Originally posted by the church puddle:
Originally posted by Birdsong:
[b]
Originally posted by core memory:
[b] Swordfishtrombones, and Bone Machine for me
Ooooh - don't have Bone Machine.
Where does that sit, style and chronology speaking? [/b]
Cheers much for adding your great opinion, with my limited experience I'm really not qualified to judge, so I'll just tell a story
My introduction to Tom was the
Franks Wild Years album way back in the year of its release in ’87, while I was in Cornwall for a week with a couple of other people, one of whom was self-financing and (failingly) attempting to make a video doc' about an ‘urban’ sculptor who lived there. None of us had any real experience, albeit much of a clue about what we were actually doing, and I was only there as I was unemployed and it was a free trip all paid for out of ‘the director’s’ pocket, on one of those wacky adventures that sadly only happen in youth and don’t seem to come along when you are much older (and wiser!). The sculptor (who shall remain nameless) played us
Franks', along with another well known Frank, Mr Zappa, and was also partial to a bit of Gong, he also for his amusement liked to trick our sensible director with hash cakes and hash tea, while the crew (me and one other guy) were rather grateful for this generosity!
I didn’t pick up ‘83’s
Swordfishtrombones until ’88, and at that time I went on a date with an almost complete stranger, and played this album to the person when I suggested that at a very late hour we come back to my place, basically an unfurnished room in a shared house where I had a mattress on the floor and was practicing a design concept I’d originated which I called ‘low living’
(in reality an excuse for not owning much). Everything is placed on the floor, including table lights, and things you’d hang on the walls, pictures etc, are hung no more than one or two feet up from the ground. It’s not something you’re likely to see on 60 minute make-over with Claire Sweeney, and although my date thought it was strange, fortunately they didn’t think I was a crazed serial killer or anything.
The only other Waits album's I’ve had are
Bone Machine, my fav’, and
Mule Variations.
