How's it Gonna End (Tom Waits)

[@Acid_Viking]

This was my favorite episode of Sesame Street.

[@benktubes]

I highly recommend looking up "Cookie Monster sings God's Away On Business"

[@seanrosenau2088]

​@@benktubes YAY, COOKIE WAITS!!

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

Yep. Yep yep yeeeeaappp uh huh. UH HUH. Fa-vo-rite. Yep yeap.

[@GreatMooglyGoogly]

Pat Robertson might agree.

[@SuzieCarter227]

Doubtful sesame street

[@davidr1676]

My first Waits album was Rain Dogs. My most intense episode of listening to one of his albums was as a passenger in a car. 4 of us went to a Pink Floyd show, 1 designated driver, and 3 of us tripping and smoking through the show and the rain. Our "designated driver" drove us through the night but leaving the city in a continuous rain and Neon signs streaking by. Once out of the city the songs took on a new life with words that hit home deeply and sometimes even a comedic splatter here and there. I think that we heard the entire CD at least twice in a row and it didn't fail us. That was so long ago now. In times before cameras and cell phones or Windows 95, non-musical electronics destroyed a chapter of history.

[@brucesmith1544]

how so?

[@davetommo4739]

@@brucesmith1544 If you got to ask "How so?" you wern't there.Computorisation made people weak of muscle , weak of mind and weak of adventure. music lost that vibe when they started using computers. Prove me wrong. Show me a more insperational band than Floyd or someone more creative than Hendrix, or Someone as inteligent as Bob Marley around since comptorisation of music. Loved the story of the trips and Floyd and listening to Tom while tripping in the car. I have similar memories. Thanks X

[@horatiotodd8723]

@@davetommo4739Radiohead

[@kennethross3567]

My kids have a similar story.

[@Medic6581]

Love love love this mans writing, art and music. Nobody sounds like Waits. God bless sir. There are other worlds than these

[@AldousHuxleysCat]

Always felt he and Leonard Cohen were very similar - complementary artist

[@GreatMooglyGoogly]

It’s just this world. And one truth underlying all the quantum psychology.

[@Jambi14]

The world has moved on..

[@jaydouglas5847]

@@AldousHuxleysCat Just heard this song for the first time and thought is this a Cohen tune covered by Waits ? When learned it was a Wait's written song I said hmmm...wow. Great tune

[@PolHesher]

Beefheart...

[@TheComedyGeek]

Seriously though, of all the things I love, I never thought Tom Waits and The Muppets would overlap. Good job!

[@cheri238]

True artistry never dies. Tom Waites and Muppets. Love this ❤

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

How is this TRUE ARTISTRY? its a Cover.... Its just silly Karaoke

[@Thorsoak]

Bless you Tom for giving voice to my sole. I hear in your voice my pain. It helps to know your not alone

[@trading7000]

I was introduced to Tom in the late 80 with Rain Dogs - been a love affair ever since...

[@psst...heyyou6508]

I was introduced with closing time and foreign affairs but heart attack and Vine was just out.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

this is what KZbin was invented for, genuinely a masterpiece of a video and i never say that without fully meaning it❤

[@kolaiktomi]

How is this not on every television in the world upon broadcast release date? smh

[@Hklbrries]

Your sister CW and I hung out at HHS. I was a year or two behind you,🍦🙋‍♂️! We loved you and knew you were different then, an Old Soul. You haven’t let us down! 💕

[@WillieEWoof]

Only one and forever Tom Waits!

[@jamesdavis438]

I think it’s only fitting that Tom has a song called Nighthawks at the Diner after the Edward Hopper painting! Mr. Waits paints us such a visible tangible Palpable picture with his lyricism! “Wrote goodbye in the dust on the good…” I mean, damn! So good!

[@kablouielouie]

dust on the hood

[@smokinjoe45]

Love Tom Waits!!

[@sammosaurusrex]

I've just crested my 30th birthday. My introduction to Tom Waits was stumbling on Real Gone... somehow. I can't recall the details. Maybe through a friend. This was probably around 2016? Anyways, when I heard "Hoist That Rag," I was blown away -- not just by his unique voice, but the force of the words, such a bare bones story given so much weight by the simple choice of "rag," and the emotion Tom threw into the words. Been hooked on his poetry every since. Anyways, great video -- two things I love in this world, Tom Waits and puppetry. You put them together and it's an instant hit for me!

