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6 days ago · List of the best Tom Waits movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Tom Waits's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world.
3 days ago · Tom Waits. Tom Waits emerged in the ‘70s after Cohen had already established himself as a singer, with Waits even citing the folk musician as an inspiration on his music. Yet, the influence flowed both ways, with Cohen praising Waits’ songwriting multiple times.
6 days ago · Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Young Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night (1977) I’ve seen this interview a few times in the past and had never realized that was Martin Mull interviewing him. Amazing. It’s weird how Tom Waits was treated like some kind of comedy act for the first few years of his career.
1 day ago · Tom Waits - "The Black Rider" (1993) This is likely the best "strange" song ever made. The track is certainly not rock, but it isn't exactly anything at all. It's carnival music The words are creepy enough and augmented by the choice of musical instruments and melody, but at the same time, the song is really just about having fun. As if the ...
2 days ago · Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice.
6 days ago · Tom Waits coined Dylan a planet to be discovered; well, ‘Time Out of Mind‘ is the sweaty wastelands, the mud plains, and seething swamp, the land of the all-night soul, a little across from ‘Oh Mercy‘ country. Conversely, for an album of such morbidity, it represented a creative rebirth.
6 days ago · That roster included a young Tom Waits, himself a living embodiment of the blurred line between reality and fiction. As the show’s announcer Jerry Hubbard, Fred Willard puts all of his distinctive delivery into declaring Waits “very famous for Fernwood.”