I WAS IN A TRANCE! Tom Waits "Chocolate Jesus"

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  • @patrickscutella836
    @patrickscutella836 2 місяці тому +23

    Ive seen Waits 5xs in concert first time in 1975 or so. One of the greatest songwriters in the last 50 years.

  • @mradriankool
    @mradriankool Місяць тому +13

    I would crawl across glass to see this guy on stage

  • @peterbockholm3176
    @peterbockholm3176 5 місяців тому +29

    I'm very glad that you liked it, preaching the gospel of Tom Waits is often a thankless task, too many people doesn't understand the worlds most famous underground artist. He's an amazing storyteller, most of his songs are stories. Tom is a very "wide" artist that never looks back, he never repeats himself. His latest album Bad As Me (2011) has basically nothing in common with his first album Closing Time (1973), there's stories, music and song on both and that's about it, both are wonderful by its own rights. He appears in movies as well, the roles are usually small but interesting. For example, he was The Engineer in The Book of Eli. My favorite movie is his episode in Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmush, other cast members are Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop and Roberto Benigni. I'll be back with two more suggestions, two songs that are very very different. / Swedish Pete

    • @TheWolffAndTheMelody
      @TheWolffAndTheMelody  5 місяців тому +3

      Dude yea this was really cool! Thank you for sharing.

    • @Lookinforrealmusic
      @Lookinforrealmusic 5 місяців тому

      I LOVE Tom Waits! His body of work is Epic!

    • @synkraut9633
      @synkraut9633 4 місяці тому +1

      Haha Roberto Begnini “you catch a rabbit”

    • @Alsatiagent-zu1rx
      @Alsatiagent-zu1rx Місяць тому

      @@synkraut9633 "Do you look out the window or at the window?" "In our case I'm afraid you look at the window".

    • @ccampbell7214
      @ccampbell7214 Місяць тому

      Not so underground as Chuck E Wies ... one can barely find any video of him ... RIP to one of the all-time, truly underground and under appreciated greatest songwriters and singing performer's of all time .. Chuck E's in Love ..

  • @WNYretiree
    @WNYretiree 5 місяців тому +37

    I have never heard of this guy. That is my loss. What a performer! I was surprised and entranced by the song, and the way it was sung.

    • @1bossdj
      @1bossdj 5 місяців тому +7

      I'm jealous that you get to experience his extensive discography for the first time.

    • @adrock1011
      @adrock1011 3 місяці тому +1

      There is no one quite like him. Thankfully letterman “got it”

    • @nelsonx5326
      @nelsonx5326 2 місяці тому +1

      The 'Rain Dogs' album is amazing.

    • @jameszitz6196
      @jameszitz6196 Місяць тому

      It's so strange how he is so famous and so unknown at the same time

    • @CosmoCosmo123
      @CosmoCosmo123 Місяць тому +1

      I saw him live in DC in 1978… the stage was set with a piano and a street light. He came out with a 1/5 of Jack and a carton of Camels…grabbed the light pole and entertained us for 3 hours.

  • @annebokma4637
    @annebokma4637 Місяць тому +9

    My favorite singer since I was 15.. 40 years ago 😊 keep listening to his work
    Just one thing it is wait, just with an added s 😂

  • @Festoniaful
    @Festoniaful 5 місяців тому +12

    There are 2 types of reaction to tom waits, either you're into it or you hate it

  • @SomeRandomOldFatGuy
    @SomeRandomOldFatGuy 3 місяці тому +9

    It's a rare and wonderful event when someone can connect to Toms music.

    • @TheWolffAndTheMelody
      @TheWolffAndTheMelody  3 місяці тому +1

      I really enjoyed this! I appreciate his artistic flare and how he approaches his music.

