Ha ha. At least I'm not the only one.
It seems to me that if Tom can write that good he seems to be
wasting his talent, to some extent, keeping to the low life bum
style that he usually writes in.
Like Wally I'm not trying to turn TW fans into "incendiary souls"
I'm just stating my opinion.
Wally Kairuz wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> 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]
