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Coldheartofstone
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
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 Posted - 05/02/2004 : 09:32:13
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Awesome!!!
If you get a chance the Dime Store Novels V.1 is a great live album...
for sure one of my favorites.
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ProverbialCereal
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USA
2953 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2004 : 09:57:15
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I hope he tours too. As my friend always says:
"I just need to see Tom Waits live, then I can die happy"
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2004 : 10:36:01
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Wow thanks for the news! And Marc Ribot too! He´s prolly my alltime favourite guitarist (check out Muy Divertido) and Brain on new Waits too - Primus have really sucked since he left.
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rockmusic84
= Cult of Ray =
USA
256 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2004 : 16:49:03
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I saw him on VH1's "Storytellers" in the late 90's. That's how I found out he was the writer of "Downtown Train". I always thought that was a Rod Stewart original. In fact, he even makes a joke about it before he plays it, something to the effect of "This is a song I gave to Rod Stewart", or something like that. He's got a very gravelly voice, which suits his songs well. I haven't heard too much of his stuff. A guy I used to work with suggested "Closing Time" and "Blood Money". And it's interesting to know that he's got an album called "Bone Machine". When did that come out? Before or after The Pixies?
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ProverbialCereal
- FB TabMaster -
USA
2953 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2004 : 20:09:31
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After the Pixies. Bone Machine was released in 1992 I believe.
The Eagles also butcher cover "Ol' 55" (off Closing Time) and I heard it in a supermarket one day. Damn them.
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prozacrat
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 05/04/2004 : 02:26:42
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I'm quite stoked about this new Waits album. And I believe I read somewhere that he got the Bone Machine album title from the Pixies song because he thought it sounded cool. I could be way off, though, so don't quote me on it.
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ProverbialCereal
- FB TabMaster -
USA
2953 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2004 : 12:25:16
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I'm very excited about this new Tom Waits album as well. Especially hearing Tom talk about it... "The same ol' dirty business."
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Alpha Soixante
- FB Fan -
Canada
129 Posts |
Posted - 05/04/2004 : 15:31:09
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My favorite Tom Waits albums are Bone Machine and Black Rider, but Frank's Wild Years, Alice, Swordfishtrombones, and Rain Dogs are great too. Actually, I have mixed feelings about Rain Dogs--the first half of the record is superb, the second half is kind of disappointing.
Depending on where you start in the catalog, you'll get radically different impressions of Tom Waits. If you're looking for croony, sometimes bluesy, sometimes jazzy, cry-in-your beer music, go for the albums prior to Swordfishtrombones. (Not my cup of tea.)
If you're looking for something a little more peculiar--say, drunken cowboy midget carnival munster cabaret--then stick to the later stuff (Swordfish and after).
Oh, and Fishing With John is an absolute must-see. |
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