[@NormanFinkelstein9863]

RAIN DOGS.

[@DorianGreer]

The man can paint with his words like no other. A true legend.

[@reneekennedy716]

can't help but think of Leonard ♥♥♥

[@matsfreedom]

His collaboration with Rickie Lee Jones is nothing short of spectacular.

[@quintork4100]

him and trent reznor are probably the greatest musicians alive ,but tom is the king i would love to see him live!bless you tom !!!xxx

[@mditt7]

Tom looks better than he has in years

[@marcemrich3573]

I am 68 and have some good Waits stories. I saw him 4 or 5 times for free. The Troubadour would have open mike night on Mondays. He would come walking in , almost every week I am told but certainly almost every time I went there, and play a few songs. Then another time I was dancing to a punk band at Madame Wu's . My girlriend leaned into my ear and said look at that guy next to you trying to act like he is Tom Waits. I looked next to me and replied, it is and that is Rickie Lee Jones that he is dancing with.

[@SportyOtterPop]

LOL Speak of the Tom Waits Devil...I just mentioned this on another of your links, and here we are! I am in love with your style, Yorkshire Kitchen Recording!

[@natureboytom]

My first song played with guitar was 'Chocolate Jesus' I love this guy.

[@joeyj6808]

You guys are doing god's work. Or the devil's. Either way, covering Tom's music so beautifully makes me one happy boy. Thanks!

[@chazzad73]

This is the pinnacle cover of this song.

[@ChateauShack]

Waits has got just the right amount of weird for me to be always devoted to his music.

[@terryolsson4145]

Great little ditty with a gritty beat. Thanks Tom. Keep em coming

[@jo-annebellamy5983]

His quest is naively pure; to be pure is to be wise, ...

[@АндрейАндреев-ы6в8ю]

Том Вейтс !!! Топ 10 в моём сердце больше 30 лет!!!!!

[@АндрейАндреев-ы6в8ю]

Спасибо!!!!!❤

[@Scodiddly]

The second scariest song I think Waits ever released. Nice job!

[@randybugger3006]

Wait, which one was the scariest? Don't leave me hanging!

[@Scodiddly]

@@randybugger3006 "Don't Go Into That Barn", of course.

[@psst...heyyou6508]

@@Scodiddly "what's he doing in there?"

[@lulavillarruel8279]

this is a masterpice !!

[@goofyahhsquirrel4656]

cap

[@kenash88]

It thought it sucked

[@ChrisLawton66]

@@kenash88 It has thoughts? Doubt it.

[@kenash88]

@@ChrisLawton66 I stanby my statement

[@ChrisLawton66]

@@kenash88 I couldn't possibly care less about your thoughts or what brought you to share them.

[@JosipMaslov]

Nice $%& Fine music. Thanks a lot

[@maxshade2935]

This is priceless. I love it 🌚

[@ImTheSlime]

T.W. Is a true original Americana treasure trove ahead of his time

[@neilzebub]

Absolutely brilliant, thanks for this ❤

[@SiiriCressey]

Haunting.

[@shelll9254]

Good Question, "How's it gonna end...✌️💗

[@pkthe13th]

You have a voice worthy of a Waits number!

[@MacDabble6209]

You trip me out Tom🙂makes me think of Leonard Cohen. I also enjoyed your acting performances such as the dead don't die. You're interesting entertaining Sir. Peace too you🙂

[@lesbritt6600]

That’s interesting, I thought the same, and the harmony singers sound like the sisters that were on Leonard’s last live album.

[@defsummer]

Just love it, that puppet is just how I would picture mr. Waits as a puppet! ❤❤❤ And the video is perfectly done!!! great job!!!🤘

[@TheWorldBelow360]

How illustriously Tom Waits for evidently a dark and steamy Circus that will hollow out your dreams, and make room for some of his.

[@burtbackattack]

That was fantastic.

