Here are my week two hundred and thirty five recommendations for Three Tune Tuesday
Drum roll please.....
Tom Waits - Singapore
“Singapore” is the opening track on Tom Waits 1985 album Rain Dogs. It sets the tone for the whole record: weird, maritime, drunken, theatrical, and full of characters who feel half carnival, half criminal.
As track 1, it’s like an invitation into the strange little world of Rain Dogs. If you vibe with “Singapore”, you’ll probably love the rest of the album and vibe with it I did from my first listen. It's classic Waits - weird, but brilliant, deranged yet glowing.
Go on. Have a listen and tell me what you think?
Tom Waits - Clap Hands
The instruments here are really weird amd it's not accidental, rather experimentation from the resourceful and quirky Waits.
Instead of a normal rock band sound, it’s built from marimba, odd percussion, and jagged guitar. Tom Waits in this era loved using junk, found sounds and unusual instruments to make his songs feel like they’re happening in a back alley somewhere, rather than a studio, which I enjoy I must say. It gives it an other wordly and natural feel and you are transported to the world that he vividly paints.
I love how Guitarist Marc Ribot plays that sharp, stabbing guitar part that almost feels out of tune at times. That’s deliberate. It adds to the sense of unease and keeps the song from ever feeling smooth or comfortable. Not edgy, weird, defiant.
There isn’t a clear narrative. Instead you get a series of surreal images from blind firemen to lame conductors and strange streets. It’s more like walking through a drunken city at 3 a.m., catching fragments of scenes as you go by. That’s one reason people can argue for ages about “what it means.”
Like all good songs, it means something different to each listener.
Tom Waits - Time
Rain Dogs is more of a band record than its predecessor. It sounds like people playing together in a room, and you notice their interplay at least as much as the arrangements. And everything revolves around the drums.
The album might have good old fashioned weird songs like the first two I shared above, but it also has ballads and for me it includes his best ballad of all time "Time". I love that even in his wild experimental phase, Waits could still write classic, beautiful ballads.
It doesn’t tell a straight story. To me it’s more like a collage of scenes and characters, all orbiting around the idea that time wears everything down bit by bit, over and over.
It really is a beautiful ballad. I love how Rain Dogs balances noisy, eccentric tracks with emotional stunners like this "Time"
"Time" is a good name for a tune. Pink Floyd have their own classic by the same name that I also love.
Here is Tom's "Time"
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 235rd 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.
HBI contest - win up to 6HBI
Share your Three Tune Tuesday songs below or create a post with #ttt or #threetunetuesday and mention me so I can find the post.
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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
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