Tom Waits - better off without a wife + intro.mov

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  • Album: Nighthawks at the Diner

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  • @briteness
    @briteness 6 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Tom Waits in the 70s was half character actor, half musician, and half stand-up comic. He had it all, and then some. The 150% man!

    • @sewerslidemg
      @sewerslidemg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      every nut case needs a hero, my audio late night drinking buddy

    • @sayeager5559
      @sayeager5559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He's about the same still. Hope for another tour.

  • @astral2151
    @astral2151 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Nighthawks At The Diner is album you play with some alcohol at your side. It's mandatory.

  • @DjScareyPete
    @DjScareyPete 11 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    This Song got me Through my First Divorce.
    Thanks Tom.... two years before I was born you were already Saving my life.

    • @Wolfthetravellingweirdo
      @Wolfthetravellingweirdo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Getting me through my first divorce while we speak ✌😎✌

    • @jamesgibson7207
      @jamesgibson7207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      First? Damn must not be that bad if you gonna have to number them.... What do they say about why divorce is so expensive?? .. because it's fucking worth it! Let it go !! Give it away and move on ! Nothing lasts for ever .. except old ford's and a natural stone... Willie says hey when those sad hurtin songs get you down .. and you feel all alone .. don't worry ... Cause nothing lasts for ever except old ford's and natural stone .. good ol willie try listen to the osborne bros weed whiskey and willie... And don't forget .. tequila is good for the heart... Technically alcohol is a solution.

    • @thomasirvin9808
      @thomasirvin9808 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's helped me do the same. Tom Petty's 'Time to Move On' is another good one for the situation.

    • @martintoland1595
      @martintoland1595 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Wolfthetravellingweirdo
      ..&.."Dj Scarey Pete"..
      "Jeeeeze H...."🙄🥵
      So it got you both through..& (I quote).. "Your [First] divorce" does that mean it's left you both Banjaxed enough to.."even"... contemplate a 2nd bite @ the Cherry😝
      ..if so...take Waits' & the legendary Groundhog's approach.....remain in (supposed Hibernation)...whilst surreptitiously snaffling a.."Scene with a Magazine"🤫..
      ...or whatever length of time it takes for any repetition to blow over & ...that's "unless"...you're..as the song says...some
      "Tom, a Harry or just the pathetic & lonesome "DICK".!!!
      Get a "firm grip"🤜on yerselves Men..(ahem)😉
      Relax & be at one🤛with yerself...
      (😵‍💫🥵🤫)
      & your...(quote;)..
      "First Divorce"..
      should,..(with a possible touch of "ManShed" therapy)..
      ...should play it's part in you not only "Saving Grace" but possibly a 2nd Home (to boot).

  • @kimsherwood7474
    @kimsherwood7474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    “ I’m not weird about it or anything.” “I don’t tie myself up first.” I love this man.

    • @erniebuchinski3614
      @erniebuchinski3614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Makin' the scene with a magazine . . ." Gotta love Tom.

    • @LazyIRanch
      @LazyIRanch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Too bad David Carradine didn't skip that step. Nobody wants to be remembered for the awful way they died. David was such a fine actor, but now when people think of him they remember how he was found in a Bangkok hotel dead from "auto-erotic asphyxiation". 😢

  • @harrissocal
    @harrissocal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    A national treasure on the same level as Bukowski. Genius

  • @vincarcin
    @vincarcin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "This song is written for piano and fire extinguisher" T.W.

  • @captspaulding8530
    @captspaulding8530 8 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    my dad played this song for my mom on their first date and I played this song for my wife on our first date, and again at our wedding.

    • @davidlord7247
      @davidlord7247 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      & you lived happily ever after with a sense of humor.

    • @sirveillance9080
      @sirveillance9080 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's pretty fucked up.

    • @captspaulding8530
      @captspaulding8530 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sir veillance I see you must have no sense of humor. What a sad life you must live.

    • @sirveillance9080
      @sirveillance9080 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@captspaulding8530 oh please. That is a bit degenerate and creepy.

    • @captspaulding8530
      @captspaulding8530 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sir veillance you really don’t have a clue, do you? Go be a troll some place else.

  • @danielrobles1574
    @danielrobles1574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Tom Waits is an artist in the purest sense of the word...writes about and reflects his view of life, and nails it every time...Nighthawks at the Diner is one of my favorite albums of all time. Bravo sir!

