What's /mu/ opinion on Tom Waits?

What's he waiting for?
bad band

>>72993474

One of America's national treasures.

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>>72993474
I haven't listened to him a ton, but I really like him. His whole bum aesthetic is wonderful.

To good for this world.

i can't get through any of his albums, his voice because extremely annoying after about 10 minutes

>>72993637
fuck off

What's your favorite album by him, anons?

Blood Money was the first lp i ever bought!

>>72993474
>what's /mu/'s opinion on this /mu/core

really flogs my nogs

I enjoy Rain Dogs a lot mostly based on the arrangements and Marc Ribot being the greatest guitarist that ever lived but Waits' singing and his songwriting is pretty fucking cringey and hard to take in large doses for me. You're not a hobo or a pirate or Kurt Weill... you're just some fucking guy in a literal fedora.

I admit that a lot of this comes from the fact that I was well into my 20's when I first heard Waits.

>>72993994
What is pop music if not an act? In another context, sure, Waits' persona would be pretentious and cringey. But he's an entertainer, and he plays his character pretty well.

There's a Tom Waits and Aesop Rock mash up album that someone made and threw on youtube, which is pretty snazzy.

>>72994046

I agree but feel that Waits' persona is a particularly tryhard and embarrassing one. There's a reason that Johnny Depp doesn't walk around his entire life pretending to be Captain Jack Sparrow.

>>72994082
He kind of does.

>>72993845
In the Heart of Saturday Night

>>72993637
He has several different voices. Do you really not like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxpOlL5z94

>>72994101

And it's fucking embarrassing and reeks of tryhard desperation

>>72993474
Writes a lot of dark/melancholy songs that only he could perform with conviction. One of the best songwriter still living.

>>72994112
I think this is my fav too, at least for now, Rain Dogs being second.

hes a severe fagotron