Title: Great Listening for late night
Review: Tom Waits has always seemed an eclectic choice at best; his approach to life and to music always appeared a bit retro beatnik, but Closing Time has changed all that for me. These thoughtfully rendered songs come off as wistful and melancholy, and together this makes for fine listening. "Martha" is a touching song in particular, and for a man just beyond mid-life, I was moved by the regret so evident in Waits' voice. For that moment late at night, sitting at the computer and writing, no album can better this one.
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