Yes, I agree. This is a bonafide album. It is one of the few
orchestrated albums that actually works and doesnt come off as contrived.
Also, the lyrisicm is T-riffic. And the Duet with Bette Middler aint half
bad.
Blair
NP: the fan blowing heat
>From: "c Karma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "c Karma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: T. Waits "Foreign Affairs" NJC
>Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:41:40 +0000
>
>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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