Title: Some of the Best (from the Best of All Time)
Product review: This is an album for: a) folks who don't know who Tom Waits is and need a brief history of his early career; b) those who only know Tom from his more recent work and want to catch up on old times; c) idiots like myself who commited the ultimate sin of selling CDs in order to pay rent and missed the good times we used to have sitting in 3 a.m. bedrooms listening to Tom and feeling an understandable kinship with the loner's saint--There are no new songs here, and some of my favorites aren't here (foreign affair, the piano has been drinking, etc.)...But, listening to this album should tempt one into buying the albums from which these songs are taken. And from that point, your ears will unfold and bloom like a crysanthemum in the lapel of a secondhand tweed jacket--buy it, raise a glass to it, love it and introduce it to your friends.
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