Superquick review: Tom Waits's "Mule Variations"

[cyrano]

I'm not even finished listening to it! Holy God! Oh! And I'm already reviewing it! (Well, because I'm supposed to go to bed.) Holy God! Tom Waits! Dirty bar room with sticky floor. Back porch with chickens poking around! Several times, I had to just stare at my iTunes, mouth agape, trying to take it in!

And then! There was the "Word Jazz" track, "What's He Building?". Creepity! ZOMG! So good! All of it! Well, except when he channels Randy Newman in "House Where Nobody Lives" which was tiresome but the REST! Jesus God, I almost died. And it keeps getting better! "Chocolate Jesus"! I still have four tracks to go!

Five! Five wags with great enthusiasm and knocking shit off the coffee table!

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking of you while listening to yesterday's other review.
I... I think you know enough about Tom Waits to guess, but if you're into that lo fi, gravelly voice, painfully real lyrics, nontraditional thing, then this album will kick your ass and then hand you a half bottle of rye. And I suspect you are into that.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking of you while listening to yesterday's other review.

Really? Cool. I was planning to check it out, anyway, I like Elbow. Now I have more reason to do so. :)

...this album will kick your ass and then hand you a half bottle of rye.

Heh. Sounds good to me!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

The only thing I'd really heard from them before was their cover of Independent Woman. (The one with the video that had the all-kitten band and the smoking lead singer.) This is pretty different.