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I'm quite enjoying these post dub-step Flavas at the mo.
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Yeah i know... it was tongue in cheek.
I saw the tag come up on last.fm and thought it had to be used. http://www.last.fm/music/SBTRKT/+tags
Still a great record though !
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i'm just coming out of a massive tom waits bender that flavoured an entire 2 weeks in portugal (whilst reading the unauthorised barney hoskyns biog "low side of the road").
it was a funny experience. made me much more aware, and maybe more appreciative of the earlier stuff, but it somehow diminished a lot of the mystique around him too. not sure if that was as a result of reading about what a odd-cat he actually is in terms of constructing this persona, living in it to the extent of becoming it... then finding peace with his wife and reverting to merely playing the old character in public and feircely defending his (one imagines much more mundane) private life. you wonder why he feels the need to be so defensive, ornery and evasive all the time? he's an odd one alright. by the end of the book i just felt sorry for him.
i think that listening to so much of his stuff back to back had the result of revealing quite how similar so much of it is. for all of the length and depth of his catalogue you can't help noticing that he basically made the same record (albeit getting incresingly gruff with each iteration)from the early 70s to the mid 80s, then switched over from the jazznik crooner character to vaudeville freakshow "frank" character on swordfish (the formula perfected on raindogs) and has been releasing more of less the same record (again getting increasingly gruff with each iteration) ever since. bone machine gets a lot of love but i think mule variations is my favourite of the post raindogs bunch.
can't post no youtubes from work so you'll have to imagine singapore, shore leave, jockey full of bourbon, time, in the neighbourhood, heart of saturday night, big in japan, heartattack and vine take it with me when i go, tom traubert's blues, clap hands and ummmm i dunno, something weird like the eyeball kid or frank's wild years. i could pretty much forgive him anything for any one of those songs. and that there's *usually *a nugget or two of gold on each album means that all in all, i think i emerged from the waits bender a bigger fan than before.
shall be wearing my flashback "tom" t-shirt to do my gig tonight.
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this is my favourite tom wates song.
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i knew some cunt was going to go there! to be fair, it's shit even when tom waits sings it.
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heard this yesterday on Radio FIP..
brilliant sound from Paris..
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Radiohead's best two albums; Kid A and Amnesiac.
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i think mule variations is my favourite of the post raindogs bunch.
Really?! I think mule variations was pretty patchy, I must say I dont disagree with you on alot of your points, but I still think he's brilliant at what he does, no matter how tom-being-tom its become. I think overall Franks Wild Years is my favourite album (if I actually had to pick one....god forbid)
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you have a point. by "post raindogs" i guess i actually meant post the swordfish/raindogs/frank' trillogy. ah, i love him anyway. i kind of think of mule variations as the first of the "recent" era records. god, i sound like a cunt. you're right it IS patchy. but it's got "big in japan", "get behind the mule", "cold water", "pony", "what's he building in there?", "eyeball kid", "picture in a frame" and "take it with me" on it. eight absolute stone cold killer tracks... admitedly there's seven other sort of "meh" tracks on there. he needs an editor.
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loads of rep for Dooks.. Waits is a man for all times
this is my sound track. not a bad beat to take on the day...
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this made me lol
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012fsqk/David_Rodigan_14_07_2011/
Some good reggae, shame about David's shit talking in between!
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just sit back and groove on a rainy day....
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Dirty Beaches - Speedway king - YouTube
To Hushovd's 110km/h...
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