― Chris Trew, Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:39 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― tremendoidorangeblazer, Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:47 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:53 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:54 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
good show
― dancefloor (+dancefloor), Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:54 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:26 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:42 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
She is great.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 August 2004 23:51 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Chris Trew, Monday, 30 August 2004 06:34 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
Eight million Tom Waits threads, I know, but I might as well use this one for this info:
For his Atlanta stop, recorded at the city's historic Fox Theater on July 5, Waits delivered a stunning and epic two-and-a-half-hour performance, including songs he says he's never attempted outside of the studio before. Backing Waits is a five-piece group featuring Seth Ford-Young (upright bass), Patrick Warren (keyboards), Omar Torrez (guitars), Vincent Henry (woodwinds) and Casey Waits (drums and percussion). "They play with racecar precision and they are all true conjurers," Waits says. "They are all multi-instrumentalists and they polka like real men."---Setlist:"Lucinda / Ain't Going Down to the Well""Down in the Hole""Falling Down""Chocolate Jesus""All the World Is Green""Cemetery Polka""Cause of It All""Till the Money Runs Out""Such a Scream""November""Hold On""Black Market Baby""9th and Hennepin""Lie to Me""Lucky Day""On the Nickel""Lost in the Harbor""Innocent When You Dream""Hoist That Rag""Make It Rain""Dirt in the Ground""Get Behind the Mule""Hang Down Your Head""Jesus Gonna Be Here""Singapore"ENCORE"Eyeball Kid""Anywhere I Lay My Head"
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Setlist:
"Lucinda / Ain't Going Down to the Well"
"Down in the Hole"
"Falling Down"
"Chocolate Jesus"
"All the World Is Green"
"Cemetery Polka"
"Cause of It All"
"Till the Money Runs Out"
"Such a Scream"
"November"
"Hold On"
"Black Market Baby"
"9th and Hennepin"
"Lie to Me"
"Lucky Day"
"On the Nickel"
"Lost in the Harbor"
"Innocent When You Dream"
"Hoist That Rag"
"Make It Rain"
"Dirt in the Ground"
"Get Behind the Mule"
"Hang Down Your Head"
"Jesus Gonna Be Here"
"Singapore"
ENCORE
"Eyeball Kid"
"Anywhere I Lay My Head"
Link near the top of the page to listen.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
thanks Ned, listening now. this set is pretty similar to what i saw him play in Houston, plus a few songs i didn't hear -- Chocolate Jesus, Such a Scream, 9th and Hennepin, On the Nickel, Singapore (maybe a couple others) -- but overall very similar. Recording quality is excellent too!, this is really really good.
― stephen, Saturday, 2 August 2008 00:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
Live double CD at the end of November 2009:
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/6985723
8 free tracks: http://www.tomwaits.com/news/article/60/Free_Glitter_and_Doom_Live_Album_Preview/
Preorder: http://kingsroadmerch.com/tom-waits/
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://i37.tinypic.com/10pye5k.png
― StanM, Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:35 (nine years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTi8mATzSTI&NR=1
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:32 (eight years ago) Permalink
whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― zorn_bond.mp3, Monday, 16 August 2010 00:07 (eight years ago) Permalink
So I don't want to start yet another TW thread, but there's hardly been any discussion of Glitter & Doom yet. What did people think?
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 20:58 (eight years ago) Permalink
I get a guilty conscience every time I see it in my record collection, as I've hardly played it since I bought it several months ago. I was put off a little by the boomy-ness of the sound at first. But I clearly owe it to him to listen more.
