Thread: What is the best Tom Waits album

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

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

You could almost start an entire thread on "Classic" Tom Waits lines

Originally Posted by Lignum

Impossible to answer, as they are all first class.

And Mic-d I have all his albums and Mule Variations is my least liked. Just couldnt get into it.

Well thst's good isn't it, I shouldn't be disappointed with the other ones then eh? Unless your music taste is in your asre.

Cheers
Michael

Originally Posted by Lignum

And Mic-d I have all his albums and Mule Variations is my least liked. Just couldnt get into it.

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.

Who's Tom Waits?

HH.

Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb

You have to love "what is he building in there" surely... just from a ww perspective!

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.

Originally Posted by HappyHammer

Who's Tom Waits?

HH.

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

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!

The heart of saturday night...get's (or got) me out there......
TM

[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,

I cut my teeth on Closing Time and Small Change, both of which I was introduced after seeing Rumblefish.

Small Change got rained on with his own .38

Originally Posted by namtrak

I cut my teeth on Closing Time and Small Change, both of which I was introduced after seeing Rumblefish.

Rumblefish was a good one, haven't seen it for a while. Its a pity its got Mickey Rourke in it ....bloody tosser

On Small Change besides the title track I also really like The Piano Has Been Drinking and Invitation To The Blues