Tom Waits in 1974 was sort of the yin to Billy Joel's yang. Both were formed in roughly the same sort of East-coast, working class,...

It's easy to forget that you can cram three verses and three choruses into just over thirty seconds, or that it was once possible t...

This was a big record for me in my musically-formative years. Of course, the arty, high-culture-of-rock-and-roll aspect of it was imp...

A bit heavy on production tricks and jokey affectations for my taste... I was always somewhat partial to the more serious musical aspirat...

Like many of my vintage, I would imagine, what I remember most about this record from the time it was current is "Money for Nothing...

I've never been all that into the early British Invasion stuff, and I could never quite wrap my mind around the appeal of Jeff Beck an...

Honky Chateau finds Elton John tentatively leaving his singer/songwriter ways behind in favor of a more straightforward rock approach, o...