Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Acceptable quality lyrics but performed over the vamping of the most middling of blues and jazz scales you've ever heard that ultimately sounds like one long uninterrupted track. In my opinion the work of the bass player should have earned them the bulk of the royalties. Not much, if any real music elsewhere. Rather it seems an excuse for a spoken word album that also doubles as a half-assed stand up act. Wait's voice is still really annoying.
Ugh I really do not like this guy
I don't get it. Some of his music is good but I dk how to describe this. Jazz-Poetic-Comedy?
Like being in a pretentious jazz/blues bar in 1975. all songs indistinguishable.
Tom waits perus vittuilua..
Absolute wank.
Witty at times, but that's just it. It's main sin is beign just spoken word with a jazz band as background. Is closer to a Dollomite record than a jazz album, not what I was looking for when entered this site
Day 32 - July 3rd, 2024 Too much talking, not enough jazz. If I was half into a pack of reds, I think it would be so much better. 1/5
talk smoke diner 70's
What the hell was this ?! 🥴 seriously awful!
it's kind of like folsom prison where johnny cash noodles with the prisoners except instead of prisoners it's people who like jazz music and instead of johnny cash it's tom waits
So incredibly boring.
I flat out don't get it
This trying to do something and its not workin
Unlistenable. Hated it. I dont get the appeal at all. Did nothing for me. Couldn't make it to the end of the second track. Comes off.as inauthetic and performative.
I couldn’t get past the first two songs.
Loads of artists I love are clearly very influenced by Tom Waits (Eels chiefly) but I just can’t get on with him
Awful
I guess I have no sense of humor.
A stand-up comedy with a contrabass. Plot twist : the contrabass was funnier.
2024-03-16...
Ik heb me nooit erg verdiept (of geïnteresseerd) in Tom Waits. Dit album is voor mij dan ook compleet nieuw. De introsong zet een gemoedelijke, huiselijke, jazzy sfeer neer. Wordt dit hele album een spoken word monoloog…? Het lijkt ook live. Maar na onderzoek is het toch in de studio opgenomen. Het is een album die onbetwist in de categorie ‘miscellaneous’ past. Het trekt mijn aandacht niet echt. Ik ken Waits niet genoeg om te beseffen hoe interessant/grappig dit album moet zijn. Jammer, want ik denk dat ik Waits een stuk beter zou kunnen waarderen als we eerst een ander album van hem mochten recenseren. Die tijd komt nog wel. Voor nu: 6/10 Highlight: Eggs and Sausage
No thanks… not for me.
Nope
I need to scrub my ears after this album,.
No thank you. 1/5
Gefällt mir überhaupt nicht.
I don’t think I can take anymore of Tom Waits
Tom might be a great fella in private but his public hepcat affectation is intolerable. This is an entire album of affectation from the fake jazz club canned audience to the contrived, "Hey look, that rebel nighthawk doesn't care about your 'no shirt, no shoes, no service policy,'" album cover.
Love Tom Waits but NOT this album. haha
i caant his voicee just gross. i need a shower. misogynist scum i want to turn myself inside out this album would be saved simply if it was just instrumentals doesnt feel authentic either. laughtrack why???
Not my kind of humor... great vibe, but the lyrics/jokes.... I dont' find funny
There are 5 goddam Tom Waits albums on this list? And 5 Nick Cave’s too? Whoever contributed to the 1001 albums book needs to explore some different types of music.
Didn’t really get it.
Was this album really by the ghost of duke wellington?
Another album that if you don't like you are not cool.....I am not cool!
no thanks, not my style at all. Would be better as instrumental
01) Opening Intro - 5,0 02) Emotional Weather Report - 5,0 03) Intro - 1,0 04) On A Foggy Night - 4,0 05) Intro - 1,0 06) Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson) - 4,0 07) Intro - 1,0 08) Better Off Without a Wife - 4,5 09) Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) - 2,0 10) Intro - 1,0 11) Warm Beer and Cold Women - 5,0 12) Intro - 1,0 13) Putnam County - 5,0 14) Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) - 3,5 15) Nobody - 4,5 16) Intro - 1,0 17) Big Joe and Phantom 309 - 3,0 18) Spare Parts II and Closing - 2,0 TOTAL: 2,97 (30/100) What the hell... Is this stand up comedy? Jazz? The hell is this? If stand up, I don't understand him, he's mumbling. If jazz, I don't like jazz. There are probably 1001 album that didn't get to this list but would rather listen to before I die.
