― drew, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Hold on, I'm a Luton lad. Can you elaborate on this? It would be kind of weird if Waits' red barn turned out to be the one used to live down the road from. Although fairly unlikely.
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
So glad to be seeing him on this tour, expecting great things - I think the only tour I'd rather have seen him on would have been the Big Time one.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete W (peterw), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Mojo / Q / Ucunt - all lukewarm to poor IIRC.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
i agree, though, it's a fantastic album.
sorry nick, no idea what song it reminds you of.
― Pete W (peterw), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
"Murder in the Red Barn" was the title of a Victorian melodrama. Based on a true incident IIRC. Maybe even in Luton?
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― Soukesian, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Holy shit - the album totally made me think of LZIII, that track particularly, and I've been listening to them together. Maybe something about bluesy and folky dirges perverted by noise, improvising guitarists, and scratchy voices. (Not that straight blues voices aren't scratchy to start with or that trad songs can't be noisy or improvisatory.)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― tremendoid, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
This is the first Waits album I don't like. Well, I might grow to like it, I've only had it for a week, but uhhh... it just isn't very compelling to me at all. I've never had a problem with his whole I-do-the-same-thing-each-time schtick before but there just doesn't seem any need for this album to exist.
Also his voice is mixed way way too low.
At least he's not actively embarrassing like Nick Cave though.
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
But bloody hell, all the songs are EXACTLY THE SAME here and - I'm listening to it right now trying in vain to find a way in - oh my christ here's another spoken word exercise which there is no excuse for.
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Rda, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
B-b-but it's ALL his voice!
It is true that they didn't mix his vocal percussion like drums so it mixes with the melodic vocal parts and gets a bit muddy, but I don't mind it so much.
I still really like everything on it except the last track. Marc Ribot just shines.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Sins Of My Father, Hoist That Rag, Don't Go Into That Barn, How's It Going To End are all top notch though.
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
the new Nick Cave album is great, though (I admit the last two were not). As for this Waits album: I can't get into it. I keep trying, but it slips by and nothing sticks in my memory.
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Come closer don't be shyStand beneath a rainy skyThe moon is over the riseThink of me as a train goes by
Clear the thistles and bramblesWhistle 'Didn't He Ramble'Now there's a bubble of meAnd it's floating in thee
Stand in the shade of meThings are now made of meThe weather vane will say...It smells like rain today
God took the stars and he tossed 'emCan't tell the birds from the blossomsYou'll never be free of meHe'll make a tree from me
Don't say good bye to meDescribe the sky to meAnd if the sky falls, mark my wordsWe'll catch mocking birds
Lay your head where my heart used to beHold the earth above meLay down in the green grassRemember when you loved me
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Revival time! And to do the job, useless Real Gone trivia. For some reason I plotted the stops of that 'flat boat' at the end of "Don't Go Into That Barn" into Google Maps and asked it for directions. So if anyone ever wants to make a ridiculously unneccessary road trip, here ya are. Or just rent a canoe.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Dover+Indiana&daddr=Covington+to:Louisville+to:Henderson+to:Smithland+to:Memphis+to:Vicksburg&hl=no&geocode=CUq2D7K0tNWfFa3GVgIdvszv-iFS580sMx6L4Q%3BFZdeVAIddoD2-imbJWzUq7BBiDGr4rDrV8nmLg%3BFZ62RwIdUWrj-ikR1VuzGgtpiDEy_XEgKLTT1A%3BFXpVQQIdg3vH-inB6Ektf99viDHjLDU873apmg%3BFQGyNgIdVBK7-imbw3-1IXJ6iDF_Kp0SPHMXdQ%3BFd5WGAIdLPah-ilFl0PqHn7VhzH-thpgFfOT0Q%3BFYap7QEdRlCV-im5EbH2J-AohjHAe08HaSpCdw&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=36.615528,-86.418457&sspn=8.708652,19.753418&ie=UTF8&ll=36.297418,-86.835937&spn=8.744308,19.753418&z=6
― the Dirt, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if I still have this. I thought maybe I made the mistake of buying Real Gone while I was feeling pretty burned out on Tom and that was why never got into it, though this thread's got me feeling I may have been right. I feel like I could start listening to the guy again, but I'm wondering if all I really need is like, The Black Rider, and Rain Dogs, and one or two others.
― retrovaporized nebulizer (â•“abies), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i really love this record but it would have benefited from being a lil shorter
― myndbloom, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:09 (fourteen years ago) link
No, dig it out, this is a great one!
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It is! Love the stripped-down sound, that incredible guitar, and some of the lyrics are among Waits' best in my op: Just check out "How's it gonna end", "Make it rain" and "Day after tomorrow", which I'm sure has already been discussed to death.
― the Dirt, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
One of his most rockin' albums IMHO. The call-and-response section of "Don't go into that barn" always raises the hair on the back of my neck.
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link