― Chris Trew, Monday, 30 August 2004 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Eight million Tom Waits threads, I know, but I might as well use this one for this info:
For his Atlanta stop, recorded at the city's historic Fox Theater on July 5, Waits delivered a stunning and epic two-and-a-half-hour performance, including songs he says he's never attempted outside of the studio before. Backing Waits is a five-piece group featuring Seth Ford-Young (upright bass), Patrick Warren (keyboards), Omar Torrez (guitars), Vincent Henry (woodwinds) and Casey Waits (drums and percussion). "They play with racecar precision and they are all true conjurers," Waits says. "They are all multi-instrumentalists and they polka like real men."---Setlist:"Lucinda / Ain't Going Down to the Well""Down in the Hole""Falling Down""Chocolate Jesus""All the World Is Green""Cemetery Polka""Cause of It All""Till the Money Runs Out""Such a Scream""November""Hold On""Black Market Baby""9th and Hennepin""Lie to Me""Lucky Day""On the Nickel""Lost in the Harbor""Innocent When You Dream""Hoist That Rag""Make It Rain""Dirt in the Ground""Get Behind the Mule""Hang Down Your Head""Jesus Gonna Be Here""Singapore"ENCORE"Eyeball Kid""Anywhere I Lay My Head"
---
Setlist:
"Lucinda / Ain't Going Down to the Well"
"Down in the Hole"
"Falling Down"
"Chocolate Jesus"
"All the World Is Green"
"Cemetery Polka"
"Cause of It All"
"Till the Money Runs Out"
"Such a Scream"
"November"
"Hold On"
"Black Market Baby"
"9th and Hennepin"
"Lie to Me"
"Lucky Day"
"On the Nickel"
"Lost in the Harbor"
"Innocent When You Dream"
"Hoist That Rag"
"Make It Rain"
"Dirt in the Ground"
"Get Behind the Mule"
"Hang Down Your Head"
"Jesus Gonna Be Here"
"Singapore"
ENCORE
"Eyeball Kid"
"Anywhere I Lay My Head"
Link near the top of the page to listen.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks Ned, listening now. this set is pretty similar to what i saw him play in Houston, plus a few songs i didn't hear -- Chocolate Jesus, Such a Scream, 9th and Hennepin, On the Nickel, Singapore (maybe a couple others) -- but overall very similar. Recording quality is excellent too!, this is really really good.
― stephen, Saturday, 2 August 2008 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Live double CD at the end of November 2009:
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/6985723
8 free tracks: http://www.tomwaits.com/news/article/60/Free_Glitter_and_Doom_Live_Album_Preview/
Preorder: http://kingsroadmerch.com/tom-waits/
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i37.tinypic.com/10pye5k.png
― StanM, Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTi8mATzSTI&NR=1
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― zorn_bond.mp3, Monday, 16 August 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
So I don't want to start yet another TW thread, but there's hardly been any discussion of Glitter & Doom yet. What did people think?
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I get a guilty conscience every time I see it in my record collection, as I've hardly played it since I bought it several months ago. I was put off a little by the boomy-ness of the sound at first. But I clearly owe it to him to listen more.
― Duke, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i listened to it a ton when it came out, and then i haven't played it since. it's good! i should dig it out again.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH_EwRjrldc
― Cunga, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li342nNZnS1qdf09mo1_500.jpgold guys play some sort of event
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
(ribot in the back there!)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Ribot good enough that he gets to sit.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVVDrPEQZt4&feature=player_embedded
― tylerw, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiJ2E0xGOv8
― MaresNest, Friday, 25 March 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.tomwaits.com/news/article/146/Peek_At_A_Lyric_From_New_Tom_Waits8217_Album/
― StanM, Friday, 10 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
never seen this beforehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCNDZY4vXPs&feature=player_embedded
also finally getting around to the brawlers box set thing. some amazing stuff! kind of frustrating that the info about when the tracks were recorded / who played on them is so vague, but oh well.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kunmz1iWzo1qz6gpyo1_500.jpg
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not a huge fan but I really enjoyed the Boxers set, especially the third disc with the spoken word stuff. The poem about the boy waiting at a diner during a bus ride stopover is particularly great.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
aw that's nirvana by bukowski. but yeah what a beaut. what a beaut.there's some real gold on this that used to live on bootlegs, i think a long series called tales from the dimestore?, vols one to nine or something. almost wonder if they might theoretically hold a little more info about what's what. i like never let go, & lie to me a bunch.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Thursday, 21 July 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks to Chuck Tatum for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU&feature=player_embedded#!
