Tom Waits

[LoathedVermin72]

hey little bird
fly away home
your house is on fire
your children are alone

[epilogue]

I liked that Letterman song for what it was. And I imagine that's all it was.

[Mike]

Bad As Me has some songs I love so very much. Pay Me and Back In The Crow are my two favorites. I think the album is great.

[epilogue]

Bad As Me has some songs I love so very much. Pay Me and Back In The Crow are my two favorites. I think the album is great.

GREAT
Chicago
Raised Right Men
Pay Me
Back in the Crowd
Kiss Me
Hell Broke Luce
New Year's Eve
Tell Me

GOOD
Talking at the Same Time
Bad As Me
Satisfied
Last Leaf
She Stole the Blush


FINE
Get Lost
Face to the Highway
After You Die

You'll notice there are no "bad" or "terrible" categories.

[Kevin Davis]

"Bad as Me" suffered a bit from "Backspacer" syndrome, I think -- it would have been an easier record to appreciate had it come out as a sort of low profile album amidst a flurry of creative activity, but as the sole product to stand for seven years of inactivity (barring "Orphans"), it was destined to underwhelm. I like it though. I should listen to it again soon.

[Kevin Davis]

Bad As Me has some songs I love so very much. Pay Me and Back In The Crow are my two favorites. I think the album is great.

GREAT
Chicago
Raised Right Men
Pay Me
Back in the Crowd
Kiss Me
Hell Broke Luce
New Year's Eve
Tell Me

GOOD
Talking at the Same Time
Bad As Me
Satisfied
Last Leaf
She Stole the Blush


FINE
Get Lost
Face to the Highway
After You Die

You'll notice there are no "bad" or "terrible" categories.

I am down with this list.

[Mike]

Bad As Me has some songs I love so very much. Pay Me and Back In The Crow are my two favorites. I think the album is great.

GREAT
Chicago
Raised Right Men
Pay Me
Back in the Crowd
Kiss Me
Hell Broke Luce
New Year's Eve
Tell Me

GOOD
Talking at the Same Time
Bad As Me
Satisfied
Last Leaf
She Stole the Blush


FINE
Get Lost
Face to the Highway
After You Die

You'll notice there are no "bad" or "terrible" categories.

Looks pretty similar to what mine would look like. Both Raised Right Men and Face To The Highway would be in the Good-Category, though. Face To The Highway has such a cool atmosphere.

[stip]

so the river will not drown it
and the highway won't take it
and the dust will not cover it
and the sun won't blind it
and the wind won't blow it away

[epilogue]

Well, we stick our fingers in the ground,
heave and turn the world around
Smoke is blacking out the sun
At night I pray and clean my gun

The cracked bell rings as the ghost bird sings
and the gods go begging here
So just open fire when you hit the shore
All is fair in love and war

Hoist that rag!

[stip]

why that isn't a popular wedding song I have no idea.

[McParadigm]

Hoist is probably my favorite protest song of all time. And when you think of everything that encompasses the story of the Middle East in the first part of this century, "gods go begging here" says so much in just a single line.

[Strat]

I just listened to "Tell Me" for the first time in a couple years.

Fuck that brought some tears to my eyes.

[Kevin Davis]

why that isn't a popular wedding song I have no idea.

Probably because that line about knowing what to do when the baby cries puts undue expectation on the couple.

[Self]

The Mule, Bone Machine, and Real Gone are the only records I know that make me feel like I don't drink as much as I should.

When my kids turn on the Walking Dead, I listen to them through headphones and it keeps me from laughing.

[stip]

why that isn't a popular wedding song I have no idea.

Probably because that line about knowing what to do when the baby cries puts undue expectation on the couple.

I meant hoist that rag

[stip]

Hoist is probably my favorite protest song of all time. And when you think of everything that encompasses the story of the Middle East in the first part of this century, "gods go begging here" says so much in just a single line.

Maybe god himself is lost and needs help


Tell me how does God choose/whose prayers does he refuse



Quite a few great God in the Middle East lyrics in that period

[stip]

And yet the lyrics in hell broke Luce are so stupid

[Kevin Davis]

why that isn't a popular wedding song I have no idea.

Probably because that line about knowing what to do when the baby cries puts undue expectation on the couple.

I meant hoist that rag

Right. "The smell of blood, the drone of flies/You know what to do if the baby cries."

It's like you're barely even married and here's fucking Tom Waits trying to pressure you into having kids already, and doind a piss poor job might I add with all his talk about blood and flies.

[stip]

I'm lucky my marriage survived

[McParadigm]

And yet the lyrics in hell broke Luce are so stupid

Baffling, ain't it?