Nighthawks At The Diner by Tom Waits

Nighthawks At The Diner

Tom Waits

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Nighthawks at the Diner is the third studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 21, 1975 on Asylum Records. It was recorded over four sessions in July in the Los Angeles Record Plant studio in front of a small invited audience set up to recreate the atmosphere of a jazz club. The album peaked at 164 on the Billboard 200, the highest place Waits had held at the time, and is currently certified silver by the BPI. It has received critical acclaim for its successful mood-setting, capturing of the jazz-club atmosphere and characterization.

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Today's listen is *Nighthawks at the Diner*, my fifth Tom Waits album in this challenge, and I can't say I was particularly looking forward to it! I've really struggled with his music so far, especially his grating voice and the lack of melody. *Rain Dogs* was probably the best of the four I'd heard, but even that didn't do much for me. I know he's highly regarded, but I've never really understood the appeal. Maybe today would finally be the day Tom Waits won me over, although I wasn't holding my breath! Well, what a surprise! *Nighthawks at the Diner* is by far the best Tom Waits album I've heard. I actually really enjoyed this, which is something I never thought I'd say about one of his records! Musically, it's excellent. There's some lovely piano playing, great jazz arrangements and a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere throughout. The lyrics are clever and genuinely funny in places, and I particularly enjoyed the spoken introductions between songs. They give the album plenty of character and make it feel like you're sitting in a small club watching Waits perform. Even his voice, which I've found almost unbearable on previous albums, didn't bother me quite as much here. It's still rough and certainly not something I'd describe as pleasant, but somehow it works with this style of music. The combination of storytelling, humour and musicianship makes this a surprisingly easy and entertaining listen. Overall, *Nighthawks at the Diner* has completely surprised me. I still wouldn't call myself a Tom Waits fan, and I doubt I'll ever love his voice, but this is the first album of his that I've genuinely enjoyed from start to finish. It's funny, atmospheric and full of great music. After four difficult listens, I've finally found a Tom Waits album I'd happily play again! Favourite tracks: "Better Off Without a Wife" and "On a Foggy Night". Both really enjoyable tunes, with great piano playing and some entertaining lyrics. Least favourite track: Nothing was horrific, which is certainly not something I've ever said about a Tom Waits album before! Album artwork: A really cool cover. I love the atmosphere of it, and it suits the music perfectly.

I love Tom Waits but I definitely prefer the stuff he did in the 80's. The early jazzy work is not my cup of tea. This is one has got some fun parts and interesting stories but it's a bit too long and monotonous. In addition, the fake jazz-club audience thing does not help...

So fun. Made me want to smoke cigarettes and sit in a diner on a rainy day with a shitty cup of coffee

Hader det ikke, men det er ikke på niveau med in the Colosseum. Han er satme ikonisk dog, han er svær ikke at holde af på en noget speciel måde...

no niin olipa hauska, mutta hankala kuunnella koko levyllistä tällaista

Не успели еще остыть воспоминания от его предыдущего альбома - так нате, вот вам еще. Да еще какой! Помню его, заслушан до дыр, и не раз! А какие там тексты... Пять! 7-2-(8)

Not a bad album, maybe went on too long and should be two/three stars but I vowed to give the artist who made the album ‘Bone Machine’ one star from here on out.

As I started this album I really struggled with the vocals... they're just not good. But right around the song Warm Beer and Cold Women and Putnam County, something happened, and I felt like I was starting to get this album... and it started to grow on me. The musicians on here are great -- the piano player is particularly exquisite. I still don't love Waits' vocal delivery, but if I think of the tracks less as songs and more of performance pieces, I appreciate them more. There is humor, charm and eyeroll inducing lines among the fine musicianship of the instrumentalists. The ambient crowd noise gives the performance a feeling of intimacy, like you're part of an exclusive group having the shared experience of this performance. A second listening brought this up to a 4, and it could continue to climb for me.

There is no way to discuss this record the same way as others on this list because the goal, the artistic purpose, is entirely different, so it has to be judged on it’s own terms. I really wasn’t sure if this was going to be my thing at first, but I have to credit Waits because I was fully transported to that diner where his wit and poise shine through. To make this sound so off the cuff while also noticeably intentional and well-crafted is quite an astonishing feat. It definitely stumbles on for quite a while and who knows if I will ever listen to it again, but I’m certainly glad I experienced it, nonetheless. 1 listen Favorite Tracks: Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson), Warm Beer And Cold Women, Big Joe And Phantom 309

Is this beloved? Not sure I understand.

