Tom Waits - Real Gone

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In addition to a new album, it looks like he'll be appearing the next Robert Altman film as well: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420087/fullcredits

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Real Gone=faux-Cuban dadrock is STILL the best music there is.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

just hook it up to my veins and fucking leave me be!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

the first song is like standing way back and looking in a shoe box where a tiny ape anda tiny giraffe are making music with in a little kitchen.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 29 August 2004 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, you said.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

the kitchen is a new development

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 29 August 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I have Chuck Eddy on conference call for you.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

it's been leaked. my copy is extremely muffled, especially towards the beginning. it's sounding good though - maybe a bit like a cross between mule variations and blood money and with a pinch of bone machine. favourite track so far is "don't go into that barn". not sure about the scratching - especially that "are you ready?" sample that gets played on a lot of hiphop tracks, it doesn't sound right on a waits track.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link

it leaked about 10 days ago, didn't it?!

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Tom really should have made a record with Tricky in the early 90's.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I've always found the concept of "listening parties" weird, but if anyone cares:

Tom Waits "Real Gone" Listening Parties:

9/19 Cafe du Nord in SF
9/20 Knitting Factory - LA
9/20 Piano's NYC
10/4 Eleven NYC

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Day After Tomorrow has rocketed to my # 1 song of 2004. I've posted this on three seperate threads, I'm so excited.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 9 September 2004 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

is it the theme song to the movie?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link

i am the first and only person to ever make that joke

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link

at least the listening parties are free(knitting factory one, I'm assuming the rest are too) and will also serve as bigscreenings for Big Time!

― tremendoid, Thursday, 9 September 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, that's true.

So far the second track speaks to me the most but I just rushed through it before my boss had to take it back.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

is Big Time any good?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I say Thea and I should take over the Knitting Factory and make it an actual party.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

YEE-HAAAAAA. A grand idea. Then the Tom Waits Karaoke After-Party.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I do a mean cover of Bone Machine's "Who Are You," and that's despite not understanding the lyrics.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

All the better. Hmmmm...what shall I warble? I must dig up my 15-year-old "Tom's Tasty Treats" mixtape

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll just retell the Civil War story on Big Time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurrah! (and Thea: Kommienezuspadt - nobody would know if you were butchering it!)

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 9 September 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

TOM WAITS
just another
sucker on the vine

1. the black rider
2. rain dogs
3. in the neighbourhood
4. i can't wait to get off work
5. i'll be gone
6. downtown train
7. shore leave
8. silver bullets
9. the heart of saturday night
10. just another sucker on the vine
11. good old world (waltz)
12. starving in the belly of a whale
13. town with no cheer
14. come on up to the house
15. clap hands
16. cold cold ground (live)
17. i don't wanna grow up
18. innocent when you dream (78rpm)
19. that feel
20. all the world is green
21. earth died screaming
22. hang down your head
23. lucky day

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 10 September 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

What, you think I can't pronounce German?

COM-mee-en-eh-TZU-shpahdt

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 10 September 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, why should I brag about speaking German? A "harsh, spitting language", according to Donnie Delillo

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 10 September 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

WTF? No one told me he records with Marc Ribot before.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

That's actually something that bugs me about the album, it's got Ribot all over it and not in a way that they complement each other. There's Tom doing his thing and look- that's Marc doing HIS thing almost like they are ignoring each other, each doing his "thing"

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I noticed that myself - but the two or three tracks I have at high quality seem, weirdly, to be more synthetic than the crummier ones, in which the guitar and vox are totally dueling. I threw on an old tape of rain dogs, and they ribot and waits' styles are oddly disparate too, but on my rain dogs cd they seem to mesh more easily. perhaps this is some argument for high production value?

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Also I just read that and it sounds retarded and insane, but it's true so fuck you allya hataz.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 10 September 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm i dont agree with you guys i think this is one of his best albums. i think his voice and vocal melodies sound just exquisite. I think Ribot's arrangements compliment Tom's melodies quite a bit. Ribot has become tastier as a player since the last album they made together and i can honestly say that he's playing the SHIT out of his guitar on this one. I love it to bits. At times it seems like a "Marc Ribot(featuring Larry the Mole and Tom Waits)" album but thats when Tom is doing the percussive vocal thing which sounds fantastic to me. Seriously my favorite songs are the ones that sound like Larry, Tom and Marc by themselves. The only critisizm i have is at times the lyrics are lame and ive never felt that way about a TW album before. But when he's on.. he's fucking on! What an album!

