Closing Time: Half-Speed 50th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP SPRINGOFFER30 We don’t want to give

We don’t want to give the same thing over and over again

Setting the course for a kaleidoscopic

plus new versions of Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’s Chips On My Shoulder and Sex Dwarf

“20th Century Boy” returned to the UK Top 20 in August 1991

homemade percussion instruments and electronic percussion over flow here with extra weirdness

Closing Time: Half-Speed 50th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP SPRINGOFFER30 We don’t want to giveClosing Time foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles that would come to be associated with Waits. It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career Ol 55 (famously covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking Martha and the gentle acoustic folk of I Hope That I Dont Fall In Love With You. Reissued for the first time as a double LP to commemorate the 50th anniversary