Tom Waits Anyone?

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  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    elmer wrote:
    ...what albums(track no?) that on?
    Heart of Saturday Night - track 2.
  • elmer
    elmer 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_Clay
    Lost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    tom's great, i especially like nighthawks at the diner
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

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  • sj_2150
    sj_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!
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  • bigmuzz
    bigmuzz 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)
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  • bigmuzz
    bigmuzz 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???
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  • sj_2150
    sj_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
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  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 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
  • spnoone
    spnoone Posts: 633
    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.
  • barcoach
    barcoach 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.
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  • bigmuzz
    bigmuzz Posts: 299
    barcoach wrote:
    Anyone here has seen the movie Coffee and Cigarrettes?
    The dialogue he has there with Iggy Pop is simply stelar... Tom just shines.

    that movie has so many great performers in it.............but you gotta be in the right mood to watch it, cos it really is only a bunch of ppl sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes............

    but yeah, the tom waits/iggy pop scene is awesome, one of the best from the film
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  • 10_pearljam
    10_pearljam Posts: 172
    I'm Big in Japan!!
    He is alive but feels absolutely nothing.
    So is he?
    When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him.
    By nine he had deciphered the illusion trading magic for fact.
    No tradebacks...
    So this is what it's like to be an adult
    If he only knew now what he knew then...
  • moloko21
    moloko21 Posts: 114
    I've never seen it, but I hear his segment on Fishing with John is hilarious.

    Speaking of John Lurie, you mustn't forget Tom's great role in Down By Law (another Jarmusch flick, about 100 times better than Coffee and Cigarettes).
    "no, i can't give you full credit, but i'm not gonna flunk you either. you're all getting incompletes."
  • freewheelin3
    freewheelin3 Posts: 173
    big waits fan here...

    still the best last song to a night out.. I hope i dont fall in love with you.

    cantwa it to see his performance aswell as eddie and nusrat on that dead man walking legacy edition thing that comes out in the new year..
  • barcoach
    barcoach Posts: 413
    moloko21 wrote:
    I've never seen it, but I hear his segment on Fishing with John is hilarious.

    Speaking of John Lurie, you mustn't forget Tom's great role in Down By Law (another Jarmusch flick, about 100 times better than Coffee and Cigarettes).

    Just looooove Down By Law!
    That scene at the beginning where his girl starts to throw all his 45 vinyls through the window... man, it breaks my heart.
    How does it go that song they sing about the ice cream?
    Gotta see it again soon, that dvd is getting dust!
    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"
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    freewheelin3 wrote:
    big waits fan here...

    still the best last song to a night out.. I hope i dont fall in love with you.

    cantwa it to see his performance aswell as eddie and nusrat on that dead man walking legacy edition thing that comes out in the new year..

    Yeah, that DVD sounds great. Should be some great footage.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    He always struck me as a poor man's Captain Beefheart. But Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs are okay.

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