He speaks the truth

There's very few artist/bands that hold my constant attention.
Where everything posted about them, i read up on. And if you've seen my google reader, that many posts a day can drive a person mad.
Luckily, I'm already half way to crazyville, so I figure, why not add to the chaotic mess, otherwise known as my goddamn psyche.



Anyway, back to the post. One of the few people that hold that kind of attention is Tom Waits. I think it's because he just comes off as so bizarre, music wise. And when he speaks, he can put it all in to words so intellectually. Not just that, but when a man has a record of cricket sounds, you have to know as much as possible about that person, right?

Well, here's a bit on his new live album from the Glitter and Doom tour he did last year.


per the tripwire

When you first read that Tom Waits’ Glitter and Doom Tour was getting the live album treatment, from -Anti, your best hope was probably for one or two interludes of weird musings and stage ramblings from the man himself. But never in your (certainly not our) wildest dreams could you have fathomed a full second album of such material (as one long track aptly called “Tom Tales”). It’s such a novel idea you almost wonder if someone who edited footage together of all the shows for -Anti just did this in his spare time for kicks and then the label realized this had the potential to be seven kinds of incredible. Either that or someone at a record label actually knows what they’re doing? Doubly novel.

A pretty extensive preview of the album is available on Waits’ new website where you can download the first eight tracks in exhange for signing over an e-mail adress. Full tracklisting below.

Glitter and Doom:

CD1:

01 Lucinda / Ain’t Goin Down (Birmingham – 07/03/08)
02 Singapore (Edinburgh – 07/28/08)
03 Get Behind the Mule (Tulsa – 06/25/08)
04 Fannin Street (Knoxville – 06/29/08)
05 Dirt in the Ground (Milan – 07/19/08)
06 Such a Scream (Milan – 07/18/08)
07 Live Circus (Jacksonville – 07/01/08)
08 Goin’ Out West (Tulsa – 06/25/08)
09 Falling Down (Paris – 07/25/08)
10 The Part You Throw Away (Edinburgh – 07/28/08)
11 Trampled Rose (Dublin – 08/01/08)
12 Metropolitan Glide (Knoxville – 6/29/08)
12 I’ll Shoot the Moon (Paris – 07/24/08)
13 Green Grass (Edinburgh – 07/27/08)
14 Make It Rain (Atlanta – 07/05/08)
15 Story (Columbus – 06/28/08)
16 Lucky Day (Atlanta – 07/05/08)

CD2:

01 Tom Tales

So look out for that to be released November 24th [on my sisters bday]

And don't forget to catch him in the film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' Trailer HD


and I'll leave you with my 2nd favorite quote of his
"This is what’s wrong with the world. Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody ‘What’s the story on that?’ and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That’s fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.”

— Tom Waits

via Spookstory

My absolute favorite is the one I have on my facebook page

"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness." -Tom Waits on what is wrong with the world 

Enjoy!!

xo

'legs