Tom Waits

hes been in a bunch of movies:
Paradise Alley, Wolfen, One from the Heart, The Outsiders, Rurablefish, The Cotton Club, Down By Law, Ironweed, Candy Mountain, Bearskin, Cold Feet, Mystery Train, The Two Jakes, Queens Logic, At Play in the fielRAB of the lord, Bram Stokers Dracula, Short Cuts, Mystery Men, Coffee and Cigarettes (w/iggy pop)

also did songs for over 50 movies (one of my favorites Earth Died Screaming is on the movie Twelve Monkeys, which is an awesome flick) and the song Goin Out West that Hookers mentioned is on the Fight Club soundtrack.
 
I don't think it was a concious decision, and I don't think Waits pays much attention to the sweedish Metal banRAB, but it goes to show you that the depressing stories you can find in every bar in every town, in every country is heavier and more raw that being angry about religion or ****ty people. And while its my impression that they all wish they could call down thunder to make their own symphony, Waits really shows us that the town fool, knocking over piles in the landfill on the edge of down is more cutting and vulgar than the elements could really do.

Thunders always fresh. But a rusty old sink carries too many broken memories to crash into something else and sound like just a sink.



so what is he...specifically then?
 
I started with Nighthawks at the Diner, and I think that's a great place to start. One of his earliest works. Definitely illustrates how imaginative of an artist he is. If you know about it, you know about it. No point in giving it away for somebody who hasn't heard it.

After that, it was Rain Dogs, and I was hooked from there. Some material is hit or miss. But only certain songs. I'm not a fan of his more country-esque material or his slow slow crooning ("Waltzing Matilda", for instance). All of his albums that I've heard so far have material that I dig.
 
I'm going to resurrect this because the last post was a year ago and theres alot of new people there.

Tom Waits albums are just massive for me, and in january I'll listen to a given 4 tracks on an album and calim their my favorite, but August I'm listening to 4 track off the same album I never cared for before (or noticed) and absolutly love them.

It's not secret that he's my favorite artist/musician ever, but my adoration will stretch my vocabulary to the break point.

I've learned alot from Paul Simon and Bob Dylan, they have a pattern and they are methodical. I can only love Tom Waits, because he is burning passion, and there is no method to what he creates, he just is, and I guess if I can take anything away from that, its that I should throw away what I learned from Simon and Dylan and just burn as myself until my flame is extinguished.
 
See, that's spoken like a true Waits fan; not meant as a good thing. I think his fans are very susceptible to letting parts of his discography color the rest.
As it's own piece, it stanRAB alone as a fantastic concept album. As far as it being a live album, I guess technically it is. But at the same time it isn't. Waits perfectly used the audience as an instrument to create arabiance and did it in a studio.
 
Its a totally uncohesive album in terms of production and arrangements. Stylistically its very fractured and all over the place and I like that about it. Most of his other recorRAB hold together more.:)
 
Well I've always thought Bone Machine was underrated. I find it to be up there with his best, though I doubt I've heard as much of his discography as some of the Waits fans here so I can't really judge.
 
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