Bad Religion - Better Off Dead

Tom Waits - Telephone Call From Istanbul.

 

"Lou Gutman - the freshmaker."

Rock Music -- Pixies

Tom Waits - Telephone Call From Istanbul.

 

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You listen to a lot of Tom Waits, and list a lot of his later work. You know, the crazy albums like Swordfishtrombones, Frank's Wild Years and Rain Dogs. I think those albums are great, but for casual listening I prefer old Tom Waits, i.e. Small Change, Closing Time, and Heartattack and Vine. Especially when drinking alone on a Tuesday night... not that I do that.

 

So my question to you is this:

Is ol' Tommy better as a raspy-voiced lounge singer and balladeer, or as a raspy-voiced growling composer of eerie, otherworldly songs with things like marimbas in them?

 

Other freaks who enjoy Tom Waits are free to chime in, as well.

 

 

My two examples of Mr. Waits at the top of both forms:

TW - On the Nickel

TW - Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Aught-Six

Tom Waits - Telephone Call From Istanbul.

 

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You listen to a lot of Tom Waits, and list a lot of his later work. You know, the crazy albums like Swordfishtrombones, Frank's Wild Years and Rain Dogs. I think those albums are great, but for casual listening I prefer old Tom Waits, i.e. Small Change, Closing Time, and Heartattack and Vine. Especially when drinking alone on a Tuesday night... not that I do that.

 

So my question to you is this:

Is ol' Tommy better as a raspy-voiced lounge singer and balladeer, or as a raspy-voiced growling composer of eerie, otherworldly songs with things like marimbas in them?

 

Other freaks who enjoy Tom Waits are free to chime in, as well.

 

 

My two examples of Mr. Waits at the top of both forms:

TW - On the Nickel

TW - Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Aught-Six

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Well, I don't know if I can really decide. If I had to choose, I might say "raspy-voiced growling composer of eerie, otherworldly songs." My favorite album of his would have to be his newest "Real Gone." But my second might be "Nighthawks at the diner." Really both exceptional records, and I think they are good representations of the two different Waits' that you have described. If you don't have these albums, then I encourage you to pick them up.

 

 

Tom Waits - Shake It.

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on repeat.

Iron Maiden - Dance of Death

Incubus / Drive

Frank Sinatra - Strangers in the Night

Cat Stevens / The First Cut Is The Deepest

Pixies--Planet Of Sound

Black Francis - Dancing the Manta Ray.

Black Francis - The Happening.

Blur--For Tomorrow

My Dying Bride "The Dreadful Hours"

Dirty Vegas--Ghosts

 

Sooo not my type of music, yet strangely enjoyable and relaxing in a way...

Cat Stevens / The First Cut Is The Deepest

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Dude.... does this mean that Sheryl Crow song is a cover?

 

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Wild World (Cat Stevens cover )

My Dying Bride "The Light at the End of the World"

The funkiest white man alive. Bob james: Westchester lady, Nautilus, Nigthcrawler.

 

All php is buggered for me so I can't post his goofy face.

 

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Berlioz

Songe d'un nuit de sabbat

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag.

Gladiator movie soundtrack.

Type O Negative - Back In The USSR Live - Beatles Cover

 

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