This is the first Tom Waits album I ever heard. I downloaded it from a Utah resident (ZoobieWa)'s FTP server as a 14 year old who had recently discovered MP3s and the illicit music and software trading world of the Internet. I discovered Aphex Twin and numerous other EDM artists from this character, so I downloaded this album uncertain of what it was.
Fast forward 3 more years. I was seventeen years old and sorting through my CD-Rs and original album collection and remembered downloading this album and burning a copy. I put it in and the first track was Telephone Call from Istanbul (who knows what happened to the proper sequence of tracks). I was confused, so I listened again, and again, and again. After about a dozen listens of this song, I realized how brilliant the composition and lyrics were. The full album did not disappoint and to this day, it's one of the few albums I never grow tired of.
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