First listen to Tom Waits - Ol' 55 (REACTION)
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Tom Waits. The evolution of this songwriter is a marvel to behold. Great choice but this song was very early in his career. For his more experimental albums I’d try Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years. Great reaction.
Yea! Frank’s wild years! A fantastic album
Both fantastic albums that I still have today!
Tom Waits is one of my favorite songwriters. He may take a bit of getting used to as his voice get much "rougher" on subsequent albums, but it is worth it. His music is as meaningful and powerful as any other artist I have every come across. Listen to Small Change and Rain Dogs.
I had the Small Change album
But I related to Tom the first time I saw him On Johnny Carson ages ago
Tom Waits had a girlfriend, Rickie Lee Jones, who later won a grammy for best new artist in 1979 or 1980. I recommend Last Chance Texaco by Rickie from her first album in 1979.
My suggestion for the next Tom Waits song you should visit would be to print out his discography and throw a dart and that should be your next song because any one of his songs are brilliant. If you want to learn more about him, check out his interviews on the old David Letterman show. There are quite a few of them through the years and he is just one hell of a funny guy. He's also a character actor and has been in a few films.
All the things you were expecting to hear from Tom Waits are fairly accurate in my experience, but remember this was one of his first songs, and it's a relatively normal folk rock song. He definitely gets more out there--musically, vocally, lyrically--as his career progressed.
There is an awful lot to check out here I hope you stay on this journey for a while because there's many paths to take... I'm sure the comments will be very helpful to your next choice...
My favorite line from an interview of Tom Waits from the 1970s:
"I'm not a household name, like 'fork'."
An artist in the same vein, who use to be Waits' lover, was Ricky Lee Jones. I saw her in Seattle in 1978, and she has the same gin-soaked vibe.
My favorite line of his is, "I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out".
Ricky Lee's big hit was "Chuck E's in Love".
This is a real good one, Daniel. I'm not an expert on Tom Waits, but I have a lot of respect for him as an artist. Great song.
Daniel .... Step Right Up and Small Change.... are quintessential Tom Waits pieces. Small Change is storytelling at it's best and Step Right Up is Tom's take on salesmen/conmen. (With an excellent jazz combo)
There will undoubtedly be other suggestions as he has been around and doing his thing for over 40 years
Nighthawks At The Dinner is pretty damn fine too
You never know what you're going to get from Tom from one song or album to the next. "Raw" is a good description. One of the most brilliant songwriters you will ever encounter. A interesting performance artist too. A lot of material about the soft underbelly of the human experience from the seedy parts of town.
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of than a frontal lobotomy” (Tom Waits)
Yeah.. love that and.. "Now i only drink alone or when I'm with somebody"
Please please please listen to Martha by Tom Waits it’s one of the all time great songs.
My favorite Tom Waits song is "Jersey Girl"
Your voice is very quiet, although the music is perfectly fine.
Martha is great. Reminds me of my first girlfriend and meeting again after many years
i fucking died when you said hold up whats this song about?
Tom waits is a poet who can reach farther into your heart than any other to find those items you thought you'd lost. He's also the poet who makes all other poets run home and hide under their beds. And wet themselve.
Tom Waits is "a little misunderstood" by a magnitude of oceans of misunderstood. Tom's a troubadour.
Give a listen to BLUE VALENTINES to hear his range on one disc.
Tom Waits has written the most heart rendering ballads i've ever listened to. And some of the most menacing missives ever penned and put to music. I hope you'll take a long tour. Bring armor and a sense of humor; you'll need them both.
That last sentence was perfect and accurate as heck.
This is pretty early Tom. He grows and experiments. He's up there for me just after Dylan and Cohen when it comes to his songwriting skills. While I like this song, it does little to highlight his overall talent, however. I do hope you continue forward and explore more Tom Waits. Perhaps dipping into a song or two from each of his albums will give you a sense of his range and growth as you go. Tom can make you laugh, cry, and rip your heart out. He's worth the journey.
Tom Waits is best heard alone, late at night with a pack of Kents, a bottle of bourbon and a deep sense of regret.
edited to add : If Tom Waits is underrated, I don't know how he got those Grammy awards. Also check out how many folks have covered his music. Musicians know him even if the public didn't.
edited again to add: The first time I heard Tom Waits a friend played "New Coat of Paint" on his stereo in a darkened room. He next played "Ride of the Valkyries" because I had never heard that either. The first time hearing music on a good stereo system is almost as amazing as hearing music the first time on a good set of headphones.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Thanks for checking out Mr. Waits. Don’t stop here. “Step Right Up” would be fun to watch you react to.
In 1977 a friend of mine (a writer for RPM magazine Canada) took me to see Tom Waits in concert. It was at a small theatre in downtown Toronto. On the stage was a grand piano with an old fashioned street light beside it. The concert was amazing and intimate because of the venue - like sitting in a living room listening to a friend entertaining us. To make the evening even better was when my friend took me with him for his interview with Tom, post show. Yes, he sounds like he gargles with sandpaper but was a very engaging man, taking his time answering my friends questions. Such fond memories of this concert.
