Big Time, from 1988, was Tom Waits' second live album, but it was his tenth release. Waits did a tour called Big Time which was taped and became a little known movie of the same
name, and there was an album of the songs released. There are two new songs on the album, but all recordings of
old songs are new. Falling Down and Strange Weather are the originals, though the latter was from the stage version of
Frank's
Wild Years. This is an amazing album, with beautiful versions of already perfect songs.
An excerpt from Big Time's-
Strange Weather
Will you take me across the Channel,
London Bridge is falling down
Strange, a
woman tries to save
What a man
will try to drown
And he's the
rain that they predicted,
Its the forecast every time
The rose has died because you picked it
And I believe that brandy's mine