My first Waits album was Rain Dogs. My most intense episode of listening to one of his albums was as a passenger in a car. 4 of us went to a Pink Floyd show, 1 designated driver, and 3 of us tripping and smoking through the show and the rain. Our "designated driver" drove us through the night but leaving the city in a continuous rain and Neon signs streaking by. Once out of the city the songs took on a new life with words that hit home deeply and sometimes even a comedic splatter here and there. I think that we heard the entire CD at least twice in a row and it didn't fail us. That was so long ago now. In times before cameras and cell phones or Windows 95, non-musical electronics destroyed a chapter of history.
@@brucesmith1544 If you got to ask "How so?" you wern't there.Computorisation made people weak of muscle , weak of mind and weak of adventure. music lost that vibe when they started using computers. Prove me wrong. Show me a more insperational band than Floyd or someone more creative than Hendrix, or Someone as inteligent as Bob Marley around since comptorisation of music. Loved the story of the trips and Floyd and listening to Tom while tripping in the car. I have similar memories. Thanks X
@@AldousHuxleysCat Just heard this song for the first time and thought is this a Cohen tune covered by Waits ? When learned it was a Wait's written song I said hmmm...wow. Great tune
Your sister CW and I hung out at HHS. I was a year or two behind you,🍦🙋♂️! We loved you and knew you were different then, an Old Soul. You haven’t let us down! 💕
I think it’s only fitting that Tom has a song called Nighthawks at the Diner after the Edward Hopper painting! Mr. Waits paints us such a visible tangible Palpable picture with his lyricism! “Wrote goodbye in the dust on the good…” I mean, damn! So good!
LOL Speak of the Tom Waits Devil...I just mentioned this on another of your links, and here we are! I am in love with your style, Yorkshire Kitchen Recording!
I am 68 and have some good Waits stories. I saw him 4 or 5 times for free. The Troubadour would have open mike night on Mondays. He would come walking in , almost every week I am told but certainly almost every time I went there, and play a few songs. Then another time I was dancing to a punk band at Madame Wu's . My girlriend leaned into my ear and said look at that guy next to you trying to act like he is Tom Waits. I looked next to me and replied, it is and that is Rickie Lee Jones that he is dancing with.
I've just crested my 30th birthday. My introduction to Tom Waits was stumbling on Real Gone... somehow. I can't recall the details. Maybe through a friend. This was probably around 2016? Anyways, when I heard "Hoist That Rag," I was blown away -- not just by his unique voice, but the force of the words, such a bare bones story given so much weight by the simple choice of "rag," and the emotion Tom threw into the words. Been hooked on his poetry every since. Anyways, great video -- two things I love in this world, Tom Waits and puppetry. You put them together and it's an instant hit for me!
You trip me out Tom🙂makes me think of Leonard Cohen. I also enjoyed your acting performances such as the dead don't die. You're interesting entertaining Sir. Peace too you🙂
I was suggested this by youtube a few weeks ago and I keep coming back to it. Subscribed now and can't wait for new cover/puppet music videos. Such a wonderful genre I didn't know I needed in my life! Thank you for sharing
Tom Waits is such a unique and monumental artist I normally wouldn't listen to covers but I was caught unaware and this is great!! I think Linda Thompson's cover of "day after tomorrow" is really good but I haven't heard many pull off a Tom Waits song. And one of his best! Great job!! ✌️🥸
I remember when I first discovered Tom Waits, I sent a tape to my brother. He said, "What is this? Grover's greatest hits?" Love the Tom Waits. This is a terrific rendition. I would love to play this on my show #cultofthehummingbird
This popped up on my front page and I'm amazed at how good you are! I was a trainee chef in the 90s and my sous, Trumpet, was a massive Waits fan who turned me onto him. Talk about a wild ride! Really cool cover 👍🏻
Consummate Waits! Although I don't recall hearing that particular variation on his normal growl before, the animation is certainly a suitable depiction - whatever that raggedy creature is? - of what a voice like that may emanate from! Great stuff!
y first experience of Tom Wait music was Downtown train, that was years ago and only just got back into his music, F'in awesome so many different flavours of Tom lol
This used to be one of my least favorite because I didn’t agree. I don’t think about or care about how I die. I’m sure it will suck but I definitely don’t want to know. But this video makes me like the song. It… puts a face on it. And now I see that like many of his songs it’s from the perspective of a character and now I see that character and I like it.
About 2:15, he sings "drag your wagon and plough the bones of the dead". Seems borrowed from the title of Olga Tokarczuk's wonderful novel "Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead" of 2009 (original Polish). My English edition (by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) is from 2018. Or maybe Olga borrowed from Tom? In any case, read the book!!! (Never thought I'd see Oscar the Grouch in a Tom Waits video, but the more I think about it, the more it seems exactly right.)
@@farteinjonassen7523 Ahh, you're right of course! Blake's line is even cited in Tokarzcuk's book, and I had forgotten. In fact, every chapter starts with an epigraph taken from either The Proverbs of Hell, Auguries of Innocence, The Mental Traveler, or Blake's letters. Many thanks - I'm glad to be corrected.
@@farteinjonassen7523 You're quite welcome. I've got her "Flights" on my shelf, among a dozen other books I'm sure will be well worth reading. Ahh, so many books, and only one brain!
How's it going to end ...? Fortunately some of us have been given time to think 🤔 1....walk across a train track at the wrongtime , ears into phones on 😮 playing chance with loosing conciousness . 2.....Some will kill you . Its happening constantly, 😮 3.....When the time comes to die rather suffering, The choice is made and compassionately given .
Okay...just stumbled on this, it's lovely, perfect! So help me here...is that Tom really singing? Certainly sounds like him. The puppets look like Muppets, but while the Muppets sometimes got a bit dark...not this dark. So who is creating this amazing stuff?! Side note: to anyone who hasn't seen the Coen Brothers' movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs...Tom was amazing in that movie! If you like this, you'll like the film. Willie Watson is in it too, and Liam Neeson, Harry Melling, Brendan Gleeson, Tim Blake Nelson...awesome cast.
Can you explain the inspiration, because I know the music parts of creep show part, but I can't help see little boogers, or juvenile bigfoots in this. Maybe it's because I know they are real because I've seen them
Waits did a skit with Iggy Pop once. I guess this was on SNL. In the skit, they meet (as themselves) in a bar, and they don't get along very well. Major awkwardness. Iggy mentions he doesn't see any of Tom's songs on the jukebox. Then he leaves and Tom checks out the jukebox and goes "Huh- none of his songs either."
