Tom Waits

Post by **epilogue** » Fri August 02, 2013 1:14 am

Strat wrote:$45! sorry!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... ollectible

hmmm

Nice.

Have you checked ebay. It was up there about eight months ago as a "buy this now" for $25.

Post by **epilogue** » Fri August 02, 2013 1:15 am

I can't be looking at this shit. I'm broke! And unemployed. I have to wait until I have real income.... good things come to those who wait and all that, right?

Post by **epilogue** » Fri August 02, 2013 1:21 am

Serious question: Is Falling Down the best song to never be released on a proper studio album?

Strat · Post by **Strat** » Fri August 02, 2013 1:23 am

I should go the unemployment route :\

Post by **epilogue** » Fri August 02, 2013 1:24 am

Strat wrote:I should go the unemployment route :\

It's a lot of "Fun" for about a month. Now I feel like a loser. I keep waiting to hear back - either from my current job, from which I'm laid off, or from the new job I applied for. I'm kinda hoping I get the new job. I think they're interested, but it's really gonna come down to salary.

Strat · Post by **Strat** » Fri August 02, 2013 1:26 am

Basically i just need a career change. I think. Maybe. Is there a job that pays you to travel around listening to music and gushing about it on the internet?

Post by **epilogue** » Fri August 02, 2013 1:31 am

Strat wrote:Basically i just need a career change. I think. Maybe. Is there a job that pays you to travel around listening to music and gushing about it on the internet?

Sure! Anthony Bourdain has that very job. Except sometimes he talks about food instead.

elliseamos · Post by **elliseamos** » Mon August 05, 2013 8:54 pm

elliseamos · Post by **elliseamos** » Tue August 06, 2013 5:20 pm

why didn't the conversation of "getting thodoks into tom waits" yesterday start the wire's intro song?

Post by **epilogue** » Tue August 06, 2013 5:30 pm

I.... I don't know?

elliseamos · Post by **elliseamos** » Tue August 06, 2013 5:33 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:I.... I don't know?

do i have to do EVERYTHING around here?!!

Post by **epilogue** » Thu August 08, 2013 3:39 pm

"I miss your broken china voice."

What a lovely phrase. Fantastic. Not just the imagery, but the words, the way the words sound together. Just great.

Strat · Post by **Strat** » Thu August 08, 2013 3:56 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:"I miss your broken china voice."

What a lovely phrase. Fantastic. Not just the imagery, but the words, the way the words sound together. Just great.

Still my number 1 song of all time. I have yet to get sick of it and its a daily listen.

Post by **epilogue** » Thu August 08, 2013 4:05 pm

Strat wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:"I miss your broken china voice."

What a lovely phrase. Fantastic. Not just the imagery, but the words, the way the words sound together. Just great.

Still my number 1 song of all time. I have yet to get sick of it and its a daily listen.

It's a great song. I keep finding new images to love. I mean, I know the song, but it keeps creeping up on me. It's a genuine joy to listen to.

Post by **epilogue** » Thu August 08, 2013 4:07 pm

"I grew up here all of my life
And I dreamed someday I'd go
Where the blue eyed girls and the red guitars
And the naked rivers flow.

Now I'm not all I thought I'd be, I've always stayed around
I've been as far as Mercy and Grand, frozen to the ground."

Just breaks my heart. Every time New York starts to get the better of me I think about home and I listen to this song and I'm so grateful I made it all the way out here.

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Thu August 08, 2013 4:18 pm

Strat wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:"I miss your broken china voice."

What a lovely phrase. Fantastic. Not just the imagery, but the words, the way the words sound together. Just great.
Still my number 1 song of all time. I have yet to get sick of it and its a daily listen.

You know Kathleen forced Tom into AA in the early 90's, and there was apparently some acrimony leading up to that. I've always thought that seemingly personal bit of 'you have no right to know this' information was actually one of the greatest opportunities for insight into their combined songwriting that we've ever gotten...specifically because Bone Machine would have been written during that time, and Mule Variations after. They have some very similar personalities, those records, but there are distinctly different emotional cores....and sometimes I wonder who wrote some of these lines, and when.

Well I fell in love with your sailor's mouth and your wounded eyes.
You'd better get down on the floor...don't you know this is war?

I miss your broken china voice. How I wish you were still here with me.

I can't stay here, and I'm scared to leave.
Just kiss me once and then
I'll go to hell.
I might as well
be whistlin' down the wind

Once it held laughter.
Once it held dreams.
Did they throw it away?
Did they know what it means?

All broken down
by the side of the road.
I was never more alive or alone.

The world is round,
so I'll go around.
You must risk something that matters.

Post by **epilogue** » Thu August 08, 2013 4:24 pm

I actually didn't know that. Certainly helps paint a face on the idea that Bone Machine and Mule Variations are about the same town, and the same group of people, during and after (respectively) some sort of cataclysm.

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Sun August 11, 2013 1:39 am

Today I was admiring the way Rain Dogs so directly infuses the melodies, emotions, and playful whimsies of the past. There are so many direct lifts in there...musically, it runs from nursery rhymes (Clap Hands) to Disney songs (Diamonds and Gold) to folk ballads (Hang Down Your Head), and it is pretty unapologetic about grafting a deeper musical reality to its already playfully-reverential figure. Lyrically, Tom draws on historical slang, old stories, and far-reaching geographic reference points in a less 'dip of the hat and a wink' way than he does later on in his career. I think that it is the result of these sorts of choices...the sort of 'dipping the song into the edge of a much larger and long-running current,' that makes it stand out for me as being almost mystical.

Anyway, that was on my mind.

mastaflatch · Post by **mastaflatch** » Sun August 11, 2013 1:45 am

that McP post was sublime.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Sun August 11, 2013 2:24 am

Bone Machine has made a strong re appearance this last week. A masterpiece.

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