The Guardian’s Oberserver has a guest column in which Tom Waits gives his top 20 favorite all time albums.

Some dubious choices (I fear I will always loathe Leonard Cohen), but some fantastic Tom prose, including this bit from his summary of Solo Monk:

Stride, church, jump rope, Bartok, melodies scratched into the plaster with a knife. A bold iconoclast. Solo Monk lets you not only see these melodies without clothes, but without skin. This is astronaut music from Bedlam.

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