19 posts tagged “tom waits”
Wherein we fulfill one of the great Calliope cliches: Six posts something by Robyn Hitchcock and I follow it up with something by Tom Waits.
Feeling a little less poisoned this week than most...
This is what we call teamwork, since I know GB's got a 56 lined up and is just waiting for a legitimate chance to play it.
"The first time I saw him I thought this was a criminal case and he was a criminal, and when he left the court the first time, we thought he was getting away... but now we love his music and him. . . . His music is deep."
--a juror in the Tom Waits v. Frito Lay trial
As Louie might say,* "I am shocked, shocked to find that these songs were omitted from Six's donkey post.
*This is very nearly the part where Louie says, "I'm shocked, schocked to find that there is illegal gambling on these premises" just before a someone hands him his winnings. However, people on the internet have no idea what the best part of a scene is supposed to be, so it stops about fifteen seconds too soon.
Speaking of tracks we would post with little or provocation, here's a little something off the very first Tom Waits album I ever owned.
Dammit, I should have put this in an answer for that Vox Hunt. Not that I could really come up with any other music that really changed my life...
Am I just old if I think the only thing really good music has ever changed for me has been my listening habits?
Hm.
