Sad Songs

[Adam J. Thornton]

> Good heavens,
>      Anything, absolutely anything, by Tom Waites. If you aren't sad or
> drunk when you start, you will be when you finish.
>                   Regards,
>                             Mike

At last, a subject on which I can finally claim expertise.

Yes, Tom Waits has written the soundtrack to my life.  Although I don't
feel all of his songs are all that bleak.  Many have rays of hope
illuminating the gloom, and frankly Tom usually ends up making me feel
better.  But for good music for when you got the blues, I'd have to
recommend _Small Change_ and _Blue Valentines_ from the Waits corpus.

If you want something with a bit more percussion and punch, _Bone Machine_
is unbeatable, and _Rain Dogs_ is fantastic too.

But then you don't get to listen to "Ruby's Arms," which is at the end of
_Heartattack and Vine_.  And you don't get the title track from
_Swordfishtrombones_.

Tom Waits and cheap Scotch go together like Tristan and Isolde, like
Pyramus and Thisbe, like Vaslav and Enzian.

Adam
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