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Re: Any Tom Waits fans?
12-02-2009, 04:12 AM
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Re: Any Tom Waits fans?
I find his early works much easier listening, it's mellow jazzy music. I've been spining
Closing Time (1973)
and
The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)
for the past two nights. I think from
Swordfishtrombones
-onward he began to take his music into a more avant-garde direction. His first few albums were on the Asylum label, I think when he jumped over to the Island label he began to produce his own music, hence the freedom to experiment.
He sure has a heck of a voice on his early albums, before he drowned it in whiskey and cigarettes. I found this video of him on Letterman...and whether you like his voice or not (or are in the Tom Waits mood
), you have to give him some appreciation for his stage performance:
Quite the contrast from this:
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