These Go To Eleven: Part 8 of 11
Posted: 11.18.2011 Filed under: 11/11/11, These Go To Eleven, Tom Waits Leave a comment »I reserve my Tom Waits for very particular moods and times. He’s not the kind of musician that I can just pop into the CD player (or queue up on the iPod) on a sunny morning as I make the lengthy trek into work and be able to sing along to like I could with any of the other musicians. No, Tom Waits is for trudging home in the rain from a dirty dive bar, drunk on cheap beer and lonely regrets, just past closing time. There’s a certain shambolic inebriation to his songs that make it perfect for that scenario, but only that scenario; since I haven’t felt like that in a while, Waits hasn’t been in regular rotation on my iPod, but every once in awhile one of his songs will come on random, and I’ll be transformed back to those nights that were more common a few years back.
Instant Party Mixture: 10.18.2011
Posted: 10.18.2011 Filed under: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, David Byrne, Elvis Costello, Instant Party Mixture, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Queen, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Who, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo Leave a comment »Here’s the second installment in my ongoing procrastination of writing an actual album review!
1. Broken Things (David Byrne)
2. Good To See You (Neil Young)
3. Getting In Tune (The Who)
4. Peace In Our Time (Elvis Costello)
5. Seven Seas Of Rhye (Queen)
6. Big Weekend (Tom Petty)
7. The Execution Of All Things (Rilo Kiley)
8. Forgetful Heart (Bob Dylan)
9. Flyin’ (Regina Spektor)
10. We R In Control (Neil Young)
11. Superstar-Watcher (Yo La Tengo)
12. You Still Believe In Me (The Beach Boys)
13. Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen)
14. Shting-Shtang (Nick Lowe)
15. Do You Remember Walter (The Kinks)
16. Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War (Paul Simon)
17. Be With You (Neil Young)
18. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young)
19. First Kiss (Tom Waits)
New Tom Waits Album, Out October 25th
Posted: 08.23.2011 Filed under: new release, Tom Waits Leave a comment »I love Tom Waits. His music is perfect for the drunk poet in me, walking home from a bar at 2am, loaded with cheap beer or whiskey and solemn regret, catching shadows of other battered souls on the street lights and preparing for the hangover for the next morning.
Anyway, (bad) poetic license aside, Tom Waits is one of my favorite musicians and songwriters, but only in certain situations – usually those described above. And because I haven’t had cause to get sauced lately, his music hasn’t been in regular rotation, which is a shame – but I’m not about to start drinking heavily again just so I can sing along to ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’ in true Waitsian fashion, thus destroying my vocal cords and inhibiting my ability to speak for days.
This has nothing to do with his new album, Bad As Me, which will be released on October 25th. An announcement was posted to his Facebook site just a few minutes ago, and his website is already overloaded, so take a look at the video below for an exclusive private listening party.
(Can I just say that I love when Waits acts? His Glitter and Doom Tour press conference is still one of my favorite bits of his.)
Track list:
1. Chicago
2. Raised Right Men
3. Talking At The Same Time
4. Get Lost
5. Face To The Highway
6. Pay Me
7. Back In The Crowd
8. Bad As Me (buy here on iTunes)
9. Kiss Me
10. Satisfied
11. Last Leaf
12. Hell Broke Luce
13. New Year’s Eve
14. She Stole The Blush (bonus track, deluxe edition only)
15. Tell Me (bonus track, deluxe edition only)
16. After You Die (bonus track, deluxe edition only)
You can pre-order the new album at his online store.
