for a long time too

settling in for my first listen right now, phew.

catching up on this thread, saw some people talking about Tom Waits. Any recs on where to start with him, I've been meaning to for like half my life but I've always been intimidated by his discog.

I've also been meaning to listen to more Tom Waits since seeing him on Down by Law sometime last year.

A friend of mine made me an intro playlist you might find it useful too!

open.spotify.com/playlist/4g5dF4wmfBK01aMIeJ61In

Thanks for this, gonna save

Yw, enjoy!

Have fun with this Fiona album too it's a wild ride for sure

Rain Dogs is a good place to start. The album he released before and after work as a cool trio.

Shameika is f***ing incredible

My eyes may or may not been watery at some point during the album

Let’s just wrap this year up, cause I don’t see how this is getting topped!

I RESENT YOU PRESENTING YOUR LIFE LIKE A F***ING PROPAGANDA BROCHURE

I love Mule Variations, it’s one of my favorite, it has accessible songs (Hold On was used on Walking Dead) and it covers all of the faces of Tom Waits through out his career, you get the raw bluesy stuff, the weirdo parts, the piano ballads and the jazzy stuff that Fiona Apple takes from, and it’s from 1999 so the production might be more modern than the other recommendations you’ll usually get from his catalogue

His first album Closing Time is very smooth too, jazzy but more acoustic than his other albums with the great I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You

If only up to me tho I think his greatest piece is Swordfishtrombones, I love Bone Machine too (it has the song I Don’t Wanna Grow Up that Ramones covered)

In general people will either tell you to go to Rain Dogs and Closing Time tho, but yeah that’s my two cents on it!

4 and a half more hours. Can’t wait

Wait this the type of time we’re on?

My nigga!!!!

You’re not readyyyyyyyyy

Holy s***

Better than idler?

I don’t wanna hype this s*** up, but

Say no more my g 😂

Before making his first album Tom Waits recorded more beautiful acoustic songs he never used that are among my favorites

(he did use this one actually as a single years later and made it more jazzy tho, but it doesn’t beat the original)

@sfsorrow

mmmm i've never heard a song by him before

love the juxtaposition of his low raspy voice and the super touching lyrics ❣

Ok I'm ready for Fiona to f*** me up emotionally

Fiona dont miss

There’s more where that came from, I’ll send you some down the road xx