Rating 4.0/5.0
Where 5.0 is the album that screens you for your intelligence before giving in and to top it all, its not even an album!
Tom Waits tells you not to blend in. But then,he also wants you to buy his record.
Everyone is trying so hard to blend in...its as if mediocrity finds something even more ordinary than itself and blends in with it and the cycle continues unabated till everything seems like a giant ball of turd. In a parallel world, a set of very smart individuals who are definitely not on Facebook are on a permanent, beautiful vacation -- its an all inclusive trip paid by the rest of the world i.e., idiots like us. These are the people who do what they are terribly good at, who do what they want to do, who live life on their own terms -- really on their own terms not 'on their own terms' the way the idiot box would like us to believe. These people - they build, destroy, reveal, hide, control, let go, manipulate, detail, unveil, discover, find and laugh as they give it all away -- they do something new each day, they don't wonder what they'll do to make the evening exciting.
Tom Waits wants us to buy his record so that he can continue doing what he's terribly good at while we screw ourselves. Don't listen to it -- its way too smart -- its a subtle joke hidden behind a beautiful rock record.
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