i've always loved tom waits, i thought this was common knowledge
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 October 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
ranking the albums i've heard, not inc the new one
rain dogs > blue valentine > closing time > mule variations > alice > swordfishtrombones > blood money > heartattack and vine > real gone
absolutely adore the first three espesh
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 October 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
Ooh crumbs the Lex, if you like those, you must seek out Franks Wild Years, Small Change and Heart Of Saturday Night. I find Blue Valentine and Closing Time just a little too hammy. Mule Variations is a bit boring in places.
― dog latin, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
I love this Jon Pareles interview with him in the NY Times. Waits in his Suburban SUV drives Pareles onto railroad tracks and near a defunct truck stop...Plenty of informative and entertaining Waits quotes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/music/tom-waitss-new-album-bad-as-me.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
His songs and arrangements often smack of bleary late nights. But he prefers to record, surprisingly, first thing in the morning. “I used to think that great albums were made at 3 in the morning, until I tried recording at 3 in the morning. And then it was like: ‘Oh, man, I missed it. I’m out of gas,’ ” he said. “At 9:30, 10 o’clock, no one’s heard anything yet, they’re clean. Most of ’em haven’t even had breakfast yet, so this is breakfast.”
He offers his sidemen suggestions: “ ‘I want you to play like you’re 7 years old at a recital. I want you to play like your mom’s in the room. I want you to play like you’re miles from home, and your legs are dangling from a boxcar. Or play like your hair’s on fire. Play like you have no pants on.’ ”
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Mr. Waits’s black Suburban was cluttered. On the passenger seat was a yellowing newspaper announcing the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. A large bottle of Valencia Mexican hot sauce rolled on the floor. Atop a pile covering the back seat were a bowler hat and a glittery sequined jacket. “I have the pants to match,” he said.
Under the clothing were LPs akin to Mr. Waits’s own music: Captain Beefheart, Willy DeVille and an album by the blues harmonica virtuoso Charlie Musselwhite, who also plays on the album. Digging further, Mr. Waits came up with an old sarsaparilla bottle, discovered, he said, while scavenging the truck stop’s parking lot.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
waits really is just a bottomless well of great interview quotes. he doesn't even repeat himself very much!
― tylerw, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
i loved this-
"Anyone who has ever played a piano would really like to hear how it sounds when dropped from a 12th-floor window."
― mid-song laughing elvis (schlump), Monday, 24 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
loved this from the ny times interview (and meyers does sound awesome on the album)
Q.Another one of the sidemen on this album is Augie Meyers, the keyboard and accordion player who defined Tex-Mex with the Sir Douglas Quintet.
A.He responds well to suggestions but he doesn’t do anything you ask him to do. He did some organ stabs on “Raised Right Man.” I was trying to tell him where to put them. And he was looking at me, like, don’t tell me where to put the stabs, man. I could stab this myself. I’m the stab king. I’ve been stabbing since before you were born.
― tylerw, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
:P
― Turangalila, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
listening to this on the npr stream for the first time. sounds great, though i'm not sure if there's anything on here he hasn't done before. shorter song lengths are a good idea! cool that keef richards is all over it. waits should produce a richards solo album!
― tylerw, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
My teenage son was all what's with that guy's scratchy voice.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
It's Tom Waits's "Wild Honey" IMO. Fun album, shorter songs.
― dog latin, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
friggin love "Chicago".
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU
― omar little, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
omg. you're outta luck *smooch*
― runaway (Matt P), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
omg "Hell Broke Luce" = "Mutiny In Heaven"
Still the best song on the album though.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 31 October 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
While I was listening to this I thought, hmm, I wonder if Tom Waits will ever do a Tom Waits Songbook, wherein he remakes favorite songs from his catalog. And then it hits me that, well, that's basically what he's been doing as of late. This is still a fun album, and has a spark that "Real Gone" didn't quite have. Or maybe it did; my listening of that one got eclipsed by "Orphans."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 October 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
This is certainly easier to digest than Real Gone. The latter's slow, creepy, acoustic, sort of soporific in places and definitely front-loaded (the second half is mostly throwaway Waits-by-numbers and I never cared for the war-song). I still love a lot of Real Gone, 'How's It Going To End', 'Hoist That Rag', 'Sins Of My Father' and 'Don't Go Into That Barn YEAAAHH' are all ace, and slightly different from what he'd done before.
― Mum-Ra Gaddafi the Ever-Living (dog latin), Monday, 31 October 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Really liking this on first listen, but I'm really not a fan of the sequencing. I really like "Hell Broke Luce", but I think its really awkwardly placed between "Last Leaf" and "New Years Eve".
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 31 October 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, too much quiet song/loud song on this. it's the only problem really.
― Mum-Ra Gaddafi the Ever-Living (dog latin), Monday, 31 October 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
It's too soon to call it love, but I am having a mad affair with this record. "Chicago" kicks so much ass, good lord.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Guys, I don't think he is trying to "hide" being sentimental! On places other than ILX (yes, I have ventured out there and return with this news), a healthy degree of sentiment is seen as a sign of humanity.
― Tevez Sr. (admrl), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Still, well done for nailing him, we all thought he was cool
― Tevez Sr. (admrl), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
heard the new one at a friends house on a good stereo last night, and i'm really digging it! on the radio, "bad as me" didn't come across very well but i love the sound of this album, really like a 50s album or something...
i need to go pick this up
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
I'm loving this album.
Be sure to get the version with the 3 bonus tracks. "Tell Me" is lovely. And "Hell Broke Luce" is fucking bad-ass.
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think this album is pretty great! any word on whether he's touring? he might be at the top of my list of people i've never seen live.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
No word on a tour. A Waits "tour" typically involves three cities. Was lucky enough to see him once after "Mule Variations" and it was a fucking stunning show. He's a great actor up there.
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Don't miss the Fresh Air interview with him. He talks to Terri like they're old buddies -- hell, maybe they are. At one point he shuffles through some books he has sitting around his studio and reads her dadaist poetry from 1916.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
listening to "Chicago" over footage of the OWS chaos works pretty damn well together!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 19 November 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Have we talked about how he's apparently announcing a tour tomorrow?
― Everything You Like Sucks, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
actually
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
is there news?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
Here's the LA Times piece about it: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-tom-waits-20120806,0,1222309.story
― Everything You Like Sucks, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
I think he's planning to raid a stock exchange and then blow up a football stadium.
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
LOL at LA Time's HuffPo SEO headline with literally no actual information in the story
http://www.prosportstickers.com/product_images/p/752_toon_fish_on_hook__81156.png
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
Just a new video, was really hoping for a tour annoucementhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome, a new video!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
oh cool you guys...
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
honestly, you've gotta be kidding me, is that it?
Funny move by Tom, actually. The only reason that story got any press is because everybody was expecting a tour.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
"As most of you guessed, it’s a tour…a tour de force!"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
Cheers for the promotion DL.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/j9juKOg.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
lol!
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