Saddest-Even Tom Waits song?

Brettster

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Apr 9, 2001, 2:34:17 AM4/9/01

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Hi,

Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?

If so, I wanna know what it is. I'm making a list of the
biggest tearjerker songs of all time. Waits fans don't
normally want to tie themselves to an individual song,
but I'm asking you to do that.

Thanks for helping me add to my list!

Brett

Smar99

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Apr 9, 2001, 3:10:09 AM4/9/01

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Probably "Kentucky Avenue" and "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis"
from the Blue Valentine album.

Also up there are the live version of "Train Song" on Big Time and "Pony" and
"Gerogia Lee" from Mule Variations.

Also, though it's not really that sad, I do sometimes have a pretty emotional
response to "Time" from Rain Dogs.

- Sean

P.S. - Here are some non-Waits songs:

1. Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt"
2. Leadbelly - "Goodnight, Irene"
3. Alice In Chains - "Don't Follow"
4. Soundgarden - "Zero Chance"
5. Ben Folds Five - "Brick"
6. The Verve Pipe - "The Freshmen"
7. Bruce Springsteen - "Highway Patrolman"
8. Live - "Lightning Crashes"
9. G. Puccini - "Un Bel Di, Vedremo" (Madama Butterfly)
10. "Long Black Veil", a traditional song
11. Radiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees" - this is probably the saddest song I've
ever heard.

Oliver Peters

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Apr 9, 2001, 6:16:54 AM4/9/01

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1. "Christmas Card from A Hooker in Minneapolis" from the Bootleg Romeo is
Bleeding.
2. "The Fall of Troy" from the Dead Man Walking Soundtrack

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FuddyPlum

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Apr 9, 2001, 8:01:13 AM4/9/01

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<< Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry? >>

It doesn't make me cry, but "A Little Rain" can put a dark funk on things,
especially the bit about the teenage girl dissapearing with the "vagabond" in
the van. The (78) version of "Innocent When You Dream" creates a spooky
melancholy that nearly brings me to tears. Tom's full blast groaning on
"Anywhere I Lay My Head" can also hit me in an emotionally exhausting way.

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Hansel Dunlop

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For me it has to be 'Who are you' from Bone Machine, the line 'are you still
jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?' used to make me cry all the
time (Not anymore, I'm all grown up now) it just made me think of a lot of
tragic things that have happened. One of the song on 'Tom Waits -The early
years' used to really get me as well, I can't remember what it was called
but it had the line 'The stairs sound so lonely without you, 'aint made my
bed in a week...'

Hansel Dunlop Auckland, NZ

David Dajani [groovecentral rec]

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Apr 9, 2001, 9:09:24 AM4/9/01

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I think I've cried to 'Take It With Me' a few times..

David

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In article <3ad1...@news.attica.net.nz>, Hansel Dunlop
<han...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> "Brettster" <bret...@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20010409023417...@ng-mi1.aol.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?
> >
> > If so, I wanna know what it is. I'm making a list of the
> > biggest tearjerker songs of all time. Waits fans don't
> > normally want to tie themselves to an individual song,
> > but I'm asking you to do that.
> >
> > Thanks for helping me add to my list!

Hi! saddest for me right now - "House where nobody lives" and "Broken
bicycles"

Sarah V.

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David Dajani [groovecentral rec] <daj...@privat.cybercity.no> wrote in
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> I think I've cried to 'Take It With Me' a few times..

Ditto for me on that one. When he played it in concert it was almost too
much for me.

Though I always sort of think it's a sweet and happy song, there's something
about it that gets me.

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Sarah V.

Paul Coupe

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Apr 9, 2001, 5:10:23 PM4/9/01

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> For me it has to be 'Who are you' from Bone Machine, the line 'are you
still
> jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?' used to make me cry all the
> time (Not anymore, I'm all grown up now) it just made me think of a lot of
> tragic things that have happened. One of the song on 'Tom Waits -The early
> years' used to really get me as well, I can't remember what it was called
> but it had the line 'The stairs sound so lonely without you, 'aint made my
> bed in a week...'
>
> Hansel Dunlop Auckland, NZ
>
>

Yep, 'Who Are You' is the one that does it for me - not a clue what it's
about but it strikes a really deep chord with me. I think it's the ambiguity
of the lyrics that does it - you can twist the meaning around to make it
seem very personal to whatever crappy situation you find or have found
yourself in.

or maybe that's just me!

Paul.

