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He seems very highly regarded by muso's. When I have gone to see a band often he is played before the band comes on. Anyway I just started listening to him. I tend to be a melody guy. But some of his lyrics are astoundingly beautiful. For instance on Shiver Me Timbers there is the lyric "Where the clouds are like headlines upon a new front-page sky". I just bought the album The Heart of Saturday Night. And so far im enjoying it.
Any other suggestions ?
Any other suggestions ?
The Heart of Saturday Night and Closing Time are my two go-to albums for trying to get to sleep on a plane. Said as much to a friend recently who asked for relaxing music. I said it was important to choose those two albums though as some of his other stuff is like a nightmare sequence from a Disney/Tim Burton film. Still great, but very different. Haha.
I do enjoy Tom Waits, but my knowledge beyond the "hits" is superficial at best.
There are two days left on catch up of him co hosting Iggy Pop's Radio 6 show, and it's just fantastic!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001st7l
There are two days left on catch up of him co hosting Iggy Pop's Radio 6 show, and it's just fantastic!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001st7l
"He got twenty years for lovin' her from some Oklahoma Governor"
"I've got my own double cross to bear"
"Frank hung his wild years on a nail he drove through his wife's forehead"
"I'm getting harder than Chinese Algebra"
"And caught the cruel and unusual punishment of her smile"
It's endless with Tom, I could post up a thousand great lines, he's a poet and storyteller. I've been listening to him for 40 years and it never gets old.
"I've got my own double cross to bear"
"Frank hung his wild years on a nail he drove through his wife's forehead"
"I'm getting harder than Chinese Algebra"
"And caught the cruel and unusual punishment of her smile"
It's endless with Tom, I could post up a thousand great lines, he's a poet and storyteller. I've been listening to him for 40 years and it never gets old.
Love a lot of his stuff.
(I hope I don't fall in love with you - just simply superb)
It's a totally different genre but I often have a similar thought about Mark E Smith - the voice fits most of the time but every so often I think "if only he'd sang that in a slightly more usual manner it would be an absolute classic"
(I hope I don't fall in love with you - just simply superb)
It's a totally different genre but I often have a similar thought about Mark E Smith - the voice fits most of the time but every so often I think "if only he'd sang that in a slightly more usual manner it would be an absolute classic"
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