Tom Waits - Little Drop Of Poison

[iusedtobefamous92]

he is a GOD! Music for my soul!

[stonesfan1989]

Waits, tells hookers that his seaman is just a little drop of poison. But this song is gritty he really sings from his heart. His interview with Letterman was great, they had a cut from the rehearsals that didn't make it on the show. Waits was with a women and he made her drip hot candle wax on his testicles. They should have kept that in.

[Narianna]

Closing Time will be the last song played at my wedding reception this fall.

[victor2q]

little weasel house show on my youtube page i do earth died screaming at 3 : 50. jim cherewick loves tom waits

[ToraSpore]

First heard this on Shrek, then forgot about it. Today was informed of Edward Mordrake and "Poor Edward". I was then reminded of this song and just realized they were by the same person.

[djfia18]

What a voice, what a man. I am a guy and i must said he seduse me with this song

[mephistoteles113]

I like my town with a little drop of poison..... oh yeah

[MusicMazing]

jaja mooi nummer

[TheLoveableU]

This is soo good! ..and his way of writing..always interesting and clever.

[666Arthas666]

Late at night...

In a bar with lowered lights...

Everybody with a glass of bourbon...

Cigarettes...

Tom wais sure does know how to move your imagination

[icklestick]

I could listen to this man read the phone book. I'm playing him at my wedding, then at my funeral.

[mitjiva]

@icklestick which songs would you play at your wedding?

[Kveldrun]

"I smoke my friends down to the filter..."

/salute

[morganrock1]

FUCK SHREK 2

[noddwyd]

@morganrock1 do you mean this song sucks, or you like the original better, or just that Shrek 2 sucks? Or all of those?

[morganrock1]

@noddwyd nah i love song, its just sad that every time i hear this i think of shrek

[1963arturo1]

MarraVillosa!!!!!

[erg0f]

makes me wanna strip down into my underwear with a cigar and some whiskey.

[krystafoxx]

@erg0f LOL! i like how you party!

[zaperfan]

I love this song goose bumps my body.

[stiggyh]

the singing rust bucket (;

[hexollegamer]

i almost fell sad very day and then if there is some song in my mood then its this song that belongs to my grey day sad feelings O.G.P

[youknowsheshalfcrazy]

I would love to see him dancing a tango to this amazing song...

It is staying in your brain for the whole day like glued. Not that I mind.

[Nechryeal]

Listening to this on repeat for hours. Fantastic

[666BrotherofMetal]

Hahaha it's Dracula's servant :P

[carmariebe]

Such a sexy song....

[dallen507]

Heard this in Shrek 2 and looked for it for ages but never found it. Luckily, Robots brought me here.

[muckyducky70]

My ears just got their fix.

[DaNamesJesus]

Can anyone give me the names of the songs that Tom beat-boxes in?

[muckyducky70]

@DaNamesJesus Tom's album 'Real gone' has got some beatbox type vocals. the first song is probably as close as Tom has come to Hip Hop.(in his own way of course)..hope this helps?

[DaNamesJesus]

@muckyducky70 At the begining of the song i'm looking for, he makes banging noises and and beatboxes. Apparently he was doing this particuliar song when he was in a hotel room. I've listened to all of Real Gone though, at least i'm pretty sure i have.

[jfmongrain]

@DaNamesJesus

Primus' Tommy the Cat, maybe?

[MadTomOfBedlam]

i smoke my friends down to the filter, what a strange and awesome thought, the man's head is full of diamonds and doom

[sinaneryigit]

Why some one does not like this song? 1 million dollar question for those 36.

[pushed2theEDGE]

home depot has approached tom waits multiple times asking him if they could extract pieces of his throat to use as the roughest choice of sandpaper they carry.

[CultClassicMashtah24]

@pushed2theEDGE Lol, nice one. :)

[platter1000]

@pushed2theEDGE lol i don't think it has anything to do with sandpaper. i think it has everything to do with dwiddling knobs and production. i still like him anyway

[munckomagic]

@platter1000 you have never seen waits live have you? try putting "waits live" into you tube and then see if you still think it is all production.

[Ambrosious128d]

@platter1000 yep they've been tweekin' his voice for over 30 years, you caught him. Tom Waits is one of the wisest men left in music with so much to offer, one can't really comprehend. try listening to him talk or every song he's made since the 80's i think you'll find his voice consistently real and pure

[platter1000]

@platter1000 i his more rocking blues stuff than the piano ballroom stuff

[Ferminator08]

@pushed2theEDGE LOL!!!!!

