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I tried to show this video to a friend in Wales and he says he can't see it because of a copyright claim by the BBC...

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I never understood why he mentions the filipino girls giggling by the church. Does anyone have any insight?

there is no other like tom waits....what a writer

i like this song, for years.

I was 6 in 1992 when I heard this song for the first time and I didn't want it to end. Lol I grew up in the hood lol and its needless to say no one understood but music like this inspired me and played instrumental im my drive towards becoming the success I am today. Tom waits introduced me to me.

First saw this video on MTV back when it was released. That channel introduced me to so many great bands/solo artists like Tom Waits. Its hard to believe when you look at it now.

I've learned to dance waltz in dancing school, can I say so, 83 as I was 14😢 and bought the 7 inch

What a masterpiece

Tom Waits is another planet's Bob Dylan when he's not busy being this planet's Tom Waits.

I was a sophomore at Virginia Tech and playing in a band and I was hungry and late one night after a gig I went to the only place that was still open - Steve's Hot Dogs - and sat at the bar and ordered two all the way and looked up at the TV in the corner and there was this video playing on MTV and my brain grew to twice its size that night.

A love song to grumpy old men. Because there is no greater pleasure than complaining about everything, when you're old. Tom Waits always finds things to love in extraordinary places.

This was my entrance into the world of Tom Waits. So singular, so inventive, so peculiar, but I was entranced by how different he was. His voice sounds a lot like some of my favorite jazz artists from my hometown of New Orleans, especially Dr. John.

Paul Young played this video on Mtv in 1993. I was transfixed, and never looked back. Waits is a genius

Waits doing a damn fine Joel Grey imitation.

Sounds like your neighborhood drunk having one too many and then doing weird stuff.

"MARCO"?

I curse the creative brainfart that reasoned that this clip would be best filmed through a fish-eye lens.

Just watching Peter Gabriel cover this just his Voice and His piano. I've seen Tori Amos cover Time with just voice and Piano. Both covers are Brilliant and give testimony to the Genius of Mr.Tom. So many songs that are Appreciated by So Many. Hats off For Mr. Waits

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I love you Tom for you are truly deep and great...

This man is honest in his Songs, beneath all the lies, that are contributeted in any direction of human structures.....artist..

As a recovering Tom Waits addict, I haven't listened to him for 15 years because most of his songs makes me suicidal. But this song has been stuck in my head all week and it's pretty far from depressing, so I just decided to relapse. And it was wonderful ❤.

Thank you for being, Tom Waits.

I love this song. :)

I discovered this song several decades ago. If my memory serves me right. It always stuck to me. Now I'm learning why the genius of TW is nothing short of just that.... Whatever he did it felt like he was reading an important book to me.... and I'ld listen....

A great song!!!

🥺 I love him

Swordfishtrombones is Waits' love letter to Bukowski.

❤

There is no more "neighborhood". How tragic...

Classic. Pulls at your heart in a Cosmic way.

God bless Tom How else would be able to hear music like this.

Tom is right up my street!

Fuckin Tom!

Check out his song at the end of the film ‘Smoke’ , but watch this great film first..

This video was my first meeting with Tom Waits, after that I was hooked.

Pretty bad. Sorry.

Always loved this hilarious song. On the surface it sounds like a tribute to old-timey home-town life, swelling with a brass band and glockenspiel. But listen closely and hear as the grumbly old-timer describes his neighborhood - he does nothing but complain about the traffic and the noise and how nothing is as good as it once was. I know people just like that! Waits brings the character to life with sharpness and wit and yet also with warmth. Brilliant.

What a freaky video.

Where's Elvis Presley s version

Bought this as a 7" single when I was 13 in 1983. Played it over and over again. Still like this song as much almost 40 years later. Nothing wrong with other singles from that year.. Bonnie Tyler - Total eclipse of the heart.. Toto - Africa.. Men at work - Down under.. The Police - Every breath you take.. but none of them are timeless in the way In the neighborhood are. Pretty sure I will listen to Tom Waits the next 40 years as well..

Way back when MTV played videos...this song/video got alot of airplay.

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I AM 75 NOW WHEN I WAS A KID MOST OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN KENSING TON AND FISHTOWN HAD MARCHING BANDS THEY TOLD ME TO GE INTHE MIDDLE AN PRETEND YOU ARE PLAYING BUT THEM BASS DRUMS AND DRUMS MADE YOU FEEL GOOD O THIS IS IN PHILLY

I'm not quite sure if listening to Tom and doing mushrooms go together...

I love the slow, lazy (f&$#ck you) delivery of the instruments in this rusty, heavy, bloated-faced observation of my Ol' Neighborhood. Thanks, Tom. Seriously. 🙏 You're the best ❤️

Well, the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan And the whinin' dog pigeons by the steeple bell rope And the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night And there's always construction work bothering you In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood Well, Friday's a funeral and Saturday's a bride Sey's got a pistol on the register side And the goddamn delivery trucks, they make too much noise And we don't get our butter delivered no more In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood Well, Big Mambo's kicking his old greyhound And the kids can't get ice cream 'cause the market burned down And the newspaper sleeping bags blow down the lane And that goddamn flatbed's got me pinned in again In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood There's a couple Filipino girls gigglin' by the church And the window is busted and the landlord ain't home And Butch joined the army, yeah, that's where he's been And the jackhammer's diggin' up the sidewalks again In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood In the neighborhood

...WELTKLASSE...

I play this song for years, but still don't know what it's all about. It just feels right and it warms my soul.