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Friday, 19 August 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
HAW!
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 19 August 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.somekindofawesome.com/journal/2011/8/22/listen-tom-waits-bad-as-me.html
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
I like it
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
was that actually taken down within the last 9 minutes?
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
Woah! Yes, I guess it was!
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
It sounded much like Tom Waits FWIW. Brash, honking, stompjng Tom Waits rather than sad Tom Waits. U know the drill
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
anti ppl be lurking ilm
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm anti-ppl
― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
You guys are right about Nirvana upthread. It's been on every Christmas compilation I've made since I first heard it.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
The poem about the boy waiting at a diner during a bus ride stopover is particularly great.yeah! almost wish there was a whole album of this sort of thing. he has an amazing speaking voice, even when he's not hamming it up.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
I made a compilation of many of his best spoken word pieces, stuff like "What's he building in there". A bit disjointed in feel but it captures that incredible side of his work. I wish I flat-out loved his singing but I just don't.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
U know the drill
yeah it's funny how much this is exactly what you expect a new tom waits song is going to sound like, but, you know, nice also. spoken bits are v wolf.
― sexual union prayerbook slam (schlump), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
am i totally reactionary if i prefer his pre-swordfishtrombones stuff?
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
nope, otm.
― Ludo, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
it's like loving the complex human sprawl of a man but remembering the innocence of the child he was
― sexual union prayerbook slam (schlump), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 09:50 (twelve years ago) link
thanks, i feel validated!
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
you're all wrong.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, I'm kidding - you can like what you like, you don't have to ask me!
There is something quite devastating and melancholy and genuine about a lot of early Waits. Albums like Small Change are gut-wrenchingly desperate while Heart Of Saturday Night is so wistful and starry-eyed. I have a lot of time for this era. He had a tendency to go from genuinely affecting to full-on hammy, but by reinventing himself in the early '80s he managed to hit a happy medium through pure theatre.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
I love that cartoon "The Street Tom Waits Grew Up On" upthread. Who did that?
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
So, the new album is out. Ilxors?
― dog latin, Friday, 21 October 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
Was listening to Rain Dogs yesterday and I think that was definitely his peak. Franks Wild Years and Bone Machine and Mule Variations all have a couple of good songs, but it's been diminishing returns since '85.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 21 October 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
I like "Hell Broke Luce" because I'm feeling sympathetic to his groanin' and moanin' this week but so far the album sounds like it won't convert any skeptics.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 October 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
the kinda auto herk-&-jerks didn't grab me when i streamed this one time, but a bunch of the others did. it's weird how his records somehow sound very 'tidy', in spite of the unruliness therein, like maybe they're put together a little too neatly. he has some great players. guitars are lovely, a beautiful fiddle came in halfway through a song.
― mid-song laughing elvis (schlump), Friday, 21 October 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Hell Broke Luce is amazing - ultraviolent shellshock crunk-metal.
― dog latin, Friday, 21 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Still can't get behind the Mule Variations. A few good songs, but loads of slow, repetitive clunkers - those first four tracks are a real hurdle.(I really like this new album on the whole).
― dog latin, Friday, 21 October 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe two tracks aside, I think Mule Variations is pretty unfuckwithable!
― encarta it (Gukbe), Friday, 21 October 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Gimme the ballads and "What's He Building?" and you can have the rest. But the ballads are amazing.
― waylon flowers and muammar gaddafi (Eazy), Friday, 21 October 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
it's weird how his records somehow sound very 'tidy', in spite of the unruliness therein, like maybe they're put together a little too neatly. he has some great players. guitars are lovely, a beautiful fiddle came in halfway through a song.
― mid-song laughing elvis (schlump), Friday, October 21, 2011 8:51 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah i was listening to bone machine and i remember thinking it was so "weird" when i was younger but he's really a classic songwriter type
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 October 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
One of my favorite TW tracks tbh, annoyed he’s George Lucas-ing it.
