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Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by one critic as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musi...Read More >
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Big Time
Released: 1988 18 tracks-
- 10. Big Black Mariah
- 11. Rain Dogs
- 12. Train Song
- 14. Ruby's Arms
- 16. Clap Hands
- 17. Gun Street Girl
- 18. Time
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5About 2 years ago my 4 year old son Freddy pulled my vinyl copy of Swordfishtrombones off the shelf and handed it to me. He and I had been exploring some of my music together - kid-friendly stuff like the Everly Brothers, Doc Watson, and early Beatles - and enjoying every rockin' minute of it. When he handed me the Tom Waits I was hesitant, but, you know, what harm could it cause? He might hate it and that'd be that. Of course, he loved it. For months we could not ge... MORE
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Eerie but captivating melody matched with nearly hymn-like lyrics and Waits' rasp make this worth repeated listenings. Used as the theme for the HBO series "The Wire". In season 8 a version was produced by an amateur Baltimore group called "Domaje" which is both sublime and unavailable anywhere. So if anyone has any leads please let me know. Unti then, this version by Mr. Waits is well worth the listen... MORE
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I was thinking the past few days about how TV has introduced me to music. I wrote before how The Kids In The Hall got me hooked on surf music. Nowadays I'm a BIG fan of the police show The Wire. I'd heard Tom Waits before watching this show and it never really hit me but when I heard "Way Down In The Hole" as the theme song for this show, his music started to click a little more for me. I think it was the context of the show that helped. I've been noticing that the Wire has... MORE
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1The Wire is the best hip-hop show on television today. Well, that's silly, it's the best show period on television today. But MOG is about music, so I'll just mention the hip-hop here. David Simon speaks about the show's music here.... MORE
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Ahhhh Shhhiiizzzztttiiittt!!!
Tom Waits is going on tour!!
I'm getting tickets where ever I can and buying a plane ticket!!!! A very funny & true story:
I was dating a girl when I first moved to SF 8 years ago. Her aunt met Tom Waits when she was working on Bram Stoker's Dracula (Tom Played R.M. Renfield). Her aunt moved to Sebastopol a few years later a few doors down from Tom & his family. So my girlfriend invites me to her aunt's birthday BBQ . ... MORE
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