tom waits recomendation...?

jorgems
jorgems Posts: 275
edited March 2006 in Other Music
Other than Mule Variations (which is an EXCELLENT Album), what other Tom Waits Album would you recommend?

JM
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  • Tamarack
    Tamarack Posts: 2
    I'm not sure about actual albums but his songs rock on Dead Man Walking and the Shreks. He play captain hook in shrek 2. (:
    "We all walk the Long Road..." E.V.
  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,577
    Closing Time and The Early Tapes.
    San Diego 10/25/00, Mountain View 6/1/03, Santa Barbara 10/28/03, Northwest School 3/18/05, San Diego 7/7/06, Los Angeles 7/9/06, 7/10/06, Honolulu (U2) 12/9/06, Santa Barbara (EV) 4/10/08, Los Angeles (EV) 4/12/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield 6/28/08, VH1 Rock Honors The Who 7/12/08, Seattle 9/21/09, Universal City 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, San Diego 10/9/09, Los Angeles (EV) 7/8/11, Santa Barbara (EV) 7/9/11, Chicago 7/19/13, San Diego 11/21/13, Los Angeles 11/23/13, 11/24/13, Oakland 11/26/13, Chicago 8/22/16, Missoula 8/13/18, Boston 9/2/18, Los Angeles 2/25/22 (EV), San Diego 5/3/22, Los Angeles 5/6/22, 5/7/22, Imola 6/25/22, Los Angeles 5/21/24, [London 6/29/24], [Boston 9/15/24]
  • manny_81
    manny_81 Posts: 17
    i really like rain dogs.
    So I bid farewell to the Eastern town I never more will see;
    But work I must so I eat this dust and breathe refinery.
    Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams and I don't like cowboy clothes;
    But I like being free and that makes me an idiot I suppose.
  • spnoone
    spnoone Posts: 633
    nighthawks at the diner is what i use to win people over. start there. then small change. then bone machine. and his best acting performance is in ironweed.
  • NoLongerOverwhelmed
    NoLongerOverwhelmed Posts: 82
    swordfishtrombone...
    Rock over London... Rock on Chicago... I love what you do for me Toyota - Wesley Willis
  • gforce33
    gforce33 Posts: 24
    Small Change is great. Blood Money is also terrific - God's Away on Business is one of my all-time fav songs. And the video for it is just crazy.
  • tonywellington
    tonywellington Posts: 44
    Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs are my favourites. Real Gone is fantastic as well although it takes a couple listens.

    Of all the shows I have ever been to, I can honestly say that Tom Waits in 1999 was far and away the best.
    Barrie 1992 
    Toronto 2003
    Kitchener 2005
    London 2005
    Toronto 1 2006
    Cleveland 2006
    Toronto 2009
    Toronto 2011
    Hamilton 2011
    London, Ont 2013
    Buffalo 2013
    Detroit 2014
    Toronto 1 2016
    Toronto 2 2016
    Hamilton 2022
    Toronto 2022
  • Moskeeto
    Moskeeto Posts: 14
    Nighthawks at the Diner is amazing. Go for it. Small change is up there too, but you can't be nighthawks, it is unbelievable.
  • High Fidelity 2000
    High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    Small Change, Heart Attack & Vine, and Closing Time. Heart of Saturday Night too.
    ABQ 93, Las Cruces 95, ABQ 98, Bridge School 10/30/99, Lubbock 00, ABQ 00, Denver 03, State College 03, San Diego 03, Vegas 03, PHX 03, D.C. 03, Camden 7/5/03, NYC 7/8/03 + 7/9/03, Vegas 06, San Francisco 7/15/06 + 7/16/06 + 7/18/06, Kansas City 10, [EV:ABQ 11/6/12], Chicago 13, PHX 13, Denver 14--PJ24!, Telluride 16, Chicago 8/20/16, Chicago 8/18/18, Phoenix 22, Denver 22, Vegas 5/16/24

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  • Johnny Wong
    Johnny Wong Wauwatosa, WI Posts: 194
    Bone Machine
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  • StoneG82
    StoneG82 Posts: 806
    Johnny Wong wrote:
    Bone Machine

    this was the first Waits album I got. Definitely a great one. Pretty dark, though.
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
  • Wasted Life
    Wasted Life Posts: 10
    I got mule Variations too. your right, its deffinetly EXCELLENT!

    I've only heard about 3 or 4 of Tom Waits albums. Mule Variations, Alice Blood Money, and . . . (Im drawing a blank on the last album.) Mule Variations was the best, but Alice was prolly seccond best.
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    His latest album "Real Gone" is freakin' amazing.
    "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
  • onejourney
    onejourney Posts: 285
    I think its impossible to go wrong with a Tom Waits record. Obviously, Rain Dogs is considered his best.

    For Me, lately I have not been able to get 'Blood Money' out of my cd player. I think 'Frank's Wild Years' is incredibly underrated. But next, Id go with Heartattack and Vine. But really, you will be happy with anything you buy...if you like Mule Vibrations...it only gets better, IMO.
    "...just be glad you have the music and cherish it for yourself..." -stateoflove79
  • pickupyourwill
    pickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    the only song of his I know---one of my faves on the sndtrack (eddie's long road and face of love come first of course)

    Walk Away
    *********

    Dot King was whittled from the bone of Cain
    with a little drop of poison in the red, red blood
    She need a way to turn around the bend
    She said I want to walk away and start over again.

    There are things I've done I can't erase
    I want to look in the mirror, see another face
    I said never would I do it again
    I want to walk away, start over again.

    No more rain
    No more roses
    On my way, shake my thirst in a cool, cool pond.

    There is a (widower/whittler/winner) in every place
    There is a heart that's beating in every page
    The beginning of it starts at the end
    When it's time to walk away and start over again.

    Weather is murder at a hundred and three
    William Ray shot Corabell Lee
    A yellow dog knows when he has sinned
    You want to walk away and start over again.

    No more rain
    No more roses
    On my way, shaking my thirst in a cool cool pond.

    Cooper told Maui the whole block is gone
    They're dying for jewelry, money, and clothes
    I always get out of the trouble I'm in
    I want to walk away, start over again.

    I left my bible by the side of the road
    Carve my initials in an old dead tree
    I'm going away but I'm going to be back when
    It's time to walk away and start over again.
  • onejourney
    onejourney Posts: 285
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    the only song of his I know---one of my faves on the sndtrack (eddie's long road and face of love come first of course)


    You need to hear more of his music. :)
    "...just be glad you have the music and cherish it for yourself..." -stateoflove79

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