let's talk about this new Tom Waits set

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.

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.

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.

theres alot of winners

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