Reeperbahn - Tom Waits

[RoomWithaMooseDash]

I've had this stuck in my head for the last two days.



[TheZairae]

I can only listen to Tom Waits every once in a while. If I listen to long I become engulfed in the man's music. It consumes you. Such an amazing individual.

[669ELGUAPO]

prefer this version over the demo but its tom waits love it regardless

[kyral210]

I was there the other day, think this song must have fitted the old Reeperbahn in Hamburg 50 years ago...

[nilsfiction]

thank you from hamburg reeperbahn

[CreepInTheDeli]

This is some of the best Waits ive heard to date. Especially lyrically! "Now little Hans was always strange

Wearing womens underthings

His father beat him but he wouldn't change"

[Tripo1iSamson]

I like this version the most. There's like what, at least 2 other versions, 1 with Tom Waits and 1 with some other crappy singer I never heard of.

[BillabongGermany]

St. Pauli rulez.♥♥

[SirBroadsword]

This song is absolutely, fantastically, outstandingly and ASTOUNDINGLY bad... It is absolute garbage from start to finish and yet it's heaps of fun to listen to... It sure makes me laugh at the very least... So yeah, it's dreadful, but I still love it... :)

[gogologolala]

@SirBroadsword why do you think it's garbage?

[slatan420]

So big its bad.

[butown2]

"fucking?"

[rollontg]

how come he never acts in movies, i bet, he could be a great actor too.

[o0ODigiDudeO0o]

@rollontg Who, Waits? He's acted in 20+ films. Check his IMDb. And yes, he is excellent.

[14Jester88]

@rollontg Um... What?

He does act in movies, and he /is/ a great actor.

[Mindinvasion]

Thats quite funny, I'm listing to tom waits since at least 5 or 6 years and never heared this song before, the funny thing is that I live more or less next to the reeperbahn.

[elvarwinston]

@Mindinvasion haha awesome is the reeperbahn like a prostitute street like the red light district in Amsterdam?

[Mindinvasion]

@elvarwinston

It is.

[EricCartmanstotch]

@elvarwinston yes its is the city hamburg in north germany im from holland whe where there for three days for a football game in the europa leage great place full of bars and prostitues evrywhere 2 streets with windows several stirp clubs and at night the prostitues walk on the streets an the sqaures thats legal in hamburg in holland inpossibale anaway if your in north germany go visit de reeperbahn

[Sirenensang]

@EricCartmanstotch Strange, I hear exactly the same things about Amsterdam. :D

[bonertime98]

i bought the cd when it came out

and this version is different from the album one

[nnnikki88]

Tom Waits and Lewis Carrol would have made great mates!

[eclipse561]

I'm pretty sure if anyone at school saw me listening to this they would be repulsed. I'm not sure how I should feel about this.

[richardthethree]

Perhaps how you should feel is less important (or at least less interesting) than how you do feel.

[eclipse561]

thats what I meant.

[ZZombyWooff]

fuck school fuck everyone. Be yourself and do what you have to do. that's is what tom waits (and me) did. be proud of yourself.

[manro451]

@ZZombyWooff no joke, inspiring words to me, i think have fun in life, you only live once, dont fuck it up with boring shit, live life to the fullest and edgy shit

[MirkoUtermoehle]

@ZZombyWooff .......... so, he did it and became that great man that he is. and millions of others who fcked school and everyone became unemployed bums who smell like shit and drink their dog's piss for breakfast. ever been to the reeperbahn? i live there and it's full of guys and girls like this.

[ZZombyWooff]

@MirkoUtermoehle everyone? jesus christ. me too?

[fman707]

Don't assume! The world is full of surprises! Bad ones!

My advice: Don't take Tom Waits to your acneic peers. Let him grow and distill in you, once you understand his nobility you'll never want to share his music/metaphysics with anybody else, as a matter of fact, they won't understand you by then anyway.

[allaboutdmagic]

That gives you the obligation to look smugly superior and clearly cooler than they are.

[sawtoothdan]

@eclipse561 You should feel good. Your school buddies can't think for themselves. It's the blind leading the blind. Carry on.

[615am]

que hermosa cancion, gracias dios porque la belleza existe!

[bukovoima]

I can't believe the lyrics this man has been writing for about 30 years. No artist in singing business and only few poets have ever reached to his level.

[pellewurstersson]

I live a half mile away from the Reeperbahn. LOL!

...and I get to see all the squalor everyday. Hahahaha!

[OoIrmioO]

Great!!!!!

[MrMan322]

Love this song.

[abbeycat104]

i love the textures in his voice in this track,

[GRAILKNIGHTPARZIFAL]

Stark and beautiful, sings to the soul.

[PSIchiater]

Eine wunderbare Hommage an meine Heimatstadt

der PSIchiater

[Rmarina1]

Though a great song and Waits is my favorite artist I have to say that the demo version from the Alice demos is even better, too bad it isn't on youtube and I'm not really sure where exactly to find it but I really reccomend listening to that also

[terr0rkitten]

I do have the demo and it is very good. Very different to this but very good.

[hillbillard1]

@terr0rkitten I had it but lost it due to homelessness. If you could get the demo of this song (soooo much better) I would love you!

[dudesons441]

deffinately. i love the demos more than the actual album. except for komme nie zu spadt

[StPauli20359]

Ich kannte den Song auch nicht. Irgendwann in den 90ern war Tom Waits ja wohl längere Zeit in Hamburg wegen der Black Rider Aufführung im Thalia Theater. Schön!

[aquaste]

I knew he wouldd like the reeperbahn :)

[ZZombyWooff]

This song always reminds me.. when one high flying rock musician friend of mine said how he always gives money to the winos and drunks and homeless, because "when I'm in the same position, I want people to do the same to me".

Brilliant. Human life..

I have a home, a pretty wife, few friends, some money to survive, But.. it'll all go away.

[jochembele]

NOT half the comments it should´ve been.

Not half the Views it should´ve got! People gather around the clown and the stupids. When the artist hit the stage - they all just wander around... Come to the scene my friends, come to the the scene, It´s Tom Waits!

[TSBTF1728]

Comments? Views? Is this the measure of success today? How far can the divine internet take you I wonder...

[JazzCloud]

i like

[Lingoolajn]

This always makes me cry, the "raj raj raj raj raj..." ... it... just makes me speechless, wonderful, I cannot imagine anything else that would be able to match the supremness of THE REEPERBAHN!

[BalyKing]

lingoo my love <3

[pfft2232]

Probably the best song ever made

[marina300]

wonderfull song. Tnx:)

[BalyKing]

AMAZING!!!

[KaterJames]

ich kannte das noch gar nicht. sehr gut!