ABNorman wrote:Most of my picks reflect what I was actually listening to in the 90's - for a couple of years it was Nirvana and nothing else, then I started raiding my brother's record collection for things like Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, RHCP and REM.
Waits, however, I didn't even know about until my musical tastes branched out in the 00's, but he's since become a top 5 artist for me. Sometimes it's a bit of a slog to get to the gems on his albums, but Bone Machine is a fantastic record pretty much from top to bottom.
Same with me.
Waits is the only one on my team (so far) that I discovered well after the fact. Just got into him in the past few years.
But Bone Machine is a beast. It's my all time favorite album. And Earth Died Screaming was my first favorite Tom Waits song. It's still top five for sure. And, as I said, it's #2 on Bone Machine for me.
And I'm guessing Goin' Out West isn't #1 since you ummed and ahhed about it? I was tossing up Earth Died Screaming or
ABNorman wrote:Most of my picks reflect what I was actually listening to in the 90's - for a couple of years it was Nirvana and nothing else, then I started raiding my brother's record collection for things like Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, RHCP and REM.
Waits, however, I didn't even know about until my musical tastes branched out in the 00's, but he's since become a top 5 artist for me. Sometimes it's a bit of a slog to get to the gems on his albums, but Bone Machine is a fantastic record pretty much from top to bottom.
Same with me.
Waits is the only one on my team (so far) that I discovered well after the fact. Just got into him in the past few years.
But Bone Machine is a beast. It's my all time favorite album. And Earth Died Screaming was my first favorite Tom Waits song. It's still top five for sure. And, as I said, it's #2 on Bone Machine for me.
And I'm guessing Goin' Out West isn't #1 since you ummed and ahhed about it? I was tossing up Earth Died Screaming or
but I just happened to have listened to EDS more recently.
Yeah, my favorite song on the record is a later track. But I don't dislike one single thing about Bone Machine. The other pick you were considering is a song I once described as
I could never get into waits.. Every song I ever heard by him he sounds like he's smashed.. I dl'ed his discography, maybe I'll give him another listen