Kreemchease

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Apr 9, 2001, 5:28:50 PM4/9/01

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filipino box spring hog makes me weep like a school girl.

matt

Mel Pierce

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Apr 9, 2001, 8:42:11 PM4/9/01

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For me the saddest Waits song would have to be "Whistle Down the Wind."
A man at the end of his life looking back and feeling as if he has
accomplished nothing, turns to face his death alone.

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JJVW

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Apr 10, 2001, 1:15:05 AM4/10/01

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Kentucky Avenue is wonderfully pitiful, a very, very sad song. Also, Take Care
of All of My Children has an extremely mournful, urgent feel to it.

Raindog

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Apr 10, 2001, 2:01:28 AM4/10/01

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That whistling in Mockin' Bird is something that goes right through me every
time.

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Riff Hard

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Apr 10, 2001, 6:31:10 AM4/10/01

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personaly for me it's The Heart of Saturday night.

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Riff Hard

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Apr 10, 2001, 6:47:31 AM4/10/01

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you got my sentimental wheels turning,there are so many great heart string
waits songs.I think I would have to also add Pony and Take it with me to the
list.I also have a personal attachment to Time as well as hang down your
head.hope this helps.

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Hansel Dunlop

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"Paul Coupe" <pco...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Yep, 'Who Are You' is the one that does it for me - not a clue what it's
> about but it strikes a really deep chord with me. I think it's the
ambiguity
> of the lyrics that does it - you can twist the meaning around to make it
> seem very personal to whatever crappy situation you find or have found
> yourself in.
>
> or maybe that's just me!

Glad to see that I'm not the only one.

One of the reasons that I've always liked Tom Waits was his ability to draw
an absolute range of emotion, because he is not stuck in one genre you can
laugh, cry or just appreciate him but you could never say that he was purely
depressing or whatever.

Hansel Dunlop Auckland, NZ

kdwade1

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Apr 9, 2001, 10:01:08 PM4/9/01

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Hmm.. I was nearly brought to tears by the power of the string of songs at
the end of FWY.. Cold Cold Ground, Train Song, Innocent When You Dream
(78).. all the emotion there hits you real good. Same thing happens with a
string of songs on The Black Rider - Flash Pan Hunter, That's The Way, and
The Briar and the Rose. They fit together so well, and The Briar and the
Rose is such a good song. I'm also always affected by Time.

-kyle
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William Crawford

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Apr 10, 2001, 1:28:58 PM4/10/01

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Sometimes, "Ruby's Arms" has been the saddest song I could think of.

scott

Jonathan

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Apr 10, 2001, 1:57:45 PM4/10/01

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My votes would go for 'House Where Nobody Lives', 'Train Song' and
'That's the Way'. 'Flash Pan Hunter' and 'Crossroads' from The Black
Rider are also pretty sad, in a creepy kind of way.

Jon

jw

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Apr 10, 2001, 6:00:01 PM4/10/01

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There are loads, but I think the saddest song ever is Kentucky Avenue.
I also find Georgia Lee pretty sad, as I have a 3 year old niece with that
name! It would be cool if the song weren't so tragic.

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Tim

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On 10 Apr 2001 17:28:58 GMT, w...@Stanford.EDU (William Crawford)
wrote:

>Sometimes, "Ruby's Arms" has been the saddest song I could think of.
>
>scott

When I was dating my wife we were driving into the cities and I had on
a Waits mix tape. She liked Waits (though nothing like me) and had
heard Ruby's Arms before but this time I had a captive audience. I
turned the sound up and told her to listen to the lyrics carefully. At
the end of the song I looked over at her and there were tears
streaming down her face.

/tim rai...@nospam.qwest.net
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Tim

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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:57:45 +0100, Jonathan <j-a...@ntlworld.com>
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I can't remember when I had ever cried from listening to a song but
when I got "Mule Variations" (I pre-ordered it from Amazon) I told the
family to leave me alone for awhile, went into the bedroom, put it on
and laid back and listened. When "House Where Nobody Lives" finished I
actually had tears on my cheeks. We had just moved into our home (our
first) and I think the emotions I was feeling from finally owning my
own home after all these years meshed well with the lyrics of that
song.

djoser13

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"A Soldier's Things". Frank's Wild Years" makes me cry - with laghter.
[Oh! My side!] LOL!
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slazz

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Apr 13, 2001, 2:35:53 AM4/13/01

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"Martha"

CoupDgrac

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Apr 13, 2001, 2:15:58 PM4/13/01

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aww, you're all wrong... :-)

a lot of those songs arent really "sad", but more along the line of the "grand
weepers". I think, distinguishing a melancholy mood-piece from pure
sad-hopelessness, the first thing that came to mind was "blue valentines".

the sparse arrangement, the hopeless despair of the lyrics, the awareness of
the tricks memory tries to play, really makes this a standout.

i wish he'd play it more often. --like SOMETIME!

