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DemonBox 01.11.2007 03:09 PM

Favourite Tom Waits songs?
 
So, what's your favorite Tom Waits songs?

Here is my little Top 5:
1. Clap Hands
2. Whistling Past the Graveyard
3. Diamonds and Gold
4. You can Never Hold Back Spring
5. Big in Japan

noumenal 01.11.2007 03:23 PM

For some reason I love the song Blow Wind Blow form Frank's Wild Years.

Silent Dan Speaks 01.11.2007 04:11 PM

Anywhere I Lay My Head is probably my favorite. Also up there would be Earth Died Screaming, Come on Up to the House, and The Piano has been Drinking.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.11.2007 04:24 PM

The Piano Has Been Drinking! Yes Silent Dan Speaks!

Heart Attack and Vine is a classic. Hoist That Rag from Real Gone is a good new one. What's He Building is damn awesome. Goin' Out West is a freaking awesome song too- probably his most rocking song.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.11.2007 04:24 PM

Oh, and Warm Beer, Cold Women

funhouse 01.11.2007 06:35 PM

Hmmm. I really like Clap Hands, Singapore, Closing Time, Ol'55, Red Shoes by the Drugstore, Drunk On The Moon. Those are my personal favorites.

finding nobody 01.11.2007 07:30 PM

Tango Till They're Sore
Rain Dogs is only album I've heard

afterthefact 01.11.2007 08:01 PM

Alice...
I think it's because I woke up in the middle of the night, when I still lived in the apartment above this old man's house, and I heard some comotion outside, so I went out on the porch to see what was going on. I put this CD on repeat before I went to bed and it had come back to Alice just before I went outside. With this beautiful song playing in the background at 2 AM on this chilly night, I stood and watched firemen frantically try and put out the blazing abondoned building across the street. It was truly an awesome moment...

the ikara cult 01.11.2007 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by afterthefact
Alice...
I think it's because I woke up in the middle of the night, when I still lived in the apartment above this ol
d man's house, and I heard some comotion outside, so I went out on the porch to see what was going on. I put this CD on repeat before I went to bed and it had come back to Alice just before I went outside. With this beautiful song playing in the background at 2 AM on this chilly night, I stood and watched firemen frantically try and put out the blazing abondoned building across the street. It was truly an awesome moment...


Ive only got Rain Dogs and Bone Machine, but Gun Street girl and Clap Hands are amazing pieces of music. I saw Jim Jarmuschs film with Waits in on new years day, i forget the name but it was a great film. Its the one where he escapes from Prison with the Italian.

therealglenstyler 01.12.2007 10:19 AM

is that stranger than paradise? no i don't thinnk it is. anyway i love misery's the river of the world.

sonicl 01.12.2007 10:20 AM

I love "Frank's Wild Years" (the track, not the album). Fantastic narrative, and killer pay-off line.

James Blonde 01.12.2007 11:15 AM

James Blonde not much of a fan of Tom Waits but truely adores "What's He Building?" track.

Massenvernichtungswaffen 01.12.2007 12:44 PM

Step On Up from "?"
Alice from "alice"
The Piano has been drinking

TheFoxBen 06.16.2010 02:43 PM

Tango Till They're Sore
Clap Hands
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Rain Dogs
Swordfishtrombone
Shore Leave
Underground
Chocolate Jesus
Eyeball Kid
Big in Japan
Road to Peace
Romeo Is Bleeding
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard
Innocent When You Dream
New Coat of Paint

lots of great songs...

wellcharge 06.16.2010 02:58 PM

more than rain

batreleaser 06.16.2010 03:00 PM

"Jockey Full of Bourbon" number one for sure, sounds like Leonard Cohen out of his mind on booze and hallucinogens attending a voodoo ritual in New Orleans.

deflinus 06.16.2010 03:02 PM

everything off Blue Valentine. the quintessential album

and the piano has been drinking..
and hoist that rag

Genteel Death 06.16.2010 03:02 PM

I can't decide. So many great ones.

krastian 06.16.2010 09:18 PM

New Coat of Paint might be my all time fave.

atsonicpark 06.16.2010 09:19 PM

Everything on Bone Machine!


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