My Top 40 Tom Waits' Songs & Top 10 Albums

Top 40 - Tom Waits

The songs are in no particular order, and the albums the songs are from are in the brackets.

01. "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Small Change)
02. "Small Change" (Small Change)
03. "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" (Bone Machine)
04. "Time" (Rain Dogs)
05. "Little Drop Of Poison" (Orphans: Bawlers)
06. "I'll Be Gone" (Franks Wild Years)
07. "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" (Rain Dogs)
08. "In The Neighbourhood" (Swordfishtrombones)
09. "Lullaby" (Blood Money)
10. "God's Away On Business" (Blood Money)
11. "Never Let Go" (Orphans: Bawlers)
12. "Whistle Down The Wind" (Bone Machine)
13. "Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)" (Franks Wild Years)
14. "Hang Down Your Head" (Rain Dogs)
15. "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis" (Blue Valentine)
16. "Take It With Me" (Mule Variations)
17. "Lie To Me" (Orphans)
18. "Burma Shave" (Foreign Affairs)
19. "I Never Talk To Strangers" (Foreign Affairs)
20. "The Piano Has Been Drinking" (Small Change)
21. "Way Down In The Hole" (Franks Wild Years)
22. "Better Off Without A Wife" (Nighthawks At The Diner)
23. "Ol' 55" (Closing Time)
24. "The Black Rider" (The Black Rider)
25. "Tango Till They're Sore" (Rain Dogs)
26. "Black Wings" (Bone Machine)
27. "Goin' Out West" (Bone Machine)
28. "House Where Nobody Lives" (Mule Variations)
29. "Bottom Of The World" (Orphans: Brawlers)
30. "Road To Peace" (Orphans: Brawlers)
31. "World Keeps Turning" (Orphans: Bawlers)
32. "(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night" (The Heart Of Saturday Night)
33. "Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)" (Small Change)
34. "Heartattack & Vine" (Heartattack & Vine)
35. "Train Song" (Franks Wild Years)
36. "Get Behind The Mule" (Mule Variations)
37. "9th & Hennepin" (Rain Dogs)
38. "Just The Right Bullets" (The Black Rider)
39. "Martha" (Closing Time)
40. "Woe" (Blood Money)


Top 10 Albums - Tom Waits

These are in order, Number 1 being the best. This simply my opinions out of the albums which I've heard. They may not necessarily be his best, but they're the ones I enjoy the most.

01. "Rain Dogs"
02. "Small Change"
03. "Bone Machine"
04. "Nighthawks At The Diner"
05. "Franks Wild Years"
06. "Mule Variations"
07. "Swordfishtrombones"
08. "Orphans: Brawlers"
09. "Orphans: Bawlers"
10. "Blood Money"

Some Songs I've Been Listening To Over The Past Few Days

Yes, I am bored at work. Don't judge me.

1. "Ansaphone" - Pulp
2. "I'll Be Gone" - Tom Waits
3. "No Surprises" - Radiohead
4. "Catcliffe Shakedown" - Pulp
5. "Riding Daphne" - Infant Sorrow
6. "The Piano Has Been Drinking" - Tom Waits
7. "Idler's Dream" - Oasis
8. "Tupelo" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
9. "Wild Is The Wind" - David Bowie
10. "Glorybox" - Portishead
11. "Friday I'm In Love" - The Cure
12. "It's True" - Thee Spivs
13. "Pretty Baby" - Billy Childish
14. "Not Perfect" - Tim Minchin
15. "Girlfriend In A Coma" - The Smiths
16. "Road To Peace" - Tom Waits
17. "The Thrill Is Gone" - BB King
18. "New England" - Billy Bragg
19. "The Man Comes Around" - Johnny Cash
20. "I Am The Resurrection" - The Stone Roses
21. "Bar Italia" - Pulp
22. "Do The Wait" - The Scenics
23. "Pieces Of What" - MGMT
24. "Keep Me In Your Heart" - Warren Zevon
25. "I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town" - Rod Stewart
26. "Working Class Hero" - Green Day (Cover)
27. "Train Song" - Tom Waits
28. "Which Side Are You On?" - Billy Bragg
29. "Five Years" - David Bowie
30. "Jumper" - Third Eye Blind

My Second Stand Up Set - "Utah"

Taken on 2/1/11, this was roughly written the night before. Read video info to explain starts as recordings fucked up.


Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofoZ7WNaek


Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyVtWDuUBc

Russell Brand - Do I like him, or don't I?

I just watched The British Comedy Awards on Channel 4 (thank fuck for SKY+!), and I'm stuck in a bit of a dichotomy.

Russell Brand won this award: "Outstanding Contribution To British Comedy".

This is where I have a problem. It's not that Brand doesn't deserve the award, it's just that I can't work out whether I like him or not. And the similarities between us bug me, as I feel like I'm trying to be him (even though I'm not).

For instance, I wear my hair up at the back, I wear tight jeans, waistcoasts, neck-scarves, winklepicker boots, and eyeliner. I, too, am an eccentric. And our influences and heroes are pretty much the same: Bill Hicks, Jack Kerouac, Jim Morrison, Stewart Lee....

Shit, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" is one of my favourite films, and the soudtrack to "Get Him To The Greek" is one of my favourite albums.

I think my main problem with Russell Brand is that he is a very clever comedian (he proved this with his last show "Scandalous"), yet he relies on jokes which are nowhere near as good as he has proven his skills can produce. It annoys me that he can write excellent satirical jokes, but instead chooses to simply exploit his openly wild sex-life for humour. To me, it seems cheap. He's wasting talent.

I also have a HATRED of celebrity culture, and I can't help feeling he is the epitome of "celeb". Yet, I believe that he's a good enough actor, definitely has charisma, is very well dressed, and can be very funny. He claims one of his influences to be Bill Hicks, yet he's almost become evrything Bill Hicks stood against.

Russell Brand has proved that you can be eccentric and successful, and he has tested the boundaries of comedic controversy.

I do respect him. Fuck me, my first ever proper joke on stage was: "Before you say anthing, I'm not trying to be Russell Brand with the hair. Honestly, who'd wanna be Russell Brand? I would. he's rich and he's fucking Katy Perry."

And still, I can't bring myself to say that I truly like him. Is it the fact that I think people assume I'm trying to be him? Is it 'cause he is talented, and everything I should hate, but don't? Is it that I fear that if I ever became successful, that's what I'd become - a talented performer who would rather bask in the pseudo-glory of celebrity culture?

I don't know.



It's probably 'cause he can get laid and I can't.

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