Sad Songs

[Henry M]

Anybody ever listen to the soundtrack from "One from the Heart?" 
Music was by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle. It was great. The movie was 
by Coppola and was also a goodun.

On 12 Jan 97 at 11:50, Adam J. Thornton wrote:

> > 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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> the choad! I'd never sell any of 'em, just | "Skippy, you little
> fool, you are off on an- drive me a different car every day | other
> of your senseless and retrograde depending on how I feel.":Tom
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> 

Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
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