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Pookah posted:Tom Waits pisses me off because I love Rain Dogs very much but I have exactly the wrong sort of voice to sing his stuff. I have no gruffness at all, so when I sing, it sounds ridiculously sugary. Big Black Mariah is my favourite track and I cannot even begin to sing it. Diamonds and gold has been my in-head background music for literally decades at this point. Fuckin hell, Cemetery Polka rules. Tom Waits is very hard to sing. If you want to sing his tunes, just sing it in your own voice. He won't mind. I sing "Coney Island Baby" in my normal voice and it works fine. Most others don't work. It does help to be a baritone-bass, but you could sing tenor as well. Either way, it's the way you arrange it that matters.
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mostlygray posted:Tom Waits is very hard to sing. If you want to sing his tunes, just sing it in your own voice. He won't mind. I've been listening to him all day at work because of this thread and you guys? I'm starting to get it. I like his percussion decisions, specifically. He really has a fabulous feel for when musical punctuation is needed.
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Just going from instinct, but you could try Down in the Hole, or taking a grizzly ballad like Burma-Shave or Alice up an octave. Or Martha, that would work. There's also a cover album subtitled Women Sing Waits but I've never listened, I imagine the Aimee Mann and Phoebe Bridgers covers are decent. And a Scarlet Johansson cover album which is not good. My singing voice is somewhere in the Neil Young zone, but if I'm busting out the acoustic I might sing a lil Heart of Saturday Night, Jersey Girl, or Hold On Failed Imagineer has a new favorite as of 23:41 on May 27, 2021 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:There's also a cover album subtitled Women Sing Waits but I've never listened, I imagine the Aimee Mann and Phoebe Bridgers covers are decent. And a Scarlet Johansson cover album which is not good. gently caress, now I just want to blast some Waits on the stereo and sing along to all of it at the top of my lungs. My husband is very much not a fan, but that's never stopped me before. e: My father has made it very clear that he wants "Step Right Up" at his funeral.
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May 28, 2021 00:29
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Your dad owns. The changeup in Kentucky Avenue when you realise they're just kids and he's singing to a girl in a wheelchair is heartbreaking.
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May 28, 2021 00:54
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For the second time in a couple of months I find myself recommending gun street girl. It’s a banger of a tune https://youtu.be/l4XZWZ91kfc Also little trip to heaven was my wedding song. https://youtu.be/x6NfUKUwqtw AFewBricksShy has a new favorite as of 01:03 on May 28, 2021 |
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May 28, 2021 00:58
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AFewBricksShy posted:Also little trip to heaven was my wedding song.
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Hirayuki posted:Yes! It was on our wedding playlist, too. Beautiful. The bad thing about it being a Tom waits song is that it’s probably about a hooker but it’s a beautiful song.
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May 28, 2021 01:24
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just going from instinct, but you could try Down in the Hole, or taking a grizzly ballad like Burma-Shave or Alice up an octave. Or Martha, that would work. I liked the version of Time that Tori Amos did (which isn't from that album but you just reminded me of it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtythil5qwY
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AFewBricksShy posted:Also little trip to heaven was my wedding song. This has been a really good day. e: Texted him about this and he's devastated. "I don't even sound like Tom Waits when I sing? Is it worse than when I do Joe Cocker?" I didn't know he did Cocker either. He's so fabulous. fizzymercury has a new favorite as of 01:52 on May 28, 2021 |
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fizzymercury posted:I'm a contralto, is there a Waits song for that? Like imagine Karen Carpenter singing Tom Waits at a bad karaoke night. Genuinely looking for suggestions. Honestly, I'd go go nuts with "Starving in the belly of a whale". Only because it doesn't work, it will work. It's fun to sing songs that don't match your voice and make them your own. I sing Katy Perry stuff with my kid in baritone register and it works. Just drop two octaves and it's fun. It's irritating because I'm not a bass, but I can swing it if I try. I can do baritone fine. Tenor is OK but it get's iffy at the top end. If I'm warmed up, I can do it. It's taken me decades of practice to hit top on tenor. My grandpa was a basso-profundo who could top out at the end of tenor. He showed me how to do it and just said keep practicing. It works but I sit best at Johnny Cash or Crash Test Dummies sort of things. I really like singing "All about that bass" with my daughter. She does the high parts and I do a nifty drop from tenor to bass that works well. Tenor: "...all about that..." Bass: "Bass", daughter: "No treble". Just play with your voice and the arrangement. Any song can be sung in any register if you re-arrange it.
