Tom Waits- Bone Machine
Ok, this time I am nominating an entire album. It is all just too good to choose one song. This album beat out Nirvana Nevermind to get the Alternative Album of the Year Award in 1992. Ack, but what is alternative?
Tom Waits is just a damn good musician. He plays everything and sings everything from lounge jazz, to gospel, to blues to avant-spooky rock. His style is unique. No one can compare. And this album is one of his best. Perhaps I think that just because this is the first Tom Waits album I ever owned. But I have listened to many and this one seems to me to be the most cohesive, and it was probably the most commerically accessible release he ever made. Which is another good thing about Tom. You can choose an album (and he has made tons) depending on your mood. It's like choosing fine wines to go with dinner. Mr Waits will never let you down. And he is also a little bit of an actor. He was in Mystery Men as the junkyard owner and he starred in one (or more?) of Jim Jarmusch's films.
If you want tracks, then I recommend "Murder in the Red Barn," "Earth Died Screaming," "In the Colloseum"
Tom Waits is just a damn good musician. He plays everything and sings everything from lounge jazz, to gospel, to blues to avant-spooky rock. His style is unique. No one can compare. And this album is one of his best. Perhaps I think that just because this is the first Tom Waits album I ever owned. But I have listened to many and this one seems to me to be the most cohesive, and it was probably the most commerically accessible release he ever made. Which is another good thing about Tom. You can choose an album (and he has made tons) depending on your mood. It's like choosing fine wines to go with dinner. Mr Waits will never let you down. And he is also a little bit of an actor. He was in Mystery Men as the junkyard owner and he starred in one (or more?) of Jim Jarmusch's films.
If you want tracks, then I recommend "Murder in the Red Barn," "Earth Died Screaming," "In the Colloseum"
posted by Joel at 6:18 PM
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Dude, I just bought the album off iTunes, it was $5.99, what a deal! My friend, Dave, is a big Tom Waits fan. He had put "Little Rain" on one of the mix comp. cassettes he had sent me in Japan. I always thought it was a beautiful ballad all by itself. I'm going to burn myself a copy to listen to in the car as well. Rok on into the 06.
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