Interstellar Overdrive

Eight albums in and we’ve gone from a quiet little bar in anytown USA, steeped in nostalgia and sweetness to something else entirely. It was building from the start and although that only comes through in hindsight and by looking at the trajectory of his career, it doesn’t seem completely shocking that Tom Waits would end up making an album like Swordfishtrombones when he did, in 1983. Rising out of the jazz, blues and pop standard traditions he explored in previous albums, this is a theatrical reconstruction of those genres by way of a junkyard. The album kicks off with the stop motion percussion of “Underground,” setting the stage for this collection of songs made of things that the mainstream has discarded or buried. There’s an immediate pieced together feel to the sound with what could be various cans and bottles being used for percussion and a guitar that could be playing on the couple of random strings left on it when it was thrown away. And yet somehow the music is cohesive and there is a melody there that is almost recognizable as jazz or blues or perhaps something more primal. This is the first album Waits produced himself and it’s striking how different it is. There were hints of this sound here and there before this album, but here, up front and in your face, it truly is awesome. And yet, the old jazz poetry that Waits is so damn good at is still here, in tracks like “Shore Leave,” a track that somehow manages to be breezy and smooth amid the refuse of the…

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Planetary, supernova, dark, and reflective are all types of nebulae that are formed and act differently. The elements found in the planetary nebulae and supernovas. A scientist has found that in the permitted lines of planetary nebulae there are nitrogen ions (Aller). Permitted lines are only found with a high power telescope; this shows that there are more possibilities of other elements within these clouds. The elements that are mostly know in Planetary nebulae are the common “hydrogen,…