― Duke, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 23:14 (eight years ago) Permalink
i listened to it a ton when it came out, and then i haven't played it since. it's good! i should dig it out again.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 23:14 (eight years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH_EwRjrldc
― Cunga, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:48 (eight years ago) Permalink
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li342nNZnS1qdf09mo1_500.jpgold guys play some sort of event
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:03 (seven years ago) Permalink
(ribot in the back there!)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:04 (seven years ago) Permalink
Ribot good enough that he gets to sit.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:25 (seven years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVVDrPEQZt4&feature=player_embedded
― tylerw, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:19 (seven years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiJ2E0xGOv8
― MaresNest, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:33 (seven years ago) Permalink
http://www.tomwaits.com/news/article/146/Peek_At_A_Lyric_From_New_Tom_Waits8217_Album/
― StanM, Friday, 10 June 2011 15:18 (seven years ago) Permalink
never seen this beforehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCNDZY4vXPs&feature=player_embedded
also finally getting around to the brawlers box set thing. some amazing stuff! kind of frustrating that the info about when the tracks were recorded / who played on them is so vague, but oh well.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 19:43 (seven years ago) Permalink
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kunmz1iWzo1qz6gpyo1_500.jpg
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:14 (seven years ago) Permalink
I'm not a huge fan but I really enjoyed the Boxers set, especially the third disc with the spoken word stuff. The poem about the boy waiting at a diner during a bus ride stopover is particularly great.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:39 (seven years ago) Permalink
aw that's nirvana by bukowski. but yeah what a beaut. what a beaut.there's some real gold on this that used to live on bootlegs, i think a long series called tales from the dimestore?, vols one to nine or something. almost wonder if they might theoretically hold a little more info about what's what. i like never let go, & lie to me a bunch.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:49 (seven years ago) Permalink
Thanks to Chuck Tatum for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU&feature=player_embedded#!
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Friday, 19 August 2011 23:23 (seven years ago) Permalink
HAW!
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 19 August 2011 23:50 (seven years ago) Permalink
http://www.somekindofawesome.com/journal/2011/8/22/listen-tom-waits-bad-as-me.html
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:30 (seven years ago) Permalink
I like it
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:37 (seven years ago) Permalink
was that actually taken down within the last 9 minutes?
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:40 (seven years ago) Permalink
Woah! Yes, I guess it was!
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:43 (seven years ago) Permalink
It sounded much like Tom Waits FWIW. Brash, honking, stompjng Tom Waits rather than sad Tom Waits. U know the drill
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:44 (seven years ago) Permalink
anti ppl be lurking ilm
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:45 (seven years ago) Permalink
I'm anti-ppl
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:46 (seven years ago) Permalink
You guys are right about Nirvana upthread. It's been on every Christmas compilation I've made since I first heard it.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:47 (seven years ago) Permalink
The poem about the boy waiting at a diner during a bus ride stopover is particularly great.yeah! almost wish there was a whole album of this sort of thing. he has an amazing speaking voice, even when he's not hamming it up.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 02:40 (seven years ago) Permalink
I made a compilation of many of his best spoken word pieces, stuff like "What's he building in there". A bit disjointed in feel but it captures that incredible side of his work. I wish I flat-out loved his singing but I just don't.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:44 (seven years ago) Permalink
U know the drill
yeah it's funny how much this is exactly what you expect a new tom waits song is going to sound like, but, you know, nice also. spoken bits are v wolf.
― sexual union prayerbook slam (schlump), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 09:11 (seven years ago) Permalink
am i totally reactionary if i prefer his pre-swordfishtrombones stuff?
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 09:29 (seven years ago) Permalink
nope, otm.
― Ludo, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 09:47 (seven years ago) Permalink
it's like loving the complex human sprawl of a man but remembering the innocence of the child he was
― sexual union prayerbook slam (schlump), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 09:50 (seven years ago) Permalink
thanks, i feel validated!
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:26 (seven years ago) Permalink
you're all wrong.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:42 (seven years ago) Permalink
Nah, I'm kidding - you can like what you like, you don't have to ask me!
There is something quite devastating and melancholy and genuine about a lot of early Waits. Albums like Small Change are gut-wrenchingly desperate while Heart Of Saturday Night is so wistful and starry-eyed. I have a lot of time for this era. He had a tendency to go from genuinely affecting to full-on hammy, but by reinventing himself in the early '80s he managed to hit a happy medium through pure theatre.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:46 (seven years ago) Permalink
I love that cartoon "The Street Tom Waits Grew Up On" upthread. Who did that?
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:47 (seven years ago) Permalink
So, the new album is out. Ilxors?
― dog latin, Friday, 21 October 2011 12:40 (seven years ago) Permalink
"As most of you guessed, it’s a tour…a tour de force!"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 19:05 (six years ago) Permalink
nice video as it is though. Reminds me of Up! and also Mario 3 for some reason.