uskomaton runoilija. istukaa pikkulapset alas ja kuunnelkaa, voitte jotain ehkäpä oppia. kohta 50 vuotta vanha albumi ja vieläkin erittäin relevantti. tom waits ennusti tulevaisuuden aika hyvin tällä.. yleisö tietää kuuntele. kokoajan tulee aplodeja lähes koko ajan tunnin aikana, tietää milloin taputtaa ja huutaa ''WOO'' näin.. ja hauska äijä. perkeleen hauska. tämmönen komedia nykyaikana oikeen menisi läpi.. ehkä hauskin elävä mies spare parts 1
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I think he did what he wanted to do on this album, but unfortunately it was not what I wanted. Is it stand up comedy or some kind of jazz backed speaking thing?
WOULD YOU STOP YOUR DAMN MUMBLING I CANT UNDERSTAND YOUR LYRICS IF I CANT HEAR THEM. I couldnt even bring myself to finish the album 1/5
Weird one. It's like a live spoken music album that doesn't necessarily carry that much music. I'm glad I didn't have money to buy this album.
Is this a joke? If i could i would have given it -1
Yeah I'm not having this as music, fuck off.
“Ya like jazz?” No
To be completely honest, I didn't know that this kind of performance was recorded and sold as an album. Jazz, spoken word, and scatting; I imagine this would be a small venue, intimate, live performance. Snaps for Ton Waits but I hope I never hear this again.
Bad
Bad jazz Guy made me mad
Not good jazz album, not very entertaining
I don't like simple musicality, I have a major focus on music over lyrics and I tend to get bored with jazz. This album never had a chance
I didn't like his voice so I gave up on it very quickly. Shame because I liked the song titles
Nope. Can't stand just grumbly talking
This album was recorded in front of a small audience set up to recreate the atmosphere of a jazz club. However, to me it comes across as a parody and more akin to a stand-up set in a comedy club. I'm not sure if this was deliberate or if it's an unintentional facet of the comedic lyrics and extreme huskiness of Waits' vocal giving it a caricature-like quality. Either way, it doesn't sit well and makes for an uneasy listen. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) Date listened: 06/11/23
Did not enjoy this at all, could not finish all 73 mins of his gravely voice mumbling the lyrics of his songs. Half the album is skits or as he calls them "Intros", which felt like he was wasting my time. The bass player is working overtime carrying this album while Tom just fucks about on the microphone.
Not my thing
It’s never a good sign when you check how long an album will be during the first song. The jazz was enjoyable, I just couldn’t get into his voice and found it grating.
Dreadful
Remember in father Ted when they stop singing my lovely horse and father jack pulls out his shotgun and blasts the guitar to smithereens. That
stop doing standup and sing us a song
sorry but not a fan
No way
I don't give many ones but good Lord....
I'm sorry...a 4th Tom Waits album?! It's not even being a hater at this point--it is objectively true that you can write about the history of music production without including FOUR GODDAMN TOM WAITS ALBUMS. When you realize you really don't give a shit about what Waits is talking about in any of his songs, the whole thing comes apart. Because it sure as hell isn't anything musically that draws you in. It's the jazz equivalent of somebody sitting on a single stool behind a microphone strumming the most basic chords possible while singing. And I'm saying this as a massive jazz fan! Please, for the love of God, no more Tom Waits albums.
good god this man. cool idea, god awful execution into the ground. horrible terrible.
I just do not like his voice at all. It grates me. This is the first album I’ve come across so far that I couldn’t finish.
This is an album that I really didn't connect with. Possibly one of the worst I listened to. 1/5
Hated it
Fuck me, that was grim!
I did not like this experience hahah. This was not my vibe for the work day. I’m sure his wit and banter would be fantastic and so great in person at a small bar when you’re a lil tipsy….buuuuttt yea not for me rn. I really don’t like the intro and song format. I’m also ngl i didn’t finish this and have no intention to sorry
Wasn’t for me :/
What the fuck is this shit lmao. This is ass. Might be ok live tho
Absolutely not.
Not for me
What the hell is this
This was bad. Maybe if you were there you’d be charmed by his presence. Just a total slog all the way through for me.
