bruce springfield
mr bungle
fishmans

Since when does /mu/ dislike Tom Waits?
I thought Rain Dogs was /mu/core

>>126834284 (OP)
Tom Waits is just Gregorian Chants sung by Cookie Monster

>>126834331
calm down

>>126834331
No, it's Howlin Wolf sung by Cookie Monster with the cast of Stomp as his backing band

>>126834359
take a walk

>>126834306
idk but I have little to no patience fpr his phoney voice.
That affectation is worse than the Metallica-type Cookie Monster voices.

Silliness, all of it.

>>126834384
aren't you a morbidly serious faggot?

I love tom
He's wholesome and fun!

Tom Waits rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR5SHuJDlUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghD39l-_4zY
>>126834384
Most singers have 'phony voices', a lot of singing is as much voice acting as just hitting the notes.
If Tom Waits is phony then you must really really hate someone like David Bowie.

>>126834408
See >>126834357

But I like Tom Waits.

I really like 55% of that Waltzing Matilda song

>>126834299
4chan flipping on Fishmans was really a sign of what has happened to the website as a whole. Fishmans is a perfect example of "nerd music," as in music that's inaccessible and abrasive enough that you have to be pretty desensitized to really like it, while still carrying really interesting roots and layers in its makeup. Shibuya-Kei + Dub + Psych + Dream Pop is a wild blend and anyone versed in music would get excited about it.
4channers suddenly deciding that it's garbage weeb shit and desperately trying to say it sucks to seem cool is just a representation of how posters here care more about passing arbitrary litmus tests and culture checks for the sake of feeling like the fit in. 95% of posters that were at minimum 18 in 2016 are gone. It's just underage retards and retards that were underage when this website got swarmed by the political herd.

>>126835600
What's wrong with the other 45%?

>>126834299
>Bruce Springfield
Had no idea Dusty's dad had such a following

>>126835744
It's alright, I just don't love it

>>126834359
Deep

>>126834306
most anons who claim to like tom waits really just like the idea of tom waits. his discography is mediocre-to-poor if you're being both honest and generous

RUSH

>>126834284 (OP)
more like i wait to hear a decent note of music from this hack

All those 50s housewife pop people.

>>126836080
Some just can't wrap their heads around songs about radio towers

>>126835814
It was never my most listened to Waits song in general but this performance from this year is really good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbktJytZvTY

>>126834306
i used to work with a couple of guys who had a tom waits coverband who also organized a yearly tom waits themed bar to bar run

>>126834284 (OP)
Tom is waiting for what, exactly? This leaves much to be desired. How mysterious. What is he waiting for? This is tootsie-roll pop levels of mystery.

>>126834331
hahahaha. that's humor, dude!

>>126834284 (OP)
SOPHIE

>>126834284 (OP)
He insists upon himself

>>126839275
Poppycock

>>126834284 (OP)
Tom Waits and PJ Harvey cause a visceral aversion in me, I don't know why. I think they're talented, but I hate their style

>>126839579
we stan Annie

>>126834638
i don't follow
Bowie sings similarly to how he speaks, and embellishes which is fine, but Waits just puts on a theatrical voice that is no one's singing voice, it's just like someone was having a laugh at a party but made a career out of it

Hetfield and the Alexisonfire guy and many others are just as bad but at least they're in a genre known for that.

Maybe Waits is just playing a character, like Lana del Rey used to for her first 4 or so albums?

>>126839584
'we stan Annie'

What does that mean?

>>126839617
everything

Taylor Swift, Lars Ulrich

>>126835634
pretty spot on
>>126835585
thank mr waits

>>126836034
He has some good ass music under his belt too though

>>126835585
thank mr waits

>>126834284 (OP)
I have always hated Tom Waits garbage music but he is well respected and liked here

“thank mr waits”

>>126837388
Nice self portrait

>>126834284 (OP)

>>126836034
>his discography is mediocre-to-poor
Name one album he has put out that is below a six

>>126839607
>Bowie sings similarly to how he speaks, and embellishes which is fine
What I mean is Bowie sang in a multitude of different voices depending on which part of his career you're looking at. Some of which were quite 'put on' sounding, you can hear how he was singing in the Young Americans era compared to Super Creeps (where he was trying different things with his vocals even more)

>t Waits just puts on a theatrical voice that is no one's singing voice,
Some of it sounds like he's putting on some kind of Vaudevillian style but I don't think it's a one note gimmick any more than other singers using different vocal styles.

Usually people seem to believe his raspyness is fake, I don't buy that at all, I think he probably put on back in the 70s when he didn't naturally have an old man's voice but his voice very clearly started sounding that way after a while, likely from constantly singing in that 'wrong' way in concert for years.

For example I don't hear much forced or non legit in this one, listen to how he sounds when he's talking at the start
>>126836136