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 08:35 (six years ago) Permalink
Waits fans - please vote in this one:What's he POLLing in there? The Tom Waits ballot poll
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:17 (five years ago) Permalink
Cheers for the promotion DL.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:33 (five years ago) Permalink
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/15/this_tender_tom_waits_tribute_to_david_letterman_will_make_you_weep/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 May 2015 13:24 (three years ago) Permalink
I just saw the truly amazing staging of The Tempest, co-directed by magician Teller and featuring music (new and old) by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. It occurred to me that I know next to nothing about his wife. Has she ever given an interview? She seems conspicuously quiet given what a huge impact she has had on his career, and that she has co-written pretty much everything of his since 1980.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:03 (three years ago) Permalink
huh hadn't heard about The Tempest! sounds interesting. as far as Brennan goes, I don't think I've ever read an interview with her.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:21 (three years ago) Permalink
The Tempest was nuts, by the way. Incredible illusions plus a Caliban played by two people constantly connected/tumbling/climbing grabbling with one another. This is a still from another production:
http://americanrepertorytheater.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_popup/public/images/highres/TSC_Tempest_25.JPG?itok=m-Q_VwUV
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:24 (three years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/j9juKOg.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:17 (two years ago) Permalink
lol!
― calzino, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:29 (two years ago) Permalink
Nick Cave fake hillbilly pecker
About 34,300 results (0.71 seconds)
― calzino, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:34 (two years ago) Permalink
Yo, Tom Waits, what's up?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 15:00 (one year ago) Permalink
I found it interesting that he wasn't in that best songs of the 80s list p4k did, I don't think he's very trendy these days
― niels, Sunday, 23 July 2017 16:54 (one year ago) Permalink
Not touring or releasing albums will do that! But if he did/does tour, those tickets will go like lightning, because trendy or no the dude is cool and people like cool things.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 17:06 (one year ago) Permalink
One of the funniest people ever
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:28 (one year ago) Permalink
"the large print giveth and the small print taketh away"
― sleeve, Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:29 (one year ago) Permalink
xp certainly, and I'm very happy I got to see him in Paris and I would be first in line for tickets to a new showall the same I find myself rarely revisiting anything but Rain Dogs and Real Gone, and so as this correlates with little critical and social media attention I get the conspiratorial idea that what sounded new and fresh when I was first exposed to it is perhaps in fact kind of a gimmick and not as original as I thought at first
― niels, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:52 (one year ago) Permalink
Speak of the devil and he shall appear.
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Tom-Waits-surprises-audience-joins-Mavis-Staples-12192868.php
https://www.instagram.com/p/BY7PXPGn1FX/
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:09 (one year ago) Permalink
look out, mavis! HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:11 (one year ago) Permalink
"Entire ANTI- catalog newly remastered by Waits/BrennanIncluding a new, remixed version of Real GoneAvailable Now For Pre-Order On Vinyl & CD
BAD AS ME11.10.17
REAL GONE11.24.17
ALICE11.24.17 BLOOD MONEY11.24.17
GLITTER & DOOM12.01.17
MULE VARIATIONS12.15.17
Also Available For Digital Downloads & Streaming.Orphans Available 2018."
― StanM, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:41 (one year ago) Permalink
https://kingsroadmerch.com/tom-waits/
― StanM, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:42 (one year ago) Permalink
lol that's like sweeping up a junkyard
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:53 (one year ago) Permalink
wtf @ remastering these? they all sound great
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:56 (one year ago) Permalink
They should just add extra vinyl cracks & pops, indeed.
― StanM, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:56 (one year ago) Permalink
Two of these are less than ten years old. Feels too soon for a makeover
Thankfully there are no extra tracks, so I can ignore this
― Duke, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:51 (one year ago) Permalink
yeah tom waits records in general are really well recorded and engineered and mixed
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:13 (one year ago) Permalink
also whenever somethings advertised as being remixed by the artist i'm always like oh goody mixed by a non-professional who's ears have been fucking shot since 1993
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:14 (one year ago) Permalink
"Real Gone" is a kind of a weird sounding record, Waits beat boxing as the rhythm track on certain tunes for inst, I'd be curious to hear a remix but never felt the original was lacking, though it is, more then a lot of Waits records, a ymmv sitch.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:34 (one year ago) Permalink
also whenever somethings advertised as being remixed by the artist i'm always like oh goody mixed by a non-professional who's ears have been fucking shot since 1993― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
Iggy Pop to thread
― Duke, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:59 (one year ago) Permalink
Most of these are easily available but hey I’ll never complain for more Waits vinyl in the market.