[DerSamSerious]

@pushed2theEDGE ever listened to "Heart Atack And Wine" ?

Now THAT is rough xD

[CionCionBlaster]

em  em...... em.....

[unasensualita]

... ce titre est décidément excellent ! bravo Tom Waits on t'adore ! ;)

[snorlax42]

The first time I heard this song was in Shrek 2. Tom Waits is the best musical Captain Hook.

[Jfishart]

Er hat immer den besten Rhythmus, bitte macht weiter so

[NinjaOutfitInTheWash]

This is the song I enjoy most from Tom Waits.

[agdollchannel12]

i used to litsen to this song crazely!

[PISSED8]

Shrek 2

[GymMaurison]

I smoke my friends down to the filter... Now, that's what I call lonelinessss

[tomketchfish]

If you "discovered" Tom Waitts from the soundtrack of Shrek, please do yourself a huge favor and listen to everything in his back catalog. Then start on Captain Beefheart's stuff.

[Wowbagger86]

@tomketchfish I heard Tom Waits the first time six years ago when the radio played Tango Till They're Sore while I was delivering pizzas. That was a good day at work. Never got into Captain Beefheart, even though I've had his music recomended to me. Perhaps I should give it a listen... actually I'll do it now. Thanks for the tip.

You on the other hand must listen to The Pogues, lots and lots of great songs.

[tomketchfish]

@Wowbagger86 Will do.

[tomketchfish]

@Wowbagger86 Okay, now I remember listening to them. Got a few songs on my hard drive in a play list with Flogging Molly stuff. Good tip.

[macfreak18]

@tomketchfish well said. everyone discovers things one way or another. i didn't discover tom through shrek, actually it was a cover song for Yesterday is Here, so i've been searching through his stuff and got his new album

see? i'm smart

[Masquerade37]

@tomketchfish Actually, I discovered him from the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasis.

[orwinstudio]

@tomketchfish agreed

[lloossaaww]

@toolfangirl

at 7, comparing the amount of 'swear words' we knew was a fun game lol :P

so yeah they'll be fine

[bbyrd009b]

why do I listen to anyone else?

[victorycreed1]

captain hook sings it in shrek,he plays the piano with his hook hand.

[89cancerian]

Excellent playlist!

[xEmoGiantx]

I remember before I really 'discovered' Tom Waits and I heard this song in Shrek 2

[Suppenpapa]

Great song! ... Funny fact, that all the people I know who like this, are metal fans :D.

[TheOmniscientAtheist]

real music

[lotten1992]

Tom Waits. Tom Waits was Captain Hooks 'voice' in the 2nd Shrek-movie, in the 3 seconds long screentime?!?

I must've had something in my ears not hearing it after watching Robots in the song Underground

[thSubliminalCriminal]

@lotten1992, yea the best three seconds in cinema EVER!! LMAO, love Tom Waits.

[lotten1992]

@thSubliminalCriminal if only someone could upload that scene here so i can get my memory back(it's been a while since i saw the movie, so i've forgot almost everything about that)

[Botrops74]

чудово!

[rickmcdonalled]

this is THE greatest song to play while doing homework

[MsDecemberr]

Haha this is stuck in my head.

[Dima202]

So, I am listening to this song for the (n)th time in a row. It fills my empty heart. Thank you for this song.

[UnEulogized]

SO H4RDBO1L3D.

[KaleidoPixy]

@UnEulogized Trollcops represent. Definitely adding this to my playlist...

[dilps]

How is Rufus Wainwright associated with this song? Oh well, two good songs, I'd rather go underground with Tom Waits. :)

[TheSilentHaven]

@dilps Rufus Wainwright's version of Hallelujah played in Shrek 1, and this song played in Shrek 2 at the bar full of villains.

[dilps]

@TheSilentHaven Wow I'm a slow idiot.

[inda5club53]

@makebank93: hotsteeze is the shiz

[ryrodye]

I loved this song long before Shrek II but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't the reason I'm watching this video right now.

[TheDutchGame]

I think the best time to enjoy this song is when your drunk.

