ok. i'm interested in getting some tom waits sutff, be he has so many albums, and i have absolutely no idea where to start. does anyone have any recommendations?
Get "Blue Valentines" and "Nighthawks At The Diner". The first has a scarily low cover of "Somewhere" from West Side Story and the second is a live LP recorded a few years before "Blue Valentines". Waits does these surreal introductions to most of the songs, talking about ham and carrots and the dish running away with the spoon. And fog, that sort of stuff. Also, make these part of your post-Christmas non-b&s buying sprees: "Harvest" by Neil Young, Bob Dylan's soundtrack to "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" and PJ Harvey's new one (I forget what it's called). Unreal Tournament: not only is it the best computer game ever, but it is totally the opposite of Belle & Sebastian. Futuristic, thrashy, violent and hi-tech. How come I like both is beyond me. I take it that's enough content. C'mon, it is Christmas. -- James (james@chachacha.co.uk) http://www.chachacha.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+