Tom Waits = Salvador Dali?
Some more on Tom Waits that adds more context to the discussion of his influence on popular music.
From the Northwest Indiana News - "Waits' genius fusion of skid row-meets Salvador Dali -- and that's a description that merely grazes the surface without getting scholarly -- hasn't aged at all; his first three albums, 1975's 'Nighthawks at the Diner' particularly, would be manna to music fans today if they were brand new and simultaneously confounded the unadventurous ear.
"More than two decades after the fact, his one-two punch of 1983's 'Swordfishtrombones' and 1985's 'Rain Dogs' remain high points in that decade's musical offerings. The masses, to a degree, may have caught up with Waits with his 'Variations,' yet his most recent album, 2004's 'Real Gone,' is arguably on par with 'Trombones' and 'Dogs,' which places Waits in the rare league with the likes of Neil Young and Bob Dylan as artists who remain vital decades past their heyday."
From the Northwest Indiana News - "Waits' genius fusion of skid row-meets Salvador Dali -- and that's a description that merely grazes the surface without getting scholarly -- hasn't aged at all; his first three albums, 1975's 'Nighthawks at the Diner' particularly, would be manna to music fans today if they were brand new and simultaneously confounded the unadventurous ear.
"More than two decades after the fact, his one-two punch of 1983's 'Swordfishtrombones' and 1985's 'Rain Dogs' remain high points in that decade's musical offerings. The masses, to a degree, may have caught up with Waits with his 'Variations,' yet his most recent album, 2004's 'Real Gone,' is arguably on par with 'Trombones' and 'Dogs,' which places Waits in the rare league with the likes of Neil Young and Bob Dylan as artists who remain vital decades past their heyday."
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