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Review title: A Parody of a Tom Waits Album
Product review: You know how sometimes an artist will come out with an album that the critics suggest is merely a self-parodic gesture, a give-the-people-what-they-want work? The Rolling Stone magazine review of Bloodflowers by the Cure comes to mind. Well, Mule Variations is just such an album. This is the sound of Tom Waits coasting. This is Tom Waits giving the people what he thinks they expect from him. On this album you've got a little bit of everything that people have come to associate with Waits, but none of it done as well as in earlier days. You've got the depressing country songs, the "Going Out West-"type song, the screeching nonsense. The only thing missing is the big band stuff. None of it is done with the same panache and creativity as on previous albums. It's just a make-time album, the act of a man bored with his own career.
