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Tom Waits; Real Gone
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Pittsburgh City Paper
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September 29, 2004
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"And I want to know / the same thing / everyone wants to know / how's it going to end?"
Tom Waits' rhetorical question on "How's It Gonna End" is the same one we've been asking about Waits' celebrated musical career for ages: When does the steam run out? Where's the last stop on the train? And who's waiting there to pick him up? With each album the face that launched a thousand taxis releases, it seems like we're a little bit closer to that answer. Since his 1992 album Bone Machine broke the 1980s sequence of small-change operas (Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Frank's Wild Years) Waits has made records that fruitfully combine the seedy dime-store mythology of his early work, the threaded ...
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