  • @PeteAxeShields
    @PeteAxeShields Місяць тому +4

    I have been the biggest Tom Waits fan since I was a young teenage boy. I am 63 years old now and there is absolutely NOBODY like him. 100% unique. The Waits catalogue is HUGE and incredible - without doubt one of the, if not THE greatest songwriter of all time. I've actually covered Chocolate Jesus with my band several years ago 🙂Glad you enjoyed it as much as you did. You seem like a lovely human being. I would recommend some other Tom Waits songs but there are so many I would simply say ; " Take a deep dive into his work and prepare to be amazed " Love & Light brother 🙏

  • @gm9984
    @gm9984 Місяць тому +4

    Its waits. Like.. wait, hold up... waits

  • @wrestleshute
    @wrestleshute Місяць тому +3

    Frist time I heard Tom Waits was on the Red Hot + Blue Cole Porter tribute record from 1990. I was just 18 years old and have been enthralled with him since

  • @mervmartin2112
    @mervmartin2112 5 місяців тому +7

    You've officially jumped into a rabbit hole. Have a happy "Tom Waits". "Warm beer, cold women" is a fav of mine.

  • @j.f.3342
    @j.f.3342 Місяць тому +4

    Man time is so fleeting, one of the greatest out there! Outstanding JAZZ pianist, singer, composer, poet, actor, author and entertainer - and today only repetitive mass-produced goods are listened to. - Thank you for this song and more of it please!!! How about "Waltzing Matilda". He has put out so many great songs.

  • @gurulimbo
    @gurulimbo 4 місяці тому +7

    Waits... as in Tom waits for nobody... Glad you liked it. One of my fav of his Letterman performances waiting for mor reactions to him 🙃🙂😎🤛👍.

  • @gurulimbo
    @gurulimbo 4 місяці тому +5

    Every performance from Tom Waits is brilliance. Check out his Austin City Limits show 1978. Perfection all the way through.

  • @magna116
    @magna116 5 місяців тому +6

    Hell of an actor too. He is the old prospector in 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs".

    • @Gavgoyle
      @Gavgoyle 5 місяців тому +1

      "I'll be back, Mister Pocket!"

    • @gordieparenteau6555
      @gordieparenteau6555 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@Gavgoyle He stole the show as Renfield in the 1992 Dracula.

    • @nac.mac.feegle
      @nac.mac.feegle 4 місяці тому

      And _Down by Law_

    • @MrEyeSeee
      @MrEyeSeee 2 місяці тому

      He has a fun part in Coffee and Cigarettes where he talks to Iggy Pop in a diner, Its also a fun movie, I am a recovering hipster

    • @nac.mac.feegle
      @nac.mac.feegle 2 місяці тому

      @@MrEyeSeee I LOVE that conversation between Iggy and Waits. Two of my all time faves. Now I must go turn up Lust for Life.

  • @baskoning9896
    @baskoning9896 5 місяців тому +3

    His voice is so full of emotion, his art is so strong. Bravo!

  • @donrichards271
    @donrichards271 5 місяців тому +7

    Waits is difficult to fit into a genre, I call it Jazz Plus. A truly gifted singer songwriter always with something interesting/bizarre to say and a delivery that can make you glad to have ears. He's more popular among musicians than the general populace (at least in the people I know) for whatever that tells you. It will be a satisfying dive for you if you do go down his rabbit hole.

  • @ddmagee57
    @ddmagee57 3 місяці тому +6

    "Nighthawks at the Diner" is a good album to start with. You picked up on him fast, bravo! You pronounce the "waites" with a long A, like tape.

  • @Paulobrisaboa
    @Paulobrisaboa 5 місяців тому +6

    My favorite author/singer. I've been listening him for the past 40 years. Every song is different. There's nothing which we can compare. Try 'God's away on business', 'Hell broke Luce' or 'Going out west'.

  • @draug7966
    @draug7966 5 місяців тому +6

    I've heard of him but never listened to him. This was hella good, so raw and gritty.

  • @td1630
    @td1630 5 місяців тому +4

    I was 18, making out with my first girlfriend. She had put on Frank's Wild Years, and that album made me STOP what I was doing. My horndog teenager self. That's how powerful his music is.

  • @JVTrickypants
    @JVTrickypants 11 днів тому +1

    His lyrical brilliance in a few stanzas:
    When the weather gets rough
    And it's whiskey in the shade
    It's best to wrap your savior
    Up in cellophane
    He flows like the big muddy
    But that's ok
    Pour him over ice cream
    For a nice parfait

  • @RalphSpoiledsport
    @RalphSpoiledsport Місяць тому +1

    This is even better as it seems to be a 4th or 5th (or more) copy of a video tape.