I like Tom Waits and his grizzly schtick, and this is a good album, however it's not a great album as the crowd and lyrics don't reward repeat listening. In fact at times aspects of the album will start to grate a little. But hey ho, overall I like the depressed alcoholic vibe.

This album is made to be as if you are sitting at a diner listening to live music, with Waits making jokes and rambling in between songs. Never listened to an album quite like this. The Jazz instrumentals are good throughout, I wish he would shut his rambling ass up so I could listen to it. Commentary started off as unique and cool but got annoying.

I don't mind the concept. I don't mind the execution. I don't mind the book throwing out intriguing nuggets like this that I had no idea existed. I just don't really like the music.

This is interesting, and at times entertaining but more as a novelty than anything else. What’s sorely needed is some better songwriting. Melody and song structure are barely afterthoughts here. I can’t see wanting to listen to it repeatedly - except maybe when very drunk and too tired to do anything else.

737/1001 2026.11.03 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑

I truly do get the hype... I just can't sell it as music. It's poetry - and great topical interesting stuff. I'm sure the style and feel and words have inspired millions. Just not really music to me. 2.

Tom Waits is one of the most charismatic singers of all time. So funny and endearing, so many of the songs on this one. Truly one of the best.

I've loved this record since I was 19. It's hilarious & finds magic in the mundane. A live record that feels unique, giving you the feeling of watching a performer as you eat in a shitty diner or playing in a smoke filled club at 2am. I adore it.

I thought I knew what my bar was for a 1 star album, but there's always something to push it lower.

I really hate these track titles. SEVEN of them have the word 'intro' in it! That's so annoying to type!! Anyways, I've never heard Tom Waits. So we'll see how I like it! 01. Opening Intro Sets the mood for what I'm (presumably) about to hear. A jazz album taking place in... well, a diner. 02. Emotional Weather Report I really hope this whole album won't be spoken word. The jazz itself is really nice, though. 03. Intro To On A Foggy Night These introduction tracks make it feel like this is a live recording. Well I mean, it IS, but not a LIVE live album, you know what I mean? 04. On A Foggy Night The first track that has a resemblance of singing! I'm conflicted on how I feel about the singing, but there's something about this I really enjoy. I like the lyrics, and I love that acoustic guitar. 05. Intro To Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) I know he's playing a character, and I think he does it well. The mediocre stand-up really drives that home lol. 06. Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) Was kind of cool, but isn't a stand-out. I like the way he says hash browns. 07. Intro To Better Off Without A Wife The worst of the intro tracks so far. A big nothing burger compared to the rest. 08. Better Off Without A Wife In a vacuum, it's meh. But alongside the other songs off of here, this is nice. 09. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) Feels very improvised, which is what I assume they were going for. I would NEVER listen to this on its own, but as a part of the album this is fantastic. 10. Intro To Warm Beer And Cold Women A cool little intro to the next track. 11. Warm Beer And Cold Women By far my favorite vocal performance yet! Absolutely fantastic track. 12. Intro To Putnam County Despite it being the second shortest track here, it's better than a few of the other intros. 13. Putnam County A much more spoken one, just like Emotional Weather Report. Enjoyable. 14. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) A much more standard jazz composition. Sort of treads the same ground as the previous track, even if it's still good. 15. Nobody Some of the best lyrics on the whole project. Beautiful piano too. 16. Intro To Big Joe And Phantom 309 The FINAL INTRO TRACK!!! 17. Big Joe And Phantom 309 A really cool story, making for one of my favorites. 18. Spare Parts II And Closing Feels like a classic track, in every sense. This album has been a DAMN crazy journey, at least for me. Throughout the album, I felt like it could be anywhere through 1-5 stars. At the end of the day, I've decided to give it a 5. Because I've NEVER heard anything like this! Nearly every real song is fantastic, and it's such an incredibly fun journey! It took a few tracks for me to get into it, but then it just breezed by.

This is definitely not going to be everyone's taste, but its a 5 star for me. Just a dude rambling about stuff with some light jazz accompany.

Excellent album, although I prefer The Heart of Saturday Night - cool jazz club vibes evoking such an atmosphere.

