popular music: Tom Waits ...     popular music:       Orphans104 reviews Tom Waits Anti, 2009 The best batch yet For the ages. I've been listening to this for over 2 years now randomly on the ipod shuffle. How could the creator of career-making albums, Rain Dogs, and Swordfishtrombones make a better record? Why would he even try? The king of Independents and alternative music could easily rest on his laurels, watch his kids grow up, and make an occasional album to pay the bills... Instead we get this magnum ...             Rain Dogs135 reviews Tom Waits Island, 1990 Quirky Fun I learned of Tom Waits in the last year and thought "where have you been all my life?" This album is great, quirky fun. The poetry is fabulous. Some of the songs carry me away somewhere while others have me bouncing around, giggling and smiling like a ten-year old girl. The only one Waits song that could make this album more perfect would be the addition of Step Right Up. I must warn ...             Mule Variations227 reviews Tom Waits Anti, 1999 The dice is laughin at the man that he throwed Been listening to Tom Waits on and off since I saw him one time in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in the 80s, doing his Franks Wild Years routine. Halfway through he tells his band to smoke a cigarette, switches off all the lights and stands there all alone with this electric miner's lamp up against his face. Smokes a cigarette himself, right there on stage. He goes on to belt out in his ...             Nighthawks at the Diner50 reviews Tom Waits Elektra / Wea, 1990 Night club at the Diner I loved this album when it came out 30+ yrs ago but lost it somewhere down the trail. But the images, expressions and vibe are impossible to shake. Waits' cinematic, improvisational riffs disguise the genius of his craft. Think Beat generation poet meets jazz combo while hitching on a boxcar and they hop off to play a gig at a diner in exchange for patty-melted norms and Viceroys. Good thing ...             Glitter and Doom Live15 reviews Tom Waits Anti, 2009 Tom Tales The Storyteller We have waited for this CD and boy did Tom Waits deliver! This is a CD of live performances that outshine each other as you proceed down the list. Taken in at one time, I was overwhelmed by the generosity of spirit and the razzle dazzle of the man. Disc One is packed with the best of the songs, all delivered in one city or another,a handful of southern states and European sites. He describes ...             Small Change71 reviews Tom Waits Elektra / Wea, 1990 Tom Waits at his best. This is my favorite Tom Waits album. It makes me laugh and cry, sometimes in the same song.             Closing Time112 reviews Tom Waits Elektra / Wea, 1990 My favorite cd period! Can't believe any of you fools could give this album anything but a 5 star rating. Tom Waits will one day be known as "one of the greatest song writers ever"! Just remember you heard it hear. Once you hear this cd you will find appreciation for the man and the artist he is. I would then continue to follow his career from there and learn what so many of us already know. If you have been looking to ...             The Heart of Saturday Night47 reviews Tom Waits Elektra / Wea, 1990 Tom Wait's Best Work I give a full 5 stars here. Tom's writings and arrangements are excellent, his best. Voice- still smooth and clear. Piano and bass- superb. This album is a 'one in a thousand gem'.             Orphans [Fold-out Digipak with 24-page booklet]104 reviews Tom Waits ANTI, 2006 The best batch yet For the ages. I've been listening to this for over 2 years now randomly on the ipod shuffle. How could the creator of career-making albums, Rain Dogs, and Swordfishtrombones make a better record? Why would he even try? The king of Independents and alternative music could easily rest on his laurels, watch his kids grow up, and make an occasional album to pay the bills... Instead we get this magnum ...             Glitter and Doom Live15 reviews Tom Waits Anti, 2009 Tom Tales The Storyteller We have waited for this CD and boy did Tom Waits deliver! This is a CD of live performances that outshine each other as you proceed down the list. Taken in at one time, I was overwhelmed by the generosity of spirit and the razzle dazzle of the man. Disc One is packed with the best of the songs, all delivered in one city or another,a handful of southern states and European sites. He describes ...             Swordfishtrombones46 reviews Tom Waits Island, 1990 Has to be one of pop music's most underrated albums I used to love this album in the late 80s and early 90s, but recently started listening to it again after a long hiatus (my wife hates TW, it ended up). Let me say this album is something of a minor miracle. It's hard to describe how evocative it is, but there is something about the coupling of the musical production and the lyrical imagination that is pure magic. When Waits creates the ...             