Anyone heard the new Waits yet?

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Supposed to be out later this year. Anyone care to share?

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 31 July 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

its just not leaked as far as i know....

― serge, Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I have it and I like it. Better than Mule Variatons, IMO (but I wasn't as crazy about that one as everyone else). Also a departure as far as sound. Mostly just guitar/bass/drums, he goes easy on the unusual instruments. It's the noisiest and harshest thing he's done in a while. On quite a few songs he uses his voice as a percussion instrument, repeating these scat phrases (they sound looped but aren't.) Still absorbing it but it's good.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i so need this!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the noisiest and harshest thing he's done in a while

Since Bone Machine? How are the ballads?

Also - AKM and I are going to see The Black Rider. has anyone else seen it and liked it that can stoke our anticipation?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There's only one ballad in the usual Waits sense, really, and it's great. It's a solider's letter home kind of thing, and it's obviously about the situation now. In some ways it's noisier than Bone Machine, in that he pushes his voice even harder.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking fantastic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

And the "turntablism"?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I would kill to see the Black Rider, you lucky so and so.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

come to SF!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

How's "Sins of the Father"?

Also are we talking a Mule Variations-style epic record or a more LP-length Blood Money-esque record?

― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I must have an early copy of this...? It's a long album, 15 songs, with some tracks around 6 minutes. Too long, really.

Good turntable bits in the vein of "Eyeball Kid". Waits's son is on the decks. "Sins of the Father" is slower, sort of "Get Behind the Mule"-ish.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, like THREE MONTHS EARLY.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

What's it called? I must know for purposes that have absolutely nothing to do with slsk.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Real Gone"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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