Reviews (page 9 of 9)
Not for me
not for me
I like artistic forms of expression in music. But the music still has to sound good.
3.5
Singapore was disconcerting. Blind Love is fine if a bit honky tonky. Clap Hands is annoying to listen to. Cemetery Polka feels like a comedy show’s background noise. Jockey Full of Bourbon is... fine...I find his whisper singing annoying and his growling voice contrived. And then I basically stopped listening... felt like chaos for the sake of chaos.
Never actually listened to Tom Waits before. It started off ok - didn't hate it as much as I expected. I like the percussion, the dark tone and minor keys in Clap Hands. I don't usually listen to lyrics but found myself doing so here. But then it all started to go downhill with Cemetery Polka, Rain Dogs. Is this a joke? It's like circus music. It's one I'm struggling to finish.
I feel bad for those of you who listened to the whole album.
The first song.... what the hell haha this whole album sounds like it is based on sea shantys but with a Halloween influence. His voice is so god damn grating to me. Yeah I can’t listen to this.
Husky random crappy tunes
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Not my thing.
I'd never heard Tom Waits before but I was expecting something a lot different. Maybe I'd confused him with Tom Pettty? (the first song spotify tried to play after the album finished was a Petty tune). It was basically one of those "wacky Gen X" albums, sounded like Nick Cave with the offbeat attitude from that Pogues song "Worms" - I can imagine one side-2 song being like this, but the whole album? No idea who would actually listen to it for fun. I sure wouldn't lol. 1/5.
8/10