    • @LazyIRanch
      @LazyIRanch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I found this album in 1980 at a used book store and bought it based purely on the album cover. Reading the names of the songs I knew it was coming home with me and I'll be unplugging the phone. I wasn't expecting it to be life-changing, but damn!
      I was 19 in 1980, but I feel that I wasn't truly an adult until after I listened to the whole album about 4-5 times.
      This song especially. Could be my theme song!
      I've definitely been better off without a husband. I should have listened to Tom and never married.

  • @michaelshea8647
    @michaelshea8647 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This always sounds like Christmas with light snow to me

    • @bobgreen623
      @bobgreen623 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. Yes it does...

  • @budway1942
    @budway1942 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i bought this lp in the seventies..still got it.

  • @mikedamico5410
    @mikedamico5410 10 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    great cuts from a great l.p. belive it or not. i gave up all control of my wedding, just so i could have this as our first dance.
    all the older folks thought it was a nice waltzt, till they heard the words. we did last 20 years.

    • @MrBooYa-yd5er
      @MrBooYa-yd5er 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      what happened? Why didn't it last 10

    • @chrisd7287
      @chrisd7287 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Legend.

  • @guitarman64100
    @guitarman64100 9 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Tom is hilarious in this, funny how a dude known for being weird and mysterious can be so down to earth and relatable

    • @sYnerGyZniGmA
      @sYnerGyZniGmA 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      the weird/mysterious is his 'act' or costume .

    • @uiscepreston
      @uiscepreston 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's not an act.

    • @davidlord7247
      @davidlord7247 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He is not weird. Just logical.

    • @sewerslidemg
      @sewerslidemg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      " normal " ppl r weirder

    • @Red-Brick-Dream
      @Red-Brick-Dream 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sYnerGyZniGmA But it's no clear where the act begins or ends, because he's so private. Hence mysterious.

  • @adampopkes3840
    @adampopkes3840 10 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    makes the old hurts and pain slip away with a slick mix of humor and brilliance. love ya Tom!

    • @stevemoore622
      @stevemoore622 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adam Popkes Tom is cathartic lol

  • @sturmraist50
    @sturmraist50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Today is my wedding day. I'll marry the love of my life in a few hours. But this song reminds me of all those lonely, cold years I had before this. I'll never ever forget this song. Never forget where you came from.

    • @bobgreen623
      @bobgreen623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Beautiful words, man

    • @armadillotoe
      @armadillotoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My condolences.

    • @bobbyfinley1795
      @bobbyfinley1795 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      From the north you poor bastard

    • @danozism
      @danozism 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      still married? "-)

    • @sturmraist50
      @sturmraist50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@danozism Yes!

  • @williambagley5415
    @williambagley5415 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I first heard this tune in a friend's dorm room in college in 1978...still love it.

    • @mrScififan2
      @mrScififan2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just discovered it yesterday 8/23/2018! A Thursday.

    • @ed95755
      @ed95755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was born in 78. dad?

  • @framusburns-hagstromiii808
    @framusburns-hagstromiii808 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tom Waits is pure talented genius.....makes you laugh then turns a phrase that can grab you instantly because its nails a simple truth common to everyone.

  • @pretorious700
    @pretorious700 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Tom has been married to the same woman for 38 years.

    • @desanctisapostata
      @desanctisapostata 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And that's the Beauty of it

  • @jonragel2024
    @jonragel2024 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Hysterical. What a brilliant artist.

  • @kevinhallisey5201
    @kevinhallisey5201 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    LOVE Tom. So many great songs, yet this remains, while not my pure favorite, but closest to my heart. Used to play this while making Monster Burgers with a great friend at Flight School in Pensacola, Fla. The song is great, but the memory is SACRED.

  • @johnmcdonald8314
    @johnmcdonald8314 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Haunting does not begin to describe the energy and feeling in this song.

  • @brentadamson8373
    @brentadamson8373 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love the album cover !!!

  • @joshtheprune
    @joshtheprune 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This song makes me cry.

  • @carlosiswhoiis9971
    @carlosiswhoiis9971 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love this intro. I laughed the first time I heard it, and smile every time I hear it.

