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likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 8:02 pm Posts: 965
durdencommatyler wrote:
I JUST realized your avatar winks, contamination.
it does! I've been watching the storytellers gig a couple of times in the past few days. It's too short, and the stories, like the one about 'Bud and the snake' don't make sense, because the story is followed by "House where nobody lives", when in reality the story was an introduction to "I can't wait to get off work", but never the less I still enjoy watching it. I wonder what's the "gadget" Tom is using in "What's he building in there?"
it does! I've been watching the storytellers gig a couple of times in the past few days. It's too short, and the stories, like the one about 'Bud and the snake' don't make sense, because the story is followed by "House where nobody lives", when in reality the story was an introduction to "I can't wait to get off work", but never the less I still enjoy watching it. I wonder what's the "gadget" Tom is using in "What's he building in there?"
I've still never watched it. I need to get on that.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32238 Location: Buenos Aires
He's not dead.
Random question, though. I've been listening to "Big in Japan" ever since I found it on a punk rock compilation (???) at age 13. So that's 18 years now. And yet I've never been able to figure out what the hell that weird distorted percussive loop that opens and runs through the song is. Any ideas? At certain points it sounds like it might be him beatboxing (I sort of hear his voice during the "pah pah pah" parts) but that might be my brain playing tricks on me.
Q: "The beginning of "Big In Japan" is one of the more startling sounds you've ever put on record." Waits: "I was in Mexico in a hotel, and I only had this little tape recorder. I turned it on, and I started screaming and banging on this chest of drawers really hard, till it was kindling, trying to make a full sound like a band. And I saved that. That was years ago. I had it on a cassette, and used to listen to it and laugh. It sounded like some guy alone in a room, which it was, trying his hardest to sound like a big, loud band. So we stuck that in the front."
If I had a ticket to fulfill the old "go back in time to attend one concert of your choosing" fantasy, I think I could do worse than this Tom Waits New Year's Eve show from 1988, with an insane setlist featuring 32 songs including covers by the Doors, Little Willie John, Sinatra, Elvis, and The Pogues (or whoever wrote "Dirty Old Town"). Failing that, though, this pretty awesome recording is hitting the spot today:
Take It as It Comes 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six Fever Big Black Mariah Clap Hands Cold Cold Ground Dirty Old Town Temptation Heigh Ho Pennies From Heaven I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell) Johnsburg, Illinois Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie) Train Song Jockey Full of Bourbon Rain Dogs Falling Down Walking Spanish Red Shoes by the Drugstore Downtown Train (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night Telephone Call From Istanbul Straight to the Top (Rhumba) Auld Lang Syne Way Down in the Hole Hound Dog Hang on St. Christopher Shore Leave Down, Down, Down Time
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14522 Location: Space City
I really like playing "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" on the bar playlist right before I turn the lights up for closing time. I really hope the room feels it the same way I do when it happens.
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dimejinky99 wrote:
I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
I really like playing "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" on the bar playlist right before I turn the lights up for closing time. I really hope the room feels it the same way I do when it happens.
This album is a great one to put on at the end of a night out on the town. Little night cap and quiet in the dark while it plays.
I've always favored Tom's Brawlers album from the Orphans collection. I recently acquired the Bawlers album on vinyl and it kinda knocked me out. It sounds so fucking good and warm. I think I have a weird torrent version or something because the tracks were in an unfamiliar order. I loved the order they're in on the vinyl I have. So solid and pleasant.
I've always favored Tom's Brawlers album from the Orphans collection. I recently acquired the Bawlers album on vinyl and it kinda knocked me out. It sounds so fucking good and warm. I think I have a weird torrent version or something because the tracks were in an unfamiliar order. I loved the order they're in on the vinyl I have. So solid and pleasant.
I have the cd of that. Need to listen to it more often.
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I was waiting for your response!
