last updated 06.21.00
View Response Pages
1... 2...3...4... 5...6...7... 8...9...10
Great music, especially the older CD's, but also some songs of the newer ones............evabue@swissonline.ch
Several weeks ago when I accessed this site. the main photograph was a black & white of Tom with his hat & shades on, leaning over a microphone holding the "worklight" that we see so much on the Big Time video. I did have it saved as background on my computer but had to replace the hard drive because of some major problems. Can you tell me where I can find that photo again. Your help will be greatly appriciated!...........klitton@highpoint.net
In what years were the cd'd 'Nighthawks at dinner' and 'Blue valentine' released? I couldn't find that, in contrast with all the other lyrics at the site of geocities.
hans van kruijsdijk
holland...........H.P.F.vanKruijsdijk@kub.nl
Thanks for excellent impression! I like it! It's a best TW page. Good graphic arts! Hope to see something else.
Andrew. Ukraine.
ak1998@iname.com...........aniko@a-teleport.com
the only thing that i can say about tom waits is that i love his music............s_s_s@internet-zahav.net
Friends of mine played Tom Waits all the time when I was visiting them. I really hated his music, and I always told them if I wanted to read good lyrics, I was gonna open a book, not listen to some singer. That must have been eight years ago now, and since then I adore Tom Waits and his music. I think he deserves the Noble Prize for Literature, his lyrics are pure golden poems and his music combines the beauty of heaven with the darkest sides of hell...........wvanbeek1@regiolicht.nl
well tom waits is the man who I am in love with his music. whatever I have been doing or whatever my mood is I feel great when I hear his voice. I have never lived such experience before and I have read about his life and some of his lyrics before listening to his music and know that he will affect me when I hear.one of my best dreams is to be able to listen to him alive in some day...........c067865@cc.metu.edu.tr
I first heard Tom Waits about 9 months ago. I'd heard his music through a friend of mine whilst staying up all night drinking whiskey and smoking the odd joint.At first it didn't hit me but as I started gradually buying his records his lyrics and the sheer melancholy and beauty of his music really inspired me. Now I do not go through a day when I don't listen to Tom.I think i'm addicted to his music.The first time I heard Jersey girl I had to keep playing it over and over again it was so good.I really hope he continues to make music as good as he has because he he hasn't made a bad album yet.Anyway come 1999 I'll be in the store buyng his album Has anyone heard the compilation Beautiful Maladies?I think its quite a good selection of Tom when he was on Island.
Thanks for reading
Ed'I wish I was Tom Waits'Harcourt..........Ed.harcourt.smith@mcmail.com
tom ages like a fine wine. small change is the first tom i heard, so it is my first love. my next two favs would without doubt black rider then bone machine. i hope that i get the chance to see him live. very nice site, it's nice to know that there are more of "us" out there, (tom lovers that is)...........my_addressis@hotmail.com
got the raindog record in 83 with a christmas gift certificate and have been hooked ever since his music has helped me thru a lot of heavy shit and still can laugh and cry at the same song..........mytwandrr@aol.com
America's all time GREATEST ARTIST.........vikingso@erols.com
After listening to Tom Waits for just over 5 years, I still can't over how damn good ALL of his music is. I was initiated into the cult of Waits by the Anthology compilation and followed this initiation with the earlier albums- Closing Time through Blue Valentine. The nicotine-stained jazz can just take your heart away. Then, after a number of years I ventured into Waits' Swordfishtrombones/ Raindogs/ Frank's Wild Years trilogy, and guess what? I was even more enamored by the later music than the earlier stuff. The percussive exploration, the polkas and other vaudeville songs, and the same, albeit >slightly more deranged, lyricism all just work together in Tom's chronicle of the down and out. I love to talk about Tom, but most of my friends think that he is a bit odd and noisy, so I am left listening to and ruminating about the glories of Waits solo. Drop me a line and we'll talk about the prince of melancholy..........jonash@mounet.com
Alucino con Tom, hay inglŽs para estar aprendiendo el resto de mi vida, pero hay sensaciones que llegan muy adentro m‡s all‡ de la comprensi—n de unas palabras: la melod’a de mis propios sue–os y pesadillas la reconozco en su mœsica. Por eso es m‡gico. Tom Waits. Para mi. Pedro..........pimac@mx4.redestb.es
Every time I play one of his albums I'm struck by how fantastic his work is. It sounds like hagiography, I know, but it's true. Well, okay, I don't like Bone Machine. I'll admit that. But damned near everything else... what you say you meet me down on heartattack and vine?..........chet@well.com
