The new Tom Waits album - Real Gone

[Mistra_Know_It_All]

I find it to be his best work in years

[gold_bug]

1. it's great.

"Bone Machine" is still my fave, though.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. At least since "Bone Machine", and maybe since "Rain Dogs"...

And "Sins of My Father", "Hoist That Rag" and "The Day After Tomorrow" really surprised me, because Tom Waits is one of the last people I'd expect to be making political commentary, even obliquely...

[Phillycat]

3. I am looking forward to getting it.

I read this funny thing about it the other day...

"Cover Story: Tom Waits. Apparently he coughed. More specifically, he coughed out a new album. I didn’t bother reading the cover story or listening to the record, but let’s assume it’s a lugubrious, alcohol-fueled collection of raspy ballads about working-class characters. Is that a fair assumption? Please, somebody who’s heard it, e-mail me and tell me that Tom Waits’s new record is NOT a lugubrious, alcohol-fueled collection of raspy ballads about working-class characters. Wouldn’t that be a kick in the pants? What if it were a collection of lighthearted pop songs sung in Waits’s heretofore unheard wispy falsetto that he keeps locked away in that thorny gulch that he calls a throat for special occasions?"

From http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2475

Edited to add: I love Tom Waits. This just made me LOL!

[jobycom]

6. LOL

That is funny! I love him, too, but youu can't deny he can be portrayed that way.

[jdots]

4. that last song makes tears

The movie " The Ground Truth " (the human cost of war) is the first time I heard the song. Here is Patricia's site for the documentary that will be out soon and do alot to stop this war.
www.thegroundtruth.org
There are some amazing anti war songs out there but with this media you sure won't hear them on the radio.

[redqueen]

5. Definitely his finest stuff in a while.

LOVE Green and How's It Gonna End.