Yeah this is spoken word alright. I’ll pay my respects to the great jazz in the background, but to be honest, it’s the worst mix between a podcast and a song. It’s not music and shouldn’t be classified as such. The “singer” sings at some points in the album, so why can’t he just sing the whole damn thing? If I wanted to listen to a smoker with lung damage spouting nonsense to a bunch of other smokers with lung damage, I would go to a homeless camp.
This is an audiobook, and not a particularly good one. I was expecting more from Tom Waits, since everyone talks so highly of him, but I could not stand this one.
Tom Waits? More like Tom Pass. Not only is it him (not a fan), but a live album. My problem is seeing him as an actor first and I couldn't even get past the first song, talking about weather in a jazz club. Album cover matches him perfectly, just a guy wearing a chubbs hat in a diner with a lot going on.
I just know Alex is STEAMING over this one. If I ever find myself in the same room as Tom Waits, I think I'll give him a piece of advice that it seems no one previously did during his life: having a raspy voice is not a personality trait. What his albums seem to be are explorations of the boundaries of potential aesthetics that he can pull off. Technically yeah, it's music, and I can totally understand someone enjoying what he does, on this or any other album. But it's more gimmick and spectacle than it is music. "Guys, look: I did a whole album pretending to be some sleazy blues story teller guy in a smoke-filled diner, and guess what it's called?? Nighthawks at the Diner! You know, like the guy I'm being? And like the painting?" Brother, we get it. Admittedly, there was a track or two where the pretense was pierced by a decent bassline or melody that made me like the song. Honestly, I kinda do like this aesthetic, and I couldn't help but smile when it started. But the whole album is the same damn schtick for more than an hour......me personally, guy like this starts doing this bit while I'm trying to eat eggs at 2 in the morning, I'd leave the diner. Favorite tracks: Opening Intro, Intro to Foggy Night, Spare Parts I. Album art: What else do you expect? I mean I guess I'm a little surprised he didn't just literally use the Hopper painting for the cover. But it's certainly not false advertising. 1.5/5
Is he singing or talking
i hate this and im not listening to the rest of it. i dont care enough about this guy or his music to listen to him monologue then hear a mid song afterwards. I think i would really enjoy this in a live setting (Like a diner lol) but im not willingly listening to this
Nothing legendary here, I’m surprised it’s included in this list. Drunk guy singing over a piano in a bar.
Not my thing - I like a song, or a melody, rather than piano twiddling whilst a tramp menaces me
Still don't get it. Rambling nonsense. Couldn't listen to all of it
Not for me
The "sounds like a live recording but isn't" thing is interesting, but as a piece of music it really isn't for me.
It is some jazz music with a guy speaking for about 75 minutes. It needed to end sooner. I skipped through some songs
Really didn't like this. Came across as spoken word poetry with jazz in the back ground and it all felt like a bit of a mess. The intros and the live audience didn't add anything for me. Apart from "Nobody" no track really stood out, or was enjoyable.
Ik kan hier werkelijk helemaal niks mee.
Unlistenable. Fuck Tom Waits!
Calling this music would be wrong. What we have here is the embodiment of white trash. For the listener this album caters emotions like embarrassment and shame for the artist, who seems oblivious to how cringe his shit is. I was thinking, maybe this "art" just aged badly? But no, I'm certain this has never been anything else than shit. 0*
1975. Eggs And Sausage
Not for me
Oh man, this is even worse than that other Tom Waits album you made me listen to. This is longer, less funny, the jazz is more generic and the singing/vocals/presentation is even more overacted and forced. 2/10
This barely qualifies as music.
The ramblings of a crusty voiced mad man.
Dog shit
No me atrapo en lo más mínimo. El señor está hablando
Tom Waits has a shitty voice. The whole album is monotonous from beginning to end and not any memorable song. Not my deal, sorry.
Not my cup of tea.
Just one listen through was enough
What the hell was that didn’t get it didn’t like it 1/5
Kind of like marmite. Only for hard core fans of Tom Waits I think.
Hahaha no
Terrible, bobbins
- nope
At first, I didn't know what to think about this album. Then I got to the third song and I definitely knew what I thought.
Didn’t care for it. Too much talking
Very bad. The guy just told shitty stories
Couldn't get onboard with it.
I didn’t like it. I felt dirty and smoky after listening to it. Not my style of music.
hate the opening intro oh no. All the songs are maybe this weird talky thing? I do not like. no thank you
Konstig jazz. Gillade inte alls.
Awful. Absolutely awful. Could not even finish the whole thing. Does not deserve to be here.
1.4
bad