Albums that could have been amazing but are just kind of whatever.

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>>68228942
My thoughts exactly mate. I liked mule variations a lot more. Like hes good but this certainly was not his best.

>>68228962

>>68228962
His best work was in the 90s.

honestly I find Tom Waits and any 'literary' type music so fucking boring.

>>68229044
What do you mean by this?

>>68229021
his 70's stuff is actually quite good

Martha is the most amazing song to be sung by a 23 year old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Mse62NFl4

he just catches that feeling of regret of longing for a girl you're pretty sure you could have gotten if you had just played your cards right

it's such a great song about opportunities lost that it's hard to believe someone so young wrote it

Rain Dogs has Waits be all in control - yeah, there are different things on the album sides to get and all that - it's really an incredible album - the whole ride from Singapore to Tanto 'Till They're Sore is incredible - no lies, that's my all time favorite for 5 first tracks of an LP and whatever shit that wants to challenge that perfection has their work cut our for them

But I can totally get along with OP's shit, because the album gets worse after having the greatest opening 5 ever!

Yeah, shit's 18 tracks in total and several of them suck ass: Big Black Mariah, Hang Down Your Head, Time, Rain Dogs, Bride of Rain Dog, Midtown.

So many poor tracks - Rain Dogs LP is so strong on A-side making itself the best album ever made, it's an embarrasment who bad the B-side is in comparison - especially when it gets to end like winners like Downtown and Anywhere I Lay My Head. x_x

>>68229044
how could find Waits' rendition of Martha to be boring - I think it's easily the greatest example of growing old with regrets - yeah, the way the song plays out is boring, but it's the most touching real thing that so many people getting to middle-age identify with that it's an incredible peace of work for someone so young

the older I get, the more I identify with that damn song

>>68229349
9th and Hennepin is honestly my favorite.

>>68229349
>Yeah, shit's 18 tracks in total and several of them suck ass: Big Black Mariah, Hang Down Your Head, Time, Rain Dogs, Bride of Rain Dog, Midtown.
You have fucking garbage taste.

>>68229101
it's just boring. like listening to some guy recite Beat poetry or stories about sailors and shit. I don't give a fuck.

>>68229044
it sounds like you've never listened to tom waits
i have no idea how you'd get the impression that his music is 'literary'

>>68229349
>time
>not the best song
Holy Shit

>>68229513
It's cool man he's not for everyone

>>68229584

there has to be a really limited group of people who really get the full value of time, right?

Like, I won't rag on anyone who that song really speaks to - but it has to be a pretty small group of the whole audience- like all the glory to anyone who really feels a Tom Waits song - I got nothing against someone really feeling all that shit - Tom's so great when just speaks to you

>>68229660
totally. honestly there was no good reason for me to say my piece there. makes no difference.

like, if you feel like getting emotional over a Tom Waits closer, there is Small Change...

There's Small Change Got Rained On With His Own 38, followed by I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue]]

I disagree with OP. Rain Dogs is my favorite Waits album, and I think it's perfect from start to finish.

Of course the immortal Step Right Op is an undying classic....

It turns a SANDWICH into a BANQUET

It's EFFECTIVE, it's DEFFECTIVE

You got it buddy,
the LARGE print giveth
the SMALL print taketh away

>>68228942
The piano has been drinking

the piano has been drinking


not me


not me

>>68228942
high good to bad ratio definitely but come on there aren't many albums with that many good songs

>>68228942
>>68228962
Are you people fucking insane??
>>68230066
This

>>68229044
whats that supposed to mean