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Originally Posted by mordwyr
How is it that you enjoy Tom Waits? This is a serious question--not being snarky. I ask because I listened to my first Tom Waits album last night and was blown away by how bad he is.  |
While I hate to defer to an argumentum ad populum, Waits' work has been critically lauded for decades. From Wikipedia:
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He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also included among the 2010 list of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers and the 2015 list of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
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Speaking for my personal taste, prototypical of the INTJ, I enjoy creative works which are dark, offbeat, antiauthoritarian, and, at times, crude. Waits embodies the eccentric, archetypal outcast with his fascinating lyrical concoctions about the seedy underbelly of the world. And critic Daniel Durchholz described his voice as sounding like
"it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."
I find him endlessly fascinating.