Tom Waits Bad As Me now online

albert83
albert83 Saskatoon, SK Posts: 109
edited January 2012 in Other Music
You can stream the new album at http://badasme.com/
sign up for the tom waits maling list to get a code to listen!!


My 2nd time through it now. Hard to describe but I get kind of an Mule Variations/Alice vibe, but its definatley got some Real Goneish tracks Definatley an instant classic.
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,056
    I know! I know! :D:D I have already invited 3 friends too! :D:D:D
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  • albert83
    albert83 Saskatoon, SK Posts: 109
    I have a feeling Im just gonna sit hear all day listening to this its so good!!!
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,056
    You’re the same kind of bad as me

    No good you say
    Well that’s good enough for me
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • mydogmookieblaylock
    mydogmookieblaylock Posts: 2,996
    so..... how long til i get the email after i submit?
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,056
    mydogmookieblaylock wrote:
    so..... how long til i get the email after i submit?
    I can invite you as a friend, if you want. Let me know and I will pm you one code. Maybe, this is a faster solution. ;)
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    If anyone wants a code, feel free to PM me. 8-)
  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    It's a good album, maybe a few too many ballards though.

    Fingers crossed for some Euro dates :D
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,056
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    Fingers crossed for some Euro dates :D
    +1 And I believe Mr. Waits is a ballad expert.
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • albert83
    albert83 Saskatoon, SK Posts: 109
    Good interview here
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/ar ... 6164906782

    Sadly it looks like he's not very into the idea of touring.

    heres the excerpt

    Touring is not for him, he says, although he said the same thing nine years ago and changed his mind for the Glitter and Doom shows.

    The glowing reviews were not enough to make him do it again, although he admits there were rewarding moments. "I don't know if 'enjoy' is the right word," he says of the experience. "On the road I feel like a travelling salesman. It made some money and balanced the budget. It was enlightening and uplifting and rewarding I guess."

    This time, however, he's not for budging. "No, no, no, no, no," he says in mock agitation. "It's not in my contract. Maybe I'll set myself up in a theatre somewhere and make everybody go on the road to hear me. The music's free," he says spruiking the idea, "but we charge you for travel."
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,056
    albert83 wrote:
    Maybe I'll set myself up in a theatre somewhere and make everybody go on the road to hear me.
    :thumbdown: I saw Rain Dogs Revisited in London this July and the show was very good, but I want to watch Mr. Waits performing his own compositions so bad.
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • spnoone
    spnoone Posts: 633
    not counting orphans, i think this is his strongest album since mule variations. it's similar to blood money, only better. i can hear bits and pieces of almost every album since swordfishtrombones (save bone machine and black rider) and maybe even a little heartattack and vine in there. but i think the most remarkable thing about bad as me is that it doesn't break new ground. and he really hasn't done that, stopped changing, since raindogs (which was basically swordfishtrombones II). maybe that's why i like it so much, he's figured out what he's best at so that's what he's gonna do. or maybe real gone was so subpar that i got tired of him trying to push the envelope. either way, i'm on my 7th listen and there isn't a song i'm tempted to skip yet.
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    edited October 2011
    Brilliant album! I've only had it for a couple of days and it's already become my favorite album of the year. Not a single dud on the entire thing. I wouldn't say he's abandoned the crazy experimentation of Real Gone ("Hell Broke Luce" is pretty wild). But he's definitely gone back to basics with this one, revisiting some of the styles from his past like jazz, blues, and rockabilly. In a way the album is kind of a synthesis of everything that came before it, and it works incredibly well.
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    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • Ty
    Ty Posts: 1,007
    Hell Broke Luce is a fucking amazing song! Amongst his best!
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Ty wrote:
    Hell Broke Luce is a fucking amazing song! Amongst his best!

    Agreed.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI70YCg-Iy4
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    This album is great. I'm thinking that with some more listens it has the potential to equal 'Mule Variations'.
  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    Hell Broke Luce and New Years Eve are two fantastic tracks. Tom Waits has an incredible knack of making him sound like a fresh new act frequently. Long may he continue...
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,016
    I am loving this album more and more on each listen. He is still the man.
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Ty wrote:
    Hell Broke Luce is a fucking amazing song! Amongst his best!

    Agreed. It's been going through my head all week.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,056
    merkinball wrote:
    It's been going through my head all week.
    This and Bad As Me.
    You're the same kind of bad as me!...
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Obviously not a lot of Waits fans on this forum. I find that incredibly sad. Their loss. I guess we'll just keep him all to ourselves here in this little thread.

    So I've had the new album for almost 2 weeks now, and it pretty much owns my life. Not a day goes by where I'm not listening to it. My favorite album of the year for sure.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits

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