Wow just wow. Tom Waits Thread. (please ignore 1st few posts)

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@binkybarnes

… the end. What a fucking song. One of the greatest last lines of all timeAnd goodnight to the street sweepersThe night watchman flame keepers and goodnight, Mathilda tooA bit of Tom Waits when you are in the right mood can soothe a man’s soul and make him want to be a better person… I love you man.

Brilliant stuff…written about an interview with a Danish journalist that turned into a massive session.

[flattythehurdler]

This thread is turning into a right try hard wankfest

[backinatracksuit]

Martha and Desperadoes waiting for a train are what you wait for at a Freddie White gig

[balbec]

It’s more boring than the US politics thread.

[farmerinthecity]

Well, Frank settled down in the Valley
And he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife’s forehead
He sold used office furniture out there on San Fernando Road
And assumed a thirty thousand dollar loan at fifteen and a quarter percent
And put a down payment on a little two bedroom place
His wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
Made good bloody Marys, kept her mouth shut most of the time
Had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
That had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind
They had a thoroughly modern kitchen, self-cleaning oven, the whole bit
Frank drove a little sedan, yhey were so happy
One night Frank was on his way home from work, stopped at the liquor store
Picked up a couple of Mickey’s Big Mouths
Drank 'em in the car on his way to the Shell station
Got a gallon of gas in a can
Drove home, doused everything in the house, torched it
Parked across the street laughing, watching it burn
All Halloween-orange and chimney-red
Then Frank put on a top forty station
Got on the Hollywood Freeway, headed north
Never could stand that dog

Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years

[Tank]

I Never Talk To Strangers - Tom Waits with Bette Midler

[Malarkey]

Tom Waits - Soldier's Things

[farmerinthecity]

16 Shells From A 30.6

[Fitzy]

I’ve been listening to Mule Variations all week which prompted me to start back into Swordfishtrombones tonight. My older brother and myself haven’t had the most perfect of relationships, but I’ll always say he has the most impeccable taste in music of anyone I’ve ever met. That album was released in 1983 when I was 11 and himself had it. It was one of the soundtracks of my teen years. I lose it for long periods and then like and old friend it just appears. And I love it.
There’s humanity, understanding, pathos, anger, pity, every emotion you can imagine in all his writing and the element that’s missing in so much art, humour. He’s hilarious while singing for those society left behind.
He’s John Prine in an alternative universe.
An absolute genius of a man.

[Fitzy]

Every time I hear this, I have to take some time to take it in. Quite unlike anything you’ve ever heard.
Apart from Shane.
Which is probably why Tom loves Shane’s writing so much.

[Fitzy]

He’s a very funny man Tom

- YouTube

[Corksfinedtboy]

Some songwriter

[Lazarus]

The

[Corksfinedtboy]

Only started properly to listen to him since coming on here

[Lazarus]

He’s different level. You can stop bothering with anything else once you discover Tom Waits, just doesn’t get any better

[farmerinthecity]

On the Nickel.

Tom Waits - "On The Nickel"

[flattythehurdler]

One of my top twenty.

[farmerinthecity]

Well the night does funny things inside a man
These old tom cat feelings you don’t understand

Tom Waits - Hope I don't fall in love with you

[Thomas_Brady]

I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me … Unreal

[Lazarus]

I turn around to look at you, you’re nowhere to be found
I search the place for your lost face, guess I’ll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you