  • @jonathanaldecoa1099
    @jonathanaldecoa1099 3 місяці тому +2

    I was lucky enough to see Tom sing this back in the day at the Wiltern Theatre in L.A. on the Mule Variations tour. Greetings from Southern California.😎🕺

  • @sclogse1
    @sclogse1 11 днів тому +1

    Jeez, you said, Tom Watts.

  • @laurakennedy9250
    @laurakennedy9250 3 місяці тому +2

    Love, love, love Tom!

  • @markusjentzsch7932
    @markusjentzsch7932 Місяць тому +1

    True legend! "Blue valentine" is in my "10 albums i would take to a deserted island" list. played all instruments himself. check out $29 f.e.

  • @ChrisTallant
    @ChrisTallant 5 місяців тому +2

    As for another Tom Waits song, listen to "Little Drop Of Poison"

  • @MetalGrandad23
    @MetalGrandad23 5 місяців тому +6

    That's one f**king deep rabbit hole you've just entered 😁
    Personal recommendations start with his Rain Dogs and Swordfishtrombone albums and work out from there. The 'cleaner' earlier songs and the dirty junkyard blues of the later. Soooooooo much stuff, I'm jealous you get to hear this stuff for the first time.

    • @Lookinforrealmusic
      @Lookinforrealmusic 5 місяців тому

      Big Time, Mule Variations , can't miss those

    • @mookie7688
      @mookie7688 5 місяців тому +2

      @@Lookinforrealmusic and Nighthawks At The Diner - absolutely unique live album

    • @huwpowell6081
      @huwpowell6081 27 днів тому

      Agree, two wonderful albums, but I still reach for Heart of Saturday Night in the wee small hours.

  • @sagebooker
    @sagebooker 5 місяців тому +2

    I love those great voices from American that we appreciate so much here in France; Tom Waits, Calvin Russell, Neil Young,... i mean great voices not because of the vocal part, that I like very much, but because of their lyrics, their despair sometimes, their cynism sometimes too... I think its part of America's roots with original blues

  • @michaelserkey6951
    @michaelserkey6951 2 місяці тому +1

    It is important for those who do not know TW to listen to him.

  • @user-dy2te6xf6g
    @user-dy2te6xf6g 2 місяці тому +2

    It’s also possible that you know songs by famous artists that were written by Waits Jersey Girl/Bruce Springsteen, downtown train/ rod Stewart, Old 55/ Eagles

  • @jkopacetick
    @jkopacetick 5 місяців тому +3

    Wow interesting.. reminds me a bit of Cab Calloway. Grit and gravel galore. IDK if he can scat like Cab but i bet he does. Use of the mega made it sound like an old victrola. Love it! ❤ and ✌️

  • @keithblackburn7516
    @keithblackburn7516 2 місяці тому +1

    Check out Tom Waits (long A sound in Waits. Not short A) in 1977 RockPalaste from Germany. Glad to see you have the same admiration of this song as I do. Tom uses a lot of different sounds weaved into his music in addition to his gravely voice.
    He also has been in many movies that you may want to check out.
    Nice review!

  • @grysqrl
    @grysqrl 5 місяців тому +3

    Nice reaction. Tom Waits is a really fantastic musician - an excellent storyteller who can dip his toe into any genre and make it his own. Hope you check out some more!

  • @jlerrickson
    @jlerrickson 2 місяці тому +1

    I hope you're able to explore more of Tom's repertoire. Tom has made his music many things over the decades, but what it always is is tremendously engaging to listen to.

  • @DanTheSqueegeeMan
    @DanTheSqueegeeMan 5 місяців тому +3

    Everything I knew up to now about Tom Waits, was Bruce Springsteen's cover of Jersey Girl. I wonder why I never dared to listen to him. This was fabulous. I didn't like the mega at first, but I know what he was aiming for... brilliant.

  • @entropyfun
    @entropyfun 5 місяців тому +3

    That's Tom Waits for you. No one like him. I don't think he has one hit song, but everything he does is mesmerizing.

  • @bugsunplugged
    @bugsunplugged Місяць тому +1

    Have you listened to Tom's song "Take it with Me" yet?
    It's scrawled across the scars of my heart & every time I hear it start, I burst into tears.
    Tom's version is great, of course - but the Rachel Price live version will devastate you.

