1001 Albums Summary

The instrumentations are really good, I like the lickey guitars. I'm not a fan of the over the top growling songs, and I like the songs where Waits's vocals are as vulnerable as they are rough. I didn't think I'd like it much as I already tried to listen to Waits a few years back while having him in the background and I remember changing the record pretty early on, I don't remember which one it was. It's a pretty bleak and dark record, this one. I'm not usually one for this kind of spoken word narration that this has at times but I liked the mood. I liked Shore Leave. The text is really good and I liked the sound like a growling dog that moves around the channels. I like Johnsburg, Illinois though it's short and simple. The vocals are really nice here. I like Franks Wild Years, the text is really funny. I like how casual he is with the coughs and everything. I like Soldier's Things, I was reading something at the same time as listening and the words pulled me in. Anyway it's not really something that I listen to very much myself and it was better than I thought it would be but in an unusual way. In a sense it was exactly what I thought it was gonna be but after it ended and I played it a second time I like it much better suddenly than at the moment of first listening. And I know songs grow on you but this was a very sudden and violent change so that's something special.