Rod Stewart – Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved June 4, 2020. The album’s biggest strength is thus that Waits really commits to his stories. The problem is that Waits REALLY commits to his stories. The lyrics include some references to gender and race that verge on slurs, and the overall vibe can get pretty gross. For every humble expression of anticipation to reunite with a loved one after a shift at a dead-end job, there’s a lewd confessional from a guy who believes sex workers and models in pin-ups have some special emotional attachment to him. Of course, it all fits the narrative framing, but it can still feel a bit uncomfortable, and after close to 50 minutes, also a bit repetitive. There are a lot of little things on Small Change that add up and make the album one of the strongest in Waits's terrific catalog. I love this album for three reasons. Firstly the songs. Whomever was singing them it would be churlish to argue with the quality of song writing on Rain Dogs. These are anthems for the ages.

I’ve never pulled the plug on Tom either, I accept who he is and what he does. Everything about him is like something from a bygone era, yet magically in the moment. I have however, asked friends if they’d mind finding something else to play at dinner other than Tom Waits. Hearing Tom’s records has on more than one occasion ruined a perfectly good high, reducing me to long exhales of frustration and anxiety ... one for which even Valium refuses to help. Tom is like “Outsider Art,” but he’s been around so long that he’s nearly mainstream, and if not mainstream, certainly part of our collective consciousness; where even if we don’t know the Wait’s reference, we understand the joke. In May 1979, Waits himself confirmed the song's origins during a live performance in Sydney, Australia, stating "I met this girl named Matilda. And uh, I had a little too much to drink that night. This is about throwing up in a foreign country." [4] a b c d "Tom Traubert's Blues". Tom Waits Library. Archived from the original on 2011-12-09 . Retrieved 2007-01-18.

a b c Small Change (LP). Tom Waits. Asylum Records. 1976. K 53050. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Waits took to the road, extending his persona to the stage and refining it in front of often hostile audiences who didn’t know the Tropicana Motel from the Chateau Marmont. His third album, Nighthawks at the Diner, benefits from those experiences even if it doesn’t really reflect them. It’s a live album, but only sort of. Waits and producer Bones Howe assembled a small audience of friends at the Record Plant in L.A., rolled out a piano and a microphone, and let Waits bend their ears for a few hours. It’s not a real nightclub, more like a Hollywood film set. He introduces it as “Raphael’s Silver Cloud Lounge,” then dives into a superlatively loose set that blurs the lines between song and stage banter. Where does his intro end and “Emotional Weather Report” begin? Is the eleven-minute “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)” a real song or just a long aside to the audience?

Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" (commonly known as " Tom Traubert's Blues" or " Waltzing Matilda") is a song by American musician Tom Waits. He said the most wonderful thing about writing that song. He went down and hung around on skid row in L.A. because he wanted to get stimulated for writing this material. He called me up and said, "I went down to skid row ... I bought a pint of rye. In a brown paper bag." I said, "Oh really?" "Yeah - hunkered down, drank the pint of rye, went home, threw up, and wrote 'Tom Traubert's Blues' [...] Every guy down there ... everyone I spoke to, a woman put him there." [4] Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.267. In an interview on NPR's World Cafe in December 2006, Waits stated that the title character was "a friend of a friend" who had died in prison. [2] The song's subtitle ("Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen") is a reference to the time that Waits spent in Copenhagen, Denmark while on tour in June 1976. In Copenhagen, Waits had met Danish singer and violinist Mathilde Bondo. Bondo performed violin during Waits' appearance on the DR1 TV show Sange Efter Lukketid and said that she "of course had to show him the city – we were in Tivoli and on Christianshavn. It was a lovely night [...] we waltzed a lot" [3] Bondo later said "I'm really proud to have been the muse for his song" and referred to Waits' depiction of Copenhagen as "somewhat ambiguous but it's a wonderful song." [3]

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The Rolling Stones, Some Girls (1978): Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, etc. Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". The A.V. Club. 5 October 2016. The Irish Charts – Search Results – Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

Waits recorded the album in reaction to these hardships. This is evident in the pessimism and cynicism that pervade the record, with many songs, such as "The Piano Has Been Drinking" and "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart" presenting a bare and honest portrayal of alcoholism, while also cementing Waits' hard-living reputation in the eyes of many fans. The album's themes include those of desolation, deprivation, and, above all else, alcoholism. The cast of characters, which includes hookers, strippers and small-time losers, are, for the most part, night-owls and drunks; people lost in a cold, urban world.The rum soaked tales which make up Rain Dogs' drunken ditties take the listener on a voyage over the high seas and into the seedy underbelly of downtown New York. Off beat rhymes and out of key rhythms serve for an uncomfortable delight. Waits offers an astounding record for musicians and poets alike, to discuss and revel in for years to come. Rod Stewart – Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved June 4, 2020. I wrote a review of this when I was trashed, and I ended up sort of trashing the album, just because I was in a mood. Now I'll just calmly explain how I feel about this album. As a mood album it's great, it's drunken jazzy lounge music with personality. However I think the first 2 songs hurt this album. This will probably be a controversial oppinion as these songs are usually beloved, and they're not bad songs, I just don't like the fact that they open the album, because I REALLY have to be in the mood for them. Tom Traubert's Blues" opens the album. Jay S. Jacobs has described the song as a "stunning opener [which] sets the tone for what follows." [4] The refrain is based almost word by word on the 1890 Australian song, " Waltzing Matilda" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson, although the tune is slightly different.

The album's closing song, "I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)", has a simple musical arrangement, boasting only Waits' voice and piano, with bass by Jim Hughart. The lyrics are about Waits' first job at Napoleone Pizza House in San Diego, which he began in 1965, at the age of 16. [6] Themes [ edit ]Tom Traubert's Blues" lyrics and notes". Tom Waits Library. Archived from the original on 2012-01-01. and has a slow tempo of 60 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of F major. The song is piano-based and led by Waits but also features Jim Hughart performing bass. A fifteen-piece orchestral ensemble performs on the song, arranged and conducted by Jerry Yester who had produced Waits' debut studio album Closing Time (1973). [6] Listinn Topp 40 (26. feb.–4. mars)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). February 25, 1993. p.29 . Retrieved January 1, 2021.