Bob wrote:
NP: Tom Waits, "Muriel"
I had to chuckle when I remembered reading that the song was written about a
cigar. (Remember Edie Adams doing their TV COMMERCIALS?) It's from my
favorite Tom Waits album, "Foreign Affairs" which was recorded directly to
2-track with a full symphony orchestra. You can hear on a few tracks where
the horn section is a little aggressive on the attack and blasts the sound
engineers out (no level remixes allowed). Joe Jackson tried a similar
trick a few years later with "Body and Soul."
The Waits record also has probably MY FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME (to date),
BY ANY WRITER: "Burma Shave." The first line: "Licorice tattoo turned a
gunmetal blue, scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town." and later,
"With her knees up on the glove compartment, she took out her barrettes, and
her hair spilled out like root beer and she popped her gum and arched her
back. JUST PHENOMENAL. Seek it out, folks it's worth it.
CC
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