Yesterday Is Here: Tom Waits’ Disruption of the Notion of Time in the ’80s
Listening to Tom Waits—especially the three ’80s records (1983’s Swordfishtrombones, 1985’s Rain Dogs, and 1987’s Franks Wild Years) that have just been reissued—you’re drawn deep into the lives of the characters that populate the world he creates, many of whom are succumbing—as we all are—to the whims of time, their lives fading like their dreams, their hopes.
