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Tom Waits - Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Tom Waits’ best albums are complete, immersive worlds in themselves, and there is no question—none, you heathens—that Small Change, released in 1976, is among his very best.
The album opens with this track: sentimental strings leading into Waits rasping “wasted and wounded, ‘tain’t what the moon did, got what I paid for now…” setting the perfect tone for the world that follows.
Mind you, there’s a price to pay: you emerge from that world to find that you have liver damage, emphysema, and you’ve given all of your money to strippers, but it’s so worth it.
