Pot-Luck-Humor - Tom Waits, But You Shouldn't!

 

The music and arrangements are what creates the atmosphere that sustains this album. The accordion on "Blow Wind Blow" sounds like it was lifted straight from a 1930's era Popeye cartoon. The clanking, squawking, grinding guitars and the eerie wobble of the Optigan, a toy organ that Waits uses in ways its makers never intended. (The rooster on "I'll Be Gone" is actually from the Optigan.)  Nothing is normal here, which fits in with the theme of dreams. And underlying everything is the same kind of sorrow that motivates the best American music; the blues, in short. It's about wandering, whether in your mind or in reality or both.

If you have to be lost, it might as well be with Tom Waits, who can tell a shaggy dog story better than anyone.

Tom Waits is an oddity, complete unto himself, and probably one of the greatest artists America has ever produced, although most Americans don't realize it. This is one of his best and most completely realized albums to date.  There's no apostrophe in "Franks", by the way!

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

part1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1ya5zv

part2

http://www.sendspace.com/file/zapvyt

 

Lyrically, this is light years beyond so much music out there. Namely all of it. Waits never stoops to cliche, never resorts to the old, crusty, stale rhymes and metaphors that haunt the minds of most song-smiths. His lyrics are restlessly inventive and vivid. When he tells a story he lures you in, shows you the scene and leaves you there to figure out what happened and find your own way home again.

Tom Waits - Bone Machine

part1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pbwabd

part2

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fnzp99

part3

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fvfbrj

 

Tom Waits - The Early Years Volume One

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7e6vrz

 

Tom Waits' first album sounds nothing like anything else he ever did. His voice is even nice.  "Martha" is probably the saddest song ever written.

Tom Waits - Closing Time [1973]

part1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/yq0uul

part2

http://www.sendspace.com/file/q6lbjf

part3

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1m0ai9

 

Tom Waits - Alice [2002]

part1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/icxqdl

part2

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xomv8z

 

Tom Waits - Asylum Years [1986]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U2ETN3QW

 

If you want pop and jazz, blues and acoustic, raveups and hoedowns, and lyrics you actually want to read like a book -- there's no way you can go wrong with Rain Dogs. I don't doubt this is the one album that would make ALL Waits fans' top 3.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

part1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/95xooa

part2

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pc3jki

 

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