At 11:26 AM -0700 6/30/02, Benito Vergara wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of skip Heller Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 8:37 AM
Agree with you wholeheartedly on MULE VARIATIONS tho. So, around here, we'd both better duck. This crowd gets ugly somethimes.
Skip and Maurice must be on drugs.
Wait a second, lemme check. Nope, no drugs in the system.
One of my favorite Waits albums -- okay, it's not as good as "Franks Wild Years" or "Rain Dogs" or "The Heart of Saturday Night" or "Bone Machine" (it comes in fifth, then) but the worst?
Well, after the heights of the early 90s work and that long hiatus afterwards...I found _Mule Variations_ to be a disappointment. Plus there's a _lot_ of material on it. Some editing would have helped. And then when you compare it to _Swordfishtrombones_ and that period, MV really pales. (That said, it's better than many CDs by others, but Waits has set the bar pretty high with his other work.) Oh, yeah--here's another disappointment: Steve Reich's _The Cave_, which starts strong and then very quickly reveals itself as an experiment that just doesn't work, but which he doggedly keeps hammering into the ground. (Haven't heard the record, but I did sit through the installation.) -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/