The whole album is fantastic. Every song!!
OH ! I absolutely love Tom Waits. Thank you so very much, you won't be disappointed. Promise🎶
He is one of the songwriting genius of the century. 💗
I'd like to see a reaction to "What's He Building?'.
Stayed at 33K! Didn't want to see 32.9 this morning. And great reaction, par for the course.
I strongly recommend going to the albums in chronological order, picking one from each, to see his musical progression from smooth crooner to gravel-voice and music that sounds like train wreck in a China shop at times.
"The Piano Has Been Drinking" is a well-known and easy-to-love Waits tune, but I have to call out "Back In the Crowd" for visceral blueness. So many great songs with Tom W.
I would have suggested he started with the piano has been drinking or maybe anything on side one of Nighthawks at the diner, then work his way outward
First time I saw him was on Austin City Limits. I couldn't have been more impressed. This track is beautifully done. It's about his Cadillac!
I friend gave me this album. In the early 70’s, if I remember it correctly.. I have grow to love this album. I especially like “I hope I don’t fall in love with you.” As it reminded me of just about every time I visited a bar.
Well done for poking your nose into the Tom Waits rabbit hole!
He's not your usual pop artist. He's, as someone else said, a Troubadour in the most real sense.
At or very near Bob Dylan in his songwriting ability.
I saw him on a day time tv show (Merv Griffin or something like that) in the mid 70's, just as he was releasing his first album. He looked to me like one of Jack Kerouac's traveling buddies from the early 50's had time-travelled to (then) today! I thought he was amazing and he continued to amaze from that point forward. (I took my girlfriend to see him in those very early days, at a small club in Connecticut. Lots of bluesy, jazzy greatness.
An early fave of mine from around that time is (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night. Great song.
I think of his songs (many of them) as more creating an atmosphere, rather than telling a story...
The best description of his voice I've ever seen is: His voice was described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding as though "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".
From Wikipedia: "Waits described his voice as being "the sand in the sandwich".
I just looked at Wikipedia's discography of T.W. and there is so much, I recommend you start early and go forward from there. He started early, you should too.
Cheers, Daniel!
If you can get behind Cohen and Cave, Waits is probably your cup of nasty black reheated coffee.
You may recall him as Renfield” in Coppola’s “Dracula”.
I love Tom Waits music, his lyrics are so great, he is an amazing poet, He uses words like Banana Moon and Swizzle Stick Legs are two that come to mind quickly. On this same album is a song called Martha that is perhaps my favorite love song ever. When I listen to it I am stunned that he was only about 16 or 17 when he wrote it. Thank you for opening your mind to Tom, his gravely voice gets me every time. BTW, I think he was about 20 when he recorded this song. Tom's character/stage persona if you will, is that of a hobo of sorts, a rambler, a man with no real home and his music rather reflects that as himself or the character in his songs. Yes there is a lot of darkness in his songs but most of it is laced with a degree of humor or at least a bit of almost fond reflection or irony. This album was Tom's first and was produced by a man named Jerry Yester who was a well known folk musician at the time.
Tom waits rewards discovery. I've been listening to him for about 50 years. He's got great songs and imbues them with atmosphere and feeling.
Def checkout Singapore. Prob my fav Waits song from the middle part of his career and shows off a lot more of his “weird” side. Found out about Waits because of Sarah McLachlan’s cover of Ol’55 in the 90’s
And this, along with the Bing/Bowie reaction you did, is a personal Xmas tradition
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Tom, my all time favorite artist, though I prefer by far his later works from album Rain Dogs on... You might react on "Bad As Me" next, completely different artist you'd think...
OK... I actually stayed up all night trying to come up with a few songs that might show the range of Tom Waits. Yeah, I went down that rabbit hole.
I narrowed it down to 6 must hear songs, trust me there are many more.
A) Sheer bad@ss songs
1- Heart Attack and Vine
2-A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
B) you may have heard these covered but you should hear the original.
1) Jersey Girl
2) Time
C) beautiful and genius
1) Ruby's Arms
2) Strange Weather
Please let me know if you got this, took a few days to get to it. I don't consider Old 55 as representative or near the top of his body of work.
Try “Step Right Up” and “The Piano Has Been Drinking” from “For No One”
Large print giveth, small print taketh away. My favorite line.
There have been a dozen or more covers of this song. My favorite is by Eric Andersen.
Tom waits: 73
Eagles: 74
Eric Andersen 75
The title song of his 72 album, Blue River, has Joni Mitchell harmonizing. It’s a beautiful album by a wonderful songwriter. Many people, including Dylan, have recorded his songs. He harks back to early Greenwich Village, NYC 1960s folkies, and was on The Festival Express with Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. He’s 78, still tight friends with Joni, still performs. A film of his life recently came out called SongPoet. Check it out. Daniel since you like poetic songwriters, I think you’ll love his music. His voice is lovely and he’s always been very easy on the eyes.Still is.