[mrsbookthief]

@TheDutchGame I hear it's like that with a lot of awesome tom waits songs ;) haven't tried it yet...I think I'll give it a go soon.

[WraythSkitzofrenik]

He's undeniably sexy!

[acotajvan]

Amazing!

[kkeelan]

Windsor, Ontario's theme song.

[Apuchy]

He sings this song in Shrek 2.

[toolfangirl]

i cant believe they put this in shrek...almost broke my heart...even my kid said " WHAT THE FUCK?!!" (coming from a mouth of a seven year old)

[dordsediekie]

@toolfangirl If a 7 year old knows the word "Fuck" he'll probably get through this shocking experience without mental damage

[raydenxas]

@dordsediekie hell yea



[jochembele]

@toolfangirl

Youre probably an american..need i say more??

[42stambo]

@jochembele

Don't rag on Americans. Tom Waits is one of the most American people I can think of. I'd go so far as to say he is the greatest living bastion of American culture.

[lipstickvogue1216]

@toolfangirl yeah, if your seven year-old already says "WHAT THE FUCK?!!," you have way bigger issues man

[KrystelLucas]

@toolfangirl You think Shrek is just for kids? Think again.

[toolfangirl]

@KrystelLucas nope....never did.......he watched it at school..

[KrystelLucas]

@toolfangirl I think it's ok for kids to watch it, but it's not just for kids. I don't recall the F word in Shrek either and besides, there's nothing heart broken about this song to me.

[wuerp]

@toolfangirl I want to drink jack with your kid. sounds like like an interesting fellow 

[macfreak18]

@toolfangirl well, they cut off most of the song, PLUS Hook sang it, and we all know he's a bad guy. and because i'm an artist, i can say that the poison is referencing the depression some people feel with "her". it's why i'm here actually, cuz she left in the fall, and she always had that drop of poison that nearly killed me. could be anything.

also i fuckin love Tool! :)

[animestalker93]

reading a hilarious murder mystery and they say "horrorterrors made the world while God was sleeping." then said something about this song.

Had to look it up.

Safe to say I now know how the victim was murdered.

[Miistification]

@animestalker93 Cities in dust? :D

[animestalker93]

@Miistification *flails arms* Oh my gosh, yes! There's a lack of story related comments, I had to add one!

[Liyiemen]

Listening to this at 5:40 in the night...

:)

[makebank93]

damn i finally landed this. logged it on hotsteeze . com.

[poeticreject]

tom waits is my poison

[muskymenz]

I remember when he played with Roy Orbison. Damn this guy's good!

[CraterMuffin]

I'm proud to say Shrek didn't bring me here. A video called bananalism did....

[Sergey12997]

Unicum

[MeterSpei]

And i said that Shrek 2 brought me here, and i'm happy that i watched shrek, because if did never happen i wouldn't hear this genius. His just fu.... amazing. What an astonishing voice. :]

[kevincostnermyhero]

I loved this song before Shrek and The End of Violence...And I love it even more now.

[ulongkoror]

wtf does this guy have a throat infection or throat cancer?

[Liana5943]

But I feel much cleaner after it rains......

[kingbeefee]

I think Tom Waits puts sand and Elmer's glue in his coffee every morning. Awesome voice.

[MrBodypro8]

What a phony.

[FrazzleAndTheWolf]

Want a Strepsil?

[krykkeroev]

Tom waits.. an epic songwriter.

[Pjuker]

@krykkeroev `Yeah but what is he waiting on?

[CallBananas]

29 people like justin bieber...

[LightStijn]

@CallBananas That's not funny. That's not even original. You should buy yourself a new sense of humour.

[CallBananas]

@LightStijn that wasnt a joke.....

[LightStijn]

@CallBananas No, you're right. But it was obviously meant to be a joke.

[CallBananas]

@LightStijn yeah, im just kidding.

[lonkavhobune]

@CallBananas Oh boy, teenagers have discovered Tom Waits.

[I4gotmyMANTRA]

@lonkavhobune Don't worry, we won't somehow make the music less amazing by listening too it. :)

[lonkavhobune]

@I4gotmyMANTRA I know. No bad feelings.

[Cygnaeus1]

Help an idiot out.. Is that a clarinet at 3:00?

[TheChrishendrix]

you can truly see why he was Lucifer in Dr.Parnassus.

