Tom Waits – Blue Valentine
Label: |
Asylum Records – K 53 088 |
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Format: |
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Country: |
Europe |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Blues Rock |
Tracklist
| A1 | Somewhere (From "West Side Story") | 3:50 | |
| A2 | Red Shoes By The Drugstore | 3:11 | |
| A3 | Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis | 4:30 | |
| A4 | Romeo Is Bleeding | 4:50 | |
| A5 | $29.00 | 8:12 | |
| B1 | Wrong Side Of The Road | 5:11 | |
| B2 | Whistlin Past The Graveyard | 3:14 | |
| B3 | Kentucky Avenue | 4:47 | |
| B4 | A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun | 5:34 | |
| B5 | Blue Valentines | 5:50 |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – Warner Communications
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Elektra/Asylum Records
- Copyright © – Elektra/Asylum Records
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Asylum Records
- Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
- Published By – Chappell & Co. Ltd.
- Recorded At – Filmways/Heider Recording
- Lacquer Cut At – Tonstudio Pfanz
- Mastered At – Strawberry Mastering
- Pressed By – Record Service Alsdorf
- Made By – WEA Musik GmbH
Credits
- Art Direction, Design – Ron Coro
- Engineer – Bones Howe
- Engineer [Assistant] – Ralph Osborne*
- Management – Herb Cohen
- Mastered By – Terry Dunavan
- Photography By – Elliot Gilbert
- Producer [Production], Sounds [Sound] – Bones Howe
- Typography [Hand Lettering] – Bill Franks
- Written-By – Tom Waits (tracks: A2 to B5)
Notes
Issued in a semi-glossy gatefold cover without barcode, usually including a WEA catasert.
Cloud label design with two rows of perimeter text, GEMA/Biem and cat# K 53 088
The R/S Alsdorf credit from the runouts was introduced in 1981, so earlier dates are not possible.
Matrix and STRAWBERRY (G) .. are stamped in the runout area with additional numbering etched.
Side A: Lacquer cut at Tonstudio Pfanz
Side B: Mastered at Strawberry Mastering
Different versions of AS 53 088:
-This one- : Label Cat#: K 53 088 | Label Design: Clouds | Rights Society: GEMA/Biem | Barcode: no | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: AS 53 088 | Label Design: Clouds | Rights Society: GEMA/Biem | Barcode: no | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: AS 53 088 | Label Design: Clouds | Rights Society: STEMRA | Barcode: no | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: AS 53 088 | Label Design: Clouds | Rights Society: GEMA | Barcode: no | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: K 53 088 | Label Design: White | Rights Society: STEMRA | Barcode: yes | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: K 53 088 | Label Design: White | Rights Society: GEMA/BIEM | Barcode: yes | Made in
Sleeve:
A B.H. Production
℗ & © 1978 Elektra/Asylum Records
A Division Of Warner Communications Inc.
Made in by WEA Musik GmbH
Labels:
All titles published by Warner Bros. Music Ltd. except title A1 published by Chappell & Co. Ltd.
℗ 1978 Asylum Records
Made in by WEA Musik GmbH A Warner Communications Company
Cloud label design with two rows of perimeter text, GEMA/Biem and cat# K 53 088
The R/S Alsdorf credit from the runouts was introduced in 1981, so earlier dates are not possible.
Matrix and STRAWBERRY (G) .. are stamped in the runout area with additional numbering etched.
Side A: Lacquer cut at Tonstudio Pfanz
Side B: Mastered at Strawberry Mastering
Different versions of AS 53 088:
-This one- : Label Cat#: K 53 088 | Label Design: Clouds | Rights Society: GEMA/Biem | Barcode: no | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: AS 53 088 | Label Design: Clouds | Rights Society: GEMA/Biem | Barcode: no | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: AS 53 088 | Label Design: Clouds | Rights Society: STEMRA | Barcode: no | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: AS 53 088 | Label Design: Clouds | Rights Society: GEMA | Barcode: no | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: K 53 088 | Label Design: White | Rights Society: STEMRA | Barcode: yes | Made in
AS 53 088: Label Cat#: K 53 088 | Label Design: White | Rights Society: GEMA/BIEM | Barcode: yes | Made in
Sleeve:
A B.H. Production
℗ & © 1978 Elektra/Asylum Records
A Division Of Warner Communications Inc.
Made in by WEA Musik GmbH
Labels:
All titles published by Warner Bros. Music Ltd. except title A1 published by Chappell & Co. Ltd.
℗ 1978 Asylum Records
Made in by WEA Musik GmbH A Warner Communications Company
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: none
- Label Code: LC 2648
- Rights Society (Boxed): GEMA/Biem
- Price Code (): Ⓤ
- Price Code (): WE 321
- Other (US cat# in brackets on back & spine): 6E-162
- Other (Embossed, cover rear): Warner logo
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1: side A): PF ^9 R/S Alsdorf 53088 A3
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1: side B): R/S Alsdorf 53088 B-2X STRAWBERRY (G)
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2: side A): tv PF R / S Alsdorf 53088 A3X
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2: side B): 68 R / S Alsdorf 53088 B-2X STRAWBERRY (G)
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: side A): R / S Alsdorf 53088 A3 16 PF
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B2 X 43 -D- STRAWBERRY (G)
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4: side A): PF R/S Alsdorf 53088 A3x "U̶K̶" "D" ^9
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B2 STRAWBERRY (G) ..
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 5: side A): R / S Alsdorf 53088 A3X W PF
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 5: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B-2X STRAWBERRY (G) .. UK 52
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 6: side A): 11 PF R/S Alsdorf 53088 A3
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 6: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B-2X STRAWBERRY (G) 89
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 7: side A): PF R/S Alsdorf 53088 A3x
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 7: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B-2 STRAWBERRY (G) D 67
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 8: side A): PF R/S Alsdorf 53088 A3 12
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 8: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B-2X STRAWBERRY (G) 90
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 9: side A): R / S Alsdorf 53088 A3 69 PF
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 9: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B2 STRAWBERRY (G) 46 UK
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 10: side A): R / S Alsdorf 53088 A3X 17 PF
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 10: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B2X STRAWBERRY (G) 68
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 11: side A): R / S Alsdorf 53088 A3x BE 5 PF
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 11: side B): R / S Alsdorf 53088 B2 STRAWBERRY (G) 60
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Blue Valentine (Cassette, Album) | Asylum Records | 453 088, K 453 088 | Europe | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold) | Asylum Records | 6E-162 | US | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, RCA Pressing, Gatefold Sleeve) | Asylum Records | 6E-162 | Canada | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | Asylum Records | K 53088 | UK | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (Cassette, Album, Winchester, Dolby System) | Asylum Records | TC-5162 | US | 1978 |
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This album is one of THOSE albums, ie the ones that make you feel a deep pity for those who don't dig them or haven't yet discovered them. Tom Waits gives 'West Side Story' a make-over with a broken whiskey bottle and a flick-knife. He explores that dark world that surrounds all of us, many of us not noticing it's there; the world of poverty and the dispossessed, the world of the black market and the addict, the world of the predator and the tough-guy-dying-young, the world of broken dreams and crushed souls. And he does it with the utmost, heart rending sincerity. The concept of this work of art could so easily have led to schmaltzy, sentimental cartoonery, but in Waits' hands we get the sublime rather than the ridiculous. His musicians are perfect for the job, and the production is near-perfect and does not call attention to itself, (ittedly, on the first track there are thick waves of gushing strings, but this serves to set up the dark mood for the rest of the album perfectly) . The songs are...simply brilliant!
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