It’s often boring to listen to other people talking about their favourite music, but it turns out Tom Waits is a very sensual and expressive writer. In this article he passionately and creatively describes 20 of his favourite albums.

From his gushing description of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes:

Suffice it to say Dylan is a planet to be explored. For a songwriter, Dylan is as essential as a hammer and nails and a saw are to a carpenter. I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in – so the bootlegs I obtained in the Sixties and Seventies, where the noise and grit of the tapes became inseparable from the music, are essential to me.

It’s fun to read Waits’ colouful descriptions and to learn what he enjoys in other people’s music.

Via Growabrain