My Dad Forced Me To Listen To Tom Waits 

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Now we have the confirmation that your dad is a 20th century zoomer, he can't listen to songs over 3 minutes even if he likes it. You should make him listen to 1000 gecs, memes aside the song are at the right length for him.

Always trust your dad. Especially if he likes Tom Waits.

Im gonna be just like your dad someday showing my kids black midi, crazyy 😭💀

I'd love to see more of these role swapping videos, your dad has a real infectious energy when he's excited about something, especially with your editing.

As a zoomer I adore Tom Waits, it's weird how his music fits the pessimism and irony we use today to survive the everyday life as the 21th century's children.

Good, the world is finally at peace. Now y’all have to listen to Trout Mask Replica together

Dad flexed on you and I am here for it. Love Tom Waits

he gets even weirder in the 90s. I found Bone Machine in a goodwill when i was 12 and it blew my lil mind. the black rider is really underrated too. and there’s that live performance of Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis. man I love Tom Waits !!

Your dad has very good taste. I love Tom Waits

It's so fun to see you guys swapping roles lol, great video as always Kyle :)

For whatever it’s worth, Tom Waits is probably my favorite American songwriter. Check out Bone Machine for some really outlandish late era Waits

They laughed at me when I bought $5000 marimbas. They laughed. Now every single Tom Waits tribute band is begging me to play for them.

You've got a cool dad. I had to find Tom Waits on my own, like some musical orphan wandering through the music stores (it was a store that had these things called "CD's" and "Vinyl", you payed $15-$20 for a thing called an "album", a collection of music that generally had a theme tying it together...) Tom Waits is a tough one to get into. When I first heard him I was interested but kind of repulsed. Then I'd listen again a few months later, kind of abandon it again. Then one day you'll have it pop into your head and it's like "what is that wonderful song?!" Go back and all of a sudden it just clicks. That how it worked for me. Now he's one of the few artists that I always keep on my phone, the entire body of work. Kind of like the Grateful Dead; "They aren't the best at what they do, they're the only that do what they do" - Bill Graham - Micheal Scott

You can tell that he’s been Waiting a long time for this

Your dad is 100% on the money. Tom Waits is a gift to music. You'll appreciate being introduced to him years from now. See Tom while he's still touring, if you can. It's so rare to get to see living legends. He has been covered by everyone. Bruce Springsteen, The Ramones, Gogol Bordello, The Eagles, Robert Plant/Allison Krauss, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Rod Stewart, Tori Amos, EVERYONE. Look up TV appearances, especially "Chicago " and "Chocolate Jesus" on Letterman. Tom Waits jokes(?) he is banned from the YMCA, so I have a playlist for the gym. Some tracks for the uninitiated (in case the stranger stuff turns you off): "Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You" ; "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" ; "God's Away on Business" ; "Blue Skies" ; "Make It Rain" ; "Satisfied" ; "All the World is Green" ; "Goin' Out West" ; "Hell Broke Luce" ; "Rains On Me" ; "That Feel" ; "Martha" ; "Please Call Me Baby" ; "Way Down in the Hole" ; "Drunk on the Moon" ; "Jersey Girl" ; "Cold Water" ; "Hold On" ; "Downtown" ; "House Where Nobody Lives" ; "Downtown Train" . He was guest vocals on "Tommy the Cat" by Primus.

Your dad's got good taste. Love the sinister feel his music has

Makes sense that your dad is open to stuff you show him now! Y'all have a very sweet relationship. I wasn't really into this era or really most of it but, he has much weirder stuff as well as much more solemn and introspective stuff

Waltzing Matilda means drinking or drunk. That's what Tom told me at McGlinchy's bar on 15th Street in Philadelphia back in 1973 or 4. That was right before he met Ricky Lee Jones. Tom is America's last great beatnick and one of the coolest people I ever met.

Tom Waits is my favorite artist, and he has like 4 albums in my top 20 oat. However, some other albums that I hold to that level of esteem are Bottomless Pit, Twin Fantasy, AFUT, and Schlagenheim (all of which are at least adjacent to albums that Jason has been skeptical about) so take that pops

Tom Waits: a classic, never goes out of style ~~ you can't go out of style if you are a true artist ~~ you are never in "style", you are your own, that reaches across generations, across genres ~~ you don't fit in one, you are singular, you are timeless. There is no other Tom Waits, no one like Tom Waits. Our art evolves, as we evolve, as we age, as we grow, as we change, yet remain the same, somehow we always know a Waits song, no matter what era it is from ~~ it will hit you in the gut, always.

Please do more! I don't get to see this type of thing on youtube very often and it would be interesting to see young people react to certified classics with fresh eyes.

Omg it's finally happening! And your dad wore a hat for the occasion

I've been waiting for this video. Laughed so hard at "6 minute song what are you trying to put me to sleep?"

