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"Box Full of Letters" was playing at Lowe's Foods in Raleigh, NC yesterday. It was a welcome treat to an otherwise ordinary shopping trip.

Given the harrowing stuff surrounding it on all sides, I praise the Lord above for Rosemary, Lily & the Jack of Hearts every time it rambles up on Blood On The Tracks. It's a welcome oasis, and maybe his best story song.

I love how he tells the story with such holes in it... allowing the listener to fill in or imagine what happens next. I oftentimes listen to it 2 times in a row, and feel like I'm solving a murder mystery every time.

Tom Waits -- Raindogs, Bone Machine, Mule Variations

NMH -- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

PJ Harvey -- Stories From the City, Stories from the Sea

Arcade Fire -- Funeral

Richard Buckner -- Bloomed

The The -- Dusk

Wilco -- YHF

I've already seen this entire season on DirecTV, but it's so compelling, I'm watching them over again on NBC.

Tom Waits My first chance to see him happened to be a general admission show at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA in 2006. Of course I showed up 4 hours before the doors opened, clad in black on a day that may have been 100 degrees, but I was right up front and center (behind only one other Raindog) when the show started. It was nothing short of magical. I've seen him six other times besides that one, but you never forget your first time. Never.

One Piece at a Time - J.C.

oh yeah kevin i almost forgot. where are you moving to? out of town, out of state? good luck.

Thanks Greg and Sarah! I'm moving to Raleigh proper. It'll be good to be back in the city after spending 6 1/2 years out in the country. I'm a city mouse, anyway.

I hit the liquor store for boxes the Thursday before the long Memorial Day weekend. It was like winning the lottery. I got all the boxes I could pack in the Jetta, which was about 2 dozen.

Wrong thread. This belongs in the Mediocre LPs with crappy openers thread.

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

I never liked "Radio Song" from REM's "Out of Time". It just never grabbed me. Ever.

Nice cover!

LOL @ the horse head/hipster driving cap.

Boom! Me too. Looks like Front Gate Ticketing finally came through. I will say their email response is non-existent. I emailed them twice about this, and never heard a f*cking peep outta them. All is well, though.

I'll close the thread now. See you in August!!!

I'd listen to New Pornographers more if Newman & Bejar would hand over all singing assignments to Neko.

+ 1

Also, I'd give The Decemberists more air time if I could get past that voice. I can't take it for more than a few songs in one sitting.

I was working at a now-defunct Camelot Music the week that John Denver died. It must have been handed down from Camelot HQ, but the very next drop shipment included a shit-ton of John Denver--mostly greatest hits albums--and people just gobbled it up. Made me kind of sick to my stomach to see how the average music consumer behaves when an artist dies.

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't want to snooze on picking up a copy. I still have my old back issue from 1999 (I think) which was another Tom-themed issue of MOJO, but he wasn't the "editor" that time around.

Leviticussly Deuteronomous,

Kevin

The cognitive dissonance between this post and your avatar(s) is mind-bending.

I can see your point, SS. Consider this: even The Dude changed into the proper footwear when it was "business time."

I appreciate casual-wear. Honest, I do. but I stand by my original peeve: the office is no place for flip-flops.

Could be pretty interesting. But I've read this several times and don't really get it: "Twain was so close to Lyon that she once bought him an electric vibrating sex toy." So close to Twain she bought him a vibrator?

I wonder how many people were electrocuted with these plug-in (assuming they were plug-in electric) devices?

This was in the early days of electricity y'know. Yikes.

Not sure if it's been mentioned in the previous pages but I see red when I hear people wearing flip-flops at work. I'd rather they go around barefoot than to hear that tell-tale flip-flop sound.

It's an office, not the f*cking beach.

Bare Jr has a song I call the "answering machine song" on this record. It opens with a really pissed ex-girlfriend leaving a fiery tirade on his answering machine. It's pretty flippin' hilarious.

Edit: I just found out the name of the song is "Phone Call/Pearl"

link to iTunes

Thanks for the suggestions. I might just cruise by U-Haul and see what boxes they have. Or better yet, the liquor store. Two birds, one stone.

I'll be moving next month and was curious about how folks go about moving their records? They weigh a shit-ton if I were to try to box them all up in milk crates, but I'm not even sure that's a good way to haul them. Anyone have any suggestions on safely transporting vinyl collections? I don't have an exhaustive collection mind you, but I'd say it's getting respectable in size. Any good-size box recommendations? Any tips, really.

I do think I'll be the one handling these (in the trunk of my personal vehicle) and not leave anything to chance on a moving truck.

Has anyone rec'd their hard copy tickets in the mail yet? Original email receipt stated they would be mailed 03-May.

That great feeling of satisfaction that only comes from getting a really good close shave, with nary a nick.

I'm getting to be a pro at using my 1959 Gillette Fat Boy razor.

Oh you need to. Murmur is maybe the best remaster I've even heard besides the Tupelo ones. It really is like hearing it for the first time.

Are they worth the money, the re-masters?

I might have to start picking these up if the consensus is a resounding "yes".

a great driving in the rain song: "Diamonds on My Windshield" by Tom Waits

Funny, I was just putting together a bunch of Tom Waits songs with a redemption theme.

 

This is what I got, so far...

 

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Down there by the Train

Way Down in the Hole

Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

Long Way Home

Lord I've Been Changed

Martha

Train Song

Franks Theme

Please Call Me, Baby

Great minds... One of the first mix CDs I ever made back when I first had access to a CD burner was a Tom Waits mix called "Hollywood Be Thy Name: The Gospel According to Tom Waits". Several of these songs were on it. I even bought the "Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet" single by Gavin Bryars, just to round out the setlist.