Heartattack And Vine

Shocker.

Nope

From other reviews, I've read that his lyrics are amazing. Problem is, you can't understand a single word the dude says. I've heard other singers with gravelly voices, but this guy takes it to a new level, almost like wants to be incomprehensible. Jersey Girl was kinda nice, Saving All My Love For You was good. The rest was eh. Music is nice though. WHAT? WHY ARE THERE 5 ALBUMS FROM THIS GUY? Best song: Saving All My Love For You

I get it. But I don’t like it.

Dios mío. 2/10

Really not my thing

Pre-listening thoughts: I am not sure if I’ve ever heard a Tom Waits song but from seeing the reviews this may be the genre where Adelynn and Oliver intersect and I do not lol. Also there are FIVE Tom Waits albums on this list?? Christ. Hoping for my sake I enjoy this cause I’m screwed otherwise. Post/during listening thoughts: hmmm listening to this guy sounds like listening to someone try to sing while gargling mouthwash. He sounds drunk. Some lyrics are great and some I can’t quite understand cause this guys voice is making me subconsciously clear my own throat. It’s very bluesy which is fine. I think I’m learning blues is not my favorite genre through this challenge. I enjoy jazz, I enjoy soul, but blues tends to get sooo repetitive. An instrumental for track 2 is a brave choice that ultimately did not win me over. This is what bad bar karaoke sounds like 2/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no can we start uplifting vocal AND lyrical talent?? Why is is always one or the other Fav tracks: girl idk Least fav tracks: holy moly like literally all of them. Cannot do this guys voice and 5 albums of this in the future is gonna kill me

This was pretty terrible.

Awful and excruciatingly painful. Dude sounds like he just had COVID, is drunk & constipated.

Trash

This was horrible! How was Tom Waits ever popular?! The voice was painful to listen to, the songs dragged, and I really just couldn't wait for this to be over. I think if his voice was good, this would have been a 2 star album, but after hearing him sing, this immediately goes to 1 star. How does anybody enjoy this?!

Tom's gravel-like tones didn't always marry with the music, like nails on a blackboard!

If only Tom didn’t sing

Just cannot get interested in this stuff. 1/5

Waits music is like slipping into a bad dream

Painful vocals. Hated this one.

1/5. Maybe it would be higher if I could understand what he was saying (singing?).

I hate his voice so much. Like cannot stand it at all.

didn’t like it. first song was fine. everything after that was not

Tried to poke this guy for years. Not going to happen.

Annoying voice

didnt finish the album because of this guys awful voice

This dudes voice makes me wanna vomit

I got excited because the instruments sounded nice in the opening of this song, but then this guy started singing? spitting? it sounds like he's growling and salivating all over the microphone. No thanks... Oh my GOD this is SO BAD. Hate. Bye. Literally do not play this man ever again.

# 176 : This was dull. It is hard to know what he is singing about with that incoherent voice of his! I didn't like any of it.

Did not enjoy

Redelijk mooie muziek die totaal wordt verneukt door een flapdrol die het nodig vindt om als een extreme versie van cookiemonster liedjes te gaan oprochelen. Ik zie hier echt niet de lol van in. Dankzij ome Joe Talbot van IDLES heb ik een sterker dan gemiddelde tolerantie voor sputumgeluiden, maar hier trek ik een grens. Ik wilde het tijdens track 1 al afzetten. Track 2 was instrumentaal en zorgde voor verlichting, maar daarna was het weer reutelen geblazen. Niet alles van Tom Waits is kut, maar dit wel. Ik heb in deze lijst eigenlijk nog nooit of zelden een album uitgezet, maar nu is het zover. Bij track 6 was m'n emmer aan het overlopen. Wellicht dat ik later op de dag die laatste 3 tracks er nog even er doorheen jaag omdat ik vind dat je albums korter dan een uur eigenlijk helemaal moet luisteren, maar ik gun mezelf nu even beter dan dit.

Not my kind of music

1.5 I did not vibe with this

Not for me

Jersey Girl was the standout for me, but just can't get into Tom Waits.

Nah fam.

Not my speed.

I'd rather stick my dick in a cheese grater! Sorry not a fan of Tom Waits.

Can’t stand the voice

Learning that the sound of Tom Waits voice is not for me. I did enjoy the blusey parts when he wasn’t singing.

