leon1001

There are two Tom Waits the piano bar jazzy-bluesy guy from the first albums and the more experimental weird one from a second era. I like them both but I enjoy and appreciate more the second one. This albums seems to be trapped in the middle. Most of the songs sounds like they belong to the first Tom Waits, but there is a couple that sound more experimental. That is reason that I don't give this one 5 stars, it feels incoherent at times. Still most songs are great in their own.

As I approach the 100 albums I realize that in genres that dominated on different eras there are the greats that everybody knows about even if you have never listened to them, some great unknowns that for some reason didn't get the recognition the others did and then there are some acts that just are not as great but they belong to the same category of music. I've listened to a lot of brit pop, some grunge, some country that is nothing great and this album is precisely that on the blues rock. It's good, every song has the energy and the talent of other rock blues acts but it feels like it's the cheap version, the copy of the copy. It's a good album that surely I won't ever listen to again.

Took me 3 full listens of this album to start appreciating it. And I liked it. Good melodies. Probably just not the genre I listen to the most. It's kind of a folk pop rock. I knew that there was something there and I found it

I don't know. I liked it a lot.

Like hell was I going to listen to a 3 hour album!! I looked for a ranking of the songs and listened to the top 12 and I thought: a great album will come out of this. But no. It's minimalistic in its most boring form. At least the other bad albums had the decency of of being less than 1 hour long.