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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
after the discussion with WDecraene yesterday about the horrible Tom Waits : irony mark: and how some of his songs might be bearable when sung by rod steward and the like, i remembered that along with the eleventy-bunyip Tom Waits albums i unthinkingly have accumulated i also have " Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits" as performed by artists such as Violent Femmes (damn ! i forgot them on my list on that other thread...), Jim Buckley, and Drugstore.
Old Shoes by Drugstore is beautiful, as is Martha by Jeff Buckley (it'll break your heart...) |
Horrible Tom Waits? Blasphemy....
Of course... yeah, there's a good chunk of his stuff that I'd rather put a whole in my head than listen to, but Time, Martha, Ol' 55, Downtown Train (Rod Stewart... uck!), Christmas Card from a Hooker...
At any rate... Jeff Buckley doing a cover of Martha? I'm so there!
(His version of Cohen's "Hallelujah" = greatest song in the universe.)