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He makes pretty good music too.
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He makes pretty good music too.
Yes Bone Machine is great, some of it hard to playGot to see him at the Hummingbird Center a few years ago when he was touring on the Mule Variations CD. Recorded he's amazing but live is just...transcendental. Deconstruct the instrumentation in most of his songs and it won't make any sense. It's the amazingly layered approach to creating something coherent.
Definitely Bone Machine is my favourite Waits album. With Black Wings being my favourite Waits tune. Followed very closely by Nighthawks At The Diner which was my introduction to Waits.
What's that exactly?If he was at his best on friday night, I would chalk it up to a case of the Emporer's New Clothes phenomenon.
Maybe I'm misreading what you're saying here. I can appreciate it if you don't like something I do. That's fine. I find there are three people out there: people who love Tom Waits, people who hate Tom Waits and people who've no idea who he is. But are you telling Adam and I that we only like the guy because someone else endorsed him to us?That's when someone says something is good and others agree without even listening to it. Or something gets endorsed by someone like Keith Richards, which gives it a stamp of approval and you are expected to like it. If you don't get it, your just not savy.
In some cases, there is nothing there to get - The Emporer's New Clothes (Aesop's Fables I believe)
No, that's not what I'm saying.Maybe I'm misreading what you're saying here. I can appreciate it if you don't like something I do. That's fine. I find there are three people out there: people who love Tom Waits, people who hate Tom Waits and people who've no idea who he is. But are you telling Adam and I that we only like the guy because someone else endorsed him to us?
Nice. :smile: I often forget about the ton of hits other people have had with his songs when trying to convince people he's amazing. Downtown Train alone probably set him up for life in the annals of pop-rock writing history.It seems a lot of people have been fooled into thinking Tom Waits is actually good. Among the artists that have been tricked into covering his songs are Bruce Springsteen (had a minor hit with it), the Eagles (huge hit), John Hammond (who recorded a whole album of Tom Waits songs), Holly Cole (who also recorded a whole album of Tom Waits songs), Rod Stewart (another huge hit), the Ramones, Frank Black, Norah Jones, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and literally hundreds of others. If he's fooling people, he's doing a great job.
What I'm saying is if what I saw on Friday night is Tom Waits in a nutshell, I think he has been over-hyped. As far as I know, that is the only time I've ever actually seen or heard him.
I don't get it either and I'm VERY liberable musically speaking I love nearly everything from Metal to Folk. But then I don't "get" Leonard Cohen either... But then taste is relative...