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In 2010, Mule Variations was awarded a platinum certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 500,000 copies throughout Europe. As of 2006, sales in the United States have exceeded 440,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan .
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Apr 16, 1999 · At no point during Tom Waits‘ decades-long career has he adhered to current trends. In the 1970s, he didn’t have to worry about it because singer-songwriters were already trendy. Waits wrote ...
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Apr 27, 1999 · So far, reviews of Mule Variations have been mixed, ranging from shameless hero worship (yeah, yeah, like this one), to jaded critics claiming that Waits hit his songwriting peak with 1985's Rain ...
- Pitchfork
Tom Waits released his legendary 13th studio album, Mule Variations in 1999. This was the same year that gave birth to Napster and saw Ricky Martin releasing his monster hit, "Livin' La Vida Loca," the first number-one single to be recorded and mixed entirely in Pro Tools.
But he ran off to Maxwell Street, and all over Texas. He wasn't going to stick around. Get behind the mule. . .can be whatever you want it to mean. We all have to get up in the morning and go to work. Kathleen says, "I didn't marry a man. I married a mule." And I've been going through a lot of changes. That's where Mule Variations came from.
May 13, 1999 · Mule Variations. By Ben Ratliff. May 13, 1999. What Tom Waits does to the blues is something like what newspapers do to bright colors — in the way that a picture of the Sistine Chapel’s ...
In describing the origin of the album title, Tom Waits said in a 1999 interview: My wife said, “I didn’t marry a man, I married a mule.”. That’s what she said. You know, it’s like the ...
