Tom Waites a bum-pirate, well I never.
hahaha how did I not miss that, jesus christ.
Tom Waites a bum-pirate, well I never.
It's not what I wrote is it? You are putting words in my mouth.
Not addressed to me I guess. I think he did what he had to do, not because he was posing.
I've never heard this record and do quite want it to be good, even though post-VU Lou Reed generally causes me immense displeasure.
Anyone?
one of martin rev or alan vega's favourite records!
to call him a "poseur"
whether he came from a rich family or not is not even important. the point is that his music is not good enough so he invented this pretentious-as-fuck personality to sell it. it's a shameless cheap schtick, to be sure, but apparently works really well because it has a hell of a lot of people fooled. his fans will never see through the forgery, no matter how blatantly obvious it is.
basically, the whole point, and the thing that has made him interesting, is that it's always all been an act.
So I take it you also hate David Bowie then. Or Notorious B.I.G.
of the first order.
you look up the word "poseur" in any respectable dictionary and there will be a picture of Tom Waits in his oh-so-transparent and laughable blue collar affectation, pretending to be an ordinary working man down on his luck, posing as the anonymous urban underdog who haunts dives filling up on cheap booze.
whether he came from a rich family or not is not even important. the point is that his music is not good enough so he invented this pretentious-as-fuck personality to sell it. it's a shameless cheap schtick, to be sure, but apparently works really well because it has a hell of a lot of people fooled. his fans will never see through the forgery, no matter how blatantly obvious it is.
its obvious that much of it is fantasy and bullshit. He's the guy who makes up so much stuff that its impossible to give any of it credibility, he doesn't fake authenticity - he's deliberately perverts it...
Number one rule of music appreciation - never judge an artist by their fans... If we judged dancehall and reggae by the sub-moronic rantings of people on DHR we'd never listen to it again...
...but seems to me his tongue is not really in cheek, and he's really trying to make-believe that he is the character he plays.