[Banned4Life]

@TheChrishendrix Maybe even more so because of 'God's away on Business'.

[TheChrishendrix]

@Banned4Life  true true..

[obitsrus]

i like his work. That's not a woman in the background, it's called (I think) a theramin. It's an instrument made with sound waves which gives a good spooky sound.

[elsureste214]

@obitsrus thanks for the clarification. thats makes this " not sure wut to call it " even more wicked

[Mistraker]

@obitsrus While a theremin can make similar sounds, I think this might be someone playing a saw with a bow.

[bluedan28]

his voice makes me put an evil face while i'm singing!

[Sventhebard]

@bluedan28 Yea, i can agree with that, doubly so when I am smoking and singing. Karaoke gets awkward.

[speakswahilidammit]

Wonderful. Tom Waits has been described as a 'white black man'. I know what that means. In a different was, that's me too. First language Swahili, & always was closer to the watu in Tanganyika/ Tanzania than to my 'own' people, the wazungu (white people). My video has original footage.

[bigjimx11]

I've been listening to Tom For nearly 30 years,He is like an old friend I never met.He has been with me through the best and worst of my life.I hope he is with me at the end

[Icklewood]

What kind of dance is this song's groove based on?

Is it like a tango?

[OBL1997]

@Icklewood Not at all.Idk what danse it is but it's not tango since it's not latin music

[mrsbookthief]

@Icklewood it's so absolutely tango!

[elsureste214]

@mrsbookthief its so many thangs in one. u could say tango with blues poem. deep... i luv the woman in the background jus sets the tone

[pete03701]

Tom waits was just inducted into the music hall of fame. bout 25 years late. There is no other artist that even brings a genius to their music like tom waits. He is his own GENRE. think about it, anybody who owns every piece of tom's creations knows that every song on every album is its own song even it is on another album. He always manages to create a new entity out of them. im 28 and have traveled to see him in 12 different cities. Tom you have changed lives with your words. Thank you.

[jonqeee]

I'm all alone, I smoke my friends down to the filter

But I feel much cleaner after it rains..

[bigbloons]

BRAVO MAESTRO. GREATEST SINGER ...

THANK TOM ...

[ripouland]

Did the Devil make the world while God was sleeping? ♥

[TheDobleQ]

Fuck Shrek...

[joemack13]

@TheDobleQ i wish i didnt know this from that damn movie

[oOExcuseOo]

@TheDobleQ Fuck You...

[iGyant]

@TheDobleQ this is the only reason i watched it

[CountSpazulaReturns]

@TheDobleQ yeah fuck shrek



[demondays7]

@TheDobleQ it was funny, and it led me to tom waits, whats wrong with shrek? were you too old?

[pirofrodo]

SHAITOOOOOOOOOOOO NADIE TE LLAMO SHAITOOOOOO QUIEN QUIERE ESTAR CONTIGO !

[cinedores]

waits is good but dont be precious

[foncsix]

fabulous. just sit in the dark and listen this. then again, and again, and again.

[elsureste214]

I love my town with a little drop of poison, nobody knows they're lining up to go insane.

[doloreg]

My parents are not born yet and i like it.

[RockinParo]

28 people deserve a drop of poison in their morning coffee.

[jack201066]

I love his gravel voice..

[TaskMaster619]

Tom Waits fan, Springsteen fans, Dylan fans, Stones fans, Dury fans etc... we should be in charge of "music" today!

[TaskMaster619]

love it

[jonqeee]

I like my town with a little drop of poison.

[bottomless666]

This could be the soundtrack of Max from "Mary & Max" .. He also could make some soundtracks for tim burton movies. "Gods away on business" sounds like an army of skeletons in a tim burton movie^^

[lundgreen]

@bottomless666

"Gods away on business" is a very good song indeed

[bottomless666]

@lundgreen I never would dispute it! (:

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

@bottomless666 I wished he had done the soundtrack for Nightmare at Christmas when I saw it, instead of what I took for pretty characterless 'traditional musical' numbers.

[Gretsche87]

I'm a fetus and I like this.

[Jp2445]

Tom Waits for no one

[YouGotSubbed]

I'm just a baby fetus but even i like this! this is REAL music and im just a baby fetus, guise. 50sent and beyonce and jeezy can't compete with Tom Waits!

[soursweettooth]

I'm a three month old baby girl and I like this.