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* GutturalGrowler: Well, it's a Waits album.
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''Bad As Me'' is a 2011 album by Music/TomWaits. At the time it was his first studio album with all new music in seven years. It received very positive reviews and became his highest charting album ever, peaking at #6 in the US billboard charts.

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''Bad As Me'' is a 2011 the seventeenth studio album by Music/TomWaits.Music/TomWaits, released in 2011 through ANTI-. At the time it was his first studio album with all new music in seven years. It received very positive reviews and became his highest charting album ever, peaking at #6 in the US billboard charts.
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* SingerNameDrop: Music/KeithRichards, who plays guitar during the track, receives a shoutout in "Satisfied", whose title also brings up associations with Music/TheRollingStones' song "Satisfaction" from ''Music/OutOfOurHeads''.

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* SingerNameDrop: Music/KeithRichards, who plays guitar during the track, receives a shoutout in "Satisfied", whose title also brings up associations with Music/TheRollingStones' Music/TheRollingStonesBand' song "Satisfaction" from ''Music/OutOfOurHeads''.
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* ArmchairMilitary: Discussed in "Hell Broke Luce". See WarIsHell, below.
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* TheWindyCity: "Chicago", naturally.
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'''Bad As Me''' is a 2011 album by Music/TomWaits. At the time it was his first studio album with all new music in seven years. It received very positive reviews and became his highest charting album ever, peaking at #6 in the US billboard charts.

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'''Bad ''Bad As Me''' Me'' is a 2011 album by Music/TomWaits. At the time it was his first studio album with all new music in seven years. It received very positive reviews and became his highest charting album ever, peaking at #6 in the US billboard charts.

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# "Talking At The Same Time" (4:14)

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# "Talking At The at the Same Time" (4:14)



# "Face To The Highway" (3:43)

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# "Face To The to the Highway" (3:43)



# "Bad As Me" (3:10)

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# "Bad As as Me" (3:10)
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** "Get Lost" mentions radio presenter Wolfman Jack and the song "Love Me Tender".

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** "Get Lost" mentions radio presenter Wolfman Jack Creator/WolfmanJack and the song "Love Me Tender".

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* CallBack: "Back in the Crowd" includes the line "Take my picture from the frame," recalling the song "Picture in a Frame" from ''Music/MuleVariations''.



* SpecialGuest: Blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is heard during "Chicago", "Raised Right Men", "Bad As Me", "Satisfied" and "Hell Broke Luce". Music/KeithRichards plays guitar during "Chicago", "Satisfied, "Last Leaf" and "Hell Broke Luce" and sings during "Last Leaf". Music/RedHotChiliPeppers bassist Flear plays his instrument during "Raised Right Men" and "Hell Broke Luce". Les Claypool (Music/{{Primus}}) plays bass during "Satisfied".

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* SlasherSmile: Waits on the cover.
* SpecialGuest: Blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is heard during "Chicago", "Raised Right Men", "Bad As Me", "Satisfied" and "Hell Broke Luce". Music/KeithRichards plays guitar during "Chicago", "Satisfied, "Last Leaf" and "Hell Broke Luce" and sings during "Last Leaf". Music/RedHotChiliPeppers bassist Flear Flea plays his instrument during "Raised Right Men" and "Hell Broke Luce". Les Claypool (Music/{{Primus}}) plays bass during "Satisfied".
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'''Bad As Me''' is a 2011 album by Music/TomWaits. At the time it was his first studio album with all new music in seven years. It received very positive reviews and became his highest charting album ever, peaking at #6 in the US billboard charts.

'''Tracklist'''
# "Chicago" (2:15)
# "Raised Right Men" (3:24)
# "Talking At The Same Time" (4:14)
# "Get Lost" (2:42)
# "Face To The Highway" (3:43)
# "Pay Me" (3:14)
# "Back in the Crowd" (2:49)
# "Bad As Me" (3:10)
# "Kiss Me" (3:41)
# "Satisfied" (4:05)
# "Last Leaf" (2:56)
# "Hell Broke Luce" (3:57)
# "New Year's Eve" (4:32)