  • @treeswayinginthewind
    @treeswayinginthewind 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    All my friends are married
    Every Tom and Dick and Harry
    You must be strong
    To go it alone
    Here's to the bachelors
    And the bowery bums
    And those who feel that they're the ones
    Who are better off without a wife
    I like to sleep until the crack of noon
    Midnight howlin' at the moon
    Goin' out when I wanto, comin' home when I please
    I don't have to ask permission
    If I want to go out fishing
    And I never have to ask for the keys
    Never been no Valentino
    Had a girl who lived in Reno
    Left me for a trumpet player
    Didn't get me down
    He was wanted for assault
    Though he said it weren't his fault
    Well the coppers rode him right
    Out of town
    (chorus) selfish about my privacy
    As long as I can be with me
    We get along so well I can't believe
    I love to chew the fat with folks
    And listen to all your dirty jokes
    I'm so thankful for these friends
    I do receive
    (chorus)
    Source: LyricFind
    Songwriters: Tom Waits

  • @RevWillTheThrill1974
    @RevWillTheThrill1974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I wonder if I'm available tonight...

    • @RevWillTheThrill1974
      @RevWillTheThrill1974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Jeff Baker I just might. We'll see.

    • @bobgreen623
      @bobgreen623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RevWillTheThrill1974 Did you...?

    • @RevWillTheThrill1974
      @RevWillTheThrill1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bobgreen623 It's been a couple of months since I wrote that. I honestly don't remember. Pretty sure I did at some point since, though.

  • @budway1942
    @budway1942 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I arrived in Toronto in 1976 after four years in Sngapore and 7 years in London England..and purchased this album...my soul brother...sitll have it...i know its done in a studio pretending its a night club..but it s TOM...memories

  • @774CISCO
    @774CISCO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    been listening to this song all week on the way to work , damn great

  • @mindmoviemaster
    @mindmoviemaster 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man, I love that song

  • @skumsters2323
    @skumsters2323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Een nederlander die dit leuk vind, fijn!

  • @CptEtgar
    @CptEtgar 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Making a scene with a magazine" !!!

  • @mikedamico5410
    @mikedamico5410 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    also, listen to'the piano has been drinking not me'

    • @jemichaelos
      @jemichaelos 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's Mike Melvoin , Wendy's Dad. Wendy of Prince fame.

  • @kaizmorgan
    @kaizmorgan 12 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    He could have been a brilliant comedian.

    • @coreycox2345
      @coreycox2345 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He is a brilliant comedian, kaizmorgan.

    • @pretorious700
      @pretorious700 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What do you mean "could"?

    • @sewerslidemg
      @sewerslidemg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      he's funny in some movies he's in, that's comedian ta me

  • @myyoutube887
    @myyoutube887 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here inFamily MASH......MESERMERIZED

  • @budway1942
    @budway1942 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I listened to this 4 weeks ago and was so pissed i dont remember..lolll shades of bukowski...

  • @frankmoyer5822
    @frankmoyer5822 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When I signed the divorce papers with my ex and her witness, we drank champagne and played this song.

  • @sea-ferring
    @sea-ferring 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have shamelessly stolen the "take advantage of yourself" line so many times. This entire album reminds me of the thing I love about Los Angeles.

  • @maxangst6833
    @maxangst6833 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I first heard this album in grad school in 1975. Turned onto it my a couple of women from Indianapolis.

  • @freetomato
    @freetomato 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My first serious love, my ex, turned me on to Tom Waits, and for that I’m grateful. He recently died - too young. Drank himself to death. I feel guilty because he told me I broke his heart. His brother gave me some of his ashes. I am contemplating what to do with them. I may plant a forsythia bush (which he liked) and sprinkle his ashes under, while listening to Tom Waits.

  • @dejanstevanic5408
    @dejanstevanic5408 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks.

  • @CosmicCountryboy
    @CosmicCountryboy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    happy Valentine's Day 2017

  • @henrygriffen40
    @henrygriffen40 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    MAKING A SCENE WITH A MAGAZINE

  • @oNe_SoNg
    @oNe_SoNg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy Valentine's Day. 🤷❤

  • @leslieperkins1432
    @leslieperkins1432 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Learned.

  • @drlarrymitchell
    @drlarrymitchell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I'm not weird about it or anything. I mean, I don't tie myself up first."

  • @HeartoftheDragonColo
    @HeartoftheDragonColo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy birthday a couple days ago to one of the best: Nighthawks, Swordfishtrombones, Renfield and Dr. Heller (say it with me: "Heller.")

