Alternative to What? by Mark Petruccelli

Mark Petruccelli

Member Since: 8/28/2001

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Submit Date: 9/25/2006
Format: CD
Category: Single Artist

Alternative to What?


Artist	Song
Tom Waits	Ol' 55

Tom Waits	The Heart Of Saturday Night

Tom Waits	Tom Traubert's Blues

Tom Waits	The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)

Tom Waits	Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

Tom Waits	Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits	Jersey Girl

Tom Waits	16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six

Tom Waits	Swordfishtrombone

Tom Waits	Clap Hands

Tom Waits	Jockey Full Of Bourbon

Tom Waits	9th & Hennepin

Tom Waits	Gun Street Girl

Tom Waits	Telephone Call From Istanbul

Tom Waits	Train Song

Tom Waits	Murder In The Red Barn

Tom Waits	Come On Up To The House

Tom Waits	Dead And Lovely

Tom Waits	Make It Rain

Comment:

Although I have stated time and time again that putting together an 80 minute disc of Tom Waits tunes is a next to impossible task, spurred on by the recent excellent Waits mixes by Team Ashcraft (Hemizen and Mahdishain)and a request from a friend at work, I decided to give it a whirl.
First off, this is not a greatest hits or favorites mix. Either of those efforts would take me at least 8 discs. I tried to match my audience, he's eight months away from retirement, very open-minded about music and already familiar with Waits. His favorite songwriter is Dylan and his favorite singer is Iris Dement. In addition, I tried to hit at least one of the following Waits styles: Classic Ballad, Spoken Word, Tin Pan Alley, Murder Ballad, Junkyard Stomp, Tongue-in-Cheek and Hoarse Screamer.
This mix leans a little strongly towards his landmark 80's trilogy (Swordfishtrombones, Raindogs and Frank's Wild Years), does not include anything from his Wilson Play Soundtracks, Movie Soundtracks, Tribute Albums, Benefits or any of the live stuff I have (Although the version of Ol'55 which opens is the guitar version from "Early Years 2".) The order is chronological which I think develops nicely.
A final cut list would be 3 pages long. Title is Tom's comment when informed that "Bone Machine" had just won a Grammy for Best Alternative Album.

Feedback:

mahdishain
Date: 9/25/2006

although you would have to work really hard to create a tom waits mix that i wouldn't think was excellent i always find it interesting to see what songs make the cut. i'll listen to this why i wait for orphans.

anthony lombardi
Date: 9/25/2006

i'm with mahdishain - it's pretty much impossible to make a tom waits mix that isn't fabulous in some sense; but on the other side of the spectrum, it's also impossible to make the perfect tom waits mix cause he has so much great music & so many trademarks that will unfortunately not make the cut for length reasons. so we can bemoan the absences with any waits mix, or we can celebrate what's here. i'm for the latter. this is actually pretty excellent, a fine mix in tribute to a fine artist.