Tom Waits - Clap Hands

[greensmile34]

Off of the album 'Rain Dogs'

[xelexpunx]

possibly the coolest guy alive in the world

[swisa1120]

nice sunglasses lol

[Thebeefypig]

@ 3:30 is the best. Love Marc

[f3st0rdank0]

I heard this song on a commercial for Volks Wagon yesterday :-( 

[missopan]

@f3st0rdank0 They had probably reinacted it beyond autenticy, fucking cunts..

[caospasajero]

beck?

[MelbaToast454]

Awesome story tubesteak :)

[KaalGeo]

4 people either weren't happy or were but didn't know it.

[RobRoyal06]

4 people have only one hand.

[tomwaitsfornoone1]

is that ozzy osbourne playing xylophone?

[TubeSteak007]

Once at a radio station I found a 12" record of this song: across the sleeve someone had scrawled "worst album I've ever heard." I had to hear for myself, so I stole it. Then I played it on the wrong speed (33&1/3). It was really a 45rpm. Once I corrected the speed, my life was changed 4ever. I was immersed into a world I'd never been before & might never visit again. He's so complex, yet so user-friendly! (The numb-nuts that wrote on the record sleeve is probably still missing out.)

[4purple6]

t.w. IS AN OVERPRIVELEGED j.ap. in reverse.

[madhatte73]

@4purple6

.pa.j DEGELEVIRIPREVO NA SI .w.t

... that doesn't make any sense.

CLEAN CUP, MOVE DOWN

[ChrisBurling42]

Anyone who tries to call Tom Waits a Beefheart ripoff clearly lacks the musical intelligence to hear past the raspy voice...

Completely different musical entities.. Beefheart's music was extremely technically, and texturally complex. Utilizing odd meters, metric ambiguity, and poly-rhythms.

Tom Waits is more about character and timbre within his songs, most of them are based on relatively simple blues and country structure...

Both are brilliant, can't you people just appreciate that?

[Mohammets]

Keep trying, Tom. Some day you'll be Captain Beefheart if you just try hard enough.

[11blakeblake11]

.....or whiskey

[11blakeblake11]

i think that every night, before he goes to bed, he takes out his vocal cords and lets them soak in bourbon.... or scotch.....

[nevillejking]

Lets all Clap Hands for Tom on his 61st - may there be many more to come!

[Sinnical]

this man makes me believe in the supernatural.

[nevillejking]

Those who "dislike" Tom Waits are naive, lost souls - they just can't understand his unique, creative genius!

[WordEdwin]

Anyone see him play the part of the Devil in "The Imaginiarium of Dr. Parnassus"?

[TheWoodencrow]

@WordEdwin Amazing performance. He played a sympathetic Devil. The eternal adversary, a being that lives for the debate, the argument, the game. It doesn't matter whether he wins or loses, just as long as the game goes on. A character who lives to fulfill the role of antagonist and takes pride and a certain satisfaction in the duty. It is less about evil and more about professional pride.

[TheBostonChild91]

No one will ever be like him no matter how hard they try

[schnoekums76]

Waits is an absolute genius, I would love a voice like that

[revbricenichols]

I want to drink and dance around a fire and eat large quanities of meat....and drink.

[whemadre]

Love Tom's style. Puts me in mind of Franky Z. I think all the LSD, mescaline and peyote I ate in the 60s 70s helps. Thank you Tom, Owesly and Don Juan and Franky Z for opening our horizons.

[soccermom150]

Three, six, nine

The goose drank wine

The monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line

The line broke, the monkey got choked

And they all went to heaven in a little row boat

[brettyboy30]

@soccermom150 That is from Shirley Ellis' song 'the clapping song'



[TheSinik]

@brettyboy30 I was just going to say that.

youtube.com/watch?v=bgnCB7oni8­o

[kaitlinlara]

What an amazing performer...you know you're incredible when you seem like you ought to be a character out of one of your own songs come to life. And I don't know if he intends it to be funny, but some of the stuff he does while performing cracks me up...the thing with that little siren? Hilarious.

[tubbieking]

I prefer this live version so much to the album version. It's a pitty that the sound quality here is not as good as on the Big Time LP but nevertheless you get the idea of its power.

btw: His introduction is absolutely sick.

[JacksRevelation]

sexiest motherfucker alive

[LandoftheShanks]

@JacksRevelation LOL AMEN!

