And it's a battered old suitcase, to a hotel someplace
Tom Waits - Small Change
This is my first post on my new/old lappy with Linux Mint. Very nice it is too.
My mate Dave (RIP) was wise. Amongst other things he was the first to spot that Morrissey was becoming a wrong-un and would have this discussion with Smiths loyalists over the football, and there were a lot of them in the mid-80's over the Orient. He also liked Tom Waits and would tell me I was underestimating his music by dismissing it. Interestingly, the song that had put me off him was off this album ( [i]The Piano Has Been Drinking[ (Not Me)/i]. They used to show a video of it on the telly a lot, and it just got on my tits.
Waits had popped up in a little cameo on a Richie Cole album I'd bought, and I really liked that, and I suppose my taste for him grew from there. i must say though, I think I got into his later, noisier stuff before I got into this earlier, sing-y stuff.
I like it now, though. I haven't played this for years. It's really good.
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in reply to John Spithead • •This weekend I've dragged the cd crates out and put some in the spare room. I actually got quite excited having a dig and found some forgotten gems to spin.
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