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05-11-2011, 03:34 PM
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Anyone a fan? Listening to the album Swordfishtrombones right now and can't get over how interesting of a musician this guy is. Also, I just looked up today that Larry Taylor from canned heat was this guy's bass player on a few albums. |
05-11-2011, 03:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | | I really, really like the stuff from the early years (Closing Time - Heart Attack and Vine). The other stuff, not so much.
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05-11-2011, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cleveland, OH | | | I agree with you there. Nothing beats Closing Time in my mind but it's kinda neat to see how he evolved from that kind of debut album |
05-12-2011, 06:01 AM
| | Utterly Bass | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Fairfield, CT | | | The Nighthawks at the Diner "studio live" album has always been a favorite of mine. Jim Hughart's huge-toned and tasteful string bass playing was incredible on this album.
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05-12-2011, 07:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | I love his version of Waltzing Matilda, you really need to keep an open mind to enjoy Tom Waits IMO |
05-12-2011, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by NOAH_FX I love his version of Waltzing Matilda, you really need to keep an open mind to enjoy Tom Waits IMO | Two drinks and a fun crowd will get you there as well. 
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05-12-2011, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by EGhart317  Anyone a fan? Listening to the album Swordfishtrombones right now and can't get over how interesting of a musician this guy is. Also, I just looked up today that Larry Taylor from canned heat was this guy's bass player on a few albums. | I like that one and Raindogs as well |
05-12-2011, 08:47 AM
| | | | Huge fan here, from his work on Asylum all the way up to the Glitter and Doom live record. Diamonds On My Windshield, Step Right Up, and The Piano Has Been Drinking from the early years to Hoist That Rag in recent years. The Black Rider was a tough listen, though, but it was for a theater piece as were Blood Money and Alice, if I recall correctly.
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05-12-2011, 08:50 AM
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Goin Out West
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05-12-2011, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Grand Rapids MI | | | IMO one the best. His early stuff is fantastic, some of his later stuff took a bit to grow on me, but I like just as well. If you can track it down, his VH1 story tellers program was amazing.
His movies are really worth watching, along with his Fishing with John episode. I'm starting to ramble now, he was on Letterman years back when Mule came out and did a great job on Chocolate Jesus.
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05-12-2011, 08:57 AM
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05-12-2011, 09:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Bucharest, Romania | | First Tom Waits record that I've listened was The Black Rider - got hooked instantly 
And YES, his VH-1 Story Tellers was awesome. Quite a fella.
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05-12-2011, 10:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jyväskylä, Finland | | | Waits is great! Specifically the albums Swordfishtrombones and Blue Valentine.
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05-12-2011, 10:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Montreal | | | +1 StrangerDanger. Bone Machine as a whole, really. |
05-12-2011, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | | LOVE Tom Waits. Swordfishtrombones is amazing, as is Small Change. "Step Right Up!"
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05-12-2011, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Marial I always hated that dog. | "Never could stand that dog." 
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05-12-2011, 10:18 AM
|  | yiffffffTASTIC | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: California | | | LOVE Mssr. Waits. i haven't listened to as much as i should, but every album he's been involved with there's something on there that moves me.
i really dig his approach to playing too. |
05-12-2011, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by kreider204 "Never could stand that dog." | D'oh!  
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05-12-2011, 11:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wichita, KS | | | What's he building in there?
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05-12-2011, 12:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Smyrna, Tennessee. | | | The House Where Nobody Lives from Mule Variations iw one of the saddest things I've ever heard.
Govt. Mule does a great version of Goin' Out West.
I got into Tom with the early stuff and have followed him all the way. I admire artists that challenge themselves and their audience in the process. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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