Er, dunno really! Just suggestions of something more modern that I can pick over.
Get the original version of "Jesus' Blood..."; avoid at all costs the version the tiresome teetotaller Tom.Gavin Bryars (his latest work out on Naxos but seek out his earlier Titanic piece and "Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet" - with a cameo by Tom Waits).
I thought he was looking for modern recordigns of beethoven?
Tom is a talented actor. His Captain Beefheart impression is without equal.
Get the original version of "Jesus' Blood..."; avoid at all costs the version the tiresome teetotaller Tom.
+ 1 to that, Waits is such a fraud. Beefheart for wine bars.
As for Gavin Bryars, he should never have given up improvised music. His playing with Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley is the best music he has ever made, by some distance:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21802
I thought he was looking for modern recordigns of beethoven?
That's what I thought. The recordings I listed are reasonably modern with good sound.
waits fraud??
Waits is incredible. you obviously arent familiar with his catalogue.
Waits is such a fraud. Beefheart for wine bars.
I'm intimately familiar with all but his last two records. He's a dullard, avant-lite. Not fit to lick Don's boots.
I could point to critical acclaim(and not top 40 type shit), record sales, the sheer number of musicians that have been influenced by him(Waits, not Don)
I'm impressed that a thread about Beethoven can swiftly become an argument as to the merit or lack thereof of Tom Waits. Takes some doing that.