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Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
Another week, another three tunes and this week, it's another Tom Waits album, this time Small Change.
I'm enjoying staying on one artist and a specific album each week, giving me a chance to dip back into some great albums, which I listen to a few times ahead of my selection of tunes each week.
Tom Traubert's Blues gets things going this week.
This song is also known as "Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen" Waits reportedly wrote it after visiting Copenhagen in the 1970s where he met street people, drunks, and wanderers. He’s said that it’s about all the people he met there, "like a foreign legion of lost souls.”
Tom Waits - Step Right Up
Next up is the second song from the album, Step Right up.
The song skewers the way advertisers exploit people’s desires for youth, happiness, beauty, and meaning. Waits mimics the rapid-fire delivery of salesmen who never let you stop and think.
Lines like this “It gives you an erection, it wins the election…” come and go, each line getting more absurd, showing how marketing language has become meaningless — just noise.
Waits opinion seems to align with Bill Hicks opinion on marketing people.
I read Bill's autobiography recently and he said “By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing — kill yourself. No, seriously, just kill yourself.” Satire yes, but it clearly tells you what he thinks of consumerism.
Hicks was hilarious, but was also a fantastic social commentator and had something to say. I'd imagine he was a Tom Waits fan somehow and would have known these verses:
"And it mows your lawn
It picks up the kids from school
It gets rid of unwanted facial hair
It gets rid of embarrassing age spots
It delivers the pizza
And it lengthens
And it strengthens
And it finds that slipper that's be en-lodged under the
Chaise lounge for several weeks"
Both Hicks and Waits saw marketing as the death of authenticity.
They saw a corrupt system that turns dreams, rebellion, and even suffering into something to sell. They used their art forms of music and comedy to try and educate us.
Tom Waits - The Piano has been Drinking
I'll leave you with this one.
"The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)” is Tom Waits’ darkly comic portrait of denial and decay, told through the slurred ramblings of a washed-up barroom performer who insists he’s sober while blaming his surroundings. It's the piano's fault, the furniture is to blame, it's the clock, not him!! No way is he just drunk....
Beneath its absurd humor and obscure rhythm lies a biting satire of show business, where art, alcohol, and illusion blur together. Waits turns the scene into a surreal cabaret of failure, using his staggering delivery and odd imagery to reveal the loneliness, exhaustion, and tragic self-delusion that haunt the performer behind the act.
Waits lets us see behind the curtain, where it's not all glamour and beauty, as we may think.
Hopefully, I'm introducing a few of ye to Tom's wonderful art.
Three Tune Tuesday
That's right, it's Tuesday folks and for our merry little band of ladies and lads, that means sharing tunes, good vibes and engagement. As another week disappears in the rearview mirror, we have loads of engagement and tunes flying around on Three Tune Tuesday and sure isn't that bloody fantastic! I hope you're ready to share three tunes from wherever you find yourself on this magical spinning lump of rock that we all call home and sure you might even sing us a tune if we're lucky?
It's a time of the week when lovers of music, tunes and craic bring their blockchain community three of their finest and brightest tunes to share and celebrate, so let's roll on and let the tunes flow free.
This is my 230th week waxing lyrical for Three Tune Tuesday and we are still going strong.
It started off with me just sharing tunes into what seemed like a void, but little by little others joined and now I'm thrilled that we have a little corner of Hive where we come and share our tunes every Tuesday, and long may it continue. I almost stopped posting the songs and thoughts a few times, but I stuck with it and now interestingly it is my favorite thing about Hive. I love music and now I have a network of folks around the world who love music too and we share our tunes and catch up with each others tunes and discuss them each week. We get Pop, Metal, Rock, Gospel, Folk, Jazz, Rap, Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Reggae, Bippy bappidy Flange Hop. Ok I made that one up, but you get the idea, we are all learning about new artists, bands, back stories and sure isn't it just mighty!
Something that excites me the most is that we even get musicians sharing their covers of famous songs and even their own songs from time to time here on #ThreeTuneTuesday, which is a real favorite of mine, as that takes talent, time and dedication.
We are adding New posters and retaining our core of regulars here on #TTT which is fantastic. Let's keep it growing. Over the years, I have listened to fantastic music shared from like-minded folk from around the globe and interacted with their posts. This has led me to genres I don't know well and to some amazing new bands and artists and has even introduced me to some musical instruments I did not know existed. It also allows me to upvote smaller accounts and find some really interesting people from all over the world, which is heartening.
I hope you enjoy the tunes - be sure to tell me all about it in the comments below and above all else, please enjoy the rest of your Tuesday - smile at a stranger, rub a dog, be a nice human to someone who was not expecting it - peace out.
For those unfamiliar with TTT or Three Tune Tuesday....
The jist is as follows
Every Tuesday I'm going to share 3 songs which I like to listen to and I invite your feedback in the comments below. Better still, why not have a blast of your own Three Tune Tuesday and mention me in the post and I'll come and find the post and upvote it. If you could also use #threetunetuesday tag that would be great, as that is what I use when sifting through all the entries every Wednesday. It'll be a sweet way for us all to discover new music. You'll also be in with a chance of winning the prize - more on that later.
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Sin é, That's all folks, thanks for stopping by.
That's it for another week. Those are your three songs for this week. Let me know what you think - good, bad or indifferent? Did you like them all or just one or two?
Also, as I said before, I love getting good steers for new tunes, so please tell me about the latest and greatest from your playlist below and I'll be sure to check em out.
The YouTube videos shared are not owned by me and I am simply sharing great music with the community here on Hive
Thanks as always for stopping by everyone and a big shout out to @stickupcurator whose continued generous support to #ttt is noticed and truly appreciated - thanks gents.
Peace Out
Great tunes, convincing compilation. Btw, if someone's curious - on the coverphoto in 1st YT video used the photo of Tom Waits in Paris - one of (many) my fave photos of Tom.
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Interesting about the photo man. I didn’t know that. Have you seen him live. He's on my list, but still haven't seen him.
The three songs are wonderful, each in its own style, but "Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen" made me cry. It is a beautiful piece, not just because of the lyrics, but the music, the voice. It's raining in my city and I listen to these three melodies as if they were a lifeline. Regards
Thanks for that great engaging comment Nancy. It's probably my favourite song from this album too, he's a fantastic story teller. Isn't he..
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