  • @mrkrinkle72
    @mrkrinkle72 Місяць тому +2

    Look up "Elephant Beer Blues" man, you'll dig it!

  • @rodneymacomber6337
    @rodneymacomber6337 Місяць тому +1

    I’ve been listening to Tom for years. This is a great video, but I will say his voice is different on his first recording different
    Lots of good songs. I hope you keep listening to him. Tom Waits is very dynamic you can’t form an opinion. With just one or two songs.

  • @markwaldman5389
    @markwaldman5389 4 місяці тому +2

    There's never been another performance like this. Who has the guts to sing through a megaphone. It's performance art, harking back to streetcorner preachers. He's done a bunch of other interesting songs too. BTW, Beth Hart does a decent cover of this song.

  • @stevel2504
    @stevel2504 20 днів тому +1

    Love Tom waits, just a brilliant writer and performer. Have a listed to Swordfish Trombones, more accessable than some of his stuff.

  • @damonwiggins4035
    @damonwiggins4035 5 місяців тому +1

    Welcome to Tom Waits. Enjoy the ride.

  • @tylerverheggen6877
    @tylerverheggen6877 5 місяців тому +2

    As a metalhead you might be interested in knowing that he's worked with Les Claypool of Primus since the 90s! (If you consider Primus metal, anyway haha)

    • @Gavgoyle
      @Gavgoyle 5 місяців тому +1

      Probably most notably on the song Tommy the Cat that was used on the Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey soundtrack.

  • @Clarkchapin
    @Clarkchapin Місяць тому

    Dude! Anything off of SWORDFISHTROMBONE!!!! Tom Waits loves, kills, rocks, resurrects & ordains!

  • @markricketts1971
    @markricketts1971 2 місяці тому

    I went to a strip joint in Toronto in the 70's. The stripper was dancing to one of his songs, it was the most awesome thing I ever heard. I was hooked. Love Tom Waits.

  • @michaelteret4763
    @michaelteret4763 Місяць тому

    Tom _does_ like a good waltz…

  • @I-serve-you-tea
    @I-serve-you-tea 5 місяців тому

    I used to listen to Tom waits when I was depressed for a long time in the 90s

  • @yetisburgeadress
    @yetisburgeadress Місяць тому +1

    Fantastic finishing reaction... I will let others give you your next Waits suggestions but welcome aboard....
    "I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." Waits on drinking while appearing on Fernwod Tonight.

  • @ChrisTallant
    @ChrisTallant 5 місяців тому

    Tom Waits is like Ren, he does his own thing and it's living legend status just making own path. Doesn't matter what he thinks, just bam - Here.

  • @paznewis107
    @paznewis107 Місяць тому +1

    Ha ha. We all felt like this 1st time. Rain Dogs next chap, Waits btw

  • @MrPoliticalScientist
    @MrPoliticalScientist 5 місяців тому

    Check out his live versions of "A Sweet Little Bullet from A Pretty Blue Gun" & "Make It Rain" Live on Letterman.

  • @lesliedavis2185
    @lesliedavis2185 2 місяці тому

    Love Tom Waits, this is one of my faves.

  • @SageMillhill
    @SageMillhill 3 місяці тому

    One of Tom Waits' more famous songs is 'Downtown Train', which became a number one hit in Canada when covered by Rod Stewart. I prefer Tom's version though.♥your channel by the way.

  • @normaleehi
    @normaleehi 25 днів тому +2

    welcome to the other side

  • @bradkelley8732
    @bradkelley8732 Місяць тому +1

    WAITS! Rhymes with GATES.

    • @TheWolffAndTheMelody
      @TheWolffAndTheMelody  Місяць тому +1

      I've done a few reactions since this one, so I got it down lol

  • @Lookinforrealmusic
    @Lookinforrealmusic 5 місяців тому +1

    Tom Waits is EPIC! I hope you look into who he is. Fell in love with his work when I heard "Big Time" and Ive been a huge fan ever since

  • @Unicorns8myPoo
    @Unicorns8myPoo 3 місяці тому +1

    Tabletop Joe deserves a listen as well

  • @gregevans6649
    @gregevans6649 Місяць тому +1

    WAITS ;)

  • @jpsother1183
    @jpsother1183 5 місяців тому

    Cookie Monster! Cookie and Tom have never been seen in the same room together at the same time.

