expensive, though.

What’s the street price?

$50

Worth every penny

They should sell it as separate discs.

Next Christmas.

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.

he’s on letterman tonight, daily show tomorrow

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.

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

“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.

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

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.

I’m assuming he’s done “I don’t wanna grow up” but then whaddoIno...

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

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

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

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.

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.