Tom Waits "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, & Bastards"

[MrMatt]

WOW. I always liked Tom Waits a lot, but recently I decided to get a lot more of his stuff. The CD in my thread title is a triple cd, The first is mostly like bluesy rock, the second is more melancholy, and the 3rd is like experimental and some acapella stuff.


My favorite song on it so far: Lucinda. That's not an official video for the song obviously...The beat to it is just addictive.


Bottom of the World

 

[xSauronx]

I got the compilation "beautiful maladies" a few months ago...the guy really has some great material.

 

[SAWYER]

Wow that was horrible

 

[TheAdvocate]

Waits is an acquired taste. At his best, he's amazing. He does take chances though...

I don't like Lucinda, but I like a lot of his other stuff.

 

[xSauronx]

Wow that was horrible

The lyrics are interesting...and I kept thinking of "house of the rising sun" as I listened to it

i like it. He's not for everyone, however, and i dont like *everything* by him, but he certainly has some interesting music.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Classics:
Small Change
Rain Dogs
Frank's Wild Years
Big Time (the video version of this _really_ needs to come out on DVD/BRD)

Pretty good:
Bone Machine
Mule Variations

now everybody "clap hands"....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvMy1xOh6cw

 

[Turin39789]

Got to see him live a few years ago. It was awesome.

 

[Perknose]

Waits is an acquired taste. At his best, he's amazing. He does take chances though...

Well put. One of my all time personal faves, I actually got rides home to Hollywood from the Venice Poetry workshop with him the three times he attended, back in the day.

Like you said, at his best, he's amazing. :thumbsup:

 

[MrMatt]

Classics:
Small Change
Rain Dogs
Frank's Wild Years
Big Time (the video version of this _really_ needs to come out on DVD/BRD)

Pretty good:
Bone Machine
Mule Variations

now everybody "clap hands"....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvMy1xOh6cw

Clap hands sounds like something they'd use in Civilization IV for music

 

[xSauronx]

Classics:
Small Change
Rain Dogs
Frank's Wild Years
Big Time (the video version of this _really_ needs to come out on DVD/BRD)

Pretty good:
Bone Machine
Mule Variations

now everybody "clap hands"....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvMy1xOh6cw

see...franks wild years strikes me as boring. more like poetry, which i am almost entirely uninterested in.

 

[Perknose]

see...franks wild years strikes me as boring. more like poetry, which i am almost entirely uninterested in.

Apostasy! You, sir, suck rancid melons through your delicately rotting teeth, shitting the undigested seeds out of your horribly distended anus into your fart tattered and skid marked jockey shorts! :awe:

Listen folks, it's short: Frank's Wild Years the song is fucking hilarious and an amazing and deeply penetrating artistic and sociological insight into mid '80's American suburban ennui.

The lyrics:

Well Frank settled down in the Valley
and 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 $30,000 loan
at 15 1/4 % and put 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
they were so happy

One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liquor store,
picked up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths
drank 'em in the car on his way
to the Shell station, he 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

The later album Frank's Wild Years is a minor American masterpiece featuring a number of unique and unforgettable songs, including but not limited to the gripping and elegaic

Cold, Cold Ground

If you don't like this song, Sunny Jim, you ain't got no soul.

 

[xSauronx]

cold, cold ground is a good one...franks wild years is still boring to listen to, especially when youre listening to music....that stuff....more music. its an interruption

 

[Perknose]

...that stuff....more music. its an interruption

Much like a fresh summer salad would be an interruption from all the meat on your plate, yes, I see. :hmm:

 

[MrMatt]

Cold, Cold ground is one of my 15 favorite songs. An absolute masterpiece.