Ok, here's the thing. The guilty pleasures thread got me thinking about Tom Waits. Not as a guilty pleasure, but as someone I should listen to more.
So, I went to the only available source of his music I can get to while at work... YouTube. Problem with that is, I'm only able to find links to certain songs and not everything.
I have compiled a list of songs I liked and will consider buying to make a "Gen Spec's Best of Tom Waits" CD. My question(s) to anyone here who already knows and listens to Tom Waits is, what songs SHOULD I have? Which ones do you like the best?
My list so far (in no particular order):
Long Way Home
Walk Away
Hold On
God's Away on Business
Misery is the River of the World
Take it with Me
Take Me Home
I Hope I Don't Fall in Love with You
No One Knows I'm Gone
Bottom of the World
If you have favorite songs, please list them, links to places I can listen to them would be awesome as well.
Edit: Oh yes, mods & admins, feel free to move this to a more appropriate forum, I didn't see one for music, so figured here would be best.
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drawn_inward
You can't get Pandora at work?
I'm not a Waits fan. I can't help you there.
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Cajungal
All of Swordfishtrombones. Just fucking all of it. It's so so very good. I especially love
Underground
16 shells from a thirty ohght six, and
Just another sucker on the vine
...from that album.
Also:
Blow Wind Blow (Frank's Wild Years is great too)
Innocent when you Dream
Dead and Lovely
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His "I don't wanna grow up" is fantastic too.
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