People keep giving me Tom’s albums but I have never been overwhelmed by his work. This changed that view. It is gorgeous, with beautiful stories, his incredible gravely emotive voice and the audience participation. Gosh I wish I’d been there.

“You silver-tongued devil, you.” Django: Unchained (2012)

Opening intro - 3 Emotional weather report - 3 Intro to on a foggy night - 3 On a foggy night - 3 Intro to eggs and sausage - 3 Eggs and sausage (in a cadillac with susan michelson) - 3 Intro to better off without a wife - 3 Better off without a wife - 3 Nighthawk postcards (from easy street) - 3 Intro to warm beer and cold women - 3 Warm beer and cold women - 3 Intro to putnam county - 3 Putnam county - 3 Spare parts i (a nocturnal emission) - 3 Nobody - 3 Intro to big joe and phantom 309 - 3 Bog joe and phantom 309 - 3 Spare parts ii and closing - 3

He's unique, I'll give you that. But most of the songs are just him talking. Maybe this would have been fun to see performed live. But the guy's voice is not for me.

Baffling inclusion, this one. I get they wanted to include an early Tom Waits record that perfectly showcases the singer's bohemian nightcrawler persona, but why include this one when the excellent Small Change (1976) is right there? That one does exactly the same as this one but has incredible songs, while this one doesn't have a single song worth revisiting. Between that and the faux live setting and the bad stand up routine, the whole thing just reeks insencerity. Granted, that persona is somewhat of a character Waits plays in his music, but he would do it so much better later than he does it here. What a waste of a slot, and I love Tom Waits!

I feel like if I caught this in the wrong day it could’ve been a 1-star for all the forced jokes and references to LA restaurants and streets and shops (felt like an SNL Californians skit at one point), but somehow it sucked me in. I ended up interested enough to listen to the whole 2 hours and didn’t regret it, ol’ Tom Waits charmed me enough to keep going, have to say I liked it better than his other entries, would’ve been a cool show to attend.

Although I know a lot of his albums, I had never listened to this one. But what a gem. A great piece of music, a great album, wonderful songs, nice intros in between. Love it!!!!

There's just something great about his voice and his ability to draw you into a story. This might be my favorite Waits' album; his presence is just so captivating and the crowd is really getting into it.

Okay so last week I watched a movie where Tom Waits played an angel and I just have to say I respect this man. so, respectfully, this should've been much shorter. what a drag!!! It's another "I wish I was there" live album!!! EXCEPT IT'S NOT REALLY LIVE. that is an added audience, I find that concept really interesting. it certainly paints a picture and a vibe so I can't be too mad at that Eggs and Sausage was fun

Going nighthawk mode. Really haven’t given Tom Waits a chance until today. I must say, I love his gritty yet chill style, but the spoken word / sing mashing really doesn’t do it for me. I loved how wonky and silly this was tho, quite unique.

not for me.

a bit too long, but well executed, fun and interesting. 74/100

Ebenso wie swordfish gut anzuhören, aber etwas schwächer.

wird mir unsympathischer 2 tage hintereinander

I loved these early Tom Waits albums. He was able to create the feeling of the seamy side of life through his songs and low life persona. He got some of the top jazzbo musicians who help create the mood for these sessions. Love it.

I own this and listened on vinyl. I really liked this at one time and would have given it 5 stars. Not so much anymore. It is a very spoken word type of album which I generally don't like at all (e.g L. Cohen). I still liked this much more than others of this genre. I'm going with 3 stars as I enjoyed listening to this.

I love dystopian funfair narrator Tom Waits and I love brandy-soaked jazz raconteur Tom Waits.

made me growl listening to his gravel

Tom Waits is the coolest motherfucker. This album was such a cool vibe. I enjoyed every second of it.

*1975. *Still not a fan of Tom Waits. *This was almost a 3* because the music is fine, but his voice and pretentiousness are just so overwhelming, and this was a struggle to get through. RATING - 5/10

Hard to tell the difference between the songs and the banter. The last thing I need is more of Tom Waits' voice.

never heard this, but i actually kinda liked it. Tom waits voice is a bit too much at times though

I really like Tom Waits and I think he succeeds in doing what he wants to do here. Would have liked to be there, live. As an album this falls a little flat and it should have been a single disc, that's enough to get the point. No single songs sticking out, it's basically a concept album.

