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Originally Posted by RWood
I'm not a big fan of Tom Waits, I only have about 25 of his albums so perhaps I have not heard enough. Of his own music I think his best album was Small Change -- "Small Change got rained on with his own 38"
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yes, if you only have about 25 albums, you must not like him any more than i do.
ah,
Small Change... Tom Waits, as i have said before, should be the poet laureat of our generation. he is, in my own personal reality...
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Originally Posted by RWood
Of his songs performed by others (cover versions) my favorite is Ol' 55 as performed by the Eagles and the aformentioned Downtown Train.
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Downtown Train really is a masterpiece.
Strange Weather is amazing too. and
I hope that i don't fall in love with you. and... well, i'll stop there, otherwise this post will never end.
EDIT : oh, and
Shore Leave ! you should listen to that one too.
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Burma shave !!! amazing lyrics.
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Although I do not like the raspy voice and the drug induced mantras of Waits, his connection to the channel of creation is notable and pure.
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i *adore* his raspy voice.
i love deep gravelly voices.
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Having tasted the composition and performance sides of music, there are kinds of music I truly can not stand. Singer interpreters (Celine Dion's kind) and canned music producers such as one can find in techno, rap and elevator music; although there are little jewels there... sometimes.
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ugh, céline dion... <shudder> but i have to stand up for rap ; like the blues, it was born out of a dispossessed population's need to express and affirm themselves and their identities, and honestly the less commercial rap can be brilliant and poetic and brutal. and some of it can also be hilarious fun (beastie boys...). techno drives me crazy as well, however *electro* can be brilliant stuff when done right.
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Music is good to the soul and we are the lucky who can enjoy it. My father now in his seventies, played professionally in a military band and a little in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He is now loosing his hearing because of the loud volumes of the band classes he used to teach in small classrooms. That is the worst nightmare for me.
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amen to that.