Tom Waits Closing Time
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grannypantys
November 17th 2017


2570 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

had to bump the rating



man this is good

BigHans
December 12th 2017


30959 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Old Shoes (and Paper Postcards), is probably the best song ever written,

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
March 26th 2018


32015 Comments


It's weird to hear his voice so clean in Ol'55.

BigHans
March 26th 2018


30959 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

So much better than any of his later stuff

SharkTooth
May 18th 2019


14921 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

my first Tom Waits album was Blood Money

this couldn't be any more different an experience from that if it tried



prefer Blood Money but this is damn fine as a record

ReefaJones
March 17th 2020


3624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

lonely eyeeeeeeeeees

e210013
March 17th 2020


5120 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I always loved this album.

ReefaJones
March 17th 2020


3624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

check out this cover it's really quite amazing:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqqcQCZQl8

e210013
March 17th 2020


5120 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks Reefa.

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
March 19th 2020


16596 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

meh

Phantom
April 12th 2020


9010 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Ice Cream Man is probably one of my top 3 Tom Waits tracks.

JokineAugustus
April 12th 2020


10938 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm right in between. I like most of his stuff after this more.

Phantom
April 12th 2020


9010 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm a big fan of all his work, but I think his early material just edges it for me.

parksungjoon
April 12th 2020


47231 Comments


i love being edged

Scheumke
June 9th 2020


2625 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

God Martha is so frickin great. I love how he completely convincingly tells this story of an old man calling to his long lost love with him being like 24 years old. It shouldn't work but it totally does.

NorthernSkylark
November 28th 2020


12134 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed. It’s also very hard not to join the chorus in a Waits kind of way.





THOSE WERE DAYS OF ROOOOOOOSEEEEESSS

IsildursBane44
September 10th 2021


764 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I was playing music with my friends at this restaurant/bar last night and I had on my Tom Waits shirt. This guy yells from the back of the room "play some Tom Waits!" I was like "nobody in the band listens to him except me!" And then he said "Well why don't you just sing one. Sing Ol'55!" So then I sang the opening lines in a somewhat joking Waits voice, and everyone laughed. I don't think the guy expected to see a 19 year old with a Tom Waits shirt, so he got excited. haha

deathofasalesman
September 10th 2021


8634 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

19 was the age I started listening to Tom Waits funny enough



always found him irritating before that

IsildursBane44
September 10th 2021


764 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I've been listening to him for about three years now. I got really heavy into his stuff near the beginning but then haven't listened as much. It's time to go through his albums again. I think this one has always been my favorite for some reason. I guess it's easier to hear over and over without getting tired of it, and the quality is still there.

deathofasalesman
September 10th 2021


8634 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I noticed you haven't rated Alice or Blood Money, those would be great ones to check. Alice is really somber though, so prepare for a downer/slow record



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