{"id":1019,"date":"2007-01-12T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/12\/too-much-tom-waits\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T11:40:57","slug":"too-much-tom-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/12\/too-much-tom-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Tom Waits"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did an iTunes run recently, and picked up Tom Waits’s three-disc collection Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards<\/cite>, along with a couple of other albums (TV On the Radio and the Decemberists among them). As is my usual practice, I put these records into the “Party Shuffle” on iTunes, so I get a chance to hear most of the songs a few times, and I’ve been listening to them for the past couple of weeks while I work on the computer.<\/p>\n

The overall reaction is pretty much “Enh.” I continue to not really get the Decemberists or TV on the Radio– they have a couple of good songs each, but I’m not blown away by either. The biggest problem, though, is that the Waits fraction is just too high. It’s a thirty-song collection, and even after removing the completely unlistenable tracks from the rotation, they keep coming up too often. Particularly the “Bastards” material, which is mostly oddball little spoken-word things– many of them are well-done and amusing, but they don’t stand up to repeated listening well at all.<\/p>\n

So, I need more music. And here’s your chance to pick my playlist for me: What should<\/strong> I be listening to right now? I’ll try almost anything once, so there’s no need to limit suggestions by genre or anything– just pimp me some new tunes.<\/p>\n

(This would be another excellent place for lurkers to de-lurk, by the way. I already have a reasonable idea of what the regular commenters are likely to suggest, but if you don’t normally comment, I have no clue. So, surprise me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did an iTunes run recently, and picked up Tom Waits’s three-disc collection Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards, along with a couple of other albums (TV On the Radio and the Decemberists among them). As is my usual practice, I put these records into the “Party Shuffle” on iTunes, so I get a chance to… Continue reading Too Much Tom Waits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}