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(56,582 posts) Fri Nov 20, 2015, 04:16 AM Nov 2015

A map of every town mentioned in a Tom Waits song

http://tomwaitsmap.com/

I'm sad somebody beat me to this...

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A map of every town mentioned in a Tom Waits song (Original Post) Recursion Nov 2015 OP

Who are you and what have you done with taterguy??? pinboy3niner Nov 2015 #1

I love maps and I love Tom Waits cemaphonic Nov 2015 #2

I don't listen to enough Tom Waits OriginalGeek Nov 2015 #5

Ha, gunpowder and gravel - you have no idea. cemaphonic Nov 2015 #6

What's he got against Canada? lame54 Nov 2015 #3

Stompin' Tom put up some pretty stiff defense Joe Shlabotnik Nov 2015 #7

i love the song "Town with no cheer". SwissTony Nov 2015 #4

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

1. Who are you and what have you done with taterguy???

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 08:52 AM

Nov 2015

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)

2. I love maps and I love Tom Waits

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 12:58 PM

Nov 2015

neat find.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)

5. I don't listen to enough Tom Waits

Reply to cemaphonic (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 06:28 PM

Nov 2015

I need to fix that.

Starting with whatever song mentions Tallahassee (hopefully in a favorable light), I was born there.

Oh neat - click and ye shall find - Had Me A Girl.

Wow, listening to this I think he's been eating gunpowder and gravel for the last 40 years...

lol, the girl from Toledo was neato. I love it.

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)

6. Ha, gunpowder and gravel - you have no idea.

Reply to OriginalGeek (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 08:47 PM

Nov 2015

On early songs like that one, he sounds positively smooth & silky compared to his later vocal style.

But yeah. listening to more Tom Waits sounds like a good project to me.

lame54

(40,085 posts)

3. What's he got against Canada?

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 01:13 PM

Nov 2015

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)

7. Stompin' Tom put up some pretty stiff defense

Reply to lame54 (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 11:09 PM

Nov 2015

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)

4. i love the song "Town with no cheer".

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 04:01 PM

Nov 2015

It mentions the town Serviceton. It was a station for the train from Adelaide to Melbourne (The Overland). I believe many years ago, passengers had to disembark from the train at Serviceton and transfer to another train because the states South Australia and Victoria had different rail gauges (distance between the rails).

I've always been bemused by the lyrics in Tom Traubert about "Everything's broken and no-one speaks English". Copenhagen? Try getting a Dane to NOT speak English. And nothing was broken last time i was there.

I had the same language problem when i moved to Holland (OK, The Netherlands). As soon as the worked out that I was actually a native English speaker, they'd switch over to English. I'd had conversations in which i spoke Dutch and the Dutch person spoke English.

Fortunately, I also speak Glaswegian...

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