ken,
i had the same experience. i heard the manhattan transfer and ran to the
street to buy the whole tom waits catalogue! thanks god for listening
stations!!! [no offense intended, TW fans....]
wallyK
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De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de slarty
Enviado el: Miircoles, 08 de Agosto de 2001 04:05 a.m.
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: Re: T. Waits "Foreign Affairs" NJC
I could possibly get that impression listening to Tom sing it but if I hear
it
from a different source such as Manhattan Transfer, where I first heard the
song,
I don't find that at all. When I did first hear FA from MH on the radio I
went
out
of my way to find out who wrote it. I was quite surprised to find that TW
did.
That's why I was looking to see if I could find any other TW songs similar.
So far I haven't found any; Though I haven't had time to check out his whole
book.
Ken
Wally Kairuz wrote:
> totally from a songwriter's point of you: FA sounds like a poem that was
> later set to music. i think that most of the SAT words here are used
rather
> [and maybe intentionally] awkwardly and verbosely, as if the character in
> the song had heard them from the ''cultured'' and were trying to sound
> ''elegant'', like a bum trying to pass for a gentleman, if you know what i
> mean. maybe TW did write FA -- as a character study of sorts.
> wallyK, np: ''infected'' by the the [this a day completely devoted to the
> 80's]
