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Tom Waits Anyone?

sj_2150sj_2150 Posts: 275
edited December 2005 in Other Music
I love the guy to death, hes a true musician. Favourite album would probably be Rain Dogs

anybody a fan?
I wish my grass was emo... so then it would cut itself
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  • moloko21moloko21 Posts: 114
    I'm a huge fan. I don't know if I could pick a favorite, maybe Frank's Wild Years or Mule Variations.
    "no, i can't give you full credit, but i'm not gonna flunk you either. you're all getting incompletes."
  • sj_2150sj_2150 Posts: 275
    moloko21 wrote:
    I'm a huge fan. I don't know if I could pick a favorite, maybe Frank's Wild Years or Mule Variations.
    btw
    Mule Variations = best cover art ever
    I wish my grass was emo... so then it would cut itself
    http://www.soundclick.com/Arcticangel
    http://www.soundclick.com/Armadillo
  • whatsthefreezerwhatsthefreezer Posts: 347
    Yeah Tom's awesome. My favorite is Mule Variations as well.
  • moloko21moloko21 Posts: 114
    Big Time is pretty incredible. Some of those live cuts blow the originals out of the water.
    "no, i can't give you full credit, but i'm not gonna flunk you either. you're all getting incompletes."
  • sj_2150sj_2150 Posts: 275
    moloko21 wrote:
    Big Time is pretty incredible. Some of those live cuts blow the originals out of the water.
    yeah, i love the live jazz stuff...
    I wish my grass was emo... so then it would cut itself
    http://www.soundclick.com/Arcticangel
    http://www.soundclick.com/Armadillo
  • barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    You gotta love him. Few people in music are as wise as this guy. He's a personal guru. I'd recommend to any fan "Innocent when you dream", a compilation of reviews and articles about him, that really folds out his persona.
    "Half of me, I feel like a jackhammer, I love to holler and stomp my feet and throw rocks. But there's another side of me that's like an old man in the corner that's had too much wine. I'm probably too sentimental for my own good sometimes"
    yeah, cheers to him!
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
  • pearlmuttpearlmutt Posts: 392
    ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS, EVVVVVVERRRRR! It's so funny to have that gravely voice singing this song that makes me think of toys-r-us -- it's just funny / cute to me. :)

    When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night
    I don’t wanna grow up
    Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right
    I don’t wanna grow up
    How do you move in a world of fog
    That’s always changing things
    Makes me wish that I could be a dog
    When I see the price that you pay
    I don’t wanna grow up
    I don’t ever wanna be that way
    I don’t wanna grow up

    Seems like folks turn into things
    That they’d never want
    The only thing to live for
    Is today...
    I’m gonna put a hole in my tv set
    I don’t wanna grow up
    Open up the medicine chest
    And I don’t wanna grow up
    I don’t wanna have to shout it out
    I don’t want my hair to fall out
    I don’t wanna be filled with doubt
    I don’t wanna be a good boy scout
    I don’t wanna have to learn to count
    I don’t wanna have the biggest amount
    I don’t wanna grow up

    Well when I see my parents fight
    I don’t wanna grow up
    They all go out and drinking all night
    And I don’t wanna grow up
    I’d rather stay here in my room
    Nothin’ out there but sad and gloom
    I don’t wanna live in a big old tomb
    On grand street

    When I see the 5 o’clock news
    I don’t wanna grow up
    Comb their hair and shine their shoes
    I don’t wanna grow up
    Stay around in my old hometown
    I don’t wanna put no money down
    I don’t wanna get me a big old loan
    Work them fingers to the bone
    I don’t wanna float a broom
    Fall in love and get married then boom
    How the hell did I get here so soon
    I don’t wanna grow up
  • sj_2150sj_2150 Posts: 275
    the song that first got me into tom waits was downtown train
    I wish my grass was emo... so then it would cut itself
    http://www.soundclick.com/Arcticangel
    http://www.soundclick.com/Armadillo
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    sj_2150 wrote:
    the song that first got me into tom waits was downtown train

    his downtown train is the best version. for me it was "picture in a frame"...i think it was on mule variations. great artist...i don't listen to him enough!
  • enharmonicenharmonic Posts: 1,917
    Tom Waits is a genius
    new music: http://www.myspace.com/blackbirdsymphonique

    old music: http://www.myspace.com/slowloader
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Hail, Hail the Eyeball Kid...
    "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.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • nepalnepal Posts: 143
    Small Change was my first Tom Waits album, and it still is one of my favorites. This man truly is a genius.

