Tom Waits Live - Come On Up To The House

[@philippenobili]

How in hell did I miss this one ? So powerful, so moving, so... Tom Waits ! :-) Genious.

[@atvheads]

Tom has made so many great songs, and i have missed some of of them to. Like House where nobody lives, witch is absolutely wonderful.

[@ambrosemalone1151]

I lost my religion but Waits brought me back!

[@ljswack]

can I get an Amen

[@justinbelshe]

I'm an atheist, but I love gospel music.

[@FSM1138]

Goddamn, his voice is awesome.

[@scottsabo2982]

Everytime. Everywhere this song comes up my spirit just lifts. Just such a rocker (plus all the apt references to Hobbes and Christianity and everything else) and awesome refusal to accept mainstream dogmas (since this is just such a classic simple ballad I feel like it could be a total traditional song--if it is tell me), Tom Waits just knows how to take an old tradition, and just fucking sing life back into it, hard--but not with such a pointed irony as to take away from the joyful honest feels of a good song). Reviving, at least in me, new life in my paltry pity of woe, and rocking reminder that life is suffering, so quit complaining. Your concerns are too paltry to complain about. Don't make a martyr out of yourself. Come on up out of that pit. This song really is a great work of humanity from a truly underrated and gifted man. Total gem in my books. My first album I ever bought was swordfishtrombones. Since the I've heard everything. But after all the years, this one just really might be the one that gets me every time, my favorite. He just keeps seriously getting better.

[@gibby6904]

I have to listen to it once a day just to keep my head above water......BTW.....I love Swordfishtrombones....

[@srhuesos4284]

I agree! My guess is the Christianity reference is more towards some of the christians and not Christianity. The whole song is pointed at "whiners".

[@virtuosooo]

Well said. Very uplifting song for me as well. When it comes to the religious stuff I have to say I don't go to church on Sunday. Don't get on my knees to pray. Don't memorize the books of the bible. Got my own special way... Lol. Got my own chocolate Jesus

[@thomaswaits237]

Genius!!!

[@sclogse1]

Hurts my throat just listening to it. Don't know how Tom was ever able to keep this sound for entire shows...Unreal.

[@izvunzemen]

Pure heart.

[@CptEtgar]

[@craigcheeseman6292]

and that...ladies and Gentlemen...is how ya do that!

[@bigmikevt]

When he was younger he used to scream really loudly into pillows and in closets to give his voice more character. He wanted to be an old man from a young age

[@LarryLeeLazarus]

Come down off the cross We could use the wood

[@grannysgonerabid7425]

That's my standard reply to anyone when they start whining about something.

[@larrysullivan1589]

My dad used to use that phrase with my mother all the time😂

[@garry_b]

****ING MAGNIFICENT!!!!!

[@simon.annies]

for everyone to know: it is actually possible to "practice" this way of singing. it takes quite some time and one gets out of practice really quickly. it is really stressfull for the stomach muscles to press so hard all the time, but that is necessary to make the vocal chords vibrate so hard. im am not really sure how smoking affacts the whole mix, because i dont, but it is definitely not the reason for him to sound this way. it is mainly technique

[@callumsutherland2954]

You're exactly right. It takes immense skill to control the rasp, more so than to produce it. I'll wager that the muscles in his stomach and throat are ridiculously strong.

[@gibby6904]

I would love an album of Tom covering Neil Young songs and vice versa!

[@jaubrey543]

I’d also suggest Alison Kraus covering all Tom’s and his covering a selected few of hers.

[@terryquesenberry9218]

Come Own!..

[@walstib77]

I love the creeping closeup on the still. Even if it is from an entirely different era from the audio.

[@HunterMann]

@sclogse1 I think maybe his low growl is the opposite of using your head voice/falsetto in singing higher than your normal range. Tom's been singing this way for so many years, I imagine he paces himself in a way that he can do it for a whole long music set. I'd prefer to think that he doesn't need to smoke and rink a lot to maintain such a voice. I love smokey vocals without the tobacco smoke source. I'm sure many Waits fans will disagree, but Tom does not make me want to start smoking.

[@causesosasaidso6514]

For no man.

[@dmastax1x]

maan this is a great recording. anyone know where/when this took place?

[@kensimmons]

This sounds like the Band. Too bad they fell apart, because they would have been perfect to cover this song.

[@justinsmoustache]

whoopsies on the first verse. best vocs i've heard so far though

[@kentaros67]

who's this best guitarist in the world?

[@freewheelinQ]

Somking and drinking?!?!?! Tobacco and Scotch would kill their own mothers to have this man's voice!!!

[@lenny121]

you can download it with free studio manager

[@phenethylaminedreams]

He quit in the nineties. I'm pretty sure he hasn't started again, and from what I understand he doesn't drink hard liquor anymore either.

[@virtuosooo]

The best thing about quitting though, is now that he's quit, he can have one every now and then lol. If ya don't know the reference, search for Tom waits and Iggy pop coffee and cigarettes. Great scene. But yes, I believe you're correct. Quit around the time he got together with Kathleen Brennan, who's last name is now waits, and has a song writing credit for every song Tom has put out since they got together.

[@caramullen9186]

lol FINALLY THEE MