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''Foreign Affairs'' is the fourth album in Music/TomWaits catalogue, released in 1977. It is best remembered for his duet with Creator/BetteMidler: "I Never Talk to Strangers" and other audience favorites like "Potter's Field" and "Burma-Shave".
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''Foreign Affairs'' is the fourth fifth album in Music/TomWaits catalogue, released in 1977.1977 through Asylum Records. It is best remembered for his duet with Creator/BetteMidler: "I Never Talk to Strangers" and other audience favorites like "Potter's Field" and "Burma-Shave".
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''Foreign Affairs'' is the fourth album in Music/TomWaits catalogue, released in 1977. It is best remembered for his duet with Music/BetteMidler: Creator/BetteMidler: "I Never Talk to Strangers" and other audience favorites like "Potter's Field" and "Burma-Shave".
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** The Japanese translation of "A Sight for Sore Eyes" -> 想い出に乾杯 (Toast to Memory)
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''Foreign Affairs'' is the fourth album in Music/TomWaits catalogue, released in 1977. It is best remembered for his duet with Bette Midler: Music/BetteMidler: "I Never Talk to Strangers" and other audience favorites like "Potter's Field" and "Burma-Shave".
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'''Foreign Affairs''' is the fourth album in Music/TomWaits catalogue, released in 1977. It is best remembered for his duet with Bette Midler: "I Never Talk To Strangers" and other audience favorites like "Potter's Field" and "Burma-Shave".
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'''Foreign Affairs''' is the fourth album in Music/TomWaits catalogue, released in 1977. It is best remembered for his duet with Music/BetteMidler: Bette Midler: "I Never Talk To Strangers" and other audience favorites like "Potter's Field" and "Burma-Shave".
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* {{Mooning}}: From "Medley...":
-->''Just then Florence Nightingale dropped her drawers and''\\
''Stuck her fat ass half way out the window with a''\\
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* SiameseTwinSongs: "Burma-Shave" and "Barber Shop" are strategically place behind each other, which fits their shared theme.
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Stop meeee...if you HEARD THIS ONE...'']]
'''Foreign Affairs''' is the fourth album in Music/TomWaits catalogue, released in 1977. It is best remembered for his duet with Music/BetteMidler: "I Never Talk To Strangers" and other audience favorites like "Potter's Field" and "Burma-Shave".
'''Tracklist'''
# "Cinny's Waltz" (2:17)
# "Muriel" (3:33)
# "I Never Talk To Strangers" (3:38)
# "Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come" (5:01)
# "A Sight for Sore Eyes" (4:40)
# "Potter's Field" (8:40)
# "Burma-Shave" (6:34)
# "Barber Shop" (3:54)
# "Foreign Affair" (3:46)
!! ''I Never Trope To Strangers''
* AlbumTitleDrop: "Foreign Affair".
--> ''And the cargo that they're carrying is you''
--> ''a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside''
--> ''and domestically approved romantic fancy''
--> ''is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing''
--> ''it will only be parlayed into a memory''
* AlliterativeTitle: "A '''S'''ight for '''S'''ore Eyes".
* Advertising/BurmaShave: "Burma-Shave", telling the tale of two urban runaways searching for someplace to escape to. The verses are set up to always end on name the titular product, as if tracking their progress down the lonely highways. [[spoiler: It doesn't turn out well]].
* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
** The Japanese translation of "A Sight for Sore Eyes" -> 想い出に乾杯 (Toast to Memory)
* CoverSong: "California Here I Come".
* CrapsackWorld: "Potter's Field", where Waits plays a man giving information about the criminal underworld in exchange for some booze.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover is in black-and-white with a lot of shadows. This was done when the producer Bones Howe listened to the demos and said: "It's like a black-and-white movie." The mood of the songs fit a FilmNoir, so the cover reflects this.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Waits and the woman on the album cover.
* FaceOnTheCover: Waits in the presence of a Native American woman named Marsheila Cockrell.
* GratuitousFrench: "Foreign Affair"
--> ''Without fear of contradiction bon voyage is always hollered''
* {{Instrumental}}: "Cinny's Waltz".
* LetsDuet and SopranoAndGravel: "I Never Talk To Strangers", a duet between the gravely voiced Waits and the lighter Music/BetteMidler.
* {{Medley}}: "Jack & Neal/California Here I Come".
* OneWomanSong: "Muriel".
* ShoutOut:
** "A Sight for Sore Eyes" quotes "Auld Lang Syne" in the opening theme.
** "Barber Shop" namedrops the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
* SiameseTwinSongs: "Burma-Shave" and "Barber Shop" are strategically place behind each other, which fits their shared theme.
* SmokingIsNotCool: "Barber Shop"
--> ''Now if your mama saw you smokin why she'd kick your ass''
--> ''Put it out you little juvenile and put it out fast''
* SunglassesAtNight: Waits wears them in "Burma Shave", which [[DownerEnding turns out to be a bad idea]].
* TeenageDeathSongs: "Burma Shave" is about two young teenagers who crash their car trying to make their way to the titular town.
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Stop meeee...if you HEARD THIS ONE...'']]
'''Foreign Affairs''' is the fourth album in Music/TomWaits catalogue, released in 1977. It is best remembered for his duet with Music/BetteMidler: "I Never Talk To Strangers" and other audience favorites like "Potter's Field" and "Burma-Shave".
'''Tracklist'''
# "Cinny's Waltz" (2:17)
# "Muriel" (3:33)
# "I Never Talk To Strangers" (3:38)
# "Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come" (5:01)
# "A Sight for Sore Eyes" (4:40)
# "Potter's Field" (8:40)
# "Burma-Shave" (6:34)
# "Barber Shop" (3:54)
# "Foreign Affair" (3:46)
!! ''I Never Trope To Strangers''
* AlbumTitleDrop: "Foreign Affair".
--> ''And the cargo that they're carrying is you''
--> ''a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside''
--> ''and domestically approved romantic fancy''
--> ''is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing''
--> ''it will only be parlayed into a memory''
* AlliterativeTitle: "A '''S'''ight for '''S'''ore Eyes".
* Advertising/BurmaShave: "Burma-Shave", telling the tale of two urban runaways searching for someplace to escape to. The verses are set up to always end on name the titular product, as if tracking their progress down the lonely highways. [[spoiler: It doesn't turn out well]].
* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
** The Japanese translation of "A Sight for Sore Eyes" -> 想い出に乾杯 (Toast to Memory)
* CoverSong: "California Here I Come".
* CrapsackWorld: "Potter's Field", where Waits plays a man giving information about the criminal underworld in exchange for some booze.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover is in black-and-white with a lot of shadows. This was done when the producer Bones Howe listened to the demos and said: "It's like a black-and-white movie." The mood of the songs fit a FilmNoir, so the cover reflects this.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Waits and the woman on the album cover.
* FaceOnTheCover: Waits in the presence of a Native American woman named Marsheila Cockrell.
* GratuitousFrench: "Foreign Affair"
--> ''Without fear of contradiction bon voyage is always hollered''
* {{Instrumental}}: "Cinny's Waltz".
* LetsDuet and SopranoAndGravel: "I Never Talk To Strangers", a duet between the gravely voiced Waits and the lighter Music/BetteMidler.
* {{Medley}}: "Jack & Neal/California Here I Come".
* OneWomanSong: "Muriel".
* ShoutOut:
** "A Sight for Sore Eyes" quotes "Auld Lang Syne" in the opening theme.
** "Barber Shop" namedrops the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
* SiameseTwinSongs: "Burma-Shave" and "Barber Shop" are strategically place behind each other, which fits their shared theme.
* SmokingIsNotCool: "Barber Shop"
--> ''Now if your mama saw you smokin why she'd kick your ass''
--> ''Put it out you little juvenile and put it out fast''
* SunglassesAtNight: Waits wears them in "Burma Shave", which [[DownerEnding turns out to be a bad idea]].
* TeenageDeathSongs: "Burma Shave" is about two young teenagers who crash their car trying to make their way to the titular town.
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