I would crawl across glass to see this guy on stage

Ive seen Waits 5xs in concert first time in 1975 or so. One of the greatest songwriters in the last 50 years.

DO NOT stop at Chocolate Jesus. There is Sooo much more. Tom Waits is an underrated Nation Treasure. I saw him in Phoenix opening night of his last tour Glitter and Doom. It was the single greatest concert of my life. I just teared up thinking about it. If he ever tours again or plays live just one more time, I swear, I'll throw down an empty Credit Card to get a seat. then I'd travel by Plane, a Train or a Mule to get there.

I have been the biggest Tom Waits fan since I was a young teenage boy. I am 63 years old now and there is absolutely NOBODY like him. 100% unique. The Waits catalogue is HUGE and incredible - without doubt one of the, if not THE greatest songwriter of all time. I've actually covered Chocolate Jesus with my band several years ago 🙂Glad you enjoyed it as much as you did. You seem like a lovely human being. I would recommend some other Tom Waits songs but there are so many I would simply say ; " Take a deep dive into his work and prepare to be amazed " Love & Light brother 🙏

I'm very glad that you liked it, preaching the gospel of Tom Waits is often a thankless task, too many people doesn't understand the worlds most famous underground artist. He's an amazing storyteller, most of his songs are stories. Tom is a very "wide" artist that never looks back, he never repeats himself. His latest album Bad As Me (2011) has basically nothing in common with his first album Closing Time (1973), there's stories, music and song on both and that's about it, both are wonderful by its own rights. He appears in movies as well, the roles are usually small but interesting. For example, he was The Engineer in The Book of Eli. My favorite movie is his episode in Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmush, other cast members are Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop and Roberto Benigni. I'll be back with two more suggestions, two songs that are very very different. / Swedish Pete

In 1979 I was in the Rochester, NY train station when I noticed a man about 30 away singing to the piped in music. I knew it was Tom just by the voice. He caught my eye and I just grinned and nodded. Roughly 40 years later my son is in a Boston dive bar and Tom ends up buying him a beer.

There are 2 types of reaction to tom waits, either you're into it or you hate it

It's a rare and wonderful event when someone can connect to Toms music.

I have never heard of this guy. That is my loss. What a performer! I was surprised and entranced by the song, and the way it was sung.

Now that you've been introduced to Tom Waits, you will be happy to know that he has an enormous catalogue of albums that's he's been putting out since the early 70's. Tom Waits in performance is very theatrical and yes, unique. His voice, the way he moves, the instruments that he selects to use, bring together a very distinctive and unique sound all his own. He's my absolute favorite artist.

You've officially jumped into a rabbit hole. Have a happy "Tom Waits". "Warm beer, cold women" is a fav of mine.

Waits... as in Tom waits for nobody... Glad you liked it. One of my fav of his Letterman performances waiting for mor reactions to him 🙃🙂😎🤛👍.

My favorite singer since I was 15.. 40 years ago 😊 keep listening to his work Just one thing it is wait, just with an added s 😂

Hell of an actor too. He is the old prospector in 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs".

"Nighthawks at the Diner" is a good album to start with. You picked up on him fast, bravo! You pronounce the "waites" with a long A, like tape.

Man time is so fleeting, one of the greatest out there! Outstanding JAZZ pianist, singer, composer, poet, actor, author and entertainer - and today only repetitive mass-produced goods are listened to. - Thank you for this song and more of it please!!! How about "Waltzing Matilda". He has put out so many great songs.

Its waits. Like.. wait, hold up... waits

My favorite author/singer. I've been listening him for the past 40 years. Every song is different. There's nothing which we can compare. Try 'God's away on business', 'Hell broke Luce' or 'Going out west'.

Frist time I heard Tom Waits was on the Red Hot + Blue Cole Porter tribute record from 1990. I was just 18 years old and have been enthralled with him since

Every performance from Tom Waits is brilliance. Check out his Austin City Limits show 1978. Perfection all the way through.