#43. What is this? No, that wasn't a rhetorical question. Could someone please explain to me what in the actual fuck is this? This isn't real music, right? Nelson Mandela used some AI this morning to make this and subject me to it as a social experiment, right? I've heard some terrible music in my day, and I've listened to a few terrible albums on this playlist even [looking at you, Elvis Costello]. But I have never even imagined anything in the same realm of terribleness as whatever the fuck this was. It makes me think that maybe I judged a few previous albums too harshly, because this deserves a special place on its own special one star shelf of shame. I refuse to accept this is even real music and not some joke someone is playing on me. 0/5: absolutely fucking unacceptable

strong dislike

Whispering from one's deathbed is not my idea of good listen. Confusing that there needs to be multiple albums from him on this list.

This sucked so bad I couldn’t even finish

I listened to it all and hated every bit. Why is this man considered great? If it's the lyrics, I can't even understand half of them. Musicianship is solid, but doesn't make up for the rest. Or is he a vampire who has hypnotized people into thinking his music is good?

I did not enjoy this. I do not like the vocals.

- audibly said "what is this" when he started singing - Loved all the parts where his voice was not in it, bluesy vibes - Feel for the guy tho, these lyrics are very sad - 1.5

too rough

What a terrible voice!

DROSS

Não gostei. Parece que ele tá bêbado.

Cormoran Strike may not be the most well known protagonist J.K. Rowling has created, but he's certainly one of the most well written I've ever read. A huge, one-legged private detective, he has certainly seen a lot in his life, yet remains deeply empathetic underneath his tough exterior. Despite being as different from him as you could possibly get, I am fully able to inhabit his point of view when reading it. What has any of this got to do with Tom Waits? Well, for whatever reason, J.K. Rowling decided to make him Strike's favourite artist. Naturally, when generated his album today, this piqued my interest. But after listening to "Heartattack and Vine," I can confidently say that I wish she'd picked anyone else. I should add that I had had some other previous exposure to Tom Waits, when I was studying towards a Bachelor of Music. We looked at him in one of my lectures, but literally all I remembered was the name, and I think I was even confusing him with Nick Cave, who we also looked at in the same uni course. However, my first association was with Strike. Onto the music now... or should I say, the noise. I apologise to Waits as a songwriter for my one star rating. His songs are well written, and probably deserve better. But his voice—or probably more accurately, the way he sings—made this album unlistenable. Why on Earth does he feel the need to apply so much distortion, all the time? Reading a bunch of other reviews on this site, saying he was putting on an act, suddenly brought the uni lecture on him all back. It was all about how he was putting on an act. And that might be why he's unlistenable. The distortion isn't natural—he's putting it on. There are moments when he drops it, and you hear that he actually has quite a nice voice underneath it all. Why he feels the need to ruin his voice to fit some ridiculous persona is beyond me. On the positive side, he's unintentionally shown the whole world how important it is to be yourself. Hearing that there are several more Tom Waits albums on this list is honestly such a letdown. I have to listen to several more albums of this voice??? I made it through this one, but I'm going to have to be really brave to make it through any more. Unfortunately, and though I tried, I couldn't put myself in Cormoran Strike's shoes while listening to this one. Highlights: the instrumental track

I’ve always hated TW so my heart sank at this one. Afraid to report, album is as boring as the songs I’ve been forced to listen to for years.

Still cant do it

I just cannot get past his voice, I do appreciate the instruments but life is too short to listen to Bob Dylan’s son sing with razor blades in his windpipe.

this was such a struggle to get through - i thought about turning it off so many times but powered through anyway. i kinda wish i had stopped listening, because there really was nothing for me in this album. instrumentally it's just ok. vocally i hate it so much. his voice is so so so so so awful. sorry. and the album cover pisses me off. i don't like his expression.

Boy sound like he needa clear his froat. Only thing I like about Tom Waits is Health Ledger mimicking his whole style for Joker. Look up Tom Waits interview from 1979.

King krule before king krule. And much like king krule, I couldn’t really dig this.

Who did this guy bribe to get 4 albums and counting on this list?

I say a lot of things here that exaggerate my actual emotions to either invoke a reaction or justify a poor review towards a mediocre album, but I don't think I've ever felt so much discomfort and disgust while listening to music. There was so much fluid and non-solid sensation violating my earballs that I literally dry-heaved during breakfast. For reference, vocal fry is my biggest pet peeve of all time, so while some might appreciate Waits' guttural, gravelly, gross voice, it makes me want to throw myself off the top floor of the library. Just refer to the album, he looks like a wet-mouthed, stinky iPad baby who's going to give me thirty different types of diseases when he opens his mouth. Jesus I'm still shuddering.

I made it halfway through the album just didn’t like the voice at all.

I don't get why tom waits/captain beef are all over this list

This man sounds like he is going to imminently vomit and I can't deal with it. Tom's voice is actively unpleasant to listen to so it gets a 1.

i love it when he doesnt sing!