I loved this video, as always. Can't wait for more videos with your dad!

This vid is chaotic! I love it

I found your channel today and I've watched several of these already, great wholesome content about sharing what you love between generations. I just wanted to comment that I was a little disappointed your dad stuck to the 70s so much (I think you got a little from Bone Machine, but songs like "Earth Died Screaming" and "Hell Broke Luce" are mostly what I think of when I think of Waits), but didn't even show you "The Piano Has Been Drinking"! Take a listen~

YESSSS I've been waiting for this video. I haven't listened to much Tom Waits but I love Rain Dogs.

Singapore is my favorite Tom Waits song, cool that your dad also enjoys his stuff

Yes Tom Trauberts blues is based on the song waltzing Matilda but it also has its own meaning. The song is about sharing your feelings of despair and loneliness and desperately trying to get people to understand. A “Matilda” is a bundle of things. Like a hobo carrying his things at the end of a pole so he can move easier. “To waltz a Matilda” just means to get your things and get out to the world without an plan or a future. Basically a song is asking who will share this lonely life with me.

Your dad finally seems excited! lol

Good job, dad!!! Tom Waits rules the brim of existence!

3 minutes in but this is so wholesome so far

Tom waits is the illest villain in his music

the best editing of any reaction channel - up there with mercurial 6

Well, Tom Waits and Animal Collective are among my favorite artists, so you guys have a cool household going on there.

Just to add my two cents, Tom Waits is my go to music when I am down. Specially the 70's Tom Waits. It doesn't pick me up, it catalyses the brewing so I can get ready to lift myself back up again. Fortunately I have not need Tom Waits as much nowadays but I still listen from time to time because he can still be enjoyed when the sun is shining.

Has he listened to Captain Beefhart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica?

this whole time your dad had a weird music taste too. huge plot twist

Good to see a fellow Jason loving Tom Waits. I'd heard a few of his songs in various movies I'd watched as a kid but I only really discovered his music when I turned 20. Pretty sure the first one that truly got me was "God's Away on Business," a banger. (Also the Black Rider album is crazy, especially "Oily Night")

The lyrics of Tom Waits make perfect sense when you have the appropriate perspective! Oh, they do make sense.

TABLED = TURNED😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 NO WAY

This must have been the most fun Tom reaction I've ever seen...

Was waiting for yall to go through bone machine, definitely one of his coolest albums in my opinion.

That's a wonderful father you have to introduce you to this.

The Waltzing Mathilda part is twofold. He wrote the song after being in Denmark and performing on danish television. He was accompanied on stage by a danish violinist, whose name is Mathilda. She wanted to show him the town afterwards and so they did. Drank and danced all night. So he literally went waltzing Mathilda. It is also an Australian folk song. The title is australian slang for travelling on foot with a bundle with your belongings slung over your back. It's one of the most beautiful songs written.

Good stuff! Surprised he didn't point out some of the punk (e.g., Ramones) covers that Tom does.

You guys should both react to your followers/ subscribers music

Kinda interesting how zoomers aren’t really that into Tom Waits even tho he’s goated

I absolutely love Tom Waits music. I’ve never seen someone my age that actually knows who he is (I guess I’m an old soul) or listens to his music lol my two favorites songs of his are hold on and clap hands. Hold on is personally my favorite song of his, and one of my favorite songs of all time period. He also did a really crazy narration on the Primus song “Tommy the Cat”.

I love early Tom Waits, especially his 1st album. "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You" is one of my all time favorite songs!

Dad has better music taste thank you lmaoo. Rain Dogs GOATed

I’ve always seen Chocolate Jesus as a commentary on our consumerism and addictions and how those have become the things we worship these days. Waits is using chocolate/candy/sugary foods as a stand-in for our need for instant gratification and that “high” we desire, but that is ultimately destructive and leads to the “crash” down the line.

This was cute ,but yes lol I honestly prefer 80s,90s and 2000s Tom Waits . I just think it was more Theatrical, Expressive, more experimental and more out there.

A friend introduced me to his music about 20 years ago. My first experience was him performing on Letterman with an electric garage lantern hanging from his shirt. If I remember right, the song was More Than Rain. After that I got a copy of Swordfish Trombones. So my intro was the "weird" Tom. Closing Time, Small Change and Night Hawks At the Diner were revelations. He was already, with the stranger stuff, an artist I was beginning to really like. Hearing him croon those ballads made me start to love him. Today he is among my 10 favorite artists ever. In any medium. I mean actors, painters, any artist. Waits is in my top ten favorites. He also, on top of being a great musician and singer and songwriter, is a fantastic actor.