Waits is difficult to fit into a genre, I call it Jazz Plus. A truly gifted singer songwriter always with something interesting/bizarre to say and a delivery that can make you glad to have ears. He's more popular among musicians than the general populace (at least in the people I know) for whatever that tells you. It will be a satisfying dive for you if you do go down his rabbit hole.

That's one f**king deep rabbit hole you've just entered 😁 Personal recommendations start with his Rain Dogs and Swordfishtrombone albums and work out from there. The 'cleaner' earlier songs and the dirty junkyard blues of the later. Soooooooo much stuff, I'm jealous you get to hear this stuff for the first time.

I've heard of him but never listened to him. This was hella good, so raw and gritty.

His voice is so full of emotion, his art is so strong. Bravo!

His lyrical brilliance in a few stanzas: When the weather gets rough And it's whiskey in the shade It's best to wrap your savior Up in cellophane He flows like the big muddy But that's ok Pour him over ice cream For a nice parfait

I was lucky enough to see Tom sing this back in the day at the Wiltern Theatre in L.A. on the Mule Variations tour. Greetings from Southern California.😎🕺

I was 18, making out with my first girlfriend. She had put on Frank's Wild Years, and that album made me STOP what I was doing. My horndog teenager self. That's how powerful his music is.

Jeez, you said, Tom Watts.

Wow interesting.. reminds me a bit of Cab Calloway. Grit and gravel galore. IDK if he can scat like Cab but i bet he does. Use of the mega made it sound like an old victrola. Love it! ❤ and ✌️

Listen to Come On Up To The House and Hold On

I love those great voices from American that we appreciate so much here in France; Tom Waits, Calvin Russell, Neil Young,... i mean great voices not because of the vocal part, that I like very much, but because of their lyrics, their despair sometimes, their cynism sometimes too... I think its part of America's roots with original blues

Love, love, love Tom!

Check out Tom Waits (long A sound in Waits. Not short A) in 1977 RockPalaste from Germany. Glad to see you have the same admiration of this song as I do. Tom uses a lot of different sounds weaved into his music in addition to his gravely voice. He also has been in many movies that you may want to check out. Nice review!

That's Tom Waits for you. No one like him. I don't think he has one hit song, but everything he does is mesmerizing.

Have you listened to Tom's song "Take it with Me" yet? It's scrawled across the scars of my heart & every time I hear it start, I burst into tears. Tom's version is great, of course - but the Rachel Price live version will devastate you.

Nice reaction. Tom Waits is a really fantastic musician - an excellent storyteller who can dip his toe into any genre and make it his own. Hope you check out some more!

As for another Tom Waits song, listen to "Little Drop Of Poison"

It’s also possible that you know songs by famous artists that were written by Waits Jersey Girl/Bruce Springsteen, downtown train/ rod Stewart, Old 55/ Eagles

I hope you're able to explore more of Tom's repertoire. Tom has made his music many things over the decades, but what it always is is tremendously engaging to listen to.

Everything I knew up to now about Tom Waits, was Bruce Springsteen's cover of Jersey Girl. I wonder why I never dared to listen to him. This was fabulous. I didn't like the mega at first, but I know what he was aiming for... brilliant.

He's on the Leonard Cohen level.. Tom is a human rib spreader

I’ve been listening to Tom for years. This is a great video, but I will say his voice is different on his first recording different Lots of good songs. I hope you keep listening to him. Tom Waits is very dynamic you can’t form an opinion. With just one or two songs.

Welcome to Tom Waits. Enjoy the ride.

Love Tom waits, just a brilliant writer and performer. Have a listed to Swordfish Trombones, more accessable than some of his stuff.

It’s Actually Tim Walts

Look up "Elephant Beer Blues" man, you'll dig it!

My vote for most creative performer. A song about candy.

Fantastic finishing reaction... I will let others give you your next Waits suggestions but welcome aboard.... "I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." Waits on drinking while appearing on Fernwod Tonight.

Dude! Anything off of SWORDFISHTROMBONE!!!! Tom Waits loves, kills, rocks, resurrects & ordains!

True legend! "Blue valentine" is in my "10 albums i would take to a deserted island" list. played all instruments himself. check out $29 f.e.

