Comments on: Rediscovering classic Tom Waits http://teabowl.net/2007/12/22/rediscovering-classic-tom-waits/ Music, books, art, vegetarian food, life. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rustum http://teabowl.net/2007/12/22/rediscovering-classic-tom-waits/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Rustum Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:27:11 +0000 http://teabowl.net/2007/12/22/rediscovering-classic-tom-waits/#comment-2 Hey Carsten. Egad! Now I feel a bit embarrassed that I drifted out of my Neil Young mood and haven't returned to that post to complete it. But thanks for opening up a further flood of memory - driving to Kuzmas (no apostrophe either) in your white Golf, after a Lansdowne Local meeting, me (scotch) against you and Joy (bourbon or JD). And what was the soundtrack? In my mind it was BloodSugarSexMagik. I think it had just come out and via both your and Joy's continual playing of it, it, forcibly, became a favourite album to me as well. But you know me and my austere focus. I have latched onto Mr Waits's 'The Heart of Saturday Night' because I can't do his paired-down stuff, where he tries too much to sound like or outdo Nick Cave (LOL). I organised my music on computer recently and also tore my hair out trying to decide where to put Mr Waits. After three or four changes, I decided on 'folk', even if my favourite Waits album is rather jazzy in an accesibale way. Can't really say why. Perhaps I am broadening the definition of 'folk'. Perhaps it has to do with the lyrical poetry based around ordinary experience, even if urban and gritty. Recent re-discoveries: Redhouse Painters, Camper van Beethoven, Carmel. But Waits is now on the platter... Take care. Hey Carsten. Egad! Now I feel a bit embarrassed that I drifted out of my Neil Young mood and haven’t returned to that post to complete it. But thanks for opening up a further flood of memory – driving to Kuzmas (no apostrophe either) in your white Golf, after a Lansdowne Local meeting, me (scotch) against you and Joy (bourbon or JD). And what was the soundtrack? In my mind it was BloodSugarSexMagik. I think it had just come out and via both your and Joy’s continual playing of it, it, forcibly, became a favourite album to me as well.

But you know me and my austere focus. I have latched onto Mr Waits’s ‘The Heart of Saturday Night’ because I can’t do his paired-down stuff, where he tries too much to sound like or outdo Nick Cave (LOL).

I organised my music on computer recently and also tore my hair out trying to decide where to put Mr Waits. After three or four changes, I decided on ‘folk’, even if my favourite Waits album is rather jazzy in an accesibale way. Can’t really say why. Perhaps I am broadening the definition of ‘folk’. Perhaps it has to do with the lyrical poetry based around ordinary experience, even if urban and gritty.

Recent re-discoveries: Redhouse Painters, Camper van Beethoven, Carmel. But Waits is now on the platter…

Take care.

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