Tom Waits

[Yooper]

I have a bad-ass cold that I got from my grandson last week. I worked yesterday until 3 PM, then decided to come home and die.

To that end, I'm drinking a few beers (which I can't taste) and wallowing. And the world's best wallowing music has got to be Tom Waits.

We're starting with happy Tom Waits (an oxymoron, I know) like "Had Me a Girl" and going down from there.

By the time I'm ready for bed, I think we'll be into the "Jersey Girl", Tom Traubert’s Blues" and "Time".

 

[Franco]

Man I'm glad that hyphen is where it is...

 

[hillybilly]

Hope you feel better soon my wallowing music seems to be some country and or Opera music.

 

[Yooper]

Ah, man, Tom Waits is my ultimate favorite wallowing/drinking music.

Even his romantic songs, like Jersey Girl, when done by somebody like Bruce Springsteen are happier when done by somebody else.

Nothing like feeling pathetic, sick, drinking a beer or five, and listening to Tom Waits' gravelly voice commiserating with me. In fact, his voice is so raw that I feel so much better because I feel sorry for him!

A good "bad drunk" would involve Tom Waits music, I'm sure!

 

[bob1852]

The piano is getting drunk, not me.

 

[jonmohno]

Dang y0ur hardcore, i usually refrain if i get too bad.Iv'e been fortunate over the winter.Havent heard him in a long time,sounds relaxing really.

 

[Yooper]

The piano is getting drunk, not me.

Weird, but that's exactly the song that is playing right now!!!!!!!

(Well, the title is "The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me" but you're so close!)

 

[jonmohno]

I miss......this

 

[bob1852]

Weird, but that's exactly the song that is playing right now!!!!!!!

(Well, the title is "The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me" but you're so close!)

Oops. Close enough

 

[Pennsyltucky]

Since "close enough" counts for song titles ... we'll call this "Warm Beer and Women with Colds"

 

[jgln]

"Tom Waits for No one"

 

[Evets]

"Bad liver and a broken heart"

 

[Evets]

"..crawlin on her belly, shakin like jelly, and I'm getting harder than Chinese algebra" - Pasties and a G-string

 

[Hang Glider]

love his version of Waltzing Matilda

 

[P_A]

 

[TalkingGoats]

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I have always enjoyed this.

 

[machinelf]

LOVE Tom Waits. Got to see him a few years ago, it was incredible.

 

[Yooper]

He's awesome. Bob isn't a huge fan, as he's more into happy little ditties, like songs from Tool, but I've actually got him enjoying some of my Tom Waits favorites too!

 

[Magnanamous]

there is nothing better in my mind than getting liquored up and listening to the Rain Dogs album. I could live on beer and Gun Street Girl...

 

[Yooper]

I'm still sick, and still a little feverish, so it's time for Tom Waits again!

Tonight's selections are mostly from the 70s/1980- Heart Attack and Vine, and The Heart of Saturday Night.