― big chaki (chaki), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I got a tr00 copy today, a listenable copy, and chaki: I eat my qualms. I dig dig dig this album.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Saturday, 11 September 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

wear a cowboy hat while wearing it its awesome

― big chaki (chaki), Saturday, 11 September 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link

wear a cowboy hat while LISTENING to it. its awesome (im drunk)

― big chaki (chaki), Saturday, 11 September 2004 08:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I have an idea for the next FAP. Aside from the movie FAP. Which reminds me, will post more on that soon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 September 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Chaki OTM about Ribot playing the fuck out of the geetar on this album. It has some of the dirtiest guitar tones ever, and he really pushes that teetering-on-the-brink-of-going-out-of-tune thing to the limits on here. I also gotta say the vocal percussion shit turned out WAAAAAAY cooler than I imagined. Some of the gentler moments on here are really DARK too ("How's It Gonna End"). I've only just started listening today, but this is turning out to be one of my favorite of his albums of all.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The way he says 'are you ready?' at the beginning of "Metropolitan Glide" remind me of Lil Jon.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"Circus" sounds like it could be the audio from a scene from a Tim Burton movie.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps, but "Circus" is definitely my least favorite track. He shouldn't be writing spoken word pieces about down-and-out carnies at this late stage; it sounds very much like a Waits parody.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

But totally agree re your description of Ribot's playing above.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

"Circus" is definitely not my favorite piece on the album, but I think it fits the emotional topography of the whole of the thing really well, it makes for a good stable interlude-ish thing between what are essentially the first and second "act"s.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I think a lot of his albums work their best if you can imagine them as the music from some sort of post-apocalyptic emo stage musical.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually though, I just realized what the chimey thing in "Circus" reminds me of - some of the incidental music from the Harry Potter movies ha ha.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I would very disappointed in Tom if he stopped writing about down-and-out carnies.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

OMG. I think I'm going to really, really like this album. It's like the gutter Medulla.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

And Marc Ribot is in full fake Cuban mode, at least on Hoist that Rag.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah its SOUNDS fantastic. although i keep getting the sneaking suspicion the songs are all waits tropes.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Hooray!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

full fake Cuban mode

thats one pretty fucked up fake cuban!!

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

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from the pitchfork interview:

My wife Kathleen wanted to do 12 three-minute songs. Get in, get out. No fucking around. Because people don't have a lot of time. The way I think is more like, "Oh, you got time for 19 songs on there? Put 19 songs on there, baby." She says," No, no, no. Twelve." Like the eggs, 12. You can do a lot in two minutes. So I'm starting to get more economical as I go. Don't overstate, don't restate.

― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 20 October 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link

Dug the new one as well, having only heard it once. A nice condensation of his schtick - and I mean that in the best possible way.

― Turangalila, Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link

Thirded. Like it on first listen, which isn't always the case with his albums.

― Matt M., Thursday, 20 October 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

The newly remixed version of Real Gone is, believe it or not, worth everyone's time. Everything that dragged this album down (beat-boxing, slightly harsh production) has been toned down and a few subtle tweaks here and there make for a much better listen

― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link

Abrasive production is why I like it tbh but interested to hear this

― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 30 December 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link

Hoist that Rag was perfect tho

― Gukbe, Monday, 1 January 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link

oh wow this sounds WAY different from the original mix, way more of an overhaul than I was expecting

― Simon H., Wednesday, 3 January 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link

xp I definitely prefer the new version of HTR with the trumpet intro, just lifts it a bit

― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link

I'd have liked some deep, subtle horns added to 'How's It Going To End'. Have to say, other than HTR, the rest of the changes are a lot more subtle. Or what else am I missing? It's been a little while since I listened to the original.

― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link

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