Apropos of Leolo...
Towards the end of the 1970s Tom Waits was a supremely gifted singer-songwriter stuck in a relatively conventional musical mold that has begun to bore the **** out of him. His persona of a beatnik alcoholic pianoman was at least as interesting as his records, which is not where you want to be as a musician of such ridiculous gifts. You can hear he's trying to do something different (see the wonderful Red Shoes By The Drugstore, for example) but he doesn't quite have the sound palette at his disposal yet to realize his most interesting ideas. And then he meets that one reeeally cool girl who introduces him to The Rite of Spring and Lick My Decals Off, Baby, giving us one on the most important artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
(this is the jadis view. lovers of the early TW, you're valid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv8I...nnel=BenWright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7I4...annel=TomWaits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtXX...colateJesus101