Tom Waits inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

amerikat

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Fri Mar-25-11 08:59 PM
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Tom Waits inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

How did I miss that? Congrats Tom. Neil Young does the introduction.

http://www.tomwaits.com/news/article/138/Neil_Young_Inducts_Tom_Waits_8211_Make_It_Rain_and_Rain_Dogs/

"If Jackson Pollack was a musician he would be Tom Waits".

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MadBadger

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Fri Mar-25-11 09:12 PM
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1. I want to like him, I really do

But I cant get by his voice

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amerikat

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Fri Mar-25-11 09:52 PM
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2. I love the sound of sandpaper on gravel. And his lyrics are exceptional

and each song is well crafted. It took me a while to understand
his music. Some of it I hate. I once said I'd rather had nails driven into my ears
than to listen to that song. And on the same album/cd there would be a song so
comforting and real that I grew to separate the wheat from the chaff. Every
Tom Waits album is like that.

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chollybocker

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Fri Mar-25-11 10:16 PM
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3. Well deserved.

Edited on Fri Mar-25-11 10:18 PM by chollybocker

But, "If Jackson Pollack was a musician he would be Tom Waits"; that doesn't sound right to me at all.

If Jackson Pollack was a musician, he'd be more David Bowie or, if American, David Byrne.

And if Tom Waits was a painter, he'd be more Salvador Dali or, if American, Edward Hopper.

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cemaphonic

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Sat Mar-26-11 03:35 PM
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6. Yeah, Waits has this streak of kitcschy sentimentality all through his his music.

And a fondness for traditional forms, like folk melodies, and 12-bar blues. Pollack doesn't fit this at all.

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greendog

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Sat Mar-26-11 06:47 PM
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8. ...or a cross between Marcel Duchamp and Henri Rousseau.

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xchrom

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Sat Mar-26-11 07:12 AM
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4. very cool. nt

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JitterbugPerfume

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Sat Mar-26-11 10:36 AM
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5. I love his voice

good on him, and how appropriate for him to be introduced by Neil Young , another unusual voice.

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Fire Walk With Me

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Sat Mar-26-11 03:55 PM
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7. For seriously?

Wunnerful. For I am a rain dog too.

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dana_b

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Sat Mar-26-11 07:03 PM
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9. they should have done a duet

maybe addded some Bob Dylan in for good measure.
God - I love their songs but the voices?! Definitely an acquired taste.

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