First, there is Leonard Cohen's world tour, which started in London. Despite having nothing new (and skipping all of his Dear Heather songs--a personal disappointment), it was a great show and a great concert album. And I finally got to see him live, which is really its own experience.
Tom Waits and Nick Cave, though... they both had offerings last year, but I have yet to sample either of them. Now that all my late-arriving Christmas presents are accounted for, I'm going to start collecting these for myself.
Tom Waits released his own live album, Glitter and Doom, which collects his favorite performances from throughout a 2008 national tour (which I can't believe I missed). There are a few tracks I don't recognize on the listing, but overall I expect it to be a retread of his best stuff. Tom Waits has been described as the greatest live performer of all time, due basically to his improvisation and persona. Having devoured the audio version of his VH1 Storytellers, I believe it...
Nick Cave's offering is a compilation assembling his work on film soundtracks with Warren Ellis, White Lunar. I love their work together, but I'm not quite sure how much I'm going to enjoy this. Sound tracks aren't really a class of music I've ever really consumed--I like albums, whole albums, that you actually spend some time with. I never hit shuffle. Anyway, the soundtrack on The Proposition was an ambient joygasm for me, and I'm looking forward to this documentary on Cambodian prostitutes that he scored.
So, unless I'm dissuaded, I'm going to have to make an Amazon order today.
I'm also going to have to pick up The Death of Bunny Monroe before it becomes impossibly expensive to find.
There is a reason you missed the Tom Waits tour, the closest it got to you was Arizona, as it turns out that was the closest it got to me too. I'm still a little bitter about that.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna write him an angry letter.
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