This was honestly insulting. Every thing about this album was awful. His voice was completely intolerable and just so so bad. Biiiiig thumbs down.

I particularly enjoy how at the beginning of the first track they neglected to edit out the parts where it sounds like he's on the toilet. goddammit. fking THREE albums of this guy thus far. hardest of nopes. 2/10 1 star.

Oh man this sucked so hard. I hated every minute

While I like and appreciate Tom Waits in general, I have to remain consistent in my review system on the generator. I am principally opposed to having multiple albums by the same artist on a list such as this, especially when the artist does not undergo significant stylistic changes between albums. Of course, there are some artists who are worthy of more than one inclusion, and Mr. Waits could certainly fall into that category as well, but 5 albums from the man is entirely too much. This is one of the five works that should have been cut. It's not a bad album per se, but his shtick of posturing as a drunken slob is over done and gets tired by the middle part of the album. Speaking of shticks and posturing, I recommend replacing this album with At Home With Screamin' Jay Hawkins, who is a magnificent blues singer, and much like Tom Waits has a penchant for portraying himself as an over-the-top dramatic degenerate. Screamin' Jay also has an excellent cover of the title song from here, but being Tom's senior by several decades, he is also clearly influential to the former. Sorry Tom, one skull out of five. 💀

Fucking awful voice. Holy shit I do not think I have heard a worse voice.

I feel like this is similar situation as with Nick Cave - you need to like poetry, different musical textures and need to be connected to him personally.

The vocals grated on me big style as the album progressed. Not for me this

This has not aged well. I don’t know much about Tom Waits but after hearing this I don’t care to. Sot Saving All My Love For You 1/5

Good god. I remember hearing a Tom Waits album I liked, but this is clearly not it. Aside from Jersey Girl, this is a regular guy’s cartoonish attempt at being a down-and-out, whiskey soaked, dive bar act. Much of this sounds like it belongs on the Who Framed Roger Rabbit soundtrack.

Did not hit

Fuck Tom Waits!

Don’t like his voice.

What on earth am I listening to? It's blues sung by a man with a tracheotomy? I see wiki calls that a 'trademark deep and gravelley voice'. By gravelly I picture on my mind smooth like liquor, like Louis Armstrong or something - not a fucking forced-labour quarry project with 500 tonne excavators and a shit tonne of TNT blowing holes into solid granite. In fact - some of it borders on parody of someone trying to do a deep voice. Shame - because the music is classy.

Not for me

It’s a no from me dawg

The voice ruins everything

Couldn’t finish the album his voice is too annoying

Couldn’t get through it. It may have been revolutionary or something, but his voice is just too weird.

I did not like this album or the style of music. It wasn't my cup of tea and I didn't make it through the whole album because I really didn't enjoy it.

I never knew cookie monster released an album.

Heel erg vervelende schorre schreeuwende stem

This is the second Tom Waits album I’ve been assigned. Again, I cannot get past the gravelly voice. I liked this even album less than Rain Dogs. Not much to say other than I was basically clenching my teeth to get through this.

I listened to the first three songs, it's not great, not my style and super random lyrics. The sound is decent

1980. Heartattack And Vine

Sound of rubbing your ear on gravel.

No.

Is he ok?

okay sure this might be a classic but this is so not my thing. raspy voice gets on my nerves, don't like the jazzy guitar, lyrically uninteresting to me. did not get through the whole album

American, 80s, Blues + = Male - Hate his voice, it's soo unpleasant/awkward/muscle {0/9}

A voice more like a cadaver than a kitten, I just can’t enjoy it. It’s like Tom Waits is the South Park guys lampooning Tom Waits

If I feel eh about the most popular track on this album, I can feel I won't be as pumped for the remaining tracks. I don't know Tom Waits music very well, I know only of him from interviews. I'm going to take a guess that he's like the Lenny Bruce of music? He does blues, likely jazz type music.

Someone get this guy a lozenge! Not a voice I want to listen to again.

I can't think of anything redeeming

Not good at all, didn't enjoy his voice or the music! Wanted to skip it

They say an album cover is a window into the music. That it can make or break the experience. I agree, and I'd say this one was ruined. The minute I saw this man on a dirty bathroom newspaper looking like Marilyn Manson at his first wedding, I shuddered even pressing play. When I did press play, I stopped. I don't need some guy trying to sound likes a blues man. Honestly by the third track I thought this was a gag album.

Nope. Not my style du tout.

super slow and uninteresting

sounds like he has nails in his throat

Классный альбом. Понравилось классическое, "приблюзованное" звучание.