Don't miss the Fresh Air interview with him. He talks to Terri like they're old buddies -- hell, maybe they are. At one point he shuffles through some books he has sitting around his studio and reads her dadaist poetry from 1916.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
listening to "Chicago" over footage of the OWS chaos works pretty damn well together!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 19 November 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Have we talked about how he's apparently announcing a tour tomorrow?
― Everything You Like Sucks, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
actually
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
is there news?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
Here's the LA Times piece about it: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-tom-waits-20120806,0,1222309.story
― Everything You Like Sucks, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
I think he's planning to raid a stock exchange and then blow up a football stadium.
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
LOL at LA Time's HuffPo SEO headline with literally no actual information in the story
http://www.prosportstickers.com/product_images/p/752_toon_fish_on_hook__81156.png
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
Just a new video, was really hoping for a tour annoucementhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome, a new video!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
oh cool you guys...
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
honestly, you've gotta be kidding me, is that it?
Funny move by Tom, actually. The only reason that story got any press is because everybody was expecting a tour.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
"As most of you guessed, it’s a tour…a tour de force!"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
nice video as it is though. Reminds me of Up! and also Mario 3 for some reason.
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
Waits fans - please vote in this one:What's he POLLing in there? The Tom Waits ballot poll
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
Cheers for the promotion DL.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/15/this_tender_tom_waits_tribute_to_david_letterman_will_make_you_weep/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 May 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
I just saw the truly amazing staging of The Tempest, co-directed by magician Teller and featuring music (new and old) by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. It occurred to me that I know next to nothing about his wife. Has she ever given an interview? She seems conspicuously quiet given what a huge impact she has had on his career, and that she has co-written pretty much everything of his since 1980.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
huh hadn't heard about The Tempest! sounds interesting. as far as Brennan goes, I don't think I've ever read an interview with her.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
The Tempest was nuts, by the way. Incredible illusions plus a Caliban played by two people constantly connected/tumbling/climbing grabbling with one another. This is a still from another production:
http://americanrepertorytheater.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_popup/public/images/highres/TSC_Tempest_25.JPG?itok=m-Q_VwUV
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:24 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/j9juKOg.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
Nick Cave fake hillbilly pecker
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― calzino, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
Yo, Tom Waits, what's up?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
I found it interesting that he wasn't in that best songs of the 80s list p4k did, I don't think he's very trendy these days
― niels, Sunday, 23 July 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
Not touring or releasing albums will do that! But if he did/does tour, those tickets will go like lightning, because trendy or no the dude is cool and people like cool things.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
One of the funniest people ever
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
"the large print giveth and the small print taketh away"
― sleeve, Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
xp certainly, and I'm very happy I got to see him in Paris and I would be first in line for tickets to a new showall the same I find myself rarely revisiting anything but Rain Dogs and Real Gone, and so as this correlates with little critical and social media attention I get the conspiratorial idea that what sounded new and fresh when I was first exposed to it is perhaps in fact kind of a gimmick and not as original as I thought at first
― niels, Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Speak of the devil and he shall appear.
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Tom-Waits-surprises-audience-joins-Mavis-Staples-12192868.php
https://www.instagram.com/p/BY7PXPGn1FX/
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
look out, mavis! HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
"Entire ANTI- catalog newly remastered by Waits/BrennanIncluding a new, remixed version of Real GoneAvailable Now For Pre-Order On Vinyl & CD
BAD AS ME11.10.17
REAL GONE11.24.17
ALICE11.24.17 BLOOD MONEY11.24.17
GLITTER & DOOM12.01.17
MULE VARIATIONS12.15.17
Also Available For Digital Downloads & Streaming.Orphans Available 2018."
― StanM, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
https://kingsroadmerch.com/tom-waits/
― StanM, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
lol that's like sweeping up a junkyard
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
wtf @ remastering these? they all sound great
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
They should just add extra vinyl cracks & pops, indeed.
― StanM, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
Two of these are less than ten years old. Feels too soon for a makeover
Thankfully there are no extra tracks, so I can ignore this
― Duke, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
yeah tom waits records in general are really well recorded and engineered and mixed
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
also whenever somethings advertised as being remixed by the artist i'm always like oh goody mixed by a non-professional who's ears have been fucking shot since 1993
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
"Real Gone" is a kind of a weird sounding record, Waits beat boxing as the rhythm track on certain tunes for inst, I'd be curious to hear a remix but never felt the original was lacking, though it is, more then a lot of Waits records, a ymmv sitch.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
also whenever somethings advertised as being remixed by the artist i'm always like oh goody mixed by a non-professional who's ears have been fucking shot since 1993― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
Iggy Pop to thread
― Duke, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
Most of these are easily available but hey I’ll never complain for more Waits vinyl in the market.
I seriously need a Rain Dogs and Bone Machine reissue tho.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
Whether or not they really needed a remaster I am glad that they did it cuz it reminded me of "Alice" which I had not listened to in a minute and is just a great record.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
As a former huge Tom Waits fan, I kinda lost track of his work after Real Gone - everything just feels less essential from Mule Variations onwards. Is there anything worth re-exploring on Bad as Me and Orphans?
I love the demo of Alice - one of my favourite things he's done. Never quite enjoyed the fully-orchestrated version as much.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
The spoken word disc of orphans is really great
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 11 December 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
agreed, that 3rd disc has some great weird digressions
― sleeve, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
yeah i ignored Orphans at first, but most of it is great.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
The Alice musical demos are the best. Alice recut as an album 10 years later is less so.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
my alice demos are on a DVD-R of MP3s that has suffered sea-change and cannot be mounted in ye drive any longer, alas
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 11 December 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link