[@JoelMarshall]

I remember when I first discovered Tom Waits, I sent a tape to my brother. He said, "What is this? Grover's greatest hits?" Love the Tom Waits. This is a terrific rendition. I would love to play this on my show #cultofthehummingbird

[@psst...heyyou6508]

Tom Waits is such a unique and monumental artist I normally wouldn't listen to covers but I was caught unaware and this is great!! I think Linda Thompson's cover of "day after tomorrow" is really good but I haven't heard many pull off a Tom Waits song. And one of his best! Great job!! ✌️🥸

[@Lu-pt2bf]

LOVE tom , his music i only heard in one radio indy!!

[@ZeeHilal]

It never ends!

[@daveohalloran5084]

Just great!

[@TerrellJoel]

Nice one

[@lisaswift9122]

God truly exceptional

[@alreadyghosts7727]

Songs so good you are sad when they end

[@jdspence7281]

Another Masterpiece Tom!

[@jomama5186]

I love Tom Waits!!

[@jnmedina8989]

I was suggested this by youtube a few weeks ago and I keep coming back to it. Subscribed now and can't wait for new cover/puppet music videos. Such a wonderful genre I didn't know I needed in my life! Thank you for sharing

[@garygood8233]

Very Nice!!!! Oh yea!!!!!

[@brandon-HACK-HOUND]

Fantastic!

[@goofyahhsquirrel4656]

nah

[@robnalu6436]

I think I like this. Aloha~~ from Hawaii~~ 🍍🤙🤙

[@marytolhurst5165]

Brilliant bit of animation! 😂

[@paulclement-bf9cq]

y first experience of Tom Wait music was Downtown train, that was years ago and only just got back into his music, F'in awesome so many different flavours of Tom lol

[@deathbycocktail]

This popped up on my front page and I'm amazed at how good you are! I was a trainee chef in the 90s and my sous, Trumpet, was a massive Waits fan who turned me onto him. Talk about a wild ride! Really cool cover 👍🏻

[@gt-37guy6]

Wait's " Hell Broke Luce" was an amazing piece....visionary in fact. "What did you do before the War? I was a Chef....my name was Jeff".....

[@benktubes]

Wonderful take on the song with such good visuals ❤️

[@jimrebr]

Excellent, I love Tom Waits, have since I was a teenager. Intense version of the Muppets 🫨

[@Robertgregormcgregor]

Great cover and video

[@Tree_born_crooked]

Brilliant, thank you

[@happyrudolf9134]

Brilliant. 😀

[@batchelerjr]

I knew Tom is an alien and wearing a human suit to fit in as best he can.

[@kurtiswa-k-8346]

Excellent!! $

[@ianauck8764]

Much like many a dark and grim mystery, more to the story is revealed just when we think the story is over. 🕵️

[@janebrilly4386]

Awesome

[@rossdavies-hooper3602]

My favourite artist. Nicely done.☺☺☺

[@RoisinElektra]

Great 😊❤

[@thetruthexperiment]

This used to be one of my least favorite because I didn’t agree. I don’t think about or care about how I die. I’m sure it will suck but I definitely don’t want to know. But this video makes me like the song. It… puts a face on it. And now I see that like many of his songs it’s from the perspective of a character and now I see that character and I like it.

[@dougsrepair1060]

Genius.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

I always knew this channel was going to blow up. When I found your channel very much by accident you only had a couple hundred views. Now look at it!

[@foveonyc]

Cool! Very interesting style!

[@jonesey1955]

Consummate Waits! Although I don't recall hearing that particular variation on his normal growl before, the animation is certainly a suitable depiction - whatever that raggedy creature is? - of what a voice like that may emanate from! Great stuff!

[@jessblessed9765]

this hits

[@fairynuff4]

Well..yes..indeed...bloody fabulous...thank you lots x

[@jonathanclaassen5273]

Wundershowzen vibes!

[@alienalajna]

About 2:15, he sings "drag your wagon and plough the bones of the dead". Seems borrowed from the title of Olga Tokarczuk's wonderful novel "Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead" of 2009 (original Polish). My English edition (by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) is from 2018. Or maybe Olga borrowed from Tom? In any case, read the book!!! (Never thought I'd see Oscar the Grouch in a Tom Waits video, but the more I think about it, the more it seems exactly right.)

