What is the patrician's choice for best Tom Waits song?

Singapore

>>61900443
>song

Dachau Blues

>>61900443
Nighthawk Postcards, if i have to choose a single song. the choice would change tomorrow, because of his massive discog

Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis.

This is pretty much indisputable.

Green Grass

THE BATS ARE IN THE BELFRY

Shore Leave

>>61900801
>charlie im pregnant

>>61900910
?

WE SAIL TONIGHT FOR SINGAPORE

Anywhere I Lay My Head

>>61901426

listen to the song you pleb

Blue Valentines

>>61900443
Alice

This thread is proof that there is no singular patrician best song by Waits because he has over 100 of them

>>61900443
Traphouse jump in like Jordan

>>61901601
no shit, what about the line incited you to post it

>>61901836
according to her, she's living on 9th street, up above a dirty bookstore, of Euclid Avenue.

>>61900443
Probably Tom Traubert's Blues

>Well, there's one thing you can't lose

>>61901961
so
there's a euclid avenue right by where I live

I KNOW KARATE

VOODOO TOO

>>61902055
you know what you must do

>>61902024
THAT FEEL

Misery's the River of the World

Take it With Me or Somewhere (From West Side Story)

Down There By The Train
>If you've lost all your hope, if you've lost all your faith
>I know you can be cared for and I know you can be safe
>And all of the shameful
>And all of the Whores
>And even the soldier who pierced the Heart of the Lord
>Is down there by the train

DID YOU BURY YOUR FIRE?!
YES SIR!!

DID YOU COVER YOUR TRACKS?!
YES SIR!!

DID YOU BRING YOUR KNIFE?!
YES SIR!!

DID THEY SEE YOUR FACE?!
NO SIR!!

DID THE MOM SEE YOU?!
NO SIR!!

DID YOU GO CROSS THE RIVER?!
YES SIR!!

DID YOU FIX YOUR RAKE?!
YES SIR!!

DID YOU STAY DOWN WIND?!
YES SIR!!

DID YOU HIDE YOUR GUN?!
YES SIR!!

DID YOU SMUGGLE YOUR RUM?!
YES SIR!!

>>61902079
kill lennon?

>>61900443
HOIST THAT RAG

The Piano Has Been Drinking

Anything off Bone Machine

Time

>>61903113
So damn funny. First song of his I heard, and I've since been sucked in.

Picture in a Frame

However there is no wrong Tom Waits song.

HERE ARE THE ACTUAL BEST ONES SORRY I'M AN EXPERT SO YOU CAN TRUST ME
>Just Another Sucker on the Vine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjF3JjF-Rkk
>Good Man is Hard to Find
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntanv10we4M
and then the saddest song of all time
>Fish & Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s44LKiMT87Q

sorry it's actual fact

>>61900443
people aint no good :)

There's no one song that encapsulates all of his styles. It makes more sense to make a patrician's EP or LP, but at that point, we're just appreciating best of's, which is no good.

My advice is just to listen to everything in order.

>>61905399
this desu

Closing Time and Rain Dogs are both amazing for completely different reasons and styles.

>>61900818
This and If I Have To Go are my favorites.

>>61905399
im getting fatter as the days go by can you help me stop

>>61905443
DYEL

>>61905452
its hard work

>Nirvana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhQjsaS-XY

>Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis
this is also the best version of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf2nF2QFeWo

>STRANGLE ALL THE CHRISTMAS CAROLS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd42N-FdnOQ

>dirt in the ground
this one makes me feel some type of way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm3LEmFFj2g

>>61905556
shit wrong link for Nirvana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlAU83sZeB4

I Don't Wanna Grow Up

>>61903113
patrician detected, i was gonna post this

Probably something off the Bastards disc of Orphans

>>61901734
you might be right dude

>>61902087
you are completely off base tho

>>61905556
bukowski wrote nirvana

>>61905354
fish and bird is pretty tight

>>61903113
respectable choice.

personally i'd have to say anywhere i lay my head is my favorite.

>>61903085
my favorite

Picture in a Frame

>>61902256
I agree with this one, all of Real Gone is top-tier patrician

Lucinda.

In The Neighbourhood

Clap Hands desu senpai

GOIN OUT WEST

>>61900443
San Diego Serenade

you guys are clearly not thinking obscure enough - has to be some b-side or other weird crap that's not even on Orphans

I nominate It's Alright With Me - the video was directed by Jim Jarmusch, so clearly a very patrician choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RASG2JmtDeQ

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>>61900443
>le dark jazzy atmospere
>le quirky reddit voice
>muh smoky speaksies

m'lady

>>61910888
buttblasted sufjan fan detected

Eggs and Sausage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDo1617aXX4

>>61907905
bukowski did indeed write nirvana, and then tom waits performed it and it sounded very nice.

>>61908988
This.

I go for months without listening to him but when I got back I remember exactly why I consider him the greatest.

I can't pick a favourite song, but if I had a gun to my head I'd probably say The Piano Has Been Drinking, purely because as a now recovered alcoholic I can laugh at this song knowing that I used to act like the narrator. It was everybody's fault but mine.

Fall of Troy

>>61902256
Fuck I love this song and album so much

>>61910888
I think the majority of Waits' music is the stuff fedora bros say is 'pretentious.'

>>61901483
Correct.