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Thursday, July 8, 2004

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Thursday, July 8, 2004 Tom Waits performed in Austrian idiom My pals Johannes and Evelyn sent me a fantastic early birthday present today, a CD of Tom Waits covers recorded by Wolfgang Ambros, a 1970s Austropop great. Austropop was an Austrian musical movement who recorded music from all genres in Austrian slang. My German's pretty rotten, but I quite liked hearing Tom Waits standards like "Romeo Verliert Bluat" (Romeo is Bleeding) and "Es Is Vorbei" (Ruby's Eyes) sung in soulful Austrian German. Link posted by Cory Doctorow at 12:53:52 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: