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What do we make of Tom Waits?
I've just got hold of Orphans and i'm starting to think that between him and Newsom and bloggariddims i'm not going to need to listen to anything else between now and christmas!
I like the range of Waits - he can be incredibly sentimental and then suddenly come over all Harry Parch, soem of the spoken word stuff is particularly affecting.
I suppose what i like about him is that he really is forging ahead with his own 'vision' - i saw the Black Rider a couple of years ago and was struck by how the songs came across as part of a theatrical event.
(sorry, not so lucid but it's been a while..)
I've just got hold of Orphans and i'm starting to think that between him and Newsom and bloggariddims i'm not going to need to listen to anything else between now and christmas!
I like the range of Waits - he can be incredibly sentimental and then suddenly come over all Harry Parch, soem of the spoken word stuff is particularly affecting.
I suppose what i like about him is that he really is forging ahead with his own 'vision' - i saw the Black Rider a couple of years ago and was struck by how the songs came across as part of a theatrical event.
(sorry, not so lucid but it's been a while..)