Tom Waits

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  • cubbieblue82
    cubbieblue82 Posts: 292
    I'd probably start with Mule Variations or Rain Dogs. Those two are pretty easy to get into.

    Orphans would be another good place to start since it pretty much covers all of his styles.
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  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    yeah tom waits! :cool:
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
  • THE BAND
    THE BAND Posts: 83
    I enjoy Tom waits however, too really get the picture I feel it necessary for me to have had been there as the albums were coming out allowing time to digest the material. His work ethic was pretty charged placing an album out every year But he's one of the dangerous artists who created material quickly. Looking back through his catalog of music I find it hard to understand...Thats why I Love Tom Waits.
  • spnoone
    spnoone Posts: 633
    favorites:
    small change.
    bone machine.
    the heart of saturday night.
    swordfishtrombones.

    least favorites:
    alice (mainly cause the finished product wasn't as good as the leaked demos.)
    foreign affairs (the title track and sight for sore eyes being exceptions.)
    both soundtracks.
    early years (volumes 1 to infinity.)
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    I haven't listened to Tom Waits in years, and because of Immagine in Cornice...it got me listening to Mule Variations a lot as of late. And I will eventually have go through his catalogs... Frank's Wild Years, Bone Machine..so many good ones.

    I don't know what it is...but I find his voice to be quite comforting.
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    purchased bone machine and asylum years yesterday.
    gave bone machine a good listen - i love it. this is the type of artist i'v been searching for many years now.
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
  • Dick Jones
    Dick Jones Posts: 777
    16 shells from a thirty-ought six
    clap hands
    tango til they're sore
    goin' out west
    get behind the mule
    cold water
    earth died screaming
    in the coliseum
    big in japan
    low side of the road
    hold on
    i don't wanna grow up
    that feel
    murder in the red barn
    picture in a frame
    jesus gonna be here

    all those songs right there are pretty great.

    "we can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal."
    Are you too good to tango with the poor poor boys?
  • RAT!
    RAT! Posts: 115
    agreed tom waits is a genius. i love how he's changed evolved over the years

    his 70's stuff to his current stuff. all amazing music.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    I never understood why people like him
    one of the worst voices ever

    kinda like Dylan
    the songs all sound a lot better when someone else is singing
  • AiCPearlJamWeen
    AiCPearlJamWeen Posts: 785
    Azwethinkweiz wrote:
    My favorite solo-artist.

    This man is pure genius who haven't released one bad album.

    So, what are your favorite albums by him?


    I say the same thing about Mark Lanegan all the time.....Have never heard a song by Tom Waits though but really want to.
  • Dick Jones
    Dick Jones Posts: 777
    Get_Right wrote:
    I've always understood why people like him,
    one of the best voices ever

    I feel the same way.
    Are you too good to tango with the poor poor boys?
  • Lostdogsinthegarden
    Lostdogsinthegarden Posts: 844
    I'm listening to Bone Machine right now.. good stuff. I also have Blood Money which I think is quite cool too. His voice is straight up crazy.. in a good way.
  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Really diggin Tom Waits at the moment. I don't think he has a single bad song.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    don't know why i'm saying this but i'm 27 right now and Waits & Springsteen are two artists i can see myself grow old with. i never get tired of them. especially all the early unreleased Springsteen stuff.
  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    My favourite solo artist of all time.....take him over Dylan, Springsteen Young, Beefheart any day.....


    'Alice' is one of the most beautiful albums ever recorded.....
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton

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