Tom Waits

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

listening to "Chicago" over footage of the OWS chaos works pretty damn well together!

Have we talked about how he's apparently announcing a tour tomorrow?

actually

is there news?

Here's the LA Times piece about it: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-tom-waits-20120806,0,1222309.story

I think he's planning to raid a stock exchange and then blow up a football stadium.

LOL at LA Time's HuffPo SEO headline with literally no actual information in the story

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Just a new video, was really hoping for a tour annoucement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8

Awesome, a new video!

oh cool you guys...

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.

"As most of you guessed, it’s a tour…a tour de force!"

nice video as it is though. Reminds me of Up! and also Mario 3 for some reason.

Waits fans - please vote in this one:
What's he POLLing in there? The Tom Waits ballot poll

Cheers for the promotion DL.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/15/this_tender_tom_waits_tribute_to_david_letterman_will_make_you_weep/

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.

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.

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

http://i.imgur.com/j9juKOg.jpg

lol!

Nick Cave fake hillbilly pecker

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Yo, Tom Waits, what's up?

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

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.

One of the funniest people ever

"the large print giveth and the small print taketh away"

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 show

all 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

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/

look out, mavis! HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

"
Entire ANTI- catalog newly remastered by Waits/Brennan
Including a new, remixed version of Real Gone
Available Now For Pre-Order On Vinyl & CD

BAD AS ME
11.10.17

REAL GONE
11.24.17

ALICE
11.24.17

BLOOD MONEY
11.24.17

GLITTER & DOOM
12.01.17

MULE VARIATIONS
12.15.17

Also Available For Digital Downloads & Streaming.
Orphans Available 2018."

https://kingsroadmerch.com/tom-waits/

lol that's like sweeping up a junkyard

wtf @ remastering these? they all sound great

They should just add extra vinyl cracks & pops, indeed.

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

yeah tom waits records in general are really well recorded and engineered and mixed

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

"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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

The spoken word disc of orphans is really great