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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Oct 30, 2006 11:31:19 GMT -5
That latest Death Cab record is a fantastic record. I actually quite like the quality of Ben Gibbard's voice.
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 30, 2006 12:12:45 GMT -5
"Tom Waits is stuck on repeat" - - yeah, repeatedly dropping one phat ass original bomb of brilliance after another. The man is soaring on broken crow's wings. He's busily transmuting lead into gold. If Mule Variations were the single album he released in the last decade, it'd be enough, but he just won't quit. Alice, Blood Money, and Real Gone are all gems in this artist's twilight streak. And upcoming is a new one called ORPHANS. I can already tell it's going to deliver the goods. The man is the single most overlooked prodigy the world of baroque folk music has to offer. I only exclude him from my vote because of this idea that he's not a "band" (yeah I know Thunky, picky picky huh;).
If this is what it is to be "stuck on repeat", would that all my favorite artists were doin' it like Tommy the Cat !
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Oct 30, 2006 18:34:57 GMT -5
Yep, thorny, picky and unneccesary. By all means vote for him if you haven't voted yet. And tell me, pal, which Waits album has the song called "Crossroads" about "molding the devil's bullets"? One of the best songs I've heard from him.
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 31, 2006 10:28:05 GMT -5
dude, that song is off the hysterically morbid THE BLACK RIDER. A cut above his average release.... came out around, I don't know, early 90s . . . . it is a concept album of sorts, created in collaboration with an artist named Robert Wilson, and was actually performed as a theatrical production in Germany for a long run. The Black Rider is a German expressionist gothic fairy tale which even William Burroughs helped collaborate on.
The treatise was re-written by William Burroughs based on a folktale called "The Casting Of The Magic Bullets" set in a 1700's kingdom of Bohemia. It is a very dark and lyrical tale involving a young clerk, addiction, & bizarre deals w/the Devil.
Waits only composed the songs & most lyrics - everything else is either Wilson's or Burrough's handicraft. (Burroughs adapted the original folktale into a more modernized libretto. Wilson is the overall Director and oversaw most of the ideas for how the entire production would look & feel. And Tom wrote the songs/lyrics, for the most part.)
I wish I could've seen the stage production - - if only. But the album remains as a lasting testament to a truly original production. One of my favorite albums to listen to in the Fall...
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