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by **MrBlack** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:44 pm

Strict31 wrote:
So, what are you saying; he's like Leon Redbone for hipsters?

He's for people with good taste too. Hipsters just ruin him for everyone.

by **Keb** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:49 pm

Hipsters ruin everything. As so does the General Consensus.

It is hard to be like a band for more than seven minutes these days.

by **eltopo** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:51 pm

Keb wrote:Hipsters ruin everything. As so does the General Consensus.

It is hard to be like a band for more than seven minutes these days.

a popular band maybe

accept has been touring for 30 years

by **misac** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:53 pm

Keb wrote:Hipsters ruin everything. As so does the General Consensus.

It is hard to be like a band for more than seven minutes these days.

Something becoming popular doesn't ruin it. That seems like hipster mentality.

by **sdsichero** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:07 pm

MrBlack wrote:Personally, I like him because he doesn't sound like anyone else.

He's like Biz Markie

by **Keb** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:23 pm

misac wrote:
Something becoming popular doesn't ruin it. That seems like hipster mentality.

I'm saying, the window to like something is seven minutes, because it's not cool to like when it's not popular because that's what hipsters do, and it's not cool to like it when everyone else does because that's what the general consensus does.

So basically you have seven minutes to like something then the window closes.

by **Log-Man** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:30 pm

by **GLX** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:33 pm

Strict31 wrote:Black people have little if any experience with Tom Waits, outside of his movie roles perhaps. I've only heard one or two songs by the guy and the first one I heard, I thought it was a joke.

Whiteys are, however, possessed of a slavish devotion to him as a musical icon. We've explained our devotion to rap, hip-hop and big-booty white bitches; now honkeys must explain the appeal of Tom Waits.

I don't get the appeal and I'm white. :smt102

by **nietoperz** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:34 pm

Frank settled down in the Valley,
and he hung his wild years on a
nail that he drove through his
wife's forehead.

He sold used office furniture out
there on San Fernando Road and
assumed a $30,000 loan at
15 1/4 % and put a down payment
on a little two bedroom place.

His wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
Made good bloody-marys, kept her mouth
shut most of the time, had a little Chihuahua
named Carlos that had some kind of skin
disease and was totally blind.

They had a thoroughly modern kitchen;
self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
Frank drove a little sedan.
They were so happy.

One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liquor store,
picked up a couple of Mickey's Big Mouth’s.
Drank 'em in the car on his way to the
Shell station; he got a gallon of gas in a can.

Drove home, doused everything in
the house, torched it.
Parked across the street laughing,
watching it burn, all Halloween
orange and chimney red.

Frank put on a top forty station,
got on the Hollywood Freeway
headed North.

Never could stand that dog.

by **nietoperz** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:38 pm

Anyway, he's an astoundingly good songwriter, and someone who isn't afraid to experiment. For what it's worth his first six or seven albums aren't as off-kilter as his later stuff and if you want to hear him as a straight-ahead singer/songwriter it's worth checking out Closing Time and The Heart of Saturday Night (his first two records).

Anyway, he has been a hero of mine for about 25 years now, and one of the few people whose records I will buy on release day no matter what.

by **Strict31** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:54 pm

Log-Man wrote:

I was kinda getting into the explanations offered by Mr. Black, and Topo and Nieto...like, okay, maybe I can dig that. And then, I watched this video. And then, I watched the actual video for it. And now, I'm sorta back where I was before.

by **Keb** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:57 pm

Strict31 wrote:
I was kinda getting into the explanations offered by Mr. Black, and Topo and Nieto...like, okay, maybe I can dig that. And then, I watched this video. And then, I watched the actual video for it. And now, I'm sorta back where I was before.

Yeah, a while ago H had me listen to some Tom Waits and I was puzzled. That song was the first song I heard and I was in a state of confusion.