― circa1916, Saturday, 15 August 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah same, his best track of the 2000s imho, really caught lightning in a bottle with it
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Saturday, 15 August 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
Insane to not at least leave the old mix up somehow. I've got it on my old iTunes archive drive but I never use that anymore.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 15 August 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3mFXOwRgw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 15 August 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
I remember when Orphans came out, a bunch of those tracks i had already been familiar with for years due to filesharing & owning the various comps and sdtks, and the orphans versions of many of them had overdubs and new parts punched in, most of which didnt help the songs imo. Obviously some of it was just due to familiarity with the previous versions, but it was still weird to hear these songs, many of which had really fantastic spare arrangements and carefully-mixed soundworlds, all of a sudeen filled with a bunch of drums and banjos and harmonica, which sounded like they were all recorded in the same session. I remember being particularly annoyed at a bunch of Charlie Musselwhite blues harp soloing all over "Heigh Ho".
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Saturday, 15 August 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
I would never change a single thing about the OG Hoist That Rag and I wish he would put out an entire album that sounds like that.
― epistantophus, Saturday, 15 August 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
Always like the demo of Alice better than released version too
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 15 August 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
Random thoughts after going back to a lot of TW:
-Both versions of Hoist That Rag are very good
-Bad As Me is also good, not bad
-I love his ballads more than I used to (although I always loved 'Green Grass' and 'Alice')
-Bone Machine is still sounds great, I love that high rasp voice he uses on say 'Jesus Gonna Be Here', wish he used that more
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 17 August 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
he has approximately 50 amazing ballads
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 17 August 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
Johnstown, Illinois is my favourite.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 17 August 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Good Old World, Waltz
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 17 August 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Also fun to hear him write a song over the 'Do Whatcha Wanna' bassline ('Get Lost' on Bad As Me)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 17 August 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
I wrote about Alice and Blood Money, and the experience of interviewing Waits (the story that got me in the door at The Wire), for Stereogum.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 6 May 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
thanks i enjoyed that
― Heez, Friday, 6 May 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
good piece
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 9 May 2022 06:47 (one year ago) link
https://tomwaits.ffm.to/alicebloodmoney
vinyl reissues + 2 live tracks
Tom Waits will be releasing limited edition vinyl of his albums “Alice” and “Blood Money” to celebrate their 20th anniversary.Originally released on May 7, 2002, the re-issues will be available on October 7. All The World Is Green (Live)Fish & Bird (Live)
Leading up to the official release date, Waits is putting out previously unreleased live versions of songs from the records,starting with “All the World is Green” from ‘Blood Money’ and “Fish and Bird” from ‘Alice.’ “All the World is Green” wasrecorded at a live show in 2008 in Milan, Italy and features a dramatic faux flamenco guitar intro, while “Fish and Bird”is taken from Waits’ celebrated return to the London stage in 2004 and is a stripped down raw piano version of the balladthat featured a chamber orchestra arrangement in the studio recording.
― StanM, Monday, 8 August 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
(text is quoted from the mail & link is without identifying crap)
― StanM, Monday, 8 August 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
Think these were reissued/remastered in 2017 and are still available, but the live tracks will be nice to hear.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 09:49 (one year ago) link
will probably pick these up but holding off on a preorder until i can confirm he hasnt fucked with the mixes or added overdubs or anything
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
"Digital deluxe versions of both records, featuring newly released live performances, are out today along with limited edition vinyl reissues. Unfortunately, Alice vinyl is delayed until October 21st everywhere except for Europe and the UK."
― StanM, Friday, 7 October 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
the stickers say "Newly remastered with Waits/Brennan" - anyone check them out yet?
― StanM, Monday, 10 October 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
I can't imagine them being that radically reworked the way he did with Real Gone, but you do get five live tracks with each and they're pretty good...