Felix

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Apr 13, 2001, 5:41:46 PM4/13/01

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Ok, I'll join the thread.

I think it's BLUE VALENTINE, especially performed live.... even the audience
seems to cry...
... and it's so beautiful, beautiful sadness

also on the top: MARTHA
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Keen135

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Apr 17, 2001, 11:14:29 PM4/17/01

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>Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?
>

'Georgia Lee' from Mule Variations. Also 'A Little Rain' from Bone
Machine(?)

Lisa

Dan Cook

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Apr 18, 2001, 10:46:18 AM4/18/01

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I'd go with "A Little Rain"... That last verse hit me hard the first
time I heard it. See, I *like* sad, depressing music, but I was stunned
hearing that verse, and I almost cried. It's the saddest effect on me
that a song has ever had, I think.

DC

Nate Birkholz

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Brettster wrote:
>
> Hi,

>
> Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?
>

> If so, I wanna know what it is. I'm making a list of the
> biggest tearjerker songs of all time. Waits fans don't
> normally want to tie themselves to an individual song,
> but I'm asking you to do that.
>
> Thanks for helping me add to my list!
>
> Brett

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Dan Cook wrote:
>
> I'd go with "A Little Rain"... That last verse hit me hard the first
> time I heard it. See, I *like* sad, depressing music, but I was stunned
> hearing that verse, and I almost cried. It's the saddest effect on me
> that a song has ever had, I think.
>

Aw, cripes. I forgot "A little Rain." That's up there, too.

"Martha" and "A Little Rain," then, for me.

Tim

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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:46:18 GMT, Dan Cook <dc...@mtholyoke.edu>
wrote:

I find "A Little Rain" more chilling than sad. Now, "It's More Than
Rain" on the other hand...

Unchain the Underground

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On 09 Apr 2001 12:01:13 GMT, fudd...@aol.com (FuddyPlum) wrote:

><< Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry? >>
>
>

>It doesn't make me cry, but "A Little Rain" can put a dark funk on things,
>especially the bit about the teenage girl dissapearing with the "vagabond" in
>the van.

It has made ME cry.

Greg

bakanalia

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Apr 21, 2001, 2:11:42 AM4/21/01

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Ah you're all wrong--it's "Christmas Card from a Hooker in
Minneapolis"--that tune is beyond sad, it's gun-in-mouth time.

Smar99

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Apr 22, 2001, 7:06:53 PM4/22/01

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>Ah you're all wrong--it's "Christmas Card from a Hooker in
>Minneapolis"

I guess you didn't notice when I mentioned that one... damn, what a wrencher.
The guts get all tight...

- Sean

Nate Birkholz

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bakanalia wrote:
>
> Ah you're all wrong--it's "Christmas Card from a Hooker in
> Minneapolis"--that tune is beyond sad, it's gun-in-mouth time.

I just listened to it 2 minutes ago (here in Minneapolis, actually), and
I think it's more *pathetic*, which is a different kind of sad than
"weepy" sad.

Nathan Hess

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Nate Birkholz <birk...@visi.com> writes:

> bakanalia wrote:
> >
> > Ah you're all wrong--it's "Christmas Card from a Hooker in
> > Minneapolis"--that tune is beyond sad, it's gun-in-mouth time.
>
> I just listened to it 2 minutes ago (here in Minneapolis, actually), and
> I think it's more *pathetic*, which is a different kind of sad than
> "weepy" sad.

Right. For the latter, do not pass go. Go straight to Kentucky Avenue.

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Apr 23, 2001, 11:27:54 PM4/23/01

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Well, Eyeball Kid makes my laugh so hard I wanna cry sometimes.... Though,
it is sort of sad, really. I guess I'm just perverse.

robo...@usa.net

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In article <3ADE04EF...@visi.com>, Nate Birkholz
<birk...@visi.com>
writes:
>Brettster wrote:

>> Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?
>>
>> If so, I wanna know what it is. I'm making a list of the
>> biggest tearjerker songs of all time. >>>

"Georgia Lee" on Mule Variations.

It's the bridge "Close your eyes and count to 10 ..." that describes a
game of hide and seek. This might sound out of place in a murder ballad, but
when he sings "I want
you to find me ..." that is the key to raising kids.