His albums.....Small change. And ....Rain Dogs, are my favourites. His voice is gravelish,and the songs place me in a smokey whisky drinking bar! A great writer! And musician!
hes so great...and like most have already said, his style changed drastically by the 90's, but in a way that only a genius could transform---its prob hated, idc tho..."bone machine" is my fave album of his, cuz its the first one i ever heard, i was so puzzled by it, but i heard it on a very, very long road trip, and 2000 miles later, i was so, so into his vibe, and enchanted, to this day, it makes me want some f;n coffee to go on some distant drive----the dude is just a genius
Wow! I hadn't realized Tom did this first. Great version. He became much more "gravelly" in his voice later on, the voice of the people at the bottom, those that other people simply don't see. Mahalo Daniel for reacting to this.
martha's my fav (and I think probably one of the more popular songs) from that album :)
Me driving my 70 Coronet home from a long night and watching the sun come up over the river.
Tom Traubert's Blues and On The Nickel. A++
This is from Tom's first album. His voice got much more gruff in later albums
To me this represents the bar/drinking life.
"The Piano Has Been Drinking" - one of his classic.
Tom Waits is the best "almost famous" artist ever. You can go on a journey with him through his career. After this he went much more grovelly with his voice. "Tom Trauber't's Blues", "My Piano Has Been Drinking" and "Step Right Up" are great songs from "Small Change." You need to take the journey with him because if you go right to some of his middle work like "Rain Dogs," or "Frank's Wild Years" it'll be like walking into the middle of the movie. He's one of the last truly American Originals. To me, he's up there will Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley. Take the journey with him.
Very well said!!!
I'm a huge Waits fan. This is such a beautiful song and predates his "industrial drilling" voice. It's a nice intro to his music.
The Eagles covered it real well!
Chocolate Jesus, Come On Up to the House, Small Change, The Piano Has Been Drinking...... are some of my fave Tom Waits tracks. He has an amazingly diverse catalog, to say the least. BTW Ol'' 55 is a fifty five Chevy.
The man’s a legend…check out ON THE NICKEL…MAKE IT RAIN…HOPE I DONT FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU
Tom Waits doesn't just write lyrics, he writes images. I don't know of any other artist where you picture his music as much as hear it.
Some of my favorites:
Cold, Cold Ground
Jersey Girl
Way Down in the Hole
Train Song
(And many more from Frank's Wild Years)
So many from Orphans: Brawlers and Bawlers it's hard to pick only a few
His album "Bone Machine" is an absolute must! It's subject matter & theme is mortality. It is probably the peak of his experimental sound! It was released in 1992...
OK, a few more Wait's songs to consider: Nighthawks at the Diner, Small Change, Step Right Up.
What's this song about? A guy just made love to a beautiful woman and had to leave. He's now driving home. He never talks about what just happened, but you know what he's feeling.
Fun fact, Tom Waits did open for Frank Zappa at some point... they played this song together.
Well, sorta.
A short vignette - as most of his tunes are. For me, it hits as a description of the morning after an all-nighter with a woman I know I can't (or won't) stay with - for whatever reason.
More Tome Waits:
San Diego Serenade
Take It With Me
Foreign Affairs
I like the Eagles, but they don't have the soul of Tom Waits. Just an opinion.
"An Emotional Weather Forecast" off Nighthawks at the Diner.
Ya great lyrics.......l have one of his cds rain dogs
Downtown train was covered by rod stewart
Gutpunch for anyone who has experienced this type of morning.
Maybe check out Shore Leave, one of my favorites from Tom Waits.
Sound like he was taking to the Lord about his life. Yes I do like the Eagles.
My favorite part of your video is when you gave your opinion on the eagles.💗🔥
The Eagles covered this. Check out their version of this song
Always like it when my car gets me home, no troubles.
I only know this song because it was use for mr brodie lee on aew
As a cover Sarah McLachlan has a great cover of this.
The "old 55" refers to an old Chevroel, not a gun,,,
Yes this is a very soft entry into Tom Waits. Not to say its poor, just that its easy to like
Why not the song blue valentine on valentine’s day?
Great song the Eagles do a version of it love you
Waits is a great songwriter.
One of my idols
Tom has such an interesting body of wor. His lyrics are packed with insight and humor and sadness. They can make you laugh out loud, shake your head in disbelief, and break your heart. Sometimes in the same song. I only saw him once and that was in the early seventies at a college venue in PA. There's no one like him.
XTC and Tom Waits in same evening! Brilliant. Tom Waits tells great stories in his songs. There is a very rich vein of his material out there. Takes music to a new level.
Waits version is good, but not even close to the Eagles
Yay!!!!! You are the first