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Originally Posted by Goofle
I've never really considered Tom Waits to be all that experimental. Sure, he twists things around. Experiments with genres to an extent. But surely This Heat are vastly more experimental?
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Well it's not just genres. Waits uses table legs and two-by-fours to make percussion, creates his own instruments, brought in turntables for the first time on
Bone Machine, has some totally crazy stuff on
The Black Rider, uses a calliope, glass harmonica... however
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Originally Posted by Frownland
I can see where he's coming from as far as Triumph is concerned because the percussion sounds right out of a Waits song, but I pretty much agree with your sentiment. It might just be that Waits is the most experimental thing that TH is familiar with, so that's his way to gauge other experimental records.
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that's probably a fair statement. I don't like experimental music and so yeah I have nothing to compare it to, but even some of the singing at times was Waitsian.
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And another rec from the jazz world (free jazz to be specific  ). But hey, I find it pretty accessible for what it is and you might find yourself tapping your foot to it.
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
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Oh you're really pushing it now aren't you?
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Originally Posted by Josef K
Wait, did you listen to The Smile Sessions or Brian Wilson Presents Smile? If you hate one you'll hate the other, but they're (slightly) different things.
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I looked for one, found the other but I checked Pet_sounds' tracklisting which he sent me via a wiki page and it was virtually the same, except this one hadn't the four instrumentals at the end. I didn't think I was missing anything by not listening to them.
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Anyway, I wonder if you'd like The Idler Wheel by Fiona Apple. It's a great album, she can sing, not too experimental, and the percussion reminded me a little of Rain Dogs the first time I heard it. Will you add that to the list?
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I
think I've heard it, but tbh I can't remember so I'll put it on the list.
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