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Got it on Valentine's Day. I really like all the grimy noise he has going on here. What really surprised me was the lack of piano. This album seems a lot rougher than his others, but i enjoy it more so than Alice or Blood Money. But it is just me or are Waits' vocals sort of drowned out by some of the music? Maybe I have a crappy stereo... The ten-minute plus songs (Sins of the Father) are okay but I have to be in the proper mood for them, sort of like the mood I have to be in to listen to the Moody Blues... |
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One of my favourites of mr Waits. |
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never heard him before, what does he sound like? |
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Tom waits. It's really quite good, try his stuff out! |
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check out the samples and get convinced. it's a great album for sure! |
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ill pick up his album next time I go to amoeba, have any suggestions on which record to buy? |
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It's brilliant. I listened to it almost non-stop a few months back when i was cutting down from one or two bottles of whisky a day to fuck all. It's got some weird memories attached but it'd be one of my favourites even if it didn't mean quite a bit to me, i think. |
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"frank's wild years" and "swordfishtrombones" are nice startingpoints, I think. I'm not a fan of the more straighter stuff before that, personally (he started his "weirder" period with "swordfishtrombones"). |
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one of my fav 2004 albums. |
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groovy I shall look for those, thank you mr qrtr sir |
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The song 'Hoist That Rag' is excellence (thanks tolstoyed), but I haven't really had much chance to investigate the album further. |
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Buy "Bone Machine" That's the one you want |
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nah "bone machine" IS great, but not a very good startingpoint. |
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I'd get "rain dogs" while you were there, too. It feels like a kind of companion-piece to "swordfishtrombones" in a way, at least for me. They're structured very similarly i guess. |
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I agree, Alex. and I think "Frank's wild years" connects to both of those rather nicely. |
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Bone Machine is the album that started it for me... I own a big chunk of his stuff now thanks to that record |
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I must admit that's one i've not heard... i made the mistake of completely overdosing on the gravelly-voiced one as i was first getting into his stuffs, so it's been a while before i could really listen to him again. "Frank's wild years" has been duly added to the Big List, though. |
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Good production on this. Love the rickety bayou cabin vibe. |
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I've recently burned copies of "Blood Money" and "Alice" which I got from my local library. "Blood Money" is my current favorite of the two. I've had "Bone Machine" for years but I prefer this one to it by far. Sexy shit. |
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I agree that Rain Dogs is also a decent starting point for a new Waits listener. Most of his stuff before then is singer-songwriter material, pretty stuff (i like some of it, especially Tom Traubert's Blues) but not CLASSIC Waits material. My favorite song on Real Gone so far is "Don't Go Into That Barn." God, those vocal backtracks are excellent. This song is creepy in a good groovy dark way. |
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yr best off starting with closing time... it has melody, very warm. i then suggest small change which should open u up 2 the rest of his stuff, rather than being thrown straight in 2 the deep end. |
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I love the album but the intended "recorded at the wrong bit/sampling rate" sound kinda fustrates me. |
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yes, i like the grimyness but i also felt the recording style sort of buried Waits' lyrics. |
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did you smuggle your rum? YES SIR! |
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