There's never been another performance like this. Who has the guts to sing through a megaphone. It's performance art, harking back to streetcorner preachers. He's done a bunch of other interesting songs too. BTW, Beth Hart does a decent cover of this song.

Drinking at the Last Call in LA.. Waits and Bukowski.. I still have a lil scar from Bukowski flicking a cigarette but in my face.. tom lives by me in Sonoma.. very low key these days..

As a metalhead you might be interested in knowing that he's worked with Les Claypool of Primus since the 90s! (If you consider Primus metal, anyway haha)

I went to a strip joint in Toronto in the 70's. The stripper was dancing to one of his songs, it was the most awesome thing I ever heard. I was hooked. Love Tom Waits.

Tom _does_ like a good waltz…

Love Tom Waits, this is one of my faves.

Obviously this guy is not for everyone's tastes or preferences, but for us Tom Waits fans, there is nobody like him. Superlatives simply do not do him justice.

I used to listen to Tom waits when I was depressed for a long time in the 90s

Ha ha. We all felt like this 1st time. Rain Dogs next chap, Waits btw

This is even better as it seems to be a 4th or 5th (or more) copy of a video tape.

Tom Waits is EPIC! I hope you look into who he is. Fell in love with his work when I heard "Big Time" and Ive been a huge fan ever since

One of Tom Waits' more famous songs is 'Downtown Train', which became a number one hit in Canada when covered by Rod Stewart. I prefer Tom's version though.♥your channel by the way.

WAITS! Rhymes with GATES.

welcome to the other side

Tabletop Joe deserves a listen as well

Dirty is a good description. I think you've just become a believer

Downtown Train

Cookie Monster! Cookie and Tom have never been seen in the same room together at the same time.

WAITS ;)

Welcome to the rabbit hole. TW is one of the greatest singer songwriter performers to walk the stage. Huge back catalogue of brilliance.

I love that you are so new to Waits that you don't know how to pronounce his name, ha! Also, i know you're getting loads of suggestios, and they're all good, but try to get your hands on a live show he did in Sydney Australia in 1979. It. Will. Blow. Your. Mind.

Check out Tom Waits orphans, (ballers, brawlers and bastards)

It is important for those who do not know TW to listen to him.

But it's Tom Waits not Tom Waltz

Checkout' Filipino Box Spring Hog '

For a long time i thought Tom was black :)

Check out his live versions of "A Sweet Little Bullet from A Pretty Blue Gun" & "Make It Rain" Live on Letterman.

Has some good acting roles as well.

Tom Waits is like Ren, he does his own thing and it's living legend status just making own path. Doesn't matter what he thinks, just bam - Here.

His name is Waits. Rhymes with Gates. Not Watts.

Oh and Tom has a ton of works. Lots of folks have covered him. This isn't the best version of this I've heard, and he is something of an acquired taste, but try "Heart Attack And Vine", "Singapore", "Jockey Full of Bourbon", or for really out there try kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zpqhg8d4s6fDe4E.htmlsi=QxdDOgatvcawJuk_ "What's He Building?" or "Frank's Wild Years" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJlzp9xe1p2Xp58.htmlsi=FMGwJG5HfWt8cHiD

Tom Watts? It's Waits.

Waits. As in I am waiting for Tom Waits. I hope Tom Waits waits for me. That’s how pronounce his name. No hate. Just wait. I set the bait…for the one-eyed sailor.

Tom Walts? lol It's Tom Waits, but also can't think of any specific song he has done that will give you a line into Tom's music. He has changed genres dozens of times, but he keeps focused on brilliant lyrics while using his ridiculous voice

Check out the Live record "Big Time" by Tom. It's epic!

His name is how it is spelled WAITS. Not Watts like the light bulb

This was not good. I hated the use of the megaphone. He has a blues/jazz style voice,which is good but the rest was not for me at all.

Tom Waits is amazing. If you have a spare few minutes, look up some talk show interviews with him. He frequented the David Letterman show over the years, any one of those interviews/performances are Legendary 😆! The album Closing Time is an oldie but goodie, and swordfishtrombones is more along the lines of this song, but I'd call it more Avant-garde. 🤠

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