One Tom Waits song every so often, sure. A whole album of his profound grunting, nope

Mysigt men ej hans bästa

This really wasn't for me. I could see how people would enjoy it, but I didnt like Waits style of sing-talking. I understand it being tounge-in-cheek, but it read as cheese and forced to me. I did enjoy the light jazz accompaniment. Overall- not for me

This is about as good as an album can be from what was made to sound like a drunk guy at a jazz club. I can’t say there is much revolutionary about this project. It just captures the ambience of a jazz club very well. I wasn’t super fond of some of the crude content, but Tom Waits made up for it in his uber descriptive monologues.

This is a masterpiece. The live atmosphere is truly something else. The spoken word pieces feel like a crowdworking bit, followed by a great band. You actually feel like you can't see Waits behind a cloud of cigarette smoke. 4.5/5

At his most magnetic I personally like the whole Jazz Club set up, it really does reveal Tom to be a true artist along with an AMAZING backing band.

Tom Waits the lounge singer.... So all his stuff has a level of weird to it. That's to be expected. Yet this one stands out for the weird factor. As usual not really songs, only instead of poetry you get odd stories. It's different and if you aren't ready I can see people hating it. You really have to have an open mind when it comes to Waits. It's art and not something you'll hear on the radio.

incredibly unfunny man over good jazz tunes. where's the instrumental album, i'll listen to that Would I listen again: see above Deserves to be on this list: no! 2.0

好きじゃないやっぱり。 前のやつよりはマシかも

An hour and 13 minutes of Tom. Was it to long i thought so however I did enjoy. Thought the little intros were a nice touch and he can certainly write a song.

I like some of Tom Waits albums. This isn’t one of them. For me, this album is bordering on being unlistenable. Waits twitters on in his annoying drawl, with occasional irritating laugh, and on the whole this thing is a horrible experience. He isn’t funny or interesting. No reason for anyone to hear this. One of the worst things on the list so far.

I like a good fake live album. My favourite version is the Sloan one packaged with some of the US copies of One Chord to Another. At one moment, the recording veers from being, ostensibly, a live in-room recording, maybe by a taper, to that taper (actually Jay Ferguson) wandering off to the bathroom or bar area to talk with someone asking what the band is playing. This playfully reveals it’s all just a show of a show, if that was ever in doubt. Tom Waits, here, does something similar with an in-studio live recording of a set he and a band put together with a bunch of folks invited to be the audience and create the atmosphere of it being a smoky jazz club, with some give and take between Waits and the crowd. The entire thing is artifice. Waits’s schtick/voice, style of songs (“classics”), the patter, the audience, the name of the fake venue, the whole deal. Per Bones Howe, the producer: “Waits came out and sang "Emotional Weather Report." Then he turned around to face the band and read the classified section of the paper while they played. It was like Allen Ginsberg with a really, really good band." I mean, if that’s your thing! This gets to the challenge I have with 70s Waits: it’s so fucking schmaltzy. And its nostalgia (?) was harkening back to an era that had only ended about 20 years earlier, maybe less. What is this? Would the equivalent today be current indie publication sensation ML Lenderman or Phoebe Bridgers doing a live set of Conor Oberst-style tunes while shitfaced?

I have a feeling that this is either love it or hate it territory… But I am neither. I can tolerate listening to this and simply be entertained. But after a while grow tiresome.

looooved it - this doesn't just sound like a hang w an old, weathered & sometimes bitter but very funny friend, it felt like it, smelled like it - full immersion into his stories, so fun. thanks Tom !!!

This reminds me of talking on the phone in the 80s. You just talked, talked, talked. It was a stream of consciousness that was only interrupted by the click of another caller trying to break in. It went on for hours.

i enjoy albums from all eras of tom waits eras. some albums more than others - but i am all aboard for wherever the TW train is headed. i tend to prefer the mid/late era albums (from Rain Dogs) where i caught on and when things got weird. that being said - Small Change and Closing Time have each sent time as my favorite TW albums. Great songs populated by plenty of characters with a capital "C". and of course said characters spent plenty of time staring into the hazy mirror behind their local bar. they are just so good a setting a scene and placing you right there. so why do i connect with those records more than Nighthawks...an album that literally creates the live ambience of a smoky jazz club by recording live with an audience in a ja...uh wait...it's not a jazz club it's just a recording studio masquerading as one. right. tom waits is a great song writer (Closing Time is the purist expression of this in his entire catalog). after his debut TW began to evolve into the LA boho with an ever more colorful linguistic palette ("walking Spanish down the hall") and adventurous stage presentation. this would be super charged in the 80s but in the 70s he starts to become a character in one of his songs. so setting up a fake club to play compositions that are less songs than stream of conscious indulgences intermixed with redundant stage banter (keep in mind there's not an actual stage) all presented with a bit of artifice... it s a bit of a hat on a hat on hat. that being said - the band is great but the bass player absolutely kills it. 2.5 stars.

