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

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Absolute magic ā€¦

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Tom doesnā€™t look fondly on his early stuff. He seems to prefer his stuff from mid 80ā€™s onwards.

I fucking love it anyway.

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Grumpy old man syndrome

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Tom seems to be focusing on his acting career now. Heā€™s very good in the Ballad of Buster Scraggs (or whatever itā€™s called and Iā€™m after watching him tonight in The Dead Donā€™t Die, which I just watched tonight. He was always an actor really.

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His whole personality is an act. Carefully curated.

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Same as the rest of us

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I think his music is that of a true original - not sure how he can fake that. To me his personality shows in his music. He may play it up further on TV shows but for me there is no ā€˜fakeā€™ there.

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Watched this last week. Good auld yarn. Iggy Pop in it too, but thatā€™s no surprise as Jim Jarmusch also directed the excellent Stooges documentary

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I thought that was Iggy Pop!

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The other zombie with him was Jarmuschā€™s Mrs

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Tom seems to be trying to sing like Billie Holiday in spots here.

Mercy mercy, Mr. Percy, there ainā€™t nothing back in Jersey
But a broken-down jalopy of a man I left behind
And the dream that I was chasing, and a battle with booze
And an open invitation to the blues

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Thats a great tune.

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https://twitter.com/cwsmets/status/1677410459165552640?s=46&t=YOfhVM10W0bcyIiYSLI3Wg

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Hard to believe that Swordfishtrombones is 40 years old. This great trilogy is being re-issued.

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