Down There by the Train

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  Tom Waits
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  Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
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  Down There by the Train

'In "The Curves of the Needle", a short essay on the gramophone from 1928, Adorno notes the fundamental paradox of recording: the more the machine makes its presence known (through obtrusive noises, its clumsiness and interruptions), the stronger the experience of the actual presence of the singer -- or, to put it the other way round, the more perfect the recording, the more faithfully it reproduc

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