let's talk about this new Tom Waits set

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Pretty great, isn't it?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

expensive, though.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 27 November 2006 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link

What's the street price?

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

$50

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Worth every penny

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

They should sell it as separate discs.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Next Christmas.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

What I want for Christmas: a Tom Waits lyrics refrigerator magnet set. It will include words like "smoke," "skeleton," and "Kenosha."

And if such a thing does not exist, it should.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

he's on letterman tonight, daily show tomorrow

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

gave this a thorough listen all the way through on Thanksgiving, finally. it has really good sequencing as a whole. the covers stand out the most on first go-round, the Ramones one is sweet and the "King Kong" is fucking mind boggling, ultra-distorted vocal rhythm chug like some Tall Dwarfs loop gone haywire.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 07:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't he (and her) write that Ramones cover for the Ramones?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"Didn't he (and her) write that Ramones cover for the Ramones?"

You mean "The Return Of Jackie & Judy"? If he did, he wasn't credited for it.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

still wrapping my head around it...but man..its just so easy to love tom waits...three discs, though is a bit much. its the nature of such a set, but i feel just mired in some odd muck. this is a good and bad thing

― bb (bbia), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I went through a Waits period in the 90s. I know he's good, but nowadays I find it hard to get excited about what he's doing. Was surprised to see Christgau giving this 4 stars in Rolling Stone.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm assuming he's done "I don't wanna grow up" but then whaddoIno...

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Just checked: My goodness, he really did do "The return of Jackie and Julie" !!!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

So to confirm: do the liner notes include zero session info? Not even dates of recording or players?

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm waiting for the best of single disc version.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

No session info or recording dates in liners, just a list of musicians for each disc. Done intentionally, he doesn't want it to be broken down like that and wants it to be considered one thing.

― MarkRichardson (Mark R), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not one thing, whatever Waits wants. Any listener would know the tracks cut a wide swathe through his career. So the idea that basic session info would interfere with a listener's experience of aesthetic wholeness or whatever is nutty. It would be nice to know who's playing some of those wicked guitar licks.

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Holy crap this is good, and I'm only halfway through disc 2.

nowadays I find it hard to get excited about what he's doing

I was skeptical too after the last 4 or so albums, but this is near Bone Machine quality stuff so far.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I gave the box set one listen and it didn't really strike me as being anything at all. The first disc had a few good tracks, but the rest was just..."there". Hoping it will grow on me.

― ... (50 Bourbon St), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

theres alot of winners

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

There are TWO Ramones covers. 'Danny Says' is even better.

― Jay (jaymacke), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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