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!
― calzino, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
Nick Cave fake hillbilly pecker
About 34,300 results (0.71 seconds)
― calzino, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
Yo, Tom Waits, what's up?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
One of the funniest people ever
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
"the large print giveth and the small print taketh away"
― sleeve, Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
look out, mavis! HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
"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 (six years ago) link
https://kingsroadmerch.com/tom-waits/
― StanM, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
lol that's like sweeping up a junkyard
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link