Muy bueno. No creo que lo vuelva a escuchar. Me hubiese encantado estar en vivo, el ambiente está bueno.

I fully admit that I don't understand this.

The cover is boring, just like the album itself. This is not music. Straight up. I would not even call this an album. Tom Waits talked for over an hour of the 1hr 13min runtime. And I mean it. He talked. I cannot imagine this guy "performing" at a concert with an audience. Intros to every major song on the album is something neat (theres a reason its not popular though). Also I will admit, the transtions were incredible, borderline impossible to tell when one song was over and another one was beginning. As a comedy club recording this still would have sucked, but would have been the appropriate medium. How this got on this list is beyond me. Best "Song": Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson). Worst "Song": Emotional Weather Report.

Don’t try the patty-melt!

Drunk guy mumbles about the weather, stumbling into occasional rhymes. I guess there’s a jazz band, too.

Tom Waits has been a delight up to this point on the list for me, but this one's a bit of a miss, honestly. He's still a bit too beholden to typical vocal jazz here, and the bits where he's just doing standup aren't particularly funny. Interesting early detour for him I guess, but interesting doesn't mean good.

המוזיקה נחמדה, אבל הרוב דיבורים ואני לא מספיק מבין

Bailed on this one. Not for me at all. I kinda get what it's trying to do, being more spoken poetry sort of thing, but I just found it super annoying.

These would be good songs but the whole “live jazz at a club” gimmick got so old so quick.

Not quite torture, but a near thing.

Good Lord that was boring.

My favorite cigarette smoking and whiskey drinking uncle rambles his way into an entertaining "live" show, evoking the smoky jazz bars of the past. This is my kinda album.

Super long and rambling spoken word parts? im not really sure how to describe this but so far it feels like a rich person with a hostage audience trying to live some sort of weird jazz fantasy but he is too busy monologuing to play any actual music. It feels like this would be a dentists favorite album, at least what they would say is their favorite album to feel smart, as its all about "the ambiance" and "the vibes" but its missing out on "music" holy cow he never stops yapping about random things that he seems to think rhyme, I dont think I can make it through this album.

Love Tom Waits. This is a great album with great stories. He is unique, no one like him, always sings like he is full of Bourbon. Can’t wait for the other albums!

Number: 262 Familiarity: Aware (2) Rating: 4 Before: ======= I've already had one Tom Waits album. I think one is probably enough, however, I see there are 5 on this list, seeing how there should not be more than three albums by one artist on this list and only then, if they are very different from each other, and with a preference given to earlier works. Maybe this should be the one, seeing how it's his earliest on the list. After : ======= I like music with a sense of humor which there is plenty of on this album. That elevates this selection to a solid four from me, despite the fact there are at least 2 too many albums on this list from Mr. Waits.

I'm going to let this sneak in as a 5 star. Felt very genuine and warm

I had a fun time listening through the album although this isn't a genre I listen to at all. The live element really added a lot to the feeling of the album. Talking jazz in the style of this album is a genre I don't really know when I would listen to again since the style doesn't fit anything i do. Even a dark autumn day at home I would prefer what I see as more regular jazz if I had to pick. Finally listening to Tom Waits, a name I have heard before, was exactly what I wanted from the experience of listening through all these albums though. I enjoyed the time I had with the album today and that in itself is good enough sometimes.

Nearly 2/3 through this list at this point, and I'm feeling like Dimery's approach is a crazy double-edged sword. On the one hand... the fact that he chooses to include four, five, six records from artists such as Tom Waits leaves me feeling massively disappointed. Brilliant as Waits may be, maybe just pick the most influential 1-2 albums of his, and give the other slots to other (equally brilliant) artists? Like c'mon. On the other hand... this list was my formal introduction to Tom Waits, and this particular album being the third album of his to appear, I'm somewhat grateful for having an excuse to get a diverse offering of his repertoire, as this is easily my favorite album of his to date (Rain Dogs being a close second). Seeing his name at this point gave me a general idea of what to expect (storytelling and poetry moreso than traditionally performed "songs") and I more or less got what I expected - though, I was not expecting Waits to act as a drunken pianoman in a bar telling stories to a live audience. If you truly let yourself be immersed by the setting, it's such a fun ride. The backing band does a phenomenal job as well, keeping in the background in just the right ways to let the storytelling shine. It's not for everyone, but damn is it a fine work of art.

