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Tom Waits' Top 20 Albums of All Time

Tom Waits' Top 20 Albums of All Time

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As of 2005, ok. Still an interesting list:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/mar/20/popandrock1

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Pretty diverse, but there is not one in there that I can say that I am suprised by.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
As of 2005, ok. Still an interesting list:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/mar/20/popandrock1
I went to see Zappa Plays Zappa about a month ago. Tom Waits was sitting in the third row.

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What town?

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
As of 2005, ok. Still an interesting list:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/mar/20/popandrock1
I was expecting to see more stuff from the olden days, like some Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf.

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Originally posted by hopscotch
I was expecting to see more stuff from the olden days, like some Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf.
Which items on the list do you dig special?

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Which items on the list do you dig special?
I haven't heard most of the stuff on the list, so I can't really comment. I would like to point my ears at that Houndog album that he mentioned.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Which items on the list do you dig special?
That Marc Ribot album is pretty amazing, but of course he is all over Tom's albums(guitarist from Rain dogs, black rider and later stuff)
John Lurie (lounge lizards) is amazing too.
If you are interested in the 'don't go fishing with John' quote you should check out a series of videos called Fishing with John. Mr. Lurie takes celebs fishing and films it. In the Tom Waits' episode Tom gets sea sick and is very grumpy untill they go back to shore to gamble and drink with the locals.

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Originally posted by hopscotch
I haven't heard most of the stuff on the list, so I can't really comment. I would like to point my ears at that Houndog album that he mentioned.
Does sound good ... The only total unknowns in the list for me are Les Claypool and the Tex-Czech outfit. The Gavin Bryars thing he mentions is super. But what really warmed my heart was his eulogy of The Pogues.

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Originally posted by StTito
That Marc Ribot album is pretty amazing, but of course he is all over Tom's albums(guitarist from Rain dogs, black rider and later stuff)
John Lurie (lounge lizards) is amazing too.
If you are interested in the 'don't go fishing with John' quote you should check out a series of videos called Fishing with John. Mr. Lurie takes celebs fishing and films it. In ...[text shortened]... a sick and is very grumpy untill they go back to shore to gamble and drink with the locals.
Apart from the Prosthetic Cubans, I've been listening with joy to the Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog Party Intellectuals album -- and wishing, for the first time in my life, that I lived in New York.

That Fishing with John series is legendary, I really must make the effort to track it down.

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Originally posted by rbmorris
I went to see Zappa Plays Zappa about a month ago.
Were they as good as they come across as on their 2DVD release?

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Lounge Lizards by Lounge Lizards (EG) 1980

I got into this at the sweet age of 16. Stuff like this sent me off on a tangent that has been lifelong. Too young. I was too young! Great album. And great to see live. They were the support for King Crimson (still playing under the name "Discipline" - which became the name of the 1st 'comeback' KC album) when I saw them in London in 1981.

Lurie has done tons of interesting stuff since then - Knitting Factory stuff, films, collaborations with the likes of John Medeski, endless lists of fascinating buy-it-unseen stuff.

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Originally posted by FMF
Were they as good as they come across as on their 2DVD release?
Absolutely. Amazing show.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
As of 2005, ok. Still an interesting list:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/mar/20/popandrock1
the guy didn't have the beatles, nor led zep, nor elvis. At least he had the rolling stones, bob dylan, and sinatra.

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Some very good stuff in there, and a few I don't know. Should check those out.