When the album first came out my daughter was about to go off to college. No,
she wasn't completely out of control like "Georgis" - in fact she
turned out be be a fine young lady. But that line croaked by Tom, "I want you
to find
me" just made me suddenly come to a realization about teen-age alienation
and what seemed like wild behavior at the time.

I knew it all along in my heart, but that song articulated it so well.

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In article <3ADE04EF...@visi.com>, Nate Birkholz
<birk...@visi.com>
writes:
>Brettster wrote:

>> Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?
>>
>> If so, I wanna know what it is. I'm making a list of the
>> biggest tearjerker songs of all time. >>>

"Georgia Lee" on Mule Variations.

It's the bridge "Close your eyes and count to 10 ..." that describes a
game of hide and seek. This might sound out of place in a murder ballad, but
when he sings "I want
you to find me ..." that is the key to raising kids.

When the album first came out my daughter was about to go off to college. No,

she wasn't completely out of control like "Georgia" - in fact she

Spats Mornoe

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Apr 24, 2001, 8:24:19 AM4/24/01

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I have weeped at least once during each of the following:

"Tom Traubert's Blues" / "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart" / "X-mas Card From
a Hooker..." / "The Briar and the Rose"

- spats

Justin Armstrong

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Apr 26, 2001, 4:46:27 AM4/26/01

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Train Song from Frank's Wild Years. You can just hear the desperate
loneliness and surrender. Sometimes I almost expect a pistol shot at the end
of it.
Of course, Ruby's Arms makes me want to shoot -myself- in the head
sometimes. I can relate way too much to it at times....

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Nate Birkholz

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Apr 26, 2001, 2:38:41 PM4/26/01

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So is the script or anything for FWY on the 'Net? I'd like to see how
far off my imagination is after listening to the CD about a billion
times.

jo the null

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Apr 26, 2001, 11:05:25 PM4/26/01

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There's a transcription here, but it's only the first act:
http://www.front.net/gtausch/fwy.htm

Nate Birkholz

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jo the null wrote:
>
> There's a transcription here, but it's only the first act:
> http://www.front.net/gtausch/fwy.htm
>
> Nate Birkholz wrote:
>
> > So is the script or anything for FWY on the 'Net? I'd like to see how
> > far off my imagination is after listening to the CD about a billion
> > times.
> >

Thanks!

Fredrik Beskow

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Apr 27, 2001, 12:04:38 PM4/27/01

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Justin Armstrong wrote:

Hi,

What about "I hope that I don't fall in love with you" and "Whistle down the
wind"?
Just my 2 cents...

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Apr 28, 2001, 11:58:36 PM4/28/01

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i'm suprised noone mentioned it so far
for me, its always been 'on the nickel',
(or is it 'on the nickle')

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> Hi,
>

> Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?
>
> If so, I wanna know what it is. I'm making a list of the

Fender J0E

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I think the saddest Tom waits song is Pony. I don't have kids, or anything ,
so maybe some of the other songs haven't hit me like they hit all your
beautiful people, but Pony, gets me really choked up, like a picture of
something/someone that was just left behind, and you can't see it/them ever
again. It really hurts, just to think of that poor pony lost, wandering, and
you just hoping it remembers the way.

Joe

jo the null

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May 4, 2001, 3:26:26 PM5/4/01

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I agree that Bone Machine can be pretty grim "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" is another pretty damn macabre track.

But I think The Black Rider gives it some stiff competition.
Songs like "November" and "Flash Pan Hunter" evoke some pretty dark and bizarre images. And some of the lines from "I'll Shoot the Moon" are so grim they make you chuckle:

"...I'll be the pennies on your eyelids, for you babe..."
"...I'll be the flowers after you're dead..."

Great stuff!
>:^) <------ [grim grin]

jo

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All right, all of you "Grand Weepers" have had your fun!
Now how about us "Grim Reapers" ???
The most disturbing / derranged song has to come from the "Bone Machine" album. I guess you could
pretty much pick any song, but my favorite has always been : "Murder in the Red Barn"
Jeff

MattK

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May 4, 2001, 4:10:52 PM5/4/01

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I remember a while back there was a 'Which is Creepier: Alice or Black
Rider' discussion. Black Rider seemed to get quite a few votes...I
mean...'Can I use your head for a bowl?'....sheesh...
Though I think the music itself might be creepier on Alice, BR takes the
lyrical cake.
MattK

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Sarah V.

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> All right, all of you "Grand Weepers" have had your fun!
> Now how about us "Grim Reapers" ???