https://tomwaits.bandcamp.com/album/alice-anniversary-edition
https://tomwaits.bandcamp.com/album/blood-money-anniversary-edition
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 10 October 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
The only strings that keep me hereAre tangled up around the pierMan troll gas beany jim-jam
― peace, man, Monday, 10 October 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
I was watching Richmond, VA gospel group the Legendary Ingramettes perform live and one of their vocalists said that on an Irish tour they just did, they saw a singer do Tom Waits song "Time" and it reminded them that they had a different song with that tile but a similar theme. The Singer suddenly started singing the Tom Waits song in an a cappella church powerful way and then their band joined in and the rest of the singers and they segued into their own song with that title
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
listened through to these anniversary editions today and the albums dont sound like theyve been fucked with, thankfully. some of the live tracks are very good but the sound quality varies widely for some reason. some sound like clean & clear soundboard recordings and some sound like rough bootlegs recorded from the back of the hall, which is... strange. not quite enough there for me to justify buying the full albums again vs just buying the individual live tracks that i like on bandcamp
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
https://tomwaits.ffm.to/store
Celebrate 50 years of Tom Waits’ highly influential debut album ‘Closing Time’ originally released in 1973.
The album’s 50th anniversary vinyl is available in black and clear versions as a double 180g LP cut at 45 RPM with half speed mastering by London’s Abbey Road Studios. The gatefold jacket was also specially created with thicker board and black poly-lined inner sleeves.
Called “a minor key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness” by All Music Guide, ‘Closing Time’ features the distinctly lyrical storytelling and blending of jazz, blues and folk styles that would come to be associated first with Waits.
(also for sale: door hanger & poster)
― StanM, Friday, 2 June 2023 16:45 (eleven months ago) link
TOM WAITS’ ENTIRE METAMORPHIC AND GROUNDBREAKING MID-PERIOD ISLAND RECORDS STUDIO CATALOG NEWLY REMASTERED FROM ORIGINAL TAPES AND PREPPED FOR RELEASE ON VINYL, CD AND DIGITAL FOR FIRST TIMEALL REMASTERED ALBUMS AVAILABLE TO STREAM TODAYPersonally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Waits spectacular middle-period albums–released on Island Records between 1983 and 1993—have been newly remastered from the original tapes and will be reissued on vinyl and CD this fall via Island/UMe.Waits’ transformative creative breakthrough, Swordfishtrombones (1983), its sprawling and superb sequel, Rain Dogs (1985), and the trilogy-completing, tragi-comic stage musical, Franks Wild Years (1987), will kick off the series September 1, 40 years to the day that Swordfishtrombones was released into the wild, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. The epic song-cycle, Bone Machine (1992) and the Waits (with Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs) musical fable, The Black Rider (1993), will follow October 6. September, incredibly, marks the 40th anniversary of Swordfishtrombones, and the 30th of The Black Rider.Ahead of their physical releases, all of the albums are available to stream today featuring the newly remastered audio, allowing you to hear how these landmark recordings now sound better and more vivid than ever. Stream The Albums Here. https://tomwaits.lnk.to/IslandVinylReissuesIn addition to streaming and download, each album will be released on CD and in two vinyl options: 180-gram black vinyl and a limited edition color variant that will be available exclusively via TomWaits.com and UDiscover Music. Swordfishtrombones will be pressed on canary, Rain Dogs on opaque sky blue, Franks Wild Years on opaque gold, The Black Rider on opaque apple and Bone Machine on translucent milky vinyl. Pre-Order The Album Here. (EU/US links differ)All albums were remastered from the original source tape. The new vinyl editions will come with specially made labels featuring photos of Waits from each era in addition to artwork and packaging that has been painstakingly recreated to replicate the original LPs, which have been out of print since their initial release. Surprisingly, The Black Rider and Bone Machine were never released on vinyl outside of Europe and will be making their vinyl debut in most of the world.Waits shifted gears, or rather, deliberately ground them. New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote: “Miles away from the (music) he used in the ‘70s to evoke the wrong side of the tracks, his evolved style is an abrasive, lurching honky-tonk that at its most adventurous suggests a fusion of Captain Beefheart's Dadaist extensions of the delta blues with the Kurt Weill of 'Threepenny Opera.'”These critically acclaimed works are a monument to an artist’s ability to break through into new creative territory. Waits went from ‘70’s-era “bluesy, boozy” wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist—while retaining his innate lyricism, melodic invention, humanity.
ALL REMASTERED ALBUMS AVAILABLE TO STREAM TODAY
Personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Waits spectacular middle-period albums–released on Island Records between 1983 and 1993—have been newly remastered from the original tapes and will be reissued on vinyl and CD this fall via Island/UMe.