Tom Waits is the greatest artist I EVER listened to. Nobody can get near the always again astonishing variety of his music and the eye-opening truth of his poetry ! I even dedicated my final thesis at the university to Tom. My Professor reacted a little bit strange ... but what the hell !!!..........tomwaits@zeppelin-cb.de
My favorite artist....no email address
His lyrics are very good.........onhbm@rito.no
If one looks carefully, you can find Tom Waits in a thousand different places. For instance, he is always in the bottom of a bottle of Old Fitzgerald's. If you open the lid of a piano and strum the strings with your fingernails, he will appear. When your Chevy's engine continues to rattle after you've turned it off, the clamor sounds suspiciously like Tom's speaking voice. He can be heard singing backup on John Lee Hooker's old '50's sides. Check the crowd in the tapes of Nixon's funeral services. He is seated to the left of Spiro Agnew and grinning. But then, weren't we all. He was in the urinal next to me at Galatoire's. In 1990, he drove a forklift for a few months at the local GM plant. Good union guy, supposedly. When my wife and I parted some years ago, he and I conversed daily. I've been drunk with him well over 500 times. He's watched me make love and fight. He's changed addresses with me seven times. Should any of those addresses have burned, he would have been rescued from the flames early, ahead of my First Communion rosary and behind a picture of my great uncle Leonard shaking hands with the President. Tom never speaks to an audience or over your head or only to himself. He is always speaking directly to you..........hestcm01@holmes.ipfw.edu
Tom Waits is the most unique songwriter ever. I also think he's the greatest. Others may say Lennon, McCartney, both Morrisons, Dylan, but nobody is funnier, smarter, more poignant, and has changed as much as Tom Waits has. He's also a talented actor (check out Bram Stoker's Dracula)..........StNick247@aol.com
'Allo kiddies. Try sleeping out on the streets every once in a while, you don't know how bad you've had it. It's great out here Watching the aeroplanes flap their wings. And an old Waits song comes breezing in like the first time you got laid. Great feeling, ain't it. Don't bother writing me, I'm already there.........sky@peak.org
As a french big fan of Tom Waits, I wish to congratulate you for this very interesting site about Tom. I, and a few friends wish that some day we will be able to see him in concert. I am desperately looking for the next gig dates, in a city anywhere on the us estern coast , or in europe. Thanks in advance for any info. a bientot. pascal.........pascard@infonie.fr
As a student of literature and poetry, I've yet to find any musical artist of any genre that writes with the grace of Tom Waits. I love that he doesn't write about the rich or the royal. His lyrics and music is the celebration of the downtrodden, and it is these people whose lives are the most interesting and from whom I think we can all learn the most. His music invokes a certain melancholia that I like feeling..........goodratt@aol.com
It's 3 in the morning (a time someone on the comments page said exemplifies Tom Waits) and I just picked up my first TW album ever, Rain Dogs, after meaning to for a long, long time. I decided to check him out because I'd heard a lot about him and had surmised that he might be in a class with Dylan and Cohen, and I'd seen the video for his original "Downtown Train" and the amount of cool in it compared to Rod Stewart's butchered cover simply blew me away. I only listened to a few songs and then, subconsiously I suppose, was driven to pick up my guitar, and I wrote, in my biased opinion, a fairly beautiful and heartfelt song. Then, for some reason I decided to go on the internet and see what people had to say about Waits, and I found this site. At first, I was only interested by the level of adoration and/or obsession he seemed to command. But suddenly, after maybe ten minutes of reading, I found that I was experiencing that chill throughout your body that yo! >u get when hearing (or feeling, rather) really good music. Then I found myself beginning to cry tears of emotion. And all of this from simply reading people's praise about this man. Now, I'm gonna go into my room, dim the lights, light some candles and incense, and experience for the first time the enigmatic mystery and beauty that apparently is Tom. Here goes.........phunnky@mailcity.com
Tom Waits for No Man..........sheky69@c4.net
I first heard of Tom in a Rolling Stone review of "Swordfishtrombones." It sounded cool, so I picked it up and I've been hooked since. By the way, does anyone know if Tom's recording of his song "Rainbow Sleeves," which was covered by then girlfriend Rickie Lee Jones on the soundtrack of "King Of Comedy" and her "Girl At Her Volcano" EP, has ever seen the light of day?.........JaySJ1@aol.com
