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A New Fascination

This week I heard my first whole album by Tom Waits. It's called Rain Dogs and it is some of the most interesting music I've heard in a long time.

How do you describe Waits' music? It's like if a muppet learned to play the guitar and harmonium, became a beat poet, and ran away with the circus, but only hung out with visiting mad scientists. I really like this music for its variety and individualist artistic vision. I don't get the impression that Mr. Waits cares much about commercial potential.

I shall hear more from Waits in the near future.

posted by Mike @ 9:32 PM