!! ''Hell Troped Luce''
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Satisfied"
--> '' Let me '''b'''leach like the '''b'''ones on a '''b'''each ''
--> '' I’ll be hard like a '''p'''it from a '''p'''each ''
--> '' (...) Let the '''b'''ullet go '''b'''ack into the '''b'''arrel ''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''R'''aised '''R'''ight Men" and "'''L'''ast '''L'''eaf".
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: "Back In The Crowd"
--> ''There's a battle going on between the blue and the grey''
* ClusterFBomb: "Hell Broke Luce" has a couple of F-bombs in it.
* {{CrossOver}}: Music/KeithRichards sings during "Last Leaf".
* FaceOnTheCover: Waits' grotesque grin in close-up.
* GutturalGrowler: Well, it's a Waits album.
* GratuitousSpanish: Waits counts to four in Spanish near the end of "Bad As Me".
* IWantSong: "Kiss Me"
--> ''Kiss me''
--> ''I want you to kiss me''
--> ''Like a stranger once again''
--> ''Kiss me like a stranger once again''
--> ''I want to believe that our love’s a mystery''
--> ''I want to believe that our love’s a sin''
--> ''I want you to kiss me like a stranger once again''
* JustFriends: "Back In The Crowd" is a heartbreaking plea for an ex-lover to go back to seeing him as just another stranger rather than condemning him to the melancholy yearning of being JustFriends when they've been so much more to one another.
* LocationSong: "Chicago"
--> ''Maybe things will be better in Chicago''
--> ''To leave all we’ve ever known''
--> ''For a place we’ve never seen''
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "Hell Broke Luce"
--> ''Boom went his head away''
--> ''And boom went Valerie''
--> ''What the hell was it that the president said?''
--> ''Give him a beautiful parade instead''
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Last Leaf", about a tree leaf on an otherwise empty tree.
* OneWordTitle: "Chicago" and "Satisfied".
* ProtestSong: The anti-war song "Hell Broke Luce", about the suicide of Iraq War veteran Jeff Lucey.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Hell Broke Luce" is based on the story of a real soldier, Jeff Lucey, who killed himself after returning home from going to war. This also explains why the title is spelled "Luce" rather than "loose".
* RecordProducer: Music/TomWaits and Kathleen Brennan.
* ShapedLikeItself: In the song "New Year's Eve," "what sounded like fireworks turned out to be just what it was."
* ShellShockedVeteran: "Hell Broke Luce" tells the story of Jeff Lucey, an Iraq War veteran who killed himself due to the horrors he saw and committed.
* ShoutOut:
** "Get Lost" mentions radio presenter Wolfman Jack and the song "Love Me Tender".
--> ''Turn up Wolfman Jack''
--> ''Please love me tender''
** "Last Leaf"
--> ''They say I got staying power''
--> ''Here on the tree''
--> ''But I've been here since [[UsefulNotes/DwightEisenhower Eisenhower]]''
--> ''And I've outlived even he''
** "New Year's Eve" quotes from "Auld Lang Syne", both melodically and lyrically in the refrain.
* SingerNameDrop: Music/KeithRichards, who plays guitar during the track, receives a shoutout in "Satisfied", whose title also brings up associations with Music/TheRollingStones' song "Satisfaction" from ''Music/OutOfOurHeads''.
--> ''Now [[Music/MickJagger Mr. Jagger]] and Mr. Richards/I will scratch where I've been itching''.
* SpecialGuest: Blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is heard during "Chicago", "Raised Right Men", "Bad As Me", "Satisfied" and "Hell Broke Luce". Music/KeithRichards plays guitar during "Chicago", "Satisfied, "Last Leaf" and "Hell Broke Luce" and sings during "Last Leaf". Music/RedHotChiliPeppers bassist Flear plays his instrument during "Raised Right Men" and "Hell Broke Luce". Les Claypool (Music/{{Primus}}) plays bass during "Satisfied".
* StockSoundEffects: "Hell Broke Luce" has sound effects of gunfire.
* TitleTrack: "Bad As Me".
--> ''You're the same kind of bad as me!''
* WarIsHell: "Hell Broke Luce", in which a soldier rants and eventually commits suicide after returning home safely from the war.
--> ''How is it that the only ones responsible for making this mess''
--> ''Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk?''
* TheWindyCity: "Chicago", naturally.
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