> Do empty (shallow?) vessels make the loudest noise?
Do androids dream of electric sheep? Go back on your Lithtium, Tom.
> The first to start chirpin', at least. Maybe we should nickname you too when you
> act in unison this way "Sturm Und Drang"?
I've never liked Tom Waits, and I felt that way long before I knew
Bruce even existed. If Grossberg happens to agree with my assessment
of Waits as the audio equivalent of sandpaper against the eyeball,
then so much the better.
> Not everyone agrees with you. In fact other knowledgeable people can
> take quite opposite reaction to Waits:
So, what's your point? That I'm not allowed to dislike an artist who
happens to be a darling of the critics?
>
http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Tom+Waits
As Bruce already alluded to, Christgau is one of those stick-up-the-
ass critics who gives five stars to any white artist's exercise in
pretentious self-indulgence. Thanks to performers like Tom Waits, the
Robert Christgaus of this world will never have work a real job.
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/music/tom-waitss-new-album-bad...
> "...Mr. Waits is cherished by his generation of musicians, as skillful
> songwriter and uncompromising outsider..."
>
> Notice the word "cherished"
Again, so what? I'm not allowed to dislike Waits because certain other
people think he's God's gift to American music? If you want the New
York Times to do your thinking for you, go right ahead. But I choose
to do my own damned thinking, thank you very much.
> At Amazon.com, the new album is garnering 4 1/2 stars on average
> through 47 reviews, and many are replying to those reviews favorably,
> too, I might add:
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-As-Me-Limited-Deluxe/product-reviews/B005IG...
The Oscar voters chose "Out of Africa" as Best Picture for 1985, but
the goddamned thing bored me to tears. So I won't be adding the DVD to
my collection, no matter how many 4.5-star reviews it gets at Amazon.
The same goes for Tom Waits, or any other critical darling whose music
leaves me cold. If you disapprove, Tom, it's none of my concern.
> When you want a narrow point of view, ask somebody with tunnel vision
> (or tunnel ears) like B & D, here.
Fuck you, Tom-Larry-Lars-Nick. (Or whatever pseudonym you've now
adopted in the hope of keeping the CIA from spiking your oatmeal with
gonorrhea.)