Couldn’t finish. The rambling is like Alice’s Restaurant without a message or humor, and this vocal style verges on minstrel show.

73 minutes of Tom Waits is too much Tom Waits. I put in an effort and listened to the first record, but that enough for me. Definitely not something I’m interested in.

Mumble and grumble

So, let me get this straight. Tom Waits. Talking - check that - rambling. On a "live-but-not-really-live" album. With jazz in the background. For nearly 75 minutes. You couldn't have concocted a worse scenario. And this 1,001 experience has proven that many acts have consciously tried. Worst. "Album". Ever.

I would consider this one of his weakest albums.

Conceptually, this might be the most complete and interesting album that I've listened to through the generator. If I hadn't looked into it a little before listening I would've had no idea this wasn't a live album, it's extremely successful in what it's trying to do. That being said, I think there are a couple too many interludes that break up the flow of the album. Nevertheless it's still a pretty amazing jazz record, there's a lot to like here. Favorites: Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson), Better Off Without a Wife, Warm Beer and Cold Women

70s blues rock. Waits is the definition of a cool cat. With live audience, like a jazz club.

Better than his other one I just had, still not great

I like what he was trying to do but it doesn’t quite work. Too much yapping. But like it does a great job of putting you in a room with tom and imagining what it’d be like in the diner.

I bunnen her er det jazz. Røykfull jazzbule med rikelig øl og god stemning. Stemmen til Waits er ikke for alle, og gjennom hele plata blir den litt slitsom. Favorittlåta er Emotional Weather Report.

Fuck, that was annoying. I hope that audience was paid well. Almost a 1

Grumble, grumble, pretentious rubbish, grumble.

Almost gave this a 2 because there were some good moments, but in the end it just dragged on too long and started irritating me.

Sounds like a live show you would see in some smoky nightclub with some old road dog

I know he's kind of doing a parody but there are some BANGER lines in there

Na een dronken piraten album en een album waarop Tom gewoon je dronken oom speelt, is ie nu de dronken host van een nachtclub. Specifiek een Jazz nachtclub. Tsja, dan heb je in elk geval mijn aandacht. Ook hier weer druipt alleen de intro al van sfeer. En voor je het weet zit je al in het tweede nummer, terwijl Tom nog steeds half zijn woorden uitspuugt. Lekker jazz deuntje op de achtergrond, tsja dit is wel een vibe hoor. Vorige albums vond ik de sfeer al top, maar miste ik toch vaak een beetje de muziek. Maar dit? Ik weet niet, ik vind zn stem heel goed bij jazz passen. Misschien ook omdat zn stem me een klein beetje aan Louis Armstrong doet denken. Maar ok Tom, was het nodig om 3 minutenlang een intro te doen en te vertellen hoe een avond sjorren er voor je uit ziet? Hoe je jezelf even goed verwend? Sowieso heeft elk nummer minstens 3 minuten intro, ontzettend onnodig... De beste man is al geen zanger, maar zo vervaagt de grens tussen muziek en gewoon spoken word wel heel erg. Nope. Begint oprecht interessant en ik ging er goed voor zitten. Maar dit is gewoon veel te lang en alles wat ook maar een beetje op muziek en tempo lijkt word vakkundig de nek omgedraaid door Tommert. Het begint als die oom die gezellig is na een aantal drankjes. Het eindigt met dat ie toch behoorlijk racistisch blijkt te zijn en dat het toch niet zo grappig is, hij is bloedserieus als hij weer begint over de platte aarde en waarom Thierry Baudet minister president zou moeten worden. De grap is over, het duurt te lang. FAVO: On a foggy night, Eggs and sausage

charmed & intrigued by mr waits

Musicality- 0.4 Vocals - 0.3 Vibes - 0.3 Listen to again - 0.1 Execution - 0.4 Total - 1.5

What the heck is this album? Band is awesome, Wait's voice is grating after a while.