Tom Waits
Big Time
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AMG Review of Big Time
William Ruhlmann
All Music GuideBig Time is an 18-track live album running nearly 68 minutes, its material drawn mostly from Tom Waits' trio of recent studio albums, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Franks Wild Years. (One track, "Falling Down," is a previously unissued studio recording. The performance of "Strange Weather" marks Waits' first recording of a song he and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, wrote for Marianne Faithfull.) It's challenging music, made somewhat more accessible in a live context. Waits' performances tended to be somewhat over the top on the studio versions of these songs, but before a live audience his theatrics seem more appropriate, and he even includes a mini-set of piano allads. Still, it takes him until the seventh tune, "Way Down in the Hole," to bring the audience to life, and he rarely speaks, in marked contrast to the earlier live-in-the-studio album Nighthawks at the Diner. But Big Time makes a useful sampler of Waits' later work that might enable a listener to determine whether to invest in the studio recordings.
SO tempted to sell my Tom Waits ticket for this Saturday night
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but I won't. I mean it's TOM WAITS! And it's his first ever show in Columbus, and most definitely his last. But look at some of these Craigslist postings...I am so poor and I could use the money...but I could use 2 hours of live Tom Waits more!WANTED: 2 Tom Waits Tix! Will trade for skiing in CO! - $400 I will trade 3 days of skiing for 2 people at Arapahoe Basin, CO for these tix. Please em...
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Tom Waits thru The Wire
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I was thinking the past few days about how TV has introduced me to music. I wrote before how The Kids In The Hall got me hooked on surf music. Nowadays I'm a BIG fan of the police show The Wire. I'd heard Tom Waits before watching this show and it never really hit me but when I heard "Way Down In The Hole" as the theme song for this show, his music started to click a little more for me. I think...
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