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Thread: What is the best Tom Waits album
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3rd August 2007, 08:11 PM #1
What is the best Tom Waits album
Just pondering.. just listened to Small Change again.. also own Blue Valentine, Frankies wild years, Swordfish Trombone, Mule Variations
I can't decide they're all good...guess I should have asked whats your favourite?
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3rd August 2007, 08:15 PM #2
G'day bleedin. Iv'e only got mule variartions so I can't compare, but I do think it's very good.
Cheers
Michael
G'day bleedin. Iv'e only got mule variartions so I can't compare, but I do think it's very good.
Cheers
Michael - I thought I would respond to both posts in one go
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3rd August 2007, 08:36 PM #3.
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Impossible to answer, as they are all first class.
Allot depends on the mood.
3 crackers you dont have there are, The Heart of Saturday night, Nighthawks at the Dinner and probbably my favourite (along with Blue Valentine) is Heart Attack and Vine. Those 2 were back to back and were very special. They Oooooozed cool
Also on Swordfish Trombone, the song "Town with no Cheer" is about his trip from Melbourne to Mildura on the old "Overlander" and how Vic-Rail closed the canteen at Serviceton. Great stuff.
And Mic-d I have all his albums and Mule Variations is my least liked. Just couldnt get into it.
Franks wild years, great song. Never could stand that dog
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3rd August 2007, 08:40 PM #4.
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You could almost start an entire thread on "Classic" Tom Waits lines
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3rd August 2007, 08:47 PM #5
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3rd August 2007, 10:10 PM #6
You have to love "what is he building in there" surely... just from a ww perspective!
Lig I thought of your comment about Patti Smiths rendition of Gloria not being "original" listening to Mr Waits "waltzing matilda" great song where its he only uses the chorus of the original.
I can't recall ever hearing the other 3 albums you mentioned..pitty you can't post mp3's on this forum.
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3rd August 2007, 10:15 PM #7
Who's Tom Waits?
HH.Always look on the bright side...
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3rd August 2007, 10:33 PM #8.
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Yep Its the only song i realy like on the album.
Back in the 90`s a TV show called "Homicide life on the street". had an episode where one of the Cops was doing his first night shift in years, and would come home around 8am with a few beers to relax.
In the apartment next door his neighbor was cutting and banging away all day. The copper was very, very cranky.
After the 3rd morning when he got home and the banging was still going on, he said to himself (with an expletive) "Whats he building in there" So he bashes on the door to have a go at him, and it turnes out his neighbor was a nice but very lonely and depressed bloke who was just finishing making his own coffin. They shared the beers and had a laugh.
The next morning he turned up, there was no noise and he knocked but no answer.
Next day he turned up and (as cops do) got a bit suspicious, so he forced his way in, only to find the bloke lying in his coffin dead.
It was an increadable bit of telly (even by Seppo standards) and it has always stuck in my mind, and when i heard the Tom Waits song, i always wondered if that episode was his inspiration for the song.
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3rd August 2007, 10:53 PM #9.
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If you have to ask, you wont like him
And for those who are interested in his take on Waltzing Matilda (Brilliant version on the Old Grey Whistle Test)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9M_cOkVJ5Y
Bleedin, here is 'The Heart of Saturday night" i always had the feel Cold Chisel had this in the back of there heads when the wrote "Saturday night"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZYYw...elated&search=
And the title of "Heart attack and Vine"
One of the comments below summed him up " He is one f*%@$%' cool cat...and a true poet."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49H3aWdiK8
I can feel a big night of Tom Waits listening comming up
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3rd August 2007, 11:10 PM #10
That Heart Attack & Vine clip says it all..he is one f*%^en cool cat.
How many packs of camels to get a voice like that eh?
EDIT damn you Lignum and your bandwidth eating youtube links!
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3rd August 2007, 11:32 PM #11
The heart of saturday night...get's (or got) me out there......
TM
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4th August 2007, 12:00 AM #12
[quote=Lignum;559002]Blue Valentine..&...Heart Attack and Vine. Those 2 were back to back and were very special. They Oooooozed cool[quote]
Yep, you got me there, they are amazing good albums.
Cheers,Andy Mac
Change is inevitable, growth is optional.
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4th August 2007, 09:23 AM #13
I cut my teeth on Closing Time and Small Change, both of which I was introduced after seeing Rumblefish.
There was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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4th August 2007, 09:45 AM #14.
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Small Change got rained on with his own .38
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4th August 2007, 02:12 PM #15