Tom Waits - Real Gone
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Tom Waits - Real Gone
There are very few musical endeavors I can easily devote my undivided attention to. I'm an MTV child, raised in the ADD age, and even though I consider myself an album person, and I prefer the album format to a collection of singles, I can't just sit and listen. I usually need to be driving, or playing Snood, or something.
Tom Waits' new album demanded my full attention, and got it without complaint. It's a mindblower, kids. It's like Modest Mouse meets Dr. John on acid. A lot of it is very Voodoo-y, and it's a sandy medicine, to be sure, but there's some fascinating material there. Les Claypool offers bass on three tracks, including "Shake It," one of the highlights, and bizarre soundscapes the are as likely to feature mechanical noises and human grunts and screams as they are to use real instruments are the mode.
Also notable: "Don't Go into That Barn" is crazy and creepy. And "Circus" is a spoken-word story that represents what we should all strive for... if we're fiction writers, that is.
What a crazy album. Any other opinions?
Tom Waits' new album demanded my full attention, and got it without complaint. It's a mindblower, kids. It's like Modest Mouse meets Dr. John on acid. A lot of it is very Voodoo-y, and it's a sandy medicine, to be sure, but there's some fascinating material there. Les Claypool offers bass on three tracks, including "Shake It," one of the highlights, and bizarre soundscapes the are as likely to feature mechanical noises and human grunts and screams as they are to use real instruments are the mode.
Also notable: "Don't Go into That Barn" is crazy and creepy. And "Circus" is a spoken-word story that represents what we should all strive for... if we're fiction writers, that is.
What a crazy album. Any other opinions?
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that's where i got bored and stopped reading this.Generic wrote:There are very few musical endeavors I can easily devote my undivided attention to. I'm an MTV child, raised in the ADD age,
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That gets an unreserved 'ha ha ha'fodroy wrote:that's where i got bored and stopped reading this.Generic wrote:There are very few musical endeavors I can easily devote my undivided attention to. I'm an MTV child, raised in the ADD age,
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Re: Tom Waits - Real Gone
"on acid"? do you even know what it's like to be "on acid"?Generic wrote:.......It's like Modest Mouse meets Dr. John on acid.
i doubt it.
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Hey, never underestimate the powers of a good liberal arts college.
No seriosuly, I'm clean. It's a figure of speech, mang. I like the album a lot, needless to say.
No seriosuly, I'm clean. It's a figure of speech, mang. I like the album a lot, needless to say.
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I like my avatar a lot too. I keep staring at it and picturing paryformojo laughing like Beavis. Which makes it even funnier.
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I aim to please!Generic wrote:I like my avatar a lot too. I keep staring at it and picturing paryformojo laughing like Beavis. Which makes it even funnier.
Just got it last night and really love it. I'd heard a few people say it was a bit of an experimental departure for Waits, what with the scratchin' and all, but I really don't hear that. I hear a very solid Tom Waits album that incorperates new musical elements to expand the Waits sound. SO far there is not a song that I don't like. I'll have to give it several more listenings, but for right now this is right up there with Air's "Talkie Walkie" and Modest Mouses' "Good News..." as a pfm album of the year contender.
White people, is you funky?
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Well, it is a departure. There is no piano. But yeah, as far as I was concerned, nothing this year came close to Modest Mouse till this album came out.
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