Tom Jones
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| Apr 2012
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Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2012-04-29
Reviewed 2012-04-29
TOM JONES
Jack White produces Tom Jones. It's all of the good Tom Jones (debauched backing brass, possessed inhuman lounge vocalese), and none of the bad stuff (the softy softy part). Lounge meets voodoo/bayou meets a tortured soul. No FCCs.
1. (4:37) ********* TOM JONES IS A GHOUL. With spare brass in skeletal pattern at back. This is pure lounge psychopath stuff. Glittering guitars, swampy mood. There's nothing not to like here. IT'S A FAKE FADE-OUT! He's back! You totally fell for it!
2. (3:22) ****** Fragile steel guitar, leafy and green. Tom Jones as troubadour, but sudden hilarious loudness. JEZEBEL, IT WAS YOU! Mariachi-groove, and Tom Jones does his crazy thing. A ton of instruments join in, it's baroque and overwrought, but beautiful and unmuddied. A tour de force!
-Hervey Okkles
Jack White produces Tom Jones. It's all of the good Tom Jones (debauched backing brass, possessed inhuman lounge vocalese), and none of the bad stuff (the softy softy part). Lounge meets voodoo/bayou meets a tortured soul. No FCCs.
1. (4:37) ********* TOM JONES IS A GHOUL. With spare brass in skeletal pattern at back. This is pure lounge psychopath stuff. Glittering guitars, swampy mood. There's nothing not to like here. IT'S A FAKE FADE-OUT! He's back! You totally fell for it!
2. (3:22) ****** Fragile steel guitar, leafy and green. Tom Jones as troubadour, but sudden hilarious loudness. JEZEBEL, IT WAS YOU! Mariachi-groove, and Tom Jones does his crazy thing. A ton of instruments join in, it's baroque and overwrought, but beautiful and unmuddied. A tour de force!
-Hervey Okkles
Recent airplay
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The Songsmith Show (rebroadcast from May 11, 2012) — Apr 07, 2022
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The Songsmith Show (rebroadcast from May 11, 2012) — Feb 22, 2022
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The Songsmith Show (rebroadcast from May 11, 2012) — Jan 02, 2022
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The Songsmith Show (rebroadcast from May 11, 2012) — Jul 06, 2021
Jezebel
a strange pursuit — Jul 07, 2016
Charting
2012-04-29 — 2012-07-01
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jun 24 | 1 |
| Jun 10 | 1 |
| May 20 | 1 |
| May 13 | 3 |
| May 6 | 4 |
Track listing
| 1. | Evil | ||
| 2. | Jezebel |