  • @laurieburnside5300
    @laurieburnside5300 Місяць тому +1

    I love that you are so new to Waits that you don't know how to pronounce his name, ha!
    Also, i know you're getting loads of suggestios, and they're all good, but try to get your hands on a live show he did in Sydney Australia in 1979.
    It. Will. Blow. Your. Mind.

    • @TheWolffAndTheMelody
      @TheWolffAndTheMelody  Місяць тому +1

      lol This was my first reaction. Since then I've learned how to say it hahaha

  • @johnschmidt7300
    @johnschmidt7300 4 місяці тому +1

    Check out Tom Waits orphans, (ballers, brawlers and bastards)

  • @derrickvirgne4945
    @derrickvirgne4945 5 місяців тому

    Has some good acting roles as well.

  • @kimn9802
    @kimn9802 Місяць тому +1

    Welcome to the rabbit hole. TW is one of the greatest singer songwriter performers to walk the stage. Huge back catalogue of brilliance.

  • @billhooten5394
    @billhooten5394 3 місяці тому +1

    Checkout' Filipino Box Spring Hog '

  • @lurx2024
    @lurx2024 Місяць тому +1

    Obviously this guy is not for everyone's tastes or preferences, but for us Tom Waits fans, there is nobody like him. Superlatives simply do not do him justice.

  • @stevehunt7938
    @stevehunt7938 Місяць тому +1

    For a long time i thought Tom was black :)

  • @jpsother1183
    @jpsother1183 5 місяців тому +1

    Oh and Tom has a ton of works. Lots of folks have covered him. This isn't the best version of this I've heard, and he is something of an acquired taste, but try "Heart Attack And Vine", "Singapore", "Jockey Full of Bourbon", or for really out there try ua-cam.com/video/04qPdGNA_KM/v-deo.htmlsi=QxdDOgatvcawJuk_ "What's He Building?" or "Frank's Wild Years" ua-cam.com/video/F3Cty-q73wk/v-deo.htmlsi=FMGwJG5HfWt8cHiD

    • @donrichards271
      @donrichards271 5 місяців тому +1

      Franks Wild Years. That one should be heard by everyone at least once.

  • @brucesorensen
    @brucesorensen Місяць тому +1

    His name is Waits. Rhymes with Gates. Not Watts.

  • @hlawrencepowell
    @hlawrencepowell Місяць тому +1

    Tom Watts? It's Waits.

  • @brucifer0
    @brucifer0 5 місяців тому

    Check out the Live record "Big Time" by Tom. It's epic!

  • @stuffnuns
    @stuffnuns Місяць тому

    Waits. As in I am waiting for Tom Waits. I hope Tom Waits waits for me. That’s how pronounce his name. No hate. Just wait. I set the bait…for the one-eyed sailor.

  • @tedmohr6353
    @tedmohr6353 Місяць тому

    His name is how it is spelled WAITS. Not Watts like the light bulb

  • @JVTrickypants
    @JVTrickypants 11 днів тому +1

    Tom Walts? lol It's Tom Waits, but also can't think of any specific song he has done that will give you a line into Tom's music. He has changed genres dozens of times, but he keeps focused on brilliant lyrics while using his ridiculous voice

  • @HarryGuit
    @HarryGuit 2 дні тому

    Never say „cool“. It hardly means anything.

  • @gabrielkain1
    @gabrielkain1 5 місяців тому +2

    This was not good. I hated the use of the megaphone. He has a blues/jazz style voice,which is good but the rest was not for me at all.

  • @Croz76
    @Croz76 5 місяців тому +1

    Tom Waits is amazing. If you have a spare few minutes, look up some talk show interviews with him. He frequented the David Letterman show over the years, any one of those interviews/performances are Legendary 😆! The album Closing Time is an oldie but goodie, and swordfishtrombones is more along the lines of this song, but I'd call it more Avant-garde. 🤠

  • @baskoning9896
    @baskoning9896 5 місяців тому +3

    Please do 'ne me quitte pas' by Jaques Brel ua-cam.com/video/q_bq5mStroM/v-deo.htmlsi=a0aTzgrQYX28Haix