The Vinyl Ape 🦧<p>TOM WAITS<br>Blue Valentine<br>1978 Canada pressing</p><p>One hell of an appropriate album for last spin at 11:55 pm on a Saturday Night. </p><p>It’s borderline impossible for me to pick a favorite Tom album. They’re all so distinctive, and I’ve heard every single one hundreds of times, so I just don’t think I could do it. And when you’re dealing with such a vast, incredible catalog, why should you have to.</p><p>Blue Valentine, however, has two of my all-time favorite Tom SONGS on it in “Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis” and “Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard”.</p><p>As much as I love the weirdo junkyard Tom (do I EVER), when I’m exhausted in the late night hours, NOTHING beats his early barfly piano man albums.<br>After this one, he’d only make one more like that before shit started to get weird.<br>Like… REALLY weird.<br>See: Swordfishtrombones.</p><p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vinyl</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/vinylrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vinylrecords</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/vinylcollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vinylcollection</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/vinylcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vinylcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/tomwaits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tomwaits</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/bluevalentine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluevalentine</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/1970s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1970s</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/70s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>70s</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/70smusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>70smusic</span></a></p>