Comments on: Comments on 16763

Post number 16763

liam — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:04:47 -0800

The Tom Waits Streaming Event. Anti Records is streaming both of Waits' new albums in their entirety, each in turn for three days starting today, prior to their release. Is the home listening booth for whole cd's a common marketing tactic now?

By: me3dia

me3dia — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:28:50 -0800

I've never heard of it before, but I'm not big on streaming audio. Rock on, though -- I'm eager for the albums.

By: machaus

machaus — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:34:52 -0800

I was all ready to get my stream on with this, but alas it's using Real. When will Real Networks die?

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:44:54 -0800

Did Dave McKean do the artwork for Blood Money?

By: billder

billder — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:48:01 -0800

When will Real Networks die? right after cockroaches go extinct...

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:48:02 -0800

I'm itchin for the new releases, even though I 've had the Alice demos for a couple of years. As far as the streaming tactic, while I may listen once or twice online, I just love having the actual CD in my collection. For some reason listening on the puter has never been quite the same for me. Probably the same reason eBooks never appealed to me.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:51:41 -0800

Also from the ANti site: Tom Waits has confirmed an appearence on the David Letterman Show! The appearance is scheduled for Wednesday, May 8th, which is one day after the official street date of both of Tom's new albums "Alice" and "Blood Money." Tom will be performing music from his new album/albums, but there is no official word on exactly what track/tracks he will be performing for sure.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:58:24 -0800

Having heard (and reviewed) both Alice and Blood Money, I heartily recommend the former. Blood Money is a return to Rain Dogs' carnival harbours, but without the salty vivacity of its predecessor. Alice on the other hand, is a gorgeous song cycle, blending love and death, mourning and madness. The best thing Waits has done since "Step Right Up". :) "It gives you an erection, it wins the election..."

By: liam

liam — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:02:18 -0800

I wasn't suggesting this as an alternative to buying the cd's; this is Anti records, not a multinational, for one thing, and I was going to buy these no matter what. I just hadn't seen this promotional technique used before. They don't let me lean back in my chair with a cigarette at the Tower Records listening station.

By: transient

transient — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:03:07 -0800

I can't wait for these either, though it seems to me that the new recording of Alice doesn't quite have the darkness under the surface of the demos... it's interesting to hear the two different takes on the same material.

By: atom128

atom128 — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:26:00 -0800

I'm gonna completely contradict Marquis. I've heard both as well, and I think the Alice that's being released totally pales in comparison of the demos, which had this sparse, lo fi feel that made them all the more beautiful. The "jazzification" of some of the tracks kills it for me. Still a good listen, though. Blood Money is great, dark piece of work. If circus music gives you the chills, the first track is great.... Misery's the river of the world... EVERYBODY ROW! heh oh, and homunculus, that doesnt look like mckeans work to me.

By: crush-onastick

crush-onastick — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:34:07 -0800

4AD streams its new releases. listening to the new tanya donelly via 4ad prompted me to buy it faster than i would have otherwise, cause listening to it that way was so annoying.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:41:51 -0800

does anyone know how to tweak Real so that it plays? It won't work and I so badly need to hear this. :(

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:43:23 -0800

"Requested file not found. The link you followed may be outdated." Sorry for the blatant tech support appeal..

By: euphorb

euphorb — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:50:43 -0800

I was all ready to get my stream on with this, but alas it's using Real. When will Real Networks die? Not bloody likely anytime soon. But until then, get your your stream on with Stream Box VCR. I *heart* hackers.

By: Fat Buddha

Fat Buddha — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:54:12 -0800

Thanks for the link, I love that. The title track is somewhat spoiled though because I keep expecting some fat fool to start yelling " ALICE? WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE?"

By: turaho

turaho — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:55:30 -0800

The Dismemberment Plan lets you stream all of their major releases from their website. And for this I will love them forever.

By: liam

liam — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:57:04 -0800

Marquis, with hindsight I think "Step Right Up" was about ISP sales.

By: Neologian

Neologian — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:22:29 -0800

Wow, two Tom Waits releases on the same day? It's like having Christmas twice in one year. Thanks for the info! I'm digging Alice so far. How do you get hold of the Demo tapes?

By: Arqa

Arqa — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:28:05 -0800

Ol'Tom....golden treacle flowing over poetic grit..... thanks liam, I needed this tonight :-)

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:32:54 -0800

Anti Records is one of the labels offering their artists via emusic.com. Two of the Waits tracks are up on the site and have been for at least a week. No doubt the full albums'll be there in the next week or so. If you like music and don't subscribe to emusic, you're wasting big money. I signed up a year ago and it is easily the best music investment I've ever made. As someone who previously used to be 5 - 10 cds a week, this flat-fee/unlimited downloads service has saved me thousands.

By: transient

transient — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:37:49 -0800

I don't remember hearing "Fish & Bird" before; it's gorgeous. Is it new, or was it just not on the demos?

By: atom128

atom128 — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:23:32 -0800

neologin - i got them from a friend, but im sure they're on various filesharing programs. I've seen it floating around on soulseek.

By: jaded

jaded — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:34:12 -0800

I actually know the guy that plays sax on those. I don't even like most acid-jazz (which is what the sax player does most of the time), but he's so damn good, you have to like it. The band he's in, transmission, plays free shows every single saturday at a bar in San Francisco called "storyville". At any rate, while I i'm normally luke warm on tom waits, I'm really looking forward to both of these. Mind you, Tom Waits is a genius, I just don't happen to enjoy his particular brand of genius much - except - Jockey Full of Bourbon is one of my favorite songs ever.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Thu, 02 May 2002 11:40:52 -0800

I don't remember hearing "Fish & Bird" before; it's gorgeous. Is it new, or was it just not on the demos? I know there's probably noboby reading this thread anymore, but I feel compelled to make this comment... The dominant melody in "Fish & Bird" is the theme from "Somewhere", the song from West Side Story that Waits covered on Blue Valentine, right? And the lyrical subject matter is certainly related. Just interesting, that's all.