Grim Reapers eh.... close call between "Earth Died Screaming" and "Dirt in
the Ground" for me.

"Hell doesn't want you
and heaven is full
bring me some water
and put it in this skull"

vs.

"Hell's boiling over
and heaven is full
We're chained to the world
and we all gotta pull"

Which is grimmer... hard to say. Oddly similar though.

8-| (grim look)

--
Sarah V.

JJVW

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It's got to be "Gospel Train" from the Black Rider Outtakes. That minute of
extra screaming in the beginning is fantastic, not to mention the tape
hisses and record scratches!

Dr. Mega

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Hrm... never noticed that lyrical similarity. Nice catch Sarah!

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Tyrone MacStiofain

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y'all gotta go back to the old stuff.

"Martha" from, um, Spare Change I think.

The old octogenarian calls the woman he loved when he was young, now that they've both had families and seperate lives and says "martha, martha, i love you don't you see?"

well, printed text doesn't do it justice.

it's a heartbreaking song.

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All right, all of you "Grand Weepers" have had your fun!

Now how about us "Grim Reapers" ???

The most disturbing / derranged song has to come from the "Bone Machine" album. I guess you could

pretty much pick any song, but my favorite has always been : "Murder in the Red Barn"

Jeff

Duvel Dawg

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'On the Nickel' does it to me every time. It touches emotions that I
never knew I had until my son was born.

'Train Song' and 'Ruby's Arms' from Big Time can't be listened to with
someone else in the room with me.

On 09 Apr 2001 06:34:17 GMT, bret...@aol.com (Brettster) wrote:

>Hi,

>
>Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?
>

Quefear

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> On 09 Apr 2001 06:34:17 GMT, bret...@aol.com (Brettster) wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Is there a specific Tom Waits song that makes you cry?
> >
> >If so, I wanna know what it is. I'm making a list of the
> >biggest tearjerker songs of all time. Waits fans don't
> >normally want to tie themselves to an individual song,
> >but I'm asking you to do that.
> >
> >Thanks for helping me add to my list!
> >
> >Brett

For me it's Strange Weather and sometimes Broken Bicycles

Quef
>

Quefear

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Użytkownik Quefear <Que...@interia.pl> w wiadomości do grup dyskusyjnych
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> For me it's Strange Weather and sometimes Broken Bicycles

Oh i forgot about "The Invitation to the Blues"

Quef

curious

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yeah Invitation to the Blues and Tom Trauberts Blues

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Jacob Skaaning

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Did any of you hear the version of Broken Bicycles that Elvis Costello and
Anne-Sofie von Otter did on their 'For The Stars' album? It's chained
together with Junk by Paul McCartney... excellent!
By the way, Take It With Me is also on that album. It's great, although EC
himself only sings backup and the occasional verse...

Jacob

Morgan Evans

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"Jacob Skaaning" <jska...@email.dk> wrote in message
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> "Quefear" <Que...@interia.pl> wrote in message
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> > For me it's Strange Weather and sometimes Broken Bicycles
>
> Did any of you hear the version of Broken Bicycles that Elvis Costello and
> Anne-Sofie von Otter did on their 'For The Stars' album? It's chained
> together with Junk by Paul McCartney... excellent!
> By the way, Take It With Me is also on that album. It's great, although EC
> himself only sings backup and the occasional verse...
>

I'll vote for those already submitted plus Kentucky Avenue.
Morgan

Fastbulb

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A Soldier's Things is the saddest all the way for me. Man oh man.

da9ve

Asquith

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there's so many, i especially like 'Chained Together For Life' from Alice,
'Russian Dance' always fills me with a sort of melancholy insanity, 'The
Last Rose Of Summer' is about as final as it gets.

FuddyPlum

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How about "Step Right Up?" Think of that poor bastard stuck in a rut of one
aggressive sales pitch after another, offering anything to anybody, desperate
for one lousy sale. It's Jack Lemmon from "Glengarry Glen Ross" or that Gil
fellow from "the Simpsons" or even pathetic Willy Loman. Sure, he sounds
upbeat and hopeful, but only a tortured wreck of a man would put a
transmogrification ("change into a 9 year old hindu boy") on the table to
sweeten the deal. DOES IT GET ANY SADDER? Oh, dear God, where's my hanky. . .

Ray Gun S*

"Can't you see? i'm exactly what I wanted to be
And that's true,You
Sit back while I tell you my name
I am
The Skinned Rabbit"
--The Billy Nayer Show