental Montage - Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle

9. You Can't Unring A Bell - Tom Waits

10. This One's From The Heart - Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle

11. Take Me Home - Crystal Gayle

12. Presents - Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle

13. Candy Apple Red - Tom Waits

14. Once Upon A Town/Empty Pockets - Tom Waits

Source - Jam!