Light On Dark Water

Weekend Music

This is from his most recent album, Bad As Me. If there's anyone reading this who's not a Waits fan and likes this song, let me warn you not to buy the album without hearing the rest of it first. Much of it is as rough and crazy as anything he's ever done. If you are a Waits fan, you probably already have it, but if not, buy it. It's an excellent album, to my taste not quite as outstanding as some others, maybe a little more fragmented and a little less consistent from song to song, but still top-notch. Get the "deluxe" or whatever it's called edition, the one with the three extra tracks, of which this is one.

I am loading the mp3 here instead of linking to the song on YouTube, because the visual there is just the rather deranged-looking cover art, which I certainly don't want to stare at for several minutes.

I'll probably take it down after a few days, in the spirit of good citizenship.

Update: I've removed it. You can probably find it on YouTube, but better, go buy it. You don't have to buy the whole album, you can buy the mp3 somewhere.

Here's "Chicago," the first track on the album, and a more typical one.