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Music Appreciation

MayReasonRule

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1. This Entire Album Is An Astonishing Musical Journey Through The Dark Smoky Nights Of My Past

Reply to sestina (Original post)

Wed Feb 5, 2025, 01:56 PM

Feb 2025

I and my honey encountered the album in 1990.

I sing and play guitar for Please Call Me Baby and Fumblin' With The Blues.

Tom is soooo guttural and growly on the rest of his albums which is cool...

But... The Heart of Saturday Night , his lyrical tapestries, instrumentation, arrangement, and smooth vocal performances combine to make this album unlike any of the rest of his myriad of performances.

Our daughter grew up asking us to play Depot, Depot repeatedly...
She's an aficionado to this day!

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Tom Waits - Please Call Me, Baby [View all] sestina Feb 2025 OP

This Entire Album Is An Astonishing Musical Journey Through The Dark Smoky Nights Of My Past MayReasonRule Feb 2025 #1

I agree about this albumn sestina Feb 2025 #4

"I'm gonna' paint myself blue... At the depot..." MayReasonRule Feb 2025 #5

Very good sestina Feb 2025 #7

Great song. He's an amazing songwriter. There s a huge chunk of my heart that is attached to this Tom Waits era. mjvpi Feb 2025 #2

He is, and my heart, too sestina Feb 2025 #3

Listening to music sestina Feb 2025 #6

I have to kids, now in their late 20s. It's been fun watching them find those songs and styles. mjvpi Feb 2025 #8

Maybe that happens because sestina Feb 2025 #9