  • @alanwright3430
    @alanwright3430 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool ❤ 2:34

  • @jonmeltzer1361
    @jonmeltzer1361 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He's married now. He doesn't do this one anymore :-)

  • @mulliniks51
    @mulliniks51 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Or maybe you whistled the song but you lost the sheet music

  • @michaeldamico7002
    @michaeldamico7002 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    my wedding waltz.in 93.

  • @markmckenzie3608
    @markmckenzie3608 ปีที่แล้ว

    This song used to always makes me weep. My young girlfriend left me because she thought I drank too much .. now I can sleep into the crack of noon . .

  • @nancybushey
    @nancybushey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All my friends are married
    Every Tom and Dick and Harry
    You must be strong
    To go it alone
    Here's to the bachelors
    And the bowery bums
    And those who feel that they're the ones
    Who are better off without a wife
    I like to sleep until the crack of noon
    Midnight howlin' at the moon
    Goin' out when I wanto, comin' home when I please
    I don't have to ask permission
    If I want to go out fishing
    And I never have to ask for the keys
    Never been no Valentino
    Had a girl who lived in Reno
    Left me for a trumpet player
    Didn't get me down
    He was wanted for assault
    Though he said it weren't his fault
    Well the coppers rode him right
    Out of town
    (chorus) selfish about my privacy
    As long as I can be with me
    We get along so well I can't believe
    I love to chew the fat with folks
    And listen to all your dirty jokes
    I'm so thankful for these friends
    I do receive

  • @Rheasound
    @Rheasound 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome song, and 22 deaf people so far.

  • @cavalierfan1995
    @cavalierfan1995 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    some class joint somewhere.......the burrito king or something

  • @ITFDAVE
    @ITFDAVE ปีที่แล้ว

    Wheres the live version to this exact performance? I l cant find it. Its like they cut the last few seconds and it's killing me lol

  • @josenegreira9507
    @josenegreira9507 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesante melodía

  • @metahduh4003
    @metahduh4003 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Could never afford a wife.

    • @metahduh4003
      @metahduh4003 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No problem for the muslim with 4 wives and 23 children who gets 30 000 euro from ze german government per month.

    • @MitchellMaichak-ze7mr
      @MitchellMaichak-ze7mr ปีที่แล้ว

      That's less costly than getting " unmarried " ( in Oh So Many Ways ) !!!

  • @MurderousInk23
    @MurderousInk23 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's why papa says I'll never get married.

  • @edwardhilgendorf9740
    @edwardhilgendorf9740 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If you liked this song, listen to "Joy to the World" by Harry Nilsson

  • @myyoutube887
    @myyoutube887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How can you be Convinced ?

  • @myyoutube887
    @myyoutube887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best pony in da show?

  • @mrbanditoxyz
    @mrbanditoxyz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    28 downvotes? Sad.

  • @rogercraigo2629
    @rogercraigo2629 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    From Putnam county

  • @edwordthemisinformationsup4334
    @edwordthemisinformationsup4334 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very cool stuff. Our band's lead singer is very influenced by this music. Check it out if you get a chance. Cheers!

  • @ChefBarry
    @ChefBarry 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    TH-cam’s captions reallly struggle with Tom Waits’ voice haha

  • @CosmicCountryboy
    @CosmicCountryboy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think 4 people might of hit the wrong button.

  • @FIRETHIGHS
    @FIRETHIGHS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:09

  • @myyoutube887
    @myyoutube887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Most people for whatever reasons did not know why.......marriages just dont work out with the kids and all.......

  • @laurie4468
    @laurie4468 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    35 thumbs down? Really?? 😞

  • @hischyoudontneedtoknow2896
    @hischyoudontneedtoknow2896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You can tell this is an old song, using a magazine to get your rocks off lol

  • @myyoutube887
    @myyoutube887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Passing the family of Stones ........crap on that trump

  • @championskyeterrier
    @championskyeterrier 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well I never been no Valentino
    Had a girl who lived in Reno
    Left me for a trumpet player but it didn't get me down
    He was wanted for assault
    You know he said it weren't his fault
    You know the coppers rolled him right out of town

  • @ToxicLucidity
    @ToxicLucidity 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    MGTOW

  • @SlideJones
    @SlideJones ปีที่แล้ว

    This song should be the #RedPill #MGTOW anthem lol!

  • @deja75m
    @deja75m 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I bemember dis from my onanistic era.?