[@farteinjonassen7523]

"Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead." William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell, 1793

[@alienalajna]

@@farteinjonassen7523 Ahh, you're right of course! Blake's line is even cited in Tokarzcuk's book, and I had forgotten. In fact, every chapter starts with an epigraph taken from either The Proverbs of Hell, Auguries of Innocence, The Mental Traveler, or Blake's letters. Many thanks - I'm glad to be corrected.

[@farteinjonassen7523]

@@alienalajna And now I have to read Olga's novel. Thanks.

[@psst...heyyou6508]

I love it when I find myself in that space in time when the topic becomes Tom Waits, William Blake and Oscar the Grouch.. how did I even get here?

[@alienalajna]

@@farteinjonassen7523 You're quite welcome. I've got her "Flights" on my shelf, among a dozen other books I'm sure will be well worth reading. Ahh, so many books, and only one brain!

[@Lebviero]

Thank you for this artworks 😌

[@maxsarjay5730]

At the edge of Extinction only shame and blame remain if you call that love good luck

[@ypaulbrown]

wonderful, from a fan in Florida, cheers

[@igordirtylounge7014]

Bellissima....grazie Tom

[@DavidLS1]

I don't want to know how it's gonna end. Do you?

[@irishmossdubwise]

Incredible

[@royferguson3909]

sweet

[@Z3nHolEminD]

Real talk

[@kevinfrancis6033]

Love it

[@ericcopple169]

Of course!

[@chicklets4ever51]

Maybe it's time to give Waits the Nobel prize, like Dylan.

[@kimsherlock8969]

How's it going to end ...? Fortunately some of us have been given time to think 🤔 1....walk across a train track at the wrongtime , ears into phones on 😮 playing chance with loosing conciousness . 2.....Some will kill you . Its happening constantly, 😮 3.....When the time comes to die rather suffering, The choice is made and compassionately given .

[@crow-jane]

Definitely shades of CookieWaits here. I dig it.

[@Hirnlego999]

Possibly to download somewhere?

[@yorkshirekitchenrecordings]

Not as yet I am afraid. Maybe in the future though :-)

[@Hirnlego999]

@@yorkshirekitchenrecordings Bandcamp perhaps?

[@yorkshirekitchenrecordings]

Nice idea, I will look into that , thanks :-)

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

NOT WAITS!!!

[@IHateThisHandleSystem]

Congratulations, you can read.

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

@@IHateThisHandleSystem Thank you Thank you Yes Yes Thank you Thank you No no no.... Stop it, you are TOOO Kind... lol

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

@@IHateThisHandleSystem And Hear as well!!! lol Karaoke World

[@retriever19golden55]

Okay...just stumbled on this, it's lovely, perfect! So help me here...is that Tom really singing? Certainly sounds like him. The puppets look like Muppets, but while the Muppets sometimes got a bit dark...not this dark. So who is creating this amazing stuff?! Side note: to anyone who hasn't seen the Coen Brothers' movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs...Tom was amazing in that movie! If you like this, you'll like the film. Willie Watson is in it too, and Liam Neeson, Harry Melling, Brendan Gleeson, Tim Blake Nelson...awesome cast.

[@uriahheep5665]

Try "At Play in the Fields of the Lord"=great movie.

[@deanshuler8910]

Love the Ballard of buster. Great!!

[@psst...heyyou6508]

@@uriahheep5665 I saw that 35 years ago and I've been wanting to watch it again..thanks for the reminder

[@robertacomstock3655]

Tom Waits onscreen as purveyor of non - lethal weapons in Mystery Men! & Hang on Saint Christopher!

[@uriahheep5665]

It's hard to find because of the child nudity, but the movie portrays the actual Yanamomo, the most remote tribe in Brazil@@robertacomstock3655

[@gritzveld8749]

Очень и Очень!!!!!

[@ScoriacTears]

. . . 4:48 Subscribed.

[@beataspiewakjonsson1749]

🖤

[@chrisperrien7055]

I was wonderin what the Muppets were doin.

[@dscarmon]

❤❤❤

[@glb5053]

Tom Waits is a G.