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Start with the album Rain Dogs.
Put simply without an essay, if you like the weirder rougher stuff move forward to the album “Swordfishtrombones”. If you like less rough stuff start from the beginning with the album “Closing Time.” Or just start with a playlist I linked above to get a taste.
Feb 3, 2024
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It’s as if you are listening to man lose his mind, his reality warping and shifting album after album, growing darker, grittier, and kookier. Over an almost forty year span, the evolution of Waits’ voice is fucking insane, it becomes grittier and raspier with every album, it’s as if in the breaks between recording he had been consuming glass and stones. The instrumentation too grows more grotesque and experimental over the course of his career morphing from a jazzy, bluesy sound into something wholly abnormal, perhaps most exemplified by 1985’s ‘Rain Dogs’.
Apr 16, 2024
I’ve been a Waits fan for ages but THIS!!! is probably my second favourite album of his (behind Rain Dogs). Recorded live in front of an audience for that juicy atmosphere. Love spinning it on rainy nights and / or while hungover. Check it out if you’re that way inclined!!! Peace out champs X X X
Jan 16, 2025
I love listening to this album sitting inside, feet up watching a snowstorm or thunderstorm. Makes me feel like a jaded film noir detective at his desk, back to his desk and the door, about to start a monologue. Season’s Trees or any of the songs with Jack White or Norah Jones are the highlights.
Nov 22, 2024
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The whole staff just sang happy birthday to some guy in the kitchen. All the patrons are diner people. At least at this hour. Forks crash into plates and knives scrape butter and jam on toast. It’s the perfect volume. Want to read my book but too content. Want to get pancakes but trying to stay light. Dont want to feel it in my face.
Jan 25, 2024
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Jan 28, 2024
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Been on huge memoir kick as I’m currently writing book in the first person. Going to list two here and save this list to come back to.
Always Crashing The Same Car by Matthew Specktor is great book about the guy himself whom I knew nothing about and artistic desperation and ambition focused in Los Angeles. It runs through many stories of The well known and not well known. He would actually be a great person on this app.
The other is the opposite in tone. Just Kids by Patti Smith. A delightful more hopeful and romantic read about similar subject that just makes you feel great to be an artist and like you’re doing everything right. New York and rock n roll heavy. A lot on the Chelsea hotel.
Jan 23, 2024