Tom Waits writes songs I like. Rather...Tom Waits writes songs (like alot of songwriters I enjoy) that take me too another place. This place I cannot begin to describe. Someone...rather...all have been there sometime in their life. It's up to them to tell their story. I shall tell mine.
If you are lucky enough, Tom Waits put out an album about a year or so ago called "Real Gone". On my list of Tom Waits albums it's not my favorite cover to cover. However, it is steadily climbing the charts. There are 15 standard tracks on it, and the last track on the album brings more emotion/HOPE/love to my heart than 99.3% of the songs that have come out in the past 25 years. The song is entitled, "The Day After Tommorrow". First and foremost I beg you...do not burn this song if you have access. It is too beautiful to steal from him. It deserves your money. He made it and it moves you (if you take a moment to listen to it, and think about the lyrics he is saying), and it causes you to think about what we are doing as humans.
Tom Waits causes me to cry. I have said it. There are times i have musical emotions so intense I almost can not handle them in terms of being able to keep myself together.
I could care less. Bring me the friends that experience this kind of emotion (in music alone) and I would consider it a priveledge to call them me chaps.
Please listen to this song and buy Tom Waits material along with material by Brad Otts, www.bradotts.com , www.noelleandbrad.com . It will make you happy. I am thusly tired.
I love all of you.
Cheers
brad
posted by Brad Otts @ 1:03 AM
2 Comments:
i'm not really sure what you're talking about, but you should check out Matt Pond PA's new album Several Arrows Later. pretty good stuff!
by the way, Gram Parsons and Emmylous Harris' cover of Love Hurts is freaking amazing!
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