Tom Waits is one of my favorite artists, his musical evolution is amazing, how can someone go from making an album like Closing Time (Jazz/Blues), to Swordfishtrombones (Experimental rock/jazz/blues), Tom has become my 2nd favorite singer, just behind Mike Patton, but that might change soon

Im the same as as the dad here, and agree with him 100% with him on liking Tom's Elektra (70s) label period. But one has to admire how Tom can reinvent himself as successful as he has. I also love the Mule Variatons disk a lot myself. After posting this comment, i think that pop in Heart of Saturday Night and enjoy my evening.

I love all of Tom waits music, the kid gets the later stuff and that’s cool

Gunstreet Girl better make an appearance.

Dad does a great vocal impersonation of Tom Waits.

God I love Tom I never expected to see this video.

It's so rare to listen someone reacting or simply listening to Tom Waits that i have to stop here

yo wtf they had weird music back in the day

If you can get your hands on the Orphans Albums (collection of unreleased Tom Waits songs), I would very much recommend you give it a listen, particularly 'Bawlers' (Orphans is made up of 3 albums, Bawlers, Brawlers, and Bastards). It's mostly slower ballads and the like, and it's absolutely beautiful.

Y'know it'd be pretty interesting if y'all made this the format: you get one, he gets one, and on and on; could see pivoting to a more collaborative dynamic having some broad appeal (but if this your solo creative thing and you're trying to keep it that way that makes sense, too.)

I've been listening to Tom Waits since back in 1975. I'm 63 and he's definitely on my bucket list!

I’m gen z and love Tom waits

I say this with respect, but I'm gonna' call pop's Waits selections as mid. No Bone Machine!

always loved tom waits your dad seems cool

it really happened

My personal favorite Tom Waits song is Ruby's Arms but his whole catalog is great.

Wholesome

Love Dad's style in music

Please listen to Tango till They're Sore. It's his best song and I can't believe it wasn't played.

Swordfishtrombones!

Your dad liking Tom Waits explains a lot in the best way

My favorite song on "Closing Time" is "Old Shoes and Picture Postcards "

the day has come

I think when he started kind of going into left field, it was more like performance art. Good example, swordfish trombone My favorite album nighthawks at the diner

You should make your dad listen to Swans. He won't get bored at all :)

I recommend starting with Rain Dogs, because Marc Ribot's guitar is just plain great.

tom waits a goated figure in art fs

goated album

You’re dad pretty cool. Hope you pick up some of his cool taste in music 👍

I won't be satisfied until you both react to the entirety of Real Gone, the original version (or bone machine)

To my understanding, his big turning point before Swordfishtrombones was that he met his future wife, Kathleen Brennan. Both of them were into weird, avantgarde music, but Tom had never quite built up the nerve to let it show in his own stuff. She encouraged him to go for it, and also came to be a pretty integral part of the creative process. I think they were essentially a duo from that point on, at least in terms of songwriting. As for his voice, there are old demos of him at like 19 or 20, already sounding tired and husky. His voice did get noticeably more gravelly in the 80's, but ironically, he actually quit smoking and drinking around that time. It was always primarily a storytelling choice. His style tends to make people underestimate him, but his fundamentals are pretty strong. He sounds the way he does because he wants to. This is what I've pieced together anyway, though the tricky thing about Waits is that he's had a longstanding practice of deliberately misleading people about his personal life, so it's hard to know what's true and what isn't.

"Then he got weird, I'm not exactly sure what happened..." He got married.

What happened to Blue Valentine??? One of my favorites. Or Foreign Affair???? I have everything before Swordfishtrombones. To weird after that.

Brilliant song.

You both should react to the magnolia electric company!

Coming from someone who has just in the last year went far down the rabbit hole of 'Folk Punk' I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of bands from that sub genre were inspired by Tom Waits stuff. Definitely some similarities.

You should have played Kentucky Avenue or A little Rain or On the Nickel,or Jersey girl,or Heart Attack and Vine or Blue Valentine...thede are the songs i introduced my teenager to and he appreciates how good toms music is. He doesn't like the more obscure stuff .

Hey dad keep slamming back those shots o bourbon nobody notices hahaha...I like what ya'll is layin' down...I got a flask here m'self...

love your content Btw your dad should listen to patrcia taxxons The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe.

I was introduced to Waits with Swordfishtrombones. I didn't get it, and I didn't exactly enjoy it, but something kept drawing me back again and again. Through all the weirdness was woven great melodies, and the lyrics. Oh, the lyrics! Shore Leave, A Soldier's Things, Swordfishtrombone! To me he goes beyond musician and songwriter to bard! He is weird America's bard!

Waits is great, really a visionary. One of the few artists to be covered by multiple genres of music. He's almost like the opposite of Weird Al. He's so weird that people try to make normal versions of his music, lol. =D

new video idea: ONE OF MY GREATEST DISCORD MEMBERS FORCES ME TO LISTEN TO LIKE A STUNTMAN

very chaotic

A band called gorguts has a song a little longer than 30 min it's death metal and its amazing.

Finally