I seriously need a Rain Dogs and Bone Machine reissue tho.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 20:21 (one year ago) Permalink
Whether or not they really needed a remaster I am glad that they did it cuz it reminded me of "Alice" which I had not listened to in a minute and is just a great record.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:02 (one year ago) Permalink
As a former huge Tom Waits fan, I kinda lost track of his work after Real Gone - everything just feels less essential from Mule Variations onwards. Is there anything worth re-exploring on Bad as Me and Orphans?
I love the demo of Alice - one of my favourite things he's done. Never quite enjoyed the fully-orchestrated version as much.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:12 (one year ago) Permalink
The spoken word disc of orphans is really great
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 11 December 2017 15:15 (one year ago) Permalink
agreed, that 3rd disc has some great weird digressions
― sleeve, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:36 (one year ago) Permalink
yeah i ignored Orphans at first, but most of it is great.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:45 (one year ago) Permalink
The Alice musical demos are the best. Alice recut as an album 10 years later is less so.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:59 (one year ago) Permalink
my alice demos are on a DVD-R of MP3s that has suffered sea-change and cannot be mounted in ye drive any longer, alas
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 11 December 2017 18:01 (one year ago) Permalink
I've never heard the Alice demos, but I like the album a lot. It and Blood Money are closer to European art music than the junkyard-folk-blues stuff he'd been doing on Mule Variations. Plus I probably have a soft spot for those albums because that was when I got to interview him.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 11 December 2017 19:16 (one year ago) Permalink
Mule Variations - other than 1 or 2 tracks is a bit straight and bluesy-woosy for me. Not my favourite style of Tom WaitsReal Gone - Also straight and bluesywoosy but I kinda like it more? Bit too long thoughOrphans - Yeah the third disc is a keeper. Enjoy some of the ballads on the second disc. Can't really get into much on the first disc as, again, it's a bit hoary tin-can blues and not my thingBad As Me - kind of a nice crystallisation of the previous decade. It's not a cool, conceptual album at all, and it's really just Waits being Waits and not giving a fuck. Some ideas are rehashed from previous albums, but it's got some great moments
Here's a playlist of later Waits stuff (no Alice or Blood Money stuff on here) https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/39Hr6Cn4EkRtYbJnmZgWZl
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:08 (one year ago) Permalink
someone who has those Alice demos should upload them (assuming they are not officially online)
― Ludo, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:34 (one year ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3PFsJaE39A
― tylerw, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:40 (one year ago) Permalink
of course, YouTube :-)
― Ludo, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:13 (one year ago) Permalink
All the remasters (so, everything except the Island albums) are on Bandcamp now.
https://tomwaits.bandcamp.com/
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 11 March 2018 00:52 (nine months ago) Permalink
When I was in my twenties and worked in "the biz," I misspelled his name in a letter ("Dear Mr. Waites"). My boss discovered it after it had already gone out, and was (understandably) quite pissed off, ha ha.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Sunday, 11 March 2018 04:44 (nine months ago) Permalink
so... is he doing the Island albums next?
― StanM, Sunday, 11 March 2018 11:27 (nine months ago) Permalink
Appears on the new ribot record
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Monday, 10 September 2018 04:24 (three months ago) Permalink
I think I don't need the remasters. Does anyone have any of them? Does one or two stand out?
― Duke, Monday, 10 September 2018 21:09 (three months ago) Permalink
heard the real gone one was great, perhaps ilxors can comment
― Ross, Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:49 (two months ago) Permalink
Is that one simply remastered or remixed as well?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:15 (two months ago) Permalink
I've only heard the Real Gone one. it's good and there are a couple of differences but I wouldn't say it's essential
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:19 (two months ago) Permalink