Tom Waits Week: Things Get Weird (1983-1993)

Frank’s Wild Years (1987) – The final volume of the Frank Trilogy, this one was originally written as an play. As an album, it tells the story of Frank one last time, but in fairly broad terms. In this version, Frank is a guy with big dreams who’s led astray and in the end, finds redemption. Despite being tied together with an overriding theme, the individual songs work very well in and of themselves.