Future Soundtrack for America, Tom Waits and They Might Be Giants on board

[Melodybe]

If I didn't think that I could love Tom Waits and They Might Be Giants any more, then they go and do something like this, which makes my love for them grow in ways I didn't think possible.

Complete artist and tracklisting:

OK Go : This Will Be Our Year
David Byrne : Ain't Got So Far To Go
Jimmy Eat World : Game of Pricks (BBC evening session)
Death Cab For Cutie : This Temporary Life
Blink-182 : I Miss You (James Guthrie mix)
Mike Doughty : Move On
Ben Kweller : Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
Sleater-Kinney : Off With Your Head
R.E.M. : Final Straw (MoveOn mix)
Bright Eyes : Going for the Gold (live)
The Long Winters : The Commander Thinks Aloud (future mix)
will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas : Money
They Might Be Giants : Tippecanoe And Tyler Too
Clem Snide : The Ballad of David Icke
Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Date With the Night (live)
Fountains of Wayne : Everything's Ruined (acoustic)
Nada Surf : Your Legs Grow
The Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (live on the BBC)
Old 97's : Northern Line
Laura Cantrell : Sam Stone
Tom Waits : Day After Tomorrow
Elliott Smith : A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free

 

 I am so proud to be a democrat!

[glitch]

1. Thank you for posting! What an excellent crowd to be in!

Gonna pre-order it right now - can't wait!

[djg21]

2. Tom Waits -- one of my heros!

[Melodybe]

3. He has a new album coming out in October, he is my favorite musical

person ever.

here is a link to an interview where he talks about his new album and the song, "Day After Tomorrow."

http://ubb.mojo4music.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=235810&page=&view=&sb=5&o=

An excerpt:

The song that might get the most attention, though, is "The Day After Tomorrow," the album's closer and a rare foray for Waits into topical subject matter. The song is essentially a letter from a soldier just trying to make it another day before he is scheduled to return home. Aside from a reference to a plane touching down, it could as easily be from the Civil War as from Iraq. But Waits says it was very much formed from current events.

"You have to be able to write about what goes on around you," he says. "Pick up a newspaper, write a tune. That's all I was trying to do. Not like I'm making speeches at the U.N. But there's nothing but war in the papers now. The whole world's at war."
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