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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 12 2010, 11:26 AM (339 Views) | |
| apple | Apr 12 2010, 11:26 AM Post #1 |
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one of the angels
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Tom Waits |
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| NAK | Apr 12 2010, 07:05 PM Post #2 |
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From Wikipedia:
He's written some amazing music, but like some artists (*cough* Dylan *cough*) it sounds best when done by someone else. When you dreEeEeeEaaAAaaM! ![]() To illustrate, here's the Holly Cole Trio covering Waits' "All I've Got Is Empty Pockets Now (Purple Avenue)": Enjoy. |
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| Kincaid | Apr 12 2010, 10:21 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Sounds like Rowlf the dog from the Muppet Show. |
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| Beacon Chris | Apr 12 2010, 11:27 PM Post #4 |
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That is disgusting singing. |
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| ivorythumper | Apr 13 2010, 01:52 PM Post #5 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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NAK: You should listen to Grapefruit Moon -- Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes singing the songs of Tom Waits. Great album! |
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| OperaTenor | Apr 13 2010, 02:12 PM Post #6 |
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Chris, I think you're being magnanimous by even calling it singing. ![]() |
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| Mark | Apr 13 2010, 02:28 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| sue | Apr 13 2010, 02:43 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I love Holly Cole. She could sing anything and make it something you sit on the edge of your seat to hear.
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| NAK | Apr 13 2010, 04:17 PM Post #9 |
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She's amazing, eh? One of Canada's gifts to the jazz world. Have you heard any of her later albums? I pretty much jumped off the wagon after she ditched the trio because, for me, what made her so good was how tight her group was. David Piltch and Aaron Davis were such great accompanists, and they all had such amazing chemistry in their arrangements. The bass+voice rendition of "My Baby Just Cares For Me" on Girl Talk is a fantastic display of their ability to make a little sound like a lot. The introduction of drums, guitars, and pop-ish rhythms was a turn for the worse, IMO. IT, I'll put that on my wish list. Waits covers FTW. |
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| ivorythumper | Apr 14 2010, 12:53 AM Post #10 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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You're a snob.
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| OperaTenor | Apr 14 2010, 05:33 AM Post #11 |
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If having an appreciation for clear, melodious tone makes me snob, I embrace my snobbery wholeheartedly. ![]() Edited by OperaTenor, Apr 14 2010, 05:39 AM.
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| apple | Apr 14 2010, 05:36 AM Post #12 |
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Tom Waits is cool.. quite the poet with distinct sound. This song is so good. It played at the end of the movie 'Smoke' with Harvey Keitel. |
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| apple | Apr 14 2010, 05:38 AM Post #13 |
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The bats are in the belfry the dew is on the moor where are the arms that held me and pledged her love before and pledged her love before Chorus: It's such a sad old feeling the fields are soft and green it's memories that I'm stealing but you're innocent when you dream when you dream you're innocent when you dream Running through the graveyard we laughed my friends and I we swore we'd be together until the day we died until the day we died Repeat chorus I made a golden promise that we would never part I gave my love a locket and then I broke her heart and then I broke her heart |
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| sue | Apr 14 2010, 08:33 AM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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No kidding. Her early stuff with just the trio is magic. I never understood why she thought it was a good idea to add all the rest of the filler material. It just isn't needed. |
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| ivorythumper | Apr 14 2010, 09:57 AM Post #15 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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No, that's not what makes you a snob. A lot of people have an appreciation for clear, melodious tone. It's that you can't seem to appreciate the musical genius of someone who does not fit into to your narrow category of "singing".
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I love Holly Cole. She could sing anything and make it something you sit on the edge of your seat to hear.

4:56 PM Jul 10