Tom Waits

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon May 19, 2008 8:36 pm

Fourth row orchestra seats in St. Louis.

You can all suck it.

Bruce

jjsonick · Post by **jjsonick** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:24 am

You're a bastard! I've still never seen him live. Grrrr....

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Tue May 20, 2008 3:56 pm

I still have to listen to something by him to know why everyone in the world thinks he's the cat's tits.

jjsonick · Post by **jjsonick** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:33 pm

First listen to Frank's Wild Years.

Then listen to Rain Dogs.

And note that he does a good deal of genre-hopping, so give each album a full listen.

Then some other highlights:

Swordfishtrombones
Small Change
The Black Rider

After that you can venture far and wide. His more recent albums are solid, but with the exception of The Black Rider, I'm not in love with any of them the way I am with his 80's and late 70's stuff.

If you can find the vinyl of the double-album Asylum Years, that's an EXCELLENT collection of his 70's stuff. The CD version of Asylum Years stupidly swaps out some essential songs for mediocre ones.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:07 pm

Just wanna chime in to say that I have third-row orchestra seats, but we are all the way over to the right so I don't know if it's really better.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Wed May 21, 2008 8:41 pm

hygraed wrote:Just wanna chime in to say that I have third-row orchestra seats, but we are all the way over to the right so I don't know if it's really better.

In St. Louis?

Bruce

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Thu May 22, 2008 3:58 pm

Nope, in Tulsa.

I'm actually pretty surprised he's coming here; we haven't gotten anyone good since last July, when we had GWAR and the Flaming Lips.