As a legal periodicals editor in Kansas, I would have to say that his best song is "Rain Dogs." It reminds me of the time when I sat in my father's lap, as he spoke of the atomic bomb, thinking to myself "wait a minute, this isn't my father." Anyway, Tom Waits is like the atomic bomb that doesn't kill poeple.....no email address
I wish Tom Waits would sit down and write a novel. Imagine the result. Although his music is great, I think his greaterst art is his writing. Most lyrisicts like to think of themselves as poets (Morrison being THE best example of a musician believing himself to be more), but it is only the writing of a very few which really qualifies. Sure, an occaisonal lyric by a Bernie Taupin (check some of the more obscure Elton John songs like "Tell me When the Whistle Blows" from Captain Fantastic) or Roger Waters (read the words to "Nobody Home" on The Wall) hint at literary talent, but mostly, rock lyrisicts write sophmoric poetry. But Tom Waits is like the T.S. Elliot of Rock. I'd love to see what he might produce with a larger canvas. I'd love to see him more fully develop those great characters like in "Burma Shave" or "Invitation to the Blues". What do you think? Tom Waits, novelist? Keroauc, watch out......no email address
I've known Tom Waits' music since 1984, when I heard 'Icecream man'_ at a student party. He has remained with me ever since. According to my moods, an earlier or later recording always seems to be suitable - and it still doesn't bore me. Tom's the only performer that actually made me cry........erikme@interacces.nl
I've been a fan since 1976, that's when I heard "I wish I was in New Orleans" on the radio and realized this guy was something exceptional. I bought "Small Change" as soon as I could get it, and it is still probably my favourite ("Foreign Affairs" and "The Heart of Saturday Night" come close, too. His lyrics are probably the thing that puts him in a class of his own. Sometimes it is really hard to understand what he sings, and it has taken a lot of dictionary browsing and internet searching, but I think I finally know what he's talking about........lasse.haggman@pp.inet.fi
Tom Waits is simply the man........schmok666@aol.com
beautiful pages here, thank you. favorites are just too hard to pick out...depends on the day. 'innocent when you dream' tingles the insides every time...oh, so many do. play 'bone machine' at a drunken bohemian college party and watch all the boys take their shirts off and dance sweatily in a circle, arms clasped tightly together. so many fond memories brought on by dear mr.waits. is good to have a place to share the fondness...since i'm a web whore, allow me to pimp my page...hee hee... http://geocities.datacellar.net/SoHo/Atrium/8406........dotsandloops@yahoo.com
Hi, just a couple of words from Waits fans from Russia. I would like to say that Waits becomes more and more popular among the russian underground youth. Three years ago nobody of my friends knew the name of Tom Waits and now he's one of their favourite song writers.Undoubtly, he's a great artist. The first album of Waits I heard was the Blue Valentines and his music and his voice especially impressed me very much. To me he's latest works (first of all I mean the black rider) becomes more and more pessimistic and depressive, but nevertheless the black rider is my favourite one. The sound of the black rider music makes me real crazy, the first time i heard this album I was under impression for a few days. So, Russian fans are waiting for you, Mr. Waits. It's a dream of thousands of young people to visit your live show. Welcome to Moscow, we're waiting for your concerts impatiently.
Timas.......timas@chat.ru
He is as strong as his music and I can see he is also as its music is too. Not many peolple can apppreciate it but if yor are like listening not what is in on th e radion but something different, spiritual, there is a great option. To me he is just like my friend. I have 13 of his albuns and even though I have troubles with the language, since I am colombian, when ever I am sad I can go deeper on my feelings just by listenning the misterious of his voyce and the perfect of his music.......patricia.cortes@chilnet.cl
Closing Time .......serges@teleport.ru
great page....great musician ......godofrazor@hotmail.com
Dear Joe,
Thank you for a great website devoted to one of my favourite artists. I have just graduated from medical school and work mostly in the Emergency Room of Warsaw's biggest hospital. I can't think about my E.R. otherwise than "the Tom Waits Ward", because we deal mostly with drunken, bruised loosers, failed suicide atempters, Gypsies from Romania. The mood is particularly "waitesque" between 3 and 5 AM. My other musical fascination is Shane MacGowan and the Pogues. Keep up the good work!
