Tom Waits

still slowly getting into the later tom waits, love the early stuff but mule variations and alice took me much longer to get into,
really like alice, well worth the effort..

i know he played in london recently and he was interviewed by dave fanning on the radio a couple of months back -kept saying "geeee, i dont know dave"

so u never know.........he may come back yet!!


when i first started listening 2 him about 4 years ago i began, like many, with his earlier gateway stuff. could never get my head around his later, more "crazy" albums. those albums, swordfishtrombones, raindogs etc. are not initially easy to fall into, and for that reason i was dismissive of them and their brilliance. now however, ive done an "about turn" and i hear more substance in his later albums than his earlier (lighter??) ones (closing time, heart of saturday night etc.)

imo, raindogs has gotta b his best.

alice is fantastic as well "arithmetic arithmetock, i turn the hands back on the clock" love that line
mule variations
Small Change
blue valentine "theres a dark huddle at the bus stop, umberellas aranged in a sad bouquet"
and kentucky ave makes me wanna cry everytime i hear it, but being a hard ass i dont



havent had the pleasure to to listen to real gone yet, but im intrigued by his description of the album as being "cubist funk".


oh yes!

Big Tom! He is the man.That interview with Dave Fanning was hilarious. After a real long winded question by Dave, Tom would just say 'Gee Dave I dunno', and sometimes he would laugh. hahaha. I taped the whole thing. Tom's music speaks for itself.

I was at the Galway concert in the 80's. If I remember right, it was a wet Miserable friday night, in salthill, and we were going to see this guy we had only realy heard of, The show was nearly two hours late starting, but Tom played late into the morning to make up for it. It was well worth the wait.
The piano might have been drinking, but Tom was just magic!
All my kids are into music big time, and it really Pee's them off that I have seen him live.

Leisureland 1981?
That must have been the one. It seems a long time ago. It was the first time
I had really heard of Tom Waits, but started a lone affection for his music. Now, my teenage sons love him as well. Rock and Roll need more characters like Tom Waits !

The great trilogy of the mid-80s

Swordfishtrombones
Rain Dogs
Franks Wild Years

Never bettered!