There's a feature in the current issue of Word magazine — not to everyone's taste, I know, but it gets read twice in our house — about what are "ultimate boys' albums" and what are "ultimate girls' albums". The girls get a pretty bum deal: they're expected to have albums by Phil Collins, James Blunt, Sting and Bon Jovi. Lucy and I went through both lists to compare them with our collections. We both have 2 of the 25 girls' albums. I have 8 of the boys' albums and Lucy has 5 (though she admits her copy of Trout Mask Replica hasn't been played a lot).
So Swordfishtrombones is one of the boys' albums, and it's one that we both have, though Lucy knows it better than me. It's one of her top three Waits albums — and she is quite a fan of his (his last UK show was on her birthday last year, but, though we were both repeat dialling the box office from the moment tickets went on sale, we couldn't get through, and couldn't pay the hundreds of pounds being asked on eBay). Lucy says it's the point where he starts to go weird but there are still enough tunes left over from his old ballad style to make it listenable.
 MusicBrainz entry for this album
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