The Official Tom Waits Thread

[Trollheart]

I'm not one for the simple "what do you think of this artist?" thread, as you know, but hell, Waits deserves his own thread. I know a lot of people here are into him, and there are few who don't at least know who he is. So let's have a discussion about the man who has confounded music critics and influenced more musicians than you could shake a stick at, should you wish for some reason to do that.