[KiraPlaysGuitar]

He just reminds me of those old (I'm guessing 50's) detective movies, where it's basically a novel being narrated throughout a film. In first person. Tom would be the protagonist within the shadows.

[24KieferSuth]

ur thinking of the 40s. Tom was born on the end of that decade.

[KiraPlaysGuitar]

Ahk, still, there have been recent movies with similar feel... Gattaca?

[24KieferSuth]

That film gets a little too lost in the scientific elements of the plot to really be considered a detective movie, but I know what you mean. It does have that feel. Who'd suspect that two strangers would click via the internet and draw parallels between the lovably eccentric Tom Waits and the dystopian, eugenic dreamscapes of little ol' Gattaca?

[KiraPlaysGuitar]

Yeah I agree, gosh don't speak with such detail of Gattaca, I studied that last semester *laughs*

I love how that works, in fact, just today, I was speaking of time and place, "You could have been anyone the day I met you, as could I, you happened to be you, and I happened to be me, and we happened to fall in love."

[TheWetJockeys]

Meh, can't say I totally agree. He goes for what he does, I'm sure. He's always had an off-beat style to him, and it is somewhat gothic in theme, just listen to how bizarre and dark his lyrics are- if they're not gothic, I don't know what is.

[YouDntScarEmeUcrow]

Not really gothic dude, I totally agree he's bizarre, with dark lyrics, but you need an acquired liking to really appreciate his stuff. I personally love his work..

[24KieferSuth]

It's beat-inspired, as in the beat generation.

[Bluphynixx]

There's something delightfully sinister about Tom Waits. He is his own man. I love it.

[sigey1]

OPERACHI ROMANTICO !!!

[bloodline0088]

ha! this is insane..! only Tom could have pulled it off...

[pauletaloca]

LOVE HIS MADNESS

[ProfessorCrow]

Some say under his coat, there are wings.

[zackpliskin]

Great clap, even better hands.

[Kimiall]

very good yes

[IHaveHeart]

god Tom Waits is such a goddamn genius

[Mohammets]

@IHaveHeart He is such a fucking Captain Beefheart ripoff.

[Thebeefypig]

@Mohammets and if he did rip him off, he brought it to a good place did he not?

[jcvilla789]

never got what all the fuss was about with this lad. I know people that are like disciples to him - but to me he just sounds like a drunk (and not in a good way)

[oddzilla1]

he's one of those people where you either like him or you don't

i like him but i really wouldn't be able to tell you why

[MarxBakuninMe]

He's a great musical innovator and showman.

[cheesenerd1]

holly shit. this kicks ass

[pengefikseret]

whos the guitar player???

[TheWatsche]

I think it's the great Marc ribot.

[ghodlord]

thats a crazy old man

[cheesenerd1]

i know, isnt he great though

[ramboman15]

i love this song its briliant

[dunstalker]

He has a divine voice of old mustang stripped for parts

[cadenowl1]

I can so see him in a black metal band...

[ProfessorCrow]

No.

[TubeSteak007]

A-men! I've said this before, so tell me: which bands would you line up to back him up first?? (You go first: I'll share mine next.)

[cadenowl1]

Phil Collins

[tsarenvy]

tom waits: a man that would sound soulful clearing his throat

[spozbucket]

There is just something about this man that draws me in, Excellent.

[Cocaloupe]

He's a monster by his presence. We just hear the other instruments, we don't listening, cause he's "here and everywhere like the air".

[PLAYERSPECIAL]

excelent!!!

[polysporin10]

tom waits might just be god

[evanmurray]

I would say satan with flesh.

[nephbot]

There isn't a devil. There's just God when he's drunk.

[kingmadrox87]

i agree-known a quite a few devils in my life-when sober they are beautiful people

[HeadlessPony]

Where can I find a DVD of this?

[TubeSteak007]

Hard to find, personally, but people will burn VHS copies for ya'. Ya' gotta' just keep typing it in on Ebay.

[splitenzfreak1980]

Tom scares me in 'Big Time'...and I love it! DVD release please!

[punkrockerRHCP80]

love it

[ZigZagWanderer]

Clap hands for "rlorene" who shared this with us, Thanks a lot !

[cft08]

I clap with you...

[TroggDoor]

Why the hell do so many shitty movies get 17 different dvd releases and this one hasn't even got one?

It's a sad and beautiful world...

[Tabla461]

i feel your pain.

[crimsonwhite1]

phenomenal