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Forgone Conclusion posted:Where do I start with Tom Waits? I know everybody is jumping to recommend Swordfish/Rain Dogs, but if you really want a cross-section of Tom Waits, I'd say the one album to get to start would be Alice. It spans his musical stylings really, from "Alice" and "Flowers Grave," which recalls his earlier lounge-singery lowlife persona, to "We're All Mad Here" and "Kommienezuspadt," which match even the tracks from Bone Machine for pure weirdness, to "Watch Her Disappear," in the style of his spoken narratives. Its also, in my opinion, Tom Waits at his best. Released at the same time, Blood Money crosses nearly as much of Waits' stylistic ideas, from "Starvin in the Belly of a Whale" to two of my personal Waits favorites - "All The World Is Green" and "Another Man's Vine." Its not the Swordfish/RainDogs/Frank's aren't great albums, but I think to start out you'll get more of the Tom Waits range from Alice/BloodMoney. Wobegon fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Apr 11, 2008 |
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