Yours,
Marcin Oseka,
Warsaw, Poland.......omar@amwaw.edu.pl
What's there to say? The man's a genius. One of the great regrets of my life is that I will probably never see him live. If you ever read this, Tom, _please_ come to Australia........mwotton@hotmail.com
My brother first introduced me to Mr. Waits and his music about 2 years ago, when I was 16. At the time, I was still kind of closed-minded as far as music went, but I was beginning to open myself to new things. I think the raw honesty of the man's music just slapped me in the face. I had never heard anyone with that much passion before! As a songwriter, he demonstrated to me more heart than I'd ever heard in the crap I was weaned on. I was hooked, and I still haven't found a songwriter with more soul and honesty.......grbaity@uncg.edu
First time I ever heard of Tom Waits was when I went to art school in Glasgow, Scotland about 2 years ago. I had a crazy American friend, painter named Richard who I was spending all my time with, and we cooked dinner together a couple nights a week. One night we were cooking pasta and working on a couple bottles of red wine, and Rich put some music on. It was Nighthawks at the diner, and as soon as I heard his voice push past the saxophone I froze, and the whole room seemed to freeze. It was dark, I was kinda drunk and it seemed like I suddenly stepped out of myself and saw the whole scene through someone elses eyes. Afew days later R. played me Frank's Wild Years and the same thing happened when I heard Innocent When You Dream. Pretty soon R. had made me a tape, and I was wearing it out. I will always associate that particular song with late fall sunsets penetrating the garishness of smoky, stony downtown Glasgow. It would make me cry to hear it as the sun slid behind a hill past the city and I walked slowly back to my cold studio. The man is a genius......meadowss@elwha.evergreen.com
I saw Tom Waits on some VHI flashback, all smoking during the interview and laughing when people made fun of his voice, and I wrote his name down on the back of a TV Guide so I wouldn't forget. Well, I did. Fortunately, my brother saw "Night on Earth" and decided to pick up the "Heart of Saturday Night" CD. He had me listen to it and I instantly remembered what I'd forgotten a year earlier. From there on, I have purchased every Tom Waits CD I can afford, and am constantly amazed that he is able to continually try new styles of music. He's great. What more can I say? I picked Foreign Affairs as my favorite album, but I really can't say what my favorite album is: it's kinda all of them. ~Sara.....no email address
Tom Waits is the best songwriter i have ever encountered and is the only one who can sing his songs. There is a loss only he can seem to express, and he has acheived an ideal amount of idolatry for it. to hear him, he has to be sought out, (or, so it seemed to me.) and he can be apprieciated that much more for the effort involved.....HcBill@yahoo.com
I First heard Tom in 1978. Have been a big fan ever since. Many people I play his music to, don't get him. I don't really understand it, but to each his own..I grew up in downtown L.A., and can relate to his music and what he is saying. It touches me, makes me laugh, and actually brings back memories of things I have seen in my childhood.(some of these are not always pleasant) An example of this is the song "29 dollars" on the Blue Valentine" album. It is a great song, but reflects what life in L.A. or any big city can be like, meaning hard and cruel if your "a sucker on the vine"..He's the best and I hope I will some day get to see him perform live.....schultzrf@earlink.net
Picking a favourite Tom Waits album is like choosing your favourite child..."well Sid here was our first, he liked pulling the cat's tail and spilling milk at the supper table...always smiling...then there's Clara our youngest.. likes to draw crayon people on the walls... and lie in her crib singing in the morning..." My favourite?...Well...Blue Valentine for it's sheer poetry...and "Kentucky Avenue"...play it at my funeral. A close second would be everything else Tom has ever done......kane@worldchat.com
Tom captures a kind of lonely american numbness better than anyone else I've ever heard or read or seen......l-greenberg@usa.net
Like Benigni..."It's a sad and beautiful world, Please wait, Mr. Waits! And don't forget the new album. We are in need..."..... rmoon@freemail.it
Tom is God and I am his prophet......mzanders@hotmail.com
