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Bone Machine

Bone Machine

Studio album by Tom WaitsWikipedia

Search complete. 5 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Bone Machine".

Sep 18, 2026

Eric P. SchwartzGUEST
62:18
By the way, he and I came from two completely different places with Tom Waits.
Eric P. SchwartzGUEST
62:23
The thing that hooked him would have been like Bone Machine, like around Bone Machine.
Eric P. SchwartzGUEST
62:27
No, I was
Eric DinseGUEST
62:28
going to say Rain Dogs and Swordfish Trombone.
Eric P. SchwartzGUEST
63:30
And then I came back in through Mule Variations.
Eric P. SchwartzGUEST
63:34
So I was like, oh, because that was like the perfect blending of the weird and the melodic.
Eric DinseGUEST
63:39
There was a collection of all the stuff that he'd done when he was on Island Records, which was from Swordfish Trombone to, I think, Bone Machine.
Eric DinseGUEST
63:47
And I was dating somebody, and they had it.
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0:06
From the Music History Today podcast network, this is the Music History Today podcast for September the 8th.
speaker_0HOST
0:12
On today's show, Michael kisses Lisa Marie, Chuck Berry duck walks, and Tom Waits drops bone machine.
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0:20
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0:29
So thank you very much.

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speaker_0HOST
22:23
I remember that song.
speaker_0HOST
22:24
It has a great tune.
speaker_0HOST
22:27
In 1992, Tom Waits released Bone Machine.
speaker_0HOST
22:32
This was a stripped-down industrial percussion-heavy masterpiece that explored dark themes of morality, and it had collaborations with Keith Richards and Les Claypool.

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