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Underappreciated masterpiece | |
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unironically is, arguably the birth of Outsider Music. | |
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I find it so bizzare that it's considered "outsider music though" merely based on superficial factors of "urr he looks weird and sings in falsetto but actually really pulls it off". Fact of the matter is that he was a good musician | |
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>>115912603 | |
This, and he was serious about his passion for the songs he sang despite doing it with a weird voice and character. He genuinely saw himself as a preservationist of tin pan alley's forgotten ditties. | |
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Small Timothy | |
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>>115913971 | |
Also updated those old standards and gave them a psychedelic baroque feel | |
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>>115912603 | |
He was definitely an eccentric, but he knew how he came across to people and did up the character a little bit. It was his brand, people who knew him said he was a quiet, soft spoken yet genuinely eccentric guy | |
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>>115912603 | |
I think it's because he was doing something completely different than the mainstream or even the underground at that time. He was doing his own thing, making him an outsider. | |
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Mind you, it was mostly Richard Perry's production. If TT had his way, he'd have performed those songs straight. | |
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My best friend had a gay crush on me in high school. He liked Tiny Tim. | |
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Reminder that Tiny Tim was actually a tradcath who believed women were most beautiful from 14-18 | |
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>>115917051 | |
Dude got married to a 17 year old when he was 37 lmao | |