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Waits' first release on indie Epitaph Records is also his first new album in six years. Like his literary cousins Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski, he returns to the same down-and-outs and restless souls, this time with more rumble, kick and bluesy musings than barroom rasped ramblings. Hobo yowler "Cold Water" will rattle in your head for days. Quieter moments are searing, Waits' gravelly voice bending like an old tree under the blade of a pocketknife. To top it off, he spikes the album with oddities like "Eyeball Kid." On Mule Variations, the music pounds and the lyrics...
Waits' first release on indie Epitaph Records is also his first new album in six years. Like his literary cousins Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski, he returns to the same down-and-outs and restless souls, this time with more rumble, kick and bluesy musings than barroom rasped ramblings. Hobo yowler "Cold Water" will rattle in your head for days. Quieter moments are searing, Waits' gravelly voice bending like an old tree under the blade of a pocketknife. To top it off, he spikes the album with oddities like "Eyeball Kid." On Mule Variations, the music pounds and the lyrics...
...friends admit to knowing the title, let alone owning the disc. But I was determined to dig deeper, so I ventured out to Newbury Comics. And wouldn't you know it, the store known for it's wicked coolness features not only a veritable library of Charles Bukowski fiction, it also carries a large supply of "Ultimate Dance Party 1997," an Arista release. The album contains such classics as "[It's A] Beautiful Life," and the late but great "Macarena...
Idealism seems to run in the blood of Hollywood's new junior class, several of whom grew up in counterculture families. Thurman's mother was once married to Timothy Leary-who is also, coincidentally, Ryder's godfather. Thurman's father is a highly regarded scholar of Buddhism. Charles Bukowski was a frequent houseguest at the DiCaprios' when Leonardo was growing up in Los Angeles. The actor's best childhood friend was Abbie Hoffman's son. And Sarah Jessica Parker grew up idolizing Cesar Chavez and attending peace marches with her parents...
Another example of this phenomena is "Dirty Day," dedicated to poet, writer and barfly Charles Bukowski. Bono assumes an eerie falsetto, with a frantic buildup of the Edge's guitar for the first part of the song. Yet the song inexplicably swoops from this to slow melancholy, and then to a hopeful throbbing. It plumbs the emotional heights and depths, yet this just makes it all the more difficult to listen...