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4 | 16.00% |
Great |
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14 | 56.00% |
Good |
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3 | 12.00% |
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2 | 8.00% |
Poor |
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1 | 4.00% |
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1 | 4.00% |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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![]() ![]() 01. Chicago 02. Raised Right Men 03. Talking At the Same Time 04. Get Lost 05. Face To the Highway 06. Pay Me 07. Back in the Crowd 08. Bad As Me 09. Kiss Me 10. Satisfied 11. Last Leaf 12. Hell Broke Luce 13. New Year's Eve |
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Music Addict
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Sweden
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Need to pick it up soon, it has been getting raving reviews. It will be the first album I actually payed for since I was about 13. I feel I owe Mr. Wait some money at this point.
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Mate, Spawn & Die
Join Date: May 2007
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I'm digging it a lot, especially the first few songs. I could do without a few of the draggy ballads in the middle of the album, but that's an ongoing disagreement Mr. Waits and I have been having for many, many years. It's also interesting to me that, after about a quarter century of progressively getting dirtier and dirtier sounding with each album, this one has the cleanest production since Swordfishtrombones. I was a little surprised by this but it actually sounds great.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Heard it before it was released through the advanced streaming program they were doing and loved every minute of it. Definitely going to have to pay for this one.
Interestingly, this is my only contention with the album. I love the dirty production of his albums, especially on Mule Variations, and it's absence here takes the album from Perfect to Great. The production still has that signature post-Swordfishtrombones Waits album sound though, and the songwriting is incredibly strong. I half agree about the ballads, but I've always liked the ballads of his post-James Taylor clone days. The ones on Mule Variations are his strongest, in my opinion. |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Al Dente
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Texas
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Y'know, I've always had this line drawn in the sand when it comes to the later works of Mr. Waits (and by later I mean post-Rain Dogs). I usually stick to his earliest of early works, but I'm thinking I might wanna give this a shot.
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Mate, Spawn & Die
Join Date: May 2007
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I agree with you about the Mule Variations ballads, they are definitely a cut above, especially "Picture in a Frame" and "Take It With Me". Except for that album and a few other ballads here and there by him, I generally wish he steered clear of that style. Alice, for example, is my least favorite of his albums because it's almost entirely filled with ballads. |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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In general I think I've just avoided his material that was written for plays. I don't know why, I guess I assumed it wouldn't be as personal or quality, but listening to some of the songs on YouTube I think I've probably been missing out.
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