Red Mosquito

darth_vedder wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:i just can't really stand bob dylan

You sound like my co workers. I can only assume you really like Rod Stewart then.

What is the harm in that? You do realize he was in The Faces, right?

It was more of a reference to the type of music my offending co workers prefer.

verb_to_trust wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Yeah, Bob Dylan does absolutely nothing for me.

I also don't have any time for Tom Waits.

And you all know how I feel about Bruce Springsteen.

Yeah Bruce sucks

I'm not a huge fan of either, but both have songs I really, really love. I'm a big fan of the 'Born In The USA' and "Highway 61 Revisited' albums.

verb_to_trust wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:i just can't really stand bob dylan

You sound like my co workers. I can only assume you really like Rod Stewart then.

What is the harm in that? You do realize he was in The Faces, right?

It was more of a reference to the type of music my offending co workers prefer.

Yeah, after The Faces, things really went downhill fast.

Love me some "Young Turks".

Dylan, Waits, and Springsteen are all among my favorite artists.

Kevin Davis wrote:Dylan, Waits, and Springsteen are all among my favorite artists.

Jakob Dylan?

Kevin Davis wrote:Dylan, Waits, and Springsteen are all among my favorite artists.

That is not an unpopular music opinion, KD.

I like where the show is going mostly because of the source material. There's some good performances mixed in with all of the bad. Rick and Darryl and Maggie and to a lesser degree Glen are all mainly insufferable, but Morgan, Carol, Abraham, Sasha,and to a lesser degree Michonne have been good. Carl had been up and down but mostly down.

Spoiler: show

Having said that, it appears all of the characters I enjoy are the most likely to bite it very soon

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Kaius wrote:I like where the show is going mostly because of the source material. There's some good performances mixed in with all of the bad. Rick and Darryl and Maggie and to a lesser degree Glen are all mainly insufferable, but Morgan, Carol, Abraham, Sasha,and to a lesser degree Michonne have been good. Carl had been up and down but mostly down.

Spoiler: show

Having said that, it appears all of the characters I enjoy are the most likely to bite it very soon

.

Kevin Davis wrote:Dylan, Waits, and Springsteen are all among my favorite artists.

I cannot stand Tom Waits. Everything about him annoys me and grates on me to an almost unbelievable degree.

But I accept that it's like roquefort cheese - either you love it, or it's horrifying to you. I got nothing but respect for people who love Tom Waits - but I am not one of those people.

I can definitely see how Tom Waits annoying. He's very polarizing. I dig him bc I look at him as a character... like some sort of vaudeville/circus performer. And that's it. Not some guy trying to be profound. Through that lens, I find him extremely entertaining and interesting.

I love him, but to be fair, Tom Waits's voice is literally grating.

bodysnatcher wrote:I can definitely see how Tom Waits annoying. He's very polarizing. I dig him bc I look at him as a character... like some sort of vaudeville/circus performer. And that's it. Not some guy trying to be profound. Through that lens, I find him extremely entertaining and interesting.

Yeah me too. It's a little weird when people take him so seriously

Very little of Waits's material seems to come from his personal life, so in that sense I agree with the idea of him being a "character" of sorts, but would reject the idea that this prevents his material from being profound or articulating its own kind of wisdom. It is both highly entertaning on a theatrical level, but also deeply poignant on a personal one.

He is one of the most moving performers I've ever heard (in the studio), even though everything is a story. But then again I will also cry reading a sad book or watching a sad film.

I totally get not liking TW, but he's just an absurdly good song writer and performer.



This is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard

He had a song on Homicide once.

Tom Waits is my very favorite performer/songwriter.

what do you think Tom has been waiting for after all these years?

Godot.

rod stewarts version of downtown train blows waits version to smithereens