Great, emotional, captivating

It was the great Jim Jarmusch film, Down By Law 'who brought me to this album and in the music of Tom Waits. That was in 1985 and in this heyday of pop music it was quite unusual to hear a record that was indeed backed with lots of noise, but with electronic instruments so nothing had on his hat.

At the latest in song no. 2 (, Clap Hands') one is trapped by his voice that can convey every emotion authentic despite the roughness and brittleness. Songwriting this 19 song collection is anyway of a quality that can not even be found in many other songwriters on a best of album. Jockey Full Of Bourbon 'and' Tango Till They're Sore 'are the two songs that Jarmusch in Down By Law used and the bleak - awesome soundtrack mood at the beginning of the film, - captured in black and white. , Big Black Mariah 'is a rumbling Honky Tonk Blues in Waits voice kanpp front is drifting into madness. , Hang Down Your Head 'is a beautiful ballad - at least as good as, Downtown Train', 'Time' is a song of me always festive atmosphere created, and in which kind-hearted souls might be able to start even to cry - because he so is beautiful.
It's great also, walking Spanish '- a dirty angry Blues and especially the hysterical sung, Anywhere I Lay My Head' with the New Orleans funeral march outro.

One of the most gripping emotional albums I've ever heard, with ingenious and unusual Arrangemenst where we know that even the most random acts groaning, creaking, rattling or humming was chosen very carefully and individually by Waits for each song. Marc Ribot, incidentally, developed according to its own statements about the recordings on this disc and the input he has received from Waits for its own distinctive guitar style and suited to these songs like the fist on the eye: minimalist, instensiv, diletantisch acting and yet so perfect ; you can describe it hardly, one must hear it.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is one of my 5, Island plates'.