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This collection goes far beyond a simple career retrospective, with over thirty new songs, from his own versions of songs he gave to other artists to things recorded in the garage with his kids. Also includes Tom's unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, and Leadbelly. Each of the three CDs is separately grouped and sub-titled "Brawlers", "Bawlers" and "Bastards" to capture the full spectrum of Waits' ranging and roving musical styles. "Brawlers" is chock full of raucous blues and full-throated juke-joint stomp, "Bawlers" contains Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano, and classic lyrical Waits' songs, while "Bastards" is filled with experimental music, stories, and jokes. The beautifully designed booklet reproduces Tom's lyrics in the style of a book of old poetry, with twenty pages of never before seen photos. The limited edition deluxe package contains a hardcover-bound 94-page booklet.

So recently, as will happen from time to time, I've had the song Brazil (used to iconic perfection in the eponymous film) running through my head, and I decided I needed a version of it on my iTunes.

The problem is that when I searched for it on the iTunes music store, I got a bajillionty versions, most of them instrumental rather than lyrical (I want a sung version).

Can anybody recommend a recording of this song, so I have somewhere to start?

ETA: This is one of those songs that, like Stealer's Wheel's Stuck in the Middle With You and Reservoir Dogs, is forever fundamentally changed by its effective use in a film. It takes on whole new layers of meaning that were never there before by its association with the film in question.

And on that note (this has now been kicking around my head all day), what other songs can you think of that have been given new meanings or associations in your head (particulary those of sinister cast) because of their association with a film or TV show?

Where is My Mind? by the Pixies - Always been one of my favorites but it's use at the end of Fight Club made it even better. Now I listen to that song and love it for both it and the movie.

On the other hand, the Sundays' version of Wild Horses (used decently in The Prom) was destroyed forever by its use during a really awful roller coaster scene in a really bad movie with Marky Mark and Reese Witherspoon (can't remember the name of it).

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I haven't posted in forever so have not been able to give a giant kudos and congratulations to Hec, JZ, Emmett and Matilda. I've loved all the pictures and teared up reading all the wonderful birth and bonding stories. Very happy for all of you.

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And also, holy weeping jesus is the new Hold Steady album amazing. The new Decemberists album had the great misfortune of being bought on the same day as the new Hold Steady, so while I am enjoying it as well, I can barely squeeze into rotation since I just want to listen to Craig Finn every single second. I am seeing them (the Hold Steady that is) on the 26th of this month and I can barely contain my excitement. I predict extreme awesomeness.

what other songs can you think of that have been given new meanings or associations in your head (particulary those of sinister cast) because of their association with a film or TV show?

Daniel Johnston's "Casper the Friendly Ghost" as used in "Kids". I get the shivers just thinking about it. Yeeeeeshhh!

It's rare that a song is changed -- for me, personally -- by use in a movie. But there's been a couple songs that were 'brought to my attention', particularly "Miserlou" by Dick Dale, which despite my liking for guitar-driven beach music, I'd never heard before Pulp Fiction.

While we're on Tarantino, I remember "Stuck in the Middle with You" from the radio when I was a kid. Needless to say, when I think of it now it conjures up RESERVOIR DOGS.

Can it be because of a vid? Because "Transparent," whose artist I have forgotten, is inextricably linked with Willow now.

Oooh, yeah. I would never have thought of it, but I don't see why vid use wouldn't count. Especially if it affects the song for you.

There's a brilliant Stargate: Atlantis vid to Regina Spektor's "On the Radio" that has definitely changed, or at least enhanced, the meaning of that song for me. The vid was actually done as a companion piece to a fanfic (probably one of my favorite fics ever), so hearing the song now brings up images and layers from both the vid and the story. I watch a lot of vids, but that's the one that has done the most to change how I hear that song. It's very cool.