31 years ago

Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

I came home from the pub and turned the TV on. This was on the OGWThttps://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmqbcBsTAw&feature=related
Still blows my socks off.
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LeeR · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Karma :

Well I'll be damned I never knew he was ever that young.

So the voice, accident or birth defect? Wink

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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Cheap whisky and cigarettes.
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LeeR · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Karma :

So are you a big fan then, Wali?

A few of my mates at school were into him (ages ago obviously) and whilst some of the songs appealed and he's definately a good songwriter, I personally could never get past the voice and the misery.
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Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

Jesus christ. If some bloke came into a pub and started singing like that he'd be thrown through a window.

But it's hip. It's arty. It's 'now'. And blah blah pretentious blah. Anybody want to say the king is wearing no clothes?

Somebody tell the guy to stick to playing the piano, his voice is SHITE. Rolling Eyes

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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Very much a fan, his voice is unique and I would not describe him as miserable (not in the sense the Smiths were, all Morrisey's angst was focused on himself). Rather he sings of the other side of what is normally perceived as the American dream. Whores, pimps, strippers and one night stands are his subject matter and that voice is perfect for his songs. It is a world of drugs and drunks that he seems totally happy to be in.
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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Some twonk of a paper boy seems to have delivered the Daily Mail to my PC.
Art is wrong Bla Bla Bla.
Art is what distinguishes us from savages Siggi.
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Suitor_Stu · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Karma :

When I get pissed i usually end up doing my Tom Waits/Louis Armstrong impression. Buggers my throat up way more than cheap whisky and cigarettes!

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Villers · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Karma :

Was it meant to be funny? Had me giggling at the start but once I worked out the song (I couldnt get a word he was choking on) all I could think of was 10,000 pissed up aussie fans singing their hearts out! Laughing

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Mr Hammers · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Karma :

What a class thread so far...Tom Waits and John Otway. Two of my favourite singer/songwriters for entirely different reasons.

Just out of interest, me and Mrs Hammers were presented with a bottle of Blue Smirnoff by Mr Otway, for being the best hosts of the coach party when we went abroad on one of his tours. Thumbs Up

Totally loveable, he is.
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Villers · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Karma :

Thats were your wrong Baz, you dont need a brain to watch xfactor.

PLus Id only watch it if they promised to set cowell on fire and the fittest female contestant was coming round to gobble me off while I watched it.
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rusty_bawz · Scooby Slapper Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Karma :

I had never heard that version ofthe songbefore nor had I heard of tom waits but Ienjoyed it I could listentothat sort of stuff
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Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hmm about 31 years ago my dad got in from the pub and give my mother what for and about 9 months later I was born!

Laughing

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AJI · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Karma :

Not keen on Tom Waits. A guy I used to work with loved his music, used to put it on the stereo in the canteen, but it was just a bit too excessively weird for me.

That said, accusing a blues artist of not being able to sing amuses me. None of them can "sing" particularly well. The blues is about storytelling against a background of music. Having a great voice isn't particularly important.
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