― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
"The next generaton of an underworld American musical dynasty makes its debut on a new LP currently being worked on by Tom Waits. The singer's son Casey appears playing percussion and turntables on the album, working title Real Gone, slated for release this autumn on Anti Records."
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
Best song: Who Are You from [i]Bone Machine[/i]. Does anyone else find this song to be the most perfect song/performance of his career. Reduces me to a husk every time.
Fave albums are [i]Closing Time, Swordfishtrombones, Franks Wild Years[/i] and [i]Bone Machine[/i]. [i]Mule Variations[/i] and [i]Alice/Blood Money[i/] I like very much, though a little patchy. Given what albums I love, should I get [i]Black Rider[/i]?
― PT, Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― PT, Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link
"The Ramones cover" is probably "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" - on Bone Machine.
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 June 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 June 2004 01:29 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 June 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
According to Johnny Ramone, “It took the Ramones 30 years to be eventually nominated for a Grammy. Thanks to Tom Waits for finally getting us there.”
Tom Waits recorded the track for the tribute album with his son Casey Waits on drums and Les Claypool of Primus on bass, while Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion and Epitaph Records founder co-produced and played guitar. “The only honor possibly greater than producing and playing on a Tom Waits track would be to do it for The Ramones,” said Gurewitz. “The fact that it’s nominated for a Grammy makes it all the more surreal.”"
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
(Les Claypool is on the new record again, I know at least one ILXer will be delighted at this. *hint* it's not ME)
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link
Of what I've heard, I enjoy the Swordfishtrombones and later material more than pre-SFT. On the Swordfishtrombones vs. Rain Dogs point, somebody previously said they favored Rain Dogs on the basis that by then he had more time to grow into the new sound he was crafting and that Rain Dogs was less patchy (which I'm not sure if they meant in terms of consistancy of sound or just consistancy of performance), the lesser consistancy of sound of Swordfish is what is so great about that album to me [Holy run on sentence, sorry folks]. He pulls out the mush balladry of In The Neighborhood right next to the smoky storytelling of Frank's Wild Years right next to the xylophone jazz of Swordfishtrombones, I love it. Alice vs. Blood Money, the extreme theatrics of Alice (not to say that most Waits isn't big) win me over (and like someone said earlier, 'Alice' is just such an amazing track).
― Reed Rosenberg (reed), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 28 June 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Monday, 28 June 2004 08:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Mog, Monday, 28 June 2004 09:48 (twenty years ago) link
'Alice' = a rewrite of (or at least v. v. similar to) 'You Don't Know What Love Is'
Interesting! I haven't listened to Alice in awhile, but you might be OTM. There are lots of Waits songs that I've wanted to do jazz versions of since the changes are so standard-y.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago) link
It features genuinely fantastic versions of Big Black Mariah, 13 Shells.., Time & others. Marc Ribot's guitar playing and Michael Blair's drunken junkyard percussion are especially enjoyable.
― mzui, Monday, 28 June 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago) link
― mzui, Monday, 28 June 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago) link
I'm posting this because, for some reason, I haven't listened to his music since talking to him. I still admire him tremendously in the abstract, but I haven't been in a mood to actually hear his music since about a week after turning that piece in.
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 28 June 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
"Real Gone - Tom Waits Ever since Tom Waits had his musical re-awakening on Swordfishtrombones he's made it very easy for everyone - you either love him or hate him. If you fall into the latter category and bemoan his wasted-cabaret / singer-songwriter talent gone out the window then DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT LISTENING TO THIS ALBUM. If you, however, 'get' his crazy sounds and draino voice then you will need no more encouragement other than this is EVEN MORE difficult to sit through than the Blood Money / Alice set. Get comfortable - you'll need some time to let this monstrosity sink right in. Enjoy the ride..."
Does this annoy the absolute crap out of anyone else? I don't think Waits "tries" to do anything but challenge himself and anyone else with the stones to listen. I think I like Tom Waits because he (and Brennan) are good contemporary poets/musicians that provide a retreat from all the manufactured crap that is released at "default factory settings". His records have content that is more accessible to not-so-strong readers like myself who enjoy the more eclectic, rootsie things (but not for sake of it) in life but don't have the time or know where to find them. Somebody name someone notable who doesn't like the work of Tom Waits.
Now I haven't yet heard all of his stuff, but most of it. At the moment, The Early Years vol I&II are tiding me over until Real Gone comes out in my neck of the woods.
I'm off to bed - gotta get my make-sense-sleep.
― JoshIAm, Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoshIAm, Friday, 15 October 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 15 October 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Friday, 15 October 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoshIAm, Saturday, 16 October 2004 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I like some of his stuff, but the trouble is that between every nice ballad once in a while he tends to put some of those absolutely unlistenable Captain Beefheart influenced, well, dunno what I'd call them but songs they aren't, that is for certain.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 October 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sympatico (shmuel), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete W (peterw), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sympatico (shmuel), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Now that would be cool. My two favourites working together for the force of mint-ox.
― JoshIAm, Friday, 22 October 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Way Down In The Hole - top "evil preacher" style hellfire-isms with groovy sax breaks.
Big In Japan - again, it's the brassy breaks that do this for me, plus the beatboxing rules.
Such A Scream - I think all three of these songs are quite similar in a way. I like this one too.
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link
With such a vast oeuvre, I had to make painful choices, but I like this list.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
Agree on Bone Machine being a peak. Add "Murder in the Red Barn" and "Dirt in the Ground" to the great songs from this record.
(Psst... it's "Hoist That Rag," not "Flag")
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
typo!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 August 2017 02:44 (seven years ago) link