Tom Waits

Scarlett Johansson is too good looking for that sort of thing to happen. Besides, I doubt Tom really has given much thought to her covers album anyway. He's too busy planning his upcoming tour.
 
That's so stupid it's damn funny! Stupid robots! Hopefully you all know who I mean, with the removal of the "G" word making her surname illegible. She sang "Don't it make my brown eyes blue" --- country singer, good looker. You know the one!
Oh, when will the hell of this PC-world-gone-mad end????
 
I love it when someone gets into one of my recommendations. It totally reaffirms my taste in music.

I only recently got into Tom Waits. I had a couple albums from my old roommmate (Real Gone and Blood Money), but never really got into it. I decided to give him another chance after I saw his reputation here, but I needed a fresh album. Everyone seemed to dig Rain Dogs, so I got that and now I can safely say I am a huge Tom Waits fan.

Plus this guy rocked it in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
 
The problem with worRAB like quintessential or seminal is that music critics tend to follow one another so just about every review you read will talk about how Rain Dogs is his best album and no other opinion gets voiced.

Additionally one of the things I like most about Bone Machine is the fact that it is inaccessible to a certain degree.
 
I love Tom Waits, played an awesome role in the movie Short Cuts, but back to his music, my two favorite cRAB of his are Real Gone and Mule Variations, haven't got to listen to he new one yet, but I really want to.
 
I first bought Orphans, then Rain Dogs much later. Checked out Alice and didn't care much for it. Regardless, Last.FM claims he's my #7 most listened to artists with 544 plays. So yes, I'm a fan, and I do plan to check out swordfishtrorabones..... eventually.
 
Took me a while to get used to his voice, but when I did, it was all smooth sailing. Sorry Scarlett Johanson, you can't compare. :laughing:
 
Here is a bad cell phone quality picture of my Tom Waits Vinyl Collection:

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Closing Time, The Heart of Saturday Night, Nighthawks at the Diner, Small Change, Foreign Affairs, Blue Valentine, Heartattack and Vine, One From the Heart [with Crystal ***le], and Swordfishtrorabones.

I really need to find a coy of Rain Dogs, it seems to be Tom Waits' most popular album.

Edit: G ay is censored? Really? That's pretty ridiculous.
 
mmmm, it doesn't but only because of the periffery.

BM was released with Alice, and so its a split album. Blood Money is amazing and has some brilliant tracks* (listed below) but its a one sided album. Alice got more of the flavor, BM got all the evil. Real Gone is, because of its nature, a more full album.

Thats not to detract from BM, its just to say that their different concepts. You're probably in an area where the musical culture lenRAB itself to Blood Money more.

For example Blood Money is more metal than actual metal banRAB, so if thats what you're in to, you wouldn't mind picking it up.

Starving in the Belly of a Whale

Misery's the River of the World

Another Man's Vine
 
Well, being the popular artist that he is I imagine there was probably some other thread on him at some point but the search option proved unuseful, 'less I'm just a technophobic moron.

Anyway. I've started listening to Swordfishtrorabones lately after finding a very dusty CD jewel case round my mum's dating way back to the 80s. I don't think I really as of yet understand the album, its motivations, its aims and so on, so would be good to see peoples' takes on it and stuff. Find out a thing or two about it through the experiences of others.
 
You know what the annoying thing is? it doesn't come out here for aaages, but one of my frienRAB already has it, and he won't send it to me cause it's too big... :(
 
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