For Tom Waits fans
a review I wrote about the gig I attended last night featuring Mr Tom Waits.

www.justramit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=124567#124567
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 11:59, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

so jealous
so, so, so, so jealous.

Times a million.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 12:03, Reply)

^Same here.
*sends out evil jealousy type vibes*
( girlinthehole, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 12:47, Reply)

I'm not reading it
because Tom Waits will probably never get to my part of the US again anytime soon, with my luck. Either that or he'll pull a Bob Dylan and suddenly start to suck, bad.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 31 Jul 2008, 13:20, Reply)

I've just been...
...sitting under cover outside a pub with pint, book, iPod on shuffle. The rain poured from the heavens and 'Let it Rain' came on the 'pod. A Thursday lunchtime to savour.

You lucky bugger.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:05, Reply)

Che
is it 'Make It Rain' from 'Real Gone' or another record? I'm not that familiar with anything since 'Mule Variations'. thanks!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:13, Reply)

Yep
I confess to being a late-starter as far as TW goes, but got 'Real Gone' out of the library and it accidentally got onto my iPod before I took it back.

Love it to bits would like your recommendations as to which album I should borrow next.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:43, Reply)

I love the old stuff
closing time, small change, heart of saturday night and the live album, 'Nighthawks at the diner' but sometimes Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine and Mule Variations have to be enjoyed for the beauty hidden within the wall of noise and screaming. He's a prolific sumbitch the fella but I've never read a bad review of anything he's done.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:48, Reply)

I'm currently re-enjoying
Frank's Wild Years, especially "Telephone call from Istanbul" but I recently borrowed the bootleg album Tales from the Underground 1 and it is all of the woo.

I could enthuse all day about Waits. Maybe I will.

Top 3 favourite Waits songs:
1) "Martha" (because it gets me close to crying - utterly poignant)
2) "Jockey full of bourbon" (amazing melody and lyrics, damn fine song)
3) "Shore Leave" (awesome lyrics, mad, his finest song mentioning midgets, and a useful barometer for my bloke's gigs because I can tell if it's going well if he does the screaming bit at the end)

@Che - I reckon Rain Dogs is his finest album, but it's a close call.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:12, Reply)

@CHCB
Isn't 'Shore Leave' the theme tune from Black Books?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:16, Reply)

^ IIRC
it sounds really like the intro to "Jockey full of bourbon" but is apparently a genuinely made-up, original piece of theme tune music. Apparently.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:21, Reply)