Bone Machine91 reviews Tom Waits Island, 1992 Opened a new world of music One day in 1992 a couple friends and I were browsing through albums at our local record store when Bone Machine started blaring over the store's stereo. We all stopped and just listened to a couple tracks before asking the clerk who it was. Each one of us walked out with this CD in hand. Sixteen years later this is still one of my favorite albums and it gets regular rotation at home, in the car, ...             Blood Money84 reviews Tom Waits Anti, 2002 Buy This One! If you know anything at all about Tom Waits you will know that he is an acquired taste. A taste that only a select few seemed to acquire, although this group did seem to include a lot of musicians and those with a deeper knowledge of music. This was no doubt due to Tom's raspy voice, his abrasive arrangements and eccentric lyrics which made his work difficult to approach. However with the release ...             Real Gone115 reviews Tom Waits Anti, 2004 Blues From An Alternate Universe If you want to check out Tom Waits, and you're looking for a representative first album to listen to.....look elsewhere, unless you have a taste for the edgy and offbeat. In that case, look here. I've often heard Tom Waits music before, and it sounded OK, but I never felt inspired to check out his music much. Then I heard this album in a coffee shop, and it blew me away. What is it with Tom ...             Alice93 reviews Tom Waits Anti, 2002 Tom Waits never fails. I just recently re-bought this album because my boyfriend had lost it, and I got it for him as a surprise. Let me tell you, we are so glad to have it back in our Tom Waits collection. This album is fun, sad, melancholy all rolled into one. To anyone starting out in their Tom Waits expedition, it might scare them off. Sometimes I think Tom is a seriously acquired taste. But to fans already ...             Blue Valentine35 reviews Tom Waits Elektra / Wea, 1990 TRUE VALENTINE I never thought I would be writing a Tom Waits review but here I am. A very good friend of mine, (thank you so very much, Mr. Robertson...) actually bought this album for me and had it sent to my home. Well, three months later, I now own TEN Tom Waits albums. I am now of course, a hopeless Mr. Waits addict, even more surprising is that I normally listen to bands such as Tool, Rush and Black ...             Big Time20 reviews Tom Waits Island, 1990 One of the best! This Tom Waits album was the first I ever heard and I still think it's the best.             Heartattack and Vine34 reviews Tom Waits Elektra / Wea, 1990 Haunting, gritty, and ironic HEARTATTACK AND VINE offers a preview of the Waits to come: the CLOSING TIME and BLUE VALENTINE Waits evolving into the SWORDFISHTROMBONES and RAIN DOGS Waits. It features the gritty, life on the street characters of his previous work (especially the elloquent "On the Nickel"), but starts to do so in a different fashion. The title track and "Mr. Siegal" are bluesy romps (the former declaring ...             Franks Wild Years55 reviews Tom Waits Island, 1990 Dark and Humorous, Classic Waits A Tom Waits album is the aural equivalent of walking down a dark twisty path with a cantankerous old uncle who mixes Old Testament wisdom with dirty jokes. Franks Wild Years is another entry in this fine tradition. As you may already know, this album is taken from an opera that Tom and Kathleen wrote. If you are interested in further explorations of this project, check out Big Time - both the ...             One from the Heart21 reviews Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle Sbme Special Mkts., 2008 Crystals finest work This is a five star CD . . .you should buy it. For me . . this is all about Crystal Gayle and that is why I bought it. You will hear some of her best work ever on this and well worth the price. I can barely get hip on Tom Waits slurred attempts at singing and at times you wish he would just go away. He is a master musician however and this is a very good release. Perhaps for the more ...              search for popular music 24-page, alice, blood, blue, booklet, change, closing, digipak, diner, dogs, fold-out, franks, glitter, gone, heart, heartattack, machine, money, night, nighthawks, orphans, rain, saturday, small, swordfishtrombones, valentine, variations, vine, wild, years popular music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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