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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
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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
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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
Previously unreleased version of a song from his 1999 album Mule Variations. I have no clue what instrument he used for this. It sounds like a distorted guitar but it plays like a piano and you can hear the pedal squeaks? It's very atmospheric and a perfect autumn song for the approaching season.
"Definitely part of the original idea was to do something somewhere between surreal and rural,” Waits said in a statement. “We call it surrural. That’s what these songs are: surrural. There’s an element of something old about them, and yet it’s kind of disorienting….” (Tom Waits via Pitchfork)
I crave new Tom Waits every day of my life
Aug 22, 2024
