Tom Waits’ 10 most beloved disks and why he loves them.
The Observer | OMM | ‘It’s perfect madness’:
On hearing Nessun Dorma for the first time:
It was like giving a cigar to a five-year old.
On Rant in E Minor by Bill Hicks:
He will correct your vision. His life was cut short by cancer, though he did leave his tools here.
The roughest diamond in the mine, his musical inventions are made of bone and mud. Enter the strange matrix of his mind and lose yours. This is indispensable for the serious listener. An expedition into the centre of the earth, this is the high jump record that’ll never be beat, it’s a merlot reduction sauce. He takes da bait. Dante doing the buck and wing at a Skip James suku jump. Drink once and thirst no more.
And I’ve heard very few of these: his feelings about Nessun Dorma match mine, so perhaps I need to pick up a few of these.