Tom Waits

[Racceee Girl <333]

Fixed

Funnily enough I was listening to a live version of 'eyeball kid' today. Man it kicks some serious ass.

[aran207]

Yeah, it's too bad he dislikes touring.

[runsane6o]

IOL: Johansson fears album backlash from Waits



:laughing:

[RIP Billy Mays]

Personally as far as catagorising him here i'd put him under Avantgarde/Experimental since that's been the majority of his albums most of his career. Ideally if Blues and Folk were together as a forum i'd put him in there though as those are his main roots throughout his music.

[mulan]

Well I agree up to a point, a lot of the begining sounRAB similar but once you hit "in the collaseum" it takes a sharp left turn then veres off the road.

I ask because it seems like other albums are more quintessential and that others are more palitable.

While I regard Bone Machine as a great album with some amazing songs (Going out west, Murder in the red barn, I don't wanna grow up) it doesn' seem like something people "ought to own."

Thats the only point I disagree with you on, I obviously love Waits seeing as my avatar, bi-line and quote revolve around him or his music.

[ronsmall]

^I assume you'll like the stuff he done with Nick Cave

You're right its not as good. Still really experimental though, and I like that. Every song is different. But its not quite Chocolate Jesus.

[Jesse D]

Mine. At first listen I liked the following:
Clap HanRAB
Tango 'Til They're Sore
Time
Downtown Train
Anywhere I Lay My Head

[TheVintageBug]

Now you've done it.

[<33Mayra]

Before Orphans was Real Gone, which was also very good. The only albums of his I'm not an enormous fan of are Foreign Affairs (which most people don't like very much) and Alice (which everybody loves but me, so what do I know?). Claypool's guested on a bunch of his recordings starting with Bone Machine (I think). Rain Dogs was before that, so Claypool wasn't involved as far as I know.

[Cubhouse]

I haven't picked it up yet because I think I have a bootleged version from the tour.