I've never seen Tom Waits perform live. I've never heard a Tom Waits song on the radio. I've never seen him in television interviews... never seen any of the movies he's been in... none of my friends have ever heard of him. It's a miracle that I discovered Tom at all... but I'm infinitely glad that I did... I stumbled upon Tom and his music purely by chance ("Earth Died Screaming" on the 12 Monkeys soundtrack, as well as Sarah McLachlan's cover of "Ol'55"), bought my first album ("Closing Time") and never looked back. He speaks to ME as no artist ever has... most sing and write of things I've never really felt or known or experienced Tom KNOWS me. His lyrics seem like transcripts of my own thoughts... "... And I think that I just fell in love with you..." "... I can't stay here, and I'm scared to leave So kiss me once and then I'll go to hell, I might as well Be whistlin' down the wind..." "... Seems like folks turn into things That they'd never want... The only thing to live for is today..." My favourite musicians write really gorgeously depressing songs... Tom seems to have a natural talent for this, and he's been doing it since day one. The ballads on "Closing Time" express the same passion and evoke the same wonderfully tragic mood as those on "Bone Machine." And the voice!!! Bloody hell, I love the voice. I never know which would be more appropriate to say I'd like to be able to sing as WELL as Tom Waits, or to say I'd like to be able to sing as POORLY as Tom Waits. Tom's all about keepin' it REAL... which is a rare and precious quality among artists. His music has changed and evolved, but not in order to please the masses or appeal to current trends. He's the genuine article. He's the man. He's the patron saint of loneliness. He's Tom. And hey, you've gotta love that hair... -- anyone wishing to discuss "all things Tom", please don't hesitate to email me. yu210580@yorku.ca. I'm Benjamin... hello.......yu210580@yorku.ca
Hi!!! When I listen to Tom Waits, it gives me a vision: A closed bar 3 o'clock in the night and a man with a sweepingbrush cleaning the floor, and the drunk piano... i am totally in love with the music that flows from the soul of Tom Waits. Some thoughts from Lizette in Denmark.......Zettes@forum.dk
Tom Waits is wonderful... all i need to hear, to put me in a wonderful mood, is that beautifl whiskey voice... his music is inspirationsl... *smile*.......g_jensen1@bc.sympatico.ca
Tom's way cool.He's Abbott and Costello,Charlie Chaplin, a beat poet, a smoky pool hall,Amos and Andy and Louis Armstrong all rolled into one.Oh yeah theres definitely a bowling alley in there somewhere. Mitch.....Fantasyva@aol.com
I had heard of good ol' Tom long ago, probably long before I had heard his songs. "Downtown Train" was probably the first, followed by "Rain Dogs". The words make me hurt, because truth is hard. I've never been where he has, but because of how he sings what he writes, I have tasted it all. My favorite song has to be "San Diego Serenade". I miss Ellie.
Thanks, Tom.......yocostello@usa.net
Tom is one of the great American geniuses... he's the pop equivalent of Mingus, just someone whose personality is SO stamped on everything they do... I first got hipped to him by my mom's friend Jim when he took me to see the Black Rider performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, an absolutely shattering experience. I've lately gotten even more into him, many nights with my Tom-looklaike friend Pete listening to Small Change and slugging Jack, mystifying people by talking about passing out wolf tickets... the thing about Tom is that if you listen to him enough you actually find yourself a character of his. A truly wonderful man.......wixted@yahoo.com
I first fumbled through Tom's music was when I was in University way back in 70s when I tried to catch on to this girl I had known for a while, it was Closing Time. I lost the girl but won Tom Waits. wow he has been my inspiration eversince. One regret I have never seen him live on the stage. Looking forward to his new awaited album early in 1999!
Raj......rajnikant55@hotmail.com
I first heard Tom Waits about three years ago, through a friend that had "Nighthawks". He instantly became one of my favorite entertainers. I now own 14 of his albums, and am always looking for others. It's good to see that someone takes the time to put this together. ......bigedybrad@hotmail.com
more comments are here
Redirect
site hosted by geocities...soho neighborhood Last updated 06.21.00