Waits’ transformative creative breakthrough, Swordfishtrombones (1983), its sprawling and superb sequel, Rain Dogs (1985), and the trilogy-completing, tragi-comic stage musical, Franks Wild Years (1987), will kick off the series September 1, 40 years to the day that Swordfishtrombones was released into the wild, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. The epic song-cycle, Bone Machine (1992) and the Waits (with Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs) musical fable, The Black Rider (1993), will follow October 6. September, incredibly, marks the 40th anniversary of Swordfishtrombones, and the 30th of The Black Rider.
Ahead of their physical releases, all of the albums are available to stream today featuring the newly remastered audio, allowing you to hear how these landmark recordings now sound better and more vivid than ever. Stream The Albums Here. https://tomwaits.lnk.to/IslandVinylReissues
In addition to streaming and download, each album will be released on CD and in two vinyl options: 180-gram black vinyl and a limited edition color variant that will be available exclusively via TomWaits.com and UDiscover Music. Swordfishtrombones will be pressed on canary, Rain Dogs on opaque sky blue, Franks Wild Years on opaque gold, The Black Rider on opaque apple and Bone Machine on translucent milky vinyl. Pre-Order The Album Here. (EU/US links differ)
All albums were remastered from the original source tape. The new vinyl editions will come with specially made labels featuring photos of Waits from each era in addition to artwork and packaging that has been painstakingly recreated to replicate the original LPs, which have been out of print since their initial release. Surprisingly, The Black Rider and Bone Machine were never released on vinyl outside of Europe and will be making their vinyl debut in most of the world.
Waits shifted gears, or rather, deliberately ground them. New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote: “Miles away from the (music) he used in the ‘70s to evoke the wrong side of the tracks, his evolved style is an abrasive, lurching honky-tonk that at its most adventurous suggests a fusion of Captain Beefheart's Dadaist extensions of the delta blues with the Kurt Weill of 'Threepenny Opera.'”
These critically acclaimed works are a monument to an artist’s ability to break through into new creative territory. Waits went from ‘70’s-era “bluesy, boozy” wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist—while retaining his innate lyricism, melodic invention, humanity.
― StanM, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:25 (nine months ago) link
feels like he's kind of underrated these days
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
seems unlikely to ever happen but i always fantasized about vault-scraping double disc reissues of those Island albums. always got the impression they must have tracked a ton of stuff in all those sessions, would love to hear some of the experiments and outtakes. i suppose Orphans is the closest we'll get to something like that
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:46 (nine months ago) link
I really want to understand why BIG TIME still doesn’t have an HD release
― beamish13, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:07 (nine months ago) link
The soundtrack to Night On Earth (lots of cool junkyard instrumentals) isn't part of this reissue program, either...too bad.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
Thrilled to be able to get Black Rider on vinyl finally! It might be my fave of his.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:50 (nine months ago) link
i've got a couple of these on LP (Rain Dogs and FWY) but really psyched for Bone Machine, which was the first Waits i ever heard.
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:41 (nine months ago) link
I think about this Tom Waits story all the time. pic.twitter.com/njGUWEsdx4— Christopher Smets (@CWSmets) July 7, 2023
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:52 (nine months ago) link
hahaha
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:55 (nine months ago) link
The download version of the new Swordfishtrombones remaster sounds great. NO compression either, surprisingly, which bodes well for the physical release.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 18:20 (nine months ago) link
Or rather no ADDITIONAL compression, at least none that's egregious.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 18:21 (nine months ago) link
I was listening to Rain Dogs on Tidal earlier and yeah, they sound great. No brickwalling, just more clarity and fullness (which brings sounds to the fore that I hadn't noticed before, though TBF I started listening to that album on cassette).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:05 (nine months ago) link
Waits is about the one guy whose records didn't sound shitty in the 80s, so good to see they're continuing with this idea.
― I fell asleep at kabuki (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:16 (nine months ago) link
he hasn't messed it up like they did real gone then?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:32 (nine months ago) link
completely pivotal albums for me in college in the early 90's, glad to see these coming since vinyl copies used are priced through the roof and my CDs are long gone.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 15 July 2023 18:38 (nine months ago) link
I had bone machine and black rider on either sides of a tape in college, wore that shit out
― calstars, Saturday, 15 July 2023 20:16 (nine months ago) link