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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
Yeah, its a live album. Its new stuff but he also wasn't really reaching you know?
I mean its a great album, but its more of a fun album than it is ambitious. Its also a lot of poetry. I'd say of all the Waits albums its the most focused. Its a jazz album, and no other album fits one genre this well.
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See, that's spoken like a true Waits fan; not meant as a good thing. I think his fans are very susceptible to letting parts of his discography color the rest.
As it's own piece, it stands alone as a fantastic concept album. As far as it being a live album, I guess technically it is. But at the same time it isn't. Waits perfectly used the audience as an instrument to create ambiance and did it in a studio.