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May 28, 2021 01:59
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mostlygray posted:Tom Waits is very hard to sing. If you want to sing his tunes, just sing it in your own voice. He won't mind. That growling is legitimate technique and there is a right way to do it that won't destroy your voice. You basically are incorporating your vestibular fold to create that raspy sound. Its used for metal "screaming" and Thuvan throat singing. Mechanically it's very similar to the use of vocal fry, but more. I first learned about it during a brief stint as a music major in college, but never actually learned the technique. I'm sure there are plenty of You Tube videos out there that can teach how to do it in a safe, non-damaging manner. I mean if you want to. There is absolutely nothing wrong about singing any song in a manner that is comfortable for your voice.
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AFewBricksShy posted:The bad thing about it being a Tom waits song is that it’s probably about a hooker but it’s a beautiful song. Despite his greasy hardboiled wino image Waits has been married to the same woman for 40 years. It might be about Bette Midler, they dated in the 70s.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Despite his greasy hardboiled wino image Waits has been married to the same woman for 40 years.
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Now but in the 70s, I think around the time of Little Trip to Heaven she and Tom Waits were an item
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This movie was an underrated gem.
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Down By Law is essential if you like to see Waits acting.
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i really like tom waits sad songs https://vimeo.com/33803455 as for women's voices, neko case did a p good cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rywjD8Ak4w still prefer the original tho... how do ya like that. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 04:03 on May 29, 2021 |
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I just learned two things about bowling balls: first, they have multiple layers (this isn't much of a surprise to me), but also, the core can be quite irregular (which is). 
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a kitten posted:I just learned two things about bowling balls: first, they have multiple layers (this isn't much of a surprise to me), but also, the core can be quite irregular (which is). That feels like a scheme to get rid of evidence from various crimes
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a kitten posted:I just learned two things about bowling balls: first, they have multiple layers (this isn't much of a surprise to me), but also, the core can be quite irregular (which is). Wtf 
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*Makes bowling balls by filling them with scrap parts and random offcuts* I call this one The Enigma
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Captain Hygiene posted:That feels like a scheme to get rid of evidence from various crimes checks out  e: Actually, with Mystery Men, we're right back to Tom Waits.
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a kitten posted:checks out And my regular reminder that this movie is great and an underappreciated gem
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a kitten posted:e: Actually, with Mystery Men, we're right back to Tom Waits. Holy poo poo that's why that picture of him looked familiar 
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Captain Hygiene posted:Holy poo poo that's why that picture of him looked familiar
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De La Soul are only just in their 50s
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Captain Splendid posted:De La Soul are only just in their 50s Vincent Mason was only 18 when they released their debut studio album 3 Feet High and Rising (he turned 19 a few weeks later) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD_crXNhzKs
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Likewise, Organized Konfusion released their debut a couple days before Pharoahe Monch turned 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0EWrnsbOY
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Steve Winwood was 14 when he joined the Spencer Davis Group and had just turned 18 when he recorded Gimme Some Lovin' with the band. He was nearly 40 when he put out "Higher Love."
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My perception of what "old" is, especially for musicians, has sure changed a lot. I had pretty much the same reaction to this information as this guy https://twitter.com/MattOswaltVA/status/1391205419289223169?s=19
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Vincent Mason was only 18 when they released their debut studio album 3 Feet High and Rising (he turned 19 a few weeks later) What in the absolute gently caress
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I think I just realised why I find it so annoying when my cat James meows at me for something, compared with my other cat Wolfgang. Besides how much more he does it, I mean. I noticed that when Wolfgang meows, the pitch goes up at the end, not unlike an English speaker asking a question. With James, it's either flat or goes down at the end. I wonder if I've been perceiving it as a demand, and Wolfgang's as a polite request?
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I think your cat might just be an rear end in a top hat.
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fizzymercury posted:I think your cat might just be an rear end in a top hat.
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fizzymercury posted:I think your cat might just be a cat.
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fizzymercury posted:I think your rear end in a top hat might just be a cat.
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a kitten posted:My perception of what "old" is, especially for musicians, has sure changed a lot. I had pretty much the same reaction to this information as this guy I don't think Tom Petty is 37 anymore
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I always thought of Roy Oribison as on old man so I'm surprised to find out he died at 52.
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All those rock music greats started out making all-time great music at crazily young ages that definitely don't make me feel like I've done nothing with my life, in no way at all, why would you even ask
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