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Tom Waits Being Cool
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She bought a clock on Hollywood Boulevard the day that she left,
it felt sad... it felt sad...
LA.
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Even though he's dead, I'm pretty sure Frank Sinatra can still have you killed for talking shit about him. Even if you are Tom fucking Waits. To squash the beef, I suggest a hologram auto-tuned duet of "The Piano Has Been Drinking."
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Yeah, how about you show yourself out?
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You would think an unsolicited opinion would be appreciated (or at least tolerated) from a commenter named "unsolicited advice"?
Fortunately, I don't give a damn.
His music is brutal. The only reason people listen is because it has become ironic to like his music.
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As for Tom Waits, who knows. God knows I've tried to like him, but I have listened to a ton of his songs and have literally never found one I like. At some point, I just gave up. If you like him, good for you. I don't.
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Ironic for you to say so.
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As far as I know Tom Waits has always been the subject of much critical and fan adulation. At least for the 30-some years I've been aware of, and listening to, his work.
It would be ironic to listen to Tom Waits, if he say, sang for Loverboy way back when. That would be ironic. But he didn't, so it's not.
Perhaps your understanding of irony is incorrect.
That said, I prefer the maudlin "Drunken Bowery Bum" Small Change era Tom Waits to the post-Swordfish Trombones "Avant Garde" Tom Waits. But his later period stuff is pretty swell nonetheless.
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I know what irony is, I've watched Reality Bites like 40 times, thank you.
Perhaps I should not have used the word "become". It has always been ironic to like his music/voice.
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I was with you - in terms of being entitled to your opinion - until this, which is one of the stupidest things I've read in a good long while.
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The irony.
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Would he be wearing glasses with blinders? If so, yes.
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are all these people just scarlet johanssen?
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Well,there's your problem right there.
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But then..... SCIENTOLOGIST?!?!
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