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Dec 7, 2011 · Waits' most famous songs likely are best known for how others sing them: the Eagles' take on 'Ol' '55,' 'Downtown Train' belted out by Rod Stewart or 'Jersey Girl' (from 'Heart Attack and Vine ...
Sep 20, 2023 · Jeff Terich. | GRAMMYs / Sep 20, 2023 - 11:44 am. When Tom Waits warned on "Underground," the first song on his transformational 1983 album Swordfishtrombones, "there’s a rumblin’ groan down below," he very well could have been describing the artistic awakening that made him a legend.
- “Just The Right Bullets”
- “Hell Broke Luce”
- “Goin’ Out West”
- “Anywhere I Lay My Head”
- “16 Shells from A Thirty-Ought Six”
Tom Waits’ music has always had an odd theatricality to it, borne of (I think) a fascination with Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. Never has this been so apparent as in The Black Rider, a “musical fable” produced in collaboration with William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson. “Just the Right Bullets” is a bizarre combination of lurching, music hall cab...
Taking its title from a piece of graffiti carved into the walls of Alcatraz during a prison break, “Hell Broke Luce” finds Waits agitating on behalf of one of his favorite causes: the beleaguered Army grunt. But this isn’t a tender ode to homesickness like Real Gone‘s “Day After Tomorrow”: this is an apocalyptic field chant that conjures visions of...
Stark, eerie, and hilarious, “Goin’ Out West” is the highlight of Bone Machine. Its genius is the naked ambition and hilarious blues boasting in the lyrics (“I’m gonna change my name to Hannibal / Or maybe just Rex”) that butt up against the end-of-the-world menace of the band’s relentless swing.
At a New Orleans funeral, it’s traditional to have a brass band play a song as a dirge on the way to the cemetery and then as a high-spirited march on the way back. “Anywhere I Lay My Head” has the same construction — it’s a mournful, nakedly emotional song of resignation that fades into a beautiful, uptempo march at its end, with Waits banging awa...
A shuffling, slouching tale of a long strange trip through some unnamed wilderness with a crow trapped in a guitar and a mule as traveling buddies, “16 Shells” was borne of Waits’ obsession with old prison work-gang chants. If you aren’t terrified by Waits howling “I’m gonna whittle you into kindlin'”, then you’re made of sterner stuff than I am.
Sep 20, 2023 · Released in 1985 as part of the album “Rain Dogs,” “Downtown Train” became one of Waits’ most well-known and commercially successful songs. Its catchy melody, combined with Waits’ heartfelt vocals and introspective lyrics, make it a timeless classic loved by fans and new listeners alike. 3. “Hold On”
Tom Waits Song list. (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night (1974) 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six (1983) After You Die (2011) Anywhere I Lay My Head (1985) Bad As Me (2011) Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis (1978) Cold Water (1999) Come On Up To The House (1999)
Dec 7, 2019 · Here's what we're going to do: based on your votes, we have compiled a list of the top 25 Tom Waits songs below, from which Mac Wilson and Eric Malmberg will broadcast highlights throughout the day on Saturday, December 7. 1.The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) Small Change. 2.Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Blue Valentine.
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He has a distinctive gravelly voice and blends avant-garde rock with genres such as jazz and vaudeville. Thomas Alan Waits is a two-time Grammy Award winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
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