This album is perfect.

[AnderMocs]

One of my absolute favorites.

 

 

Discuss the awesome.

[goodhonk]

haven't heard that one.

[Operator]

Dude, I just got this album in early November for the first time and I've been completely in love with it. The story of how it was recorded is really awesome.

 

Outstanding stuff.

[Kerouac]

It's Tom Waits. His albums are ALWAYS perfect.

[RoboPimp]

roooby roo

[dunnoaname]

Yup, it is great. Nice vibe going on throughout the album. The stories are amazing.

[wartoxin]

 

This album is perfect. One of my absolute favorites.

 

 

I like Tom but that's not one I think of as mandatory. You got it on vinyl?

[bkd]

The Piano Has Been Drinking.

[companyman]

all my friends are married.....

[Reauchambeau]

Blue Valentine is my fave

[Small Stone]

I never heard that one, but here's what one of the producers said about the recording (which was done at the Record Plant studio in front of a small audience):

I remember that the opening act was a stripper. Her name was Dewana and her husband was a taxi driver. So for her the band played bump-and-grind music - and there's no jazz player who has never played a strip joint, so they knew exactly what to do. But it put the room in exactly the right mood. Then Waits came out and sang 'Emotional Weather Report'. Then he turned around to face the band and read the classified section of the paper while they played. It was like Allen Ginsberg with a really, really good band.

 

[claytonjohn18]

 

This album is God damn close.

[starsailor803]

Wow, I haven't listened to that album in a long time. Gotta go dig it out.

 

"I'm so horny....the crack of dawn better watch out for me."

[Donald Draper]

Huge Waits fan here. He's got to be one of the most consistent songwriters ever (must be approaching 5 decades now right?). At his best there's not many who can touch him, in my opinion.

[AnderMocs]

This record just has so much {censored}ing vibe. It feels much more classic than the other Tom Waits I've heard. I really need to dig in to more of his catalog.

[MrChrisos]

Yeah it's a great approach to an album, creates such an atmosphere and shows such personality. I love eggs and sausage - and just the way such intelligent undertones are layered in with such a simple scene.

 

Although I am of the firm belief Waits just got better and better, so I get more obsessed with his later stuff, but this is still a one off gem of an album.

[RolloGreb]

Nighthawks is good. But I listen to his later stuff way more - Mule Variations, Orphans, Alice, Bone Machine, etc

 

Damn that guy puts out a lot of good music

[Kerouac]

 

Nighthawks is good. But I listen to his later stuff way more - Mule Variations, Orphans, Alice, Bone Machine, etc Damn that guy puts out a lot of good music

 

 

As do I. But my favourite Tom Waits album is definitely Rain Dogs.

[Hupia]

I think the Swordfishtrombones/Rain Dogs/Frank's Wild Years trilogy is absolutely brilliant... That said, I think everything he puts out that I've heard has been genius stuff... I mention those 3 cd's because they got me into him, so I owe them a lot.

[DylanWilde]

Tom Waits is one of those few guys that you can call a "genius and father of modern songwriting" and not be an exaggerating, pretentious asshole. He's done {censored} and gone places with his music that most other brilliant songwriters can't even imagine or touch.

 

Also,the first half of Rain Dogs is one of the great achievements of popular music. I'm still trying to figure out the second half, and I've been listening to this album more or less constantly for 3 years.

[AnderMocs]

I listened to swordfishtrombones today. It was awesome.