    "What does it matter, a dream of love
    Or a dream of lies
    We're all gonna be in the same place
    When we die"
    ...the dreams ain't broken down here now,
    they're walking with a limp
  • sj_2150sj_2150 Posts: 275
    Hes also a fucking hilarious man
    just listen to "the piano has been drinking"
    I wish my grass was emo... so then it would cut itself
    http://www.soundclick.com/Arcticangel
    http://www.soundclick.com/Armadillo
  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    hes my buddys Uncle!
    so got to meet hima few months back~
    Run to the hills
    run for your life
  • sj_2150sj_2150 Posts: 275
    Drifting Away wrote:
    hes my buddys Uncle!
    so got to meet hima few months back~
    that kicks ass dude!
    I wish my grass was emo... so then it would cut itself
    http://www.soundclick.com/Arcticangel
    http://www.soundclick.com/Armadillo
  • allmyrivalsallmyrivals Posts: 228
    small change got rained on , with his own 38.
    EVENFLOW PSYCHO #0031
    WHAAHYEAH!!
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    I love this line:

    "All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes"

    Rain Dogs is probably my favorite Waits album, followed closely by Mule Variations. He's got a great way with lyrics.
    "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.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    fuckin love 'Swordfishtrombones', and the two kinda linked albums:'rain dogs' and 'franks wild years'.......also 'blue valentine', 'closing time' are classics. Plus 'heart of a saturday night' has some classic waits' songs on it. Have copies of many others that are like way too freaky for me, stuff like 'small change' and others I find hard to get into..............do have a copy of 'mule variations' and having heard some of yous' praise it I may give it a play when I get home
  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    my wedding song (first dance) was San Diego Serenade.
  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    transplant wrote:
    my wedding song (first dance) was San Diego Serenade.
    ...what albums(track no?) that on?
  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    elmer wrote:
    ...what albums(track no?) that on?
    Heart of Saturday Night - track 2.
  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    transplant wrote:
    Heart of Saturday Night - track 2.
    ....yeh I know and love that song: 'never saw the morning till you turned out the light, never saw..................'. Probly one of my total favs of waits and it does sound like an auspicious song for a wedding dance
  • Lost_ClayLost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    tom's great, i especially like nighthawks at the diner
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

    06/29/03 09/22/05 09/24/05 09/25/05 05/09/06 05/10/06
  • sj_2150sj_2150 Posts: 275
    I just saw the movie Domino and TOM IS IN IT!!!! he plays a wise Christian preacher dude. the movie i found a tad crumby but HE OWNS IN IT!
    I wish my grass was emo... so then it would cut itself
    http://www.soundclick.com/Arcticangel
    http://www.soundclick.com/Armadillo
  • bigmuzzbigmuzz Posts: 299
    i only have Rain Dogs, and i have listened to it a few times.......it is an acquired taste, but i dig his voice and instrumentation....

    he is also in the movie Coffee and Cigarettes.......im a diner scene with iggy pop....for about 10 mins (if i remember correctly)
    Sydney Wed 8 Nov 2006....

    when all are one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll.........

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    keep on rockin!.......
  • bigmuzzbigmuzz Posts: 299
    and i LOVE the part in fight club where they first go down into the basement, to the track Goin Out West.........fucken brilliant......really gets u into a fighting type mood......

    tom waits is cool........."Junkyard Orchestra"=great name for a genre of music...

    is there any other artists even remotely like him???
    Sydney Wed 8 Nov 2006....

    when all are one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll.........

    see me @ www.myspace.com/bigmuzz

    keep on rockin!.......
  • sj_2150sj_2150 Posts: 275
    bigmuzz wrote:
    is there any other artists even remotely like him???

    not that i know of, the only person that even comes close (and isnt much) is Bob Dylan
    I wish my grass was emo... so then it would cut itself
    http://www.soundclick.com/Arcticangel
    http://www.soundclick.com/Armadillo
  • Cropduster84Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    Tom Waits is amazing.

    He writes such beautiful songs.

    Take It With Me puts a lump in my throat, its so touching.
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • spnoonespnoone Posts: 630
    i set out trying to make someone a homemade best of tom waits cd and after narrowing it down to just the essentials, it took 7 discs.
  • barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    Anyone here has seen the movie Coffee and Cigarrettes?
    The dialogue he has there with Iggy Pop is simply stelar... Tom just shines.
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
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