Tom Waits

[VinylGuy]

Ill do that tomorrow.

Man, i need new Tom Waits´s music.

[bodysnatcher]

Greatest Hits
everything else

[epilogue]

Greatest Hits
everything else

You've made a flaccid enemy today.

[bodysnatcher]

Greatest Hits
everything else

You've made a flaccid enemy today.

I was waiting for your response!

[contamination]

[epilogue]

I JUST realized your avatar winks, contamination.

[Jorge]

Oh God

[contamination]

I JUST realized your avatar winks, contamination.

it does! I've been watching the storytellers gig a couple of times in the past few days. It's too short, and the stories, like the one about 'Bud and the snake' don't make sense, because the story is followed by "House where nobody lives", when in reality the story was an introduction to "I can't wait to get off work", but never the less I still enjoy watching it. I wonder what's the "gadget" Tom is using in "What's he building in there?"

[contamination]

This one:

[epilogue]

I JUST realized your avatar winks, contamination.

it does! I've been watching the storytellers gig a couple of times in the past few days. It's too short, and the stories, like the one about 'Bud and the snake' don't make sense, because the story is followed by "House where nobody lives", when in reality the story was an introduction to "I can't wait to get off work", but never the less I still enjoy watching it. I wonder what's the "gadget" Tom is using in "What's he building in there?"

I've still never watched it. I need to get on that.

[Jorge]

He's not dead.

Random question, though. I've been listening to "Big in Japan" ever since I found it on a punk rock compilation (???) at age 13. So that's 18 years now. And yet I've never been able to figure out what the hell that weird distorted percussive loop that opens and runs through the song is. Any ideas? At certain points it sounds like it might be him beatboxing (I sort of hear his voice during the "pah pah pah" parts) but that might be my brain playing tricks on me.

[Higgs]

According to wiki the personnel on track 1 of "Mule Variations" were:

Tom Waits - Vocal, Guitar
Les Claypool - Bass
Ralph Carney - Trumpet, Sax
Larry LaLonde - Guitar
Brain Mantia - Drums

And that's all they list.

But he talks about it in this interview here: http://tomwaitslibrary.info/interviews/ ... promo.html

Q: "The beginning of "Big In Japan" is one of the more startling sounds you've ever put on record."
Waits: "I was in Mexico in a hotel, and I only had this little tape recorder. I turned it on, and I started screaming and banging on this chest of drawers really hard, till it was kindling, trying to make a full sound like a band. And I saved that. That was years ago. I had it on a cassette, and used to listen to it and laugh. It sounded like some guy alone in a room, which it was, trying his hardest to sound like a big, loud band. So we stuck that in the front."

[Kevin Davis]

The post so nice I made it twice. But really, d/l the show in the next post.

[Kevin Davis]

If I had a ticket to fulfill the old "go back in time to attend one concert of your choosing" fantasy, I think I could do worse than this Tom Waits New Year's Eve show from 1988, with an insane setlist featuring 32 songs including covers by the Doors, Little Willie John, Sinatra, Elvis, and The Pogues (or whoever wrote "Dirty Old Town"). Failing that, though, this pretty awesome recording is hitting the spot today:

Spoiler: show

Tom Waits
Wiltern Theatre, LA
12-31-88
http://www.mediafire.com/file/a6ahvfif8 ... A.rar/file

Take It as It Comes
16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six
Fever
Big Black Mariah
Clap Hands
Cold Cold Ground
Dirty Old Town
Temptation
Heigh Ho
Pennies From Heaven
I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell)
Johnsburg, Illinois
Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie)
Train Song
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Rain Dogs
Falling Down
Walking Spanish
Red Shoes by the Drugstore
Downtown Train
(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
Telephone Call From Istanbul
Straight to the Top (Rhumba)
Auld Lang Syne
Way Down in the Hole
Hound Dog
Hang on St. Christopher
Shore Leave
Down, Down, Down
Time

[McParadigm]

and The Pogues (or whoever wrote "Dirty Old Town").

I think it was first popularized by the Dubliners, who are fucking awesome.

[washing machine]

I really like playing "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" on the bar playlist right before I turn the lights up for closing time. I really hope the room feels it the same way I do when it happens.

[Strat]

I really like playing "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" on the bar playlist right before I turn the lights up for closing time. I really hope the room feels it the same way I do when it happens.

This album is a great one to put on at the end of a night out on the town. Little night cap and quiet in the dark while it plays.

[epilogue]

I've always favored Tom's Brawlers album from the Orphans collection. I recently acquired the Bawlers album on vinyl and it kinda knocked me out. It sounds so fucking good and warm. I think I have a weird torrent version or something because the tracks were in an unfamiliar order. I loved the order they're in on the vinyl I have. So solid and pleasant.

[Kevin Davis]

Are the three albums sold seperately on vinyl?

I absolutely love "Bawlers," it's insane the number of amazing songs he had that didn't make it onto his albums. "Never Let Go?" Come on now!

[VinylGuy]

I've always favored Tom's Brawlers album from the Orphans collection. I recently acquired the Bawlers album on vinyl and it kinda knocked me out. It sounds so fucking good and warm. I think I have a weird torrent version or something because the tracks were in an unfamiliar order. I loved the order they're in on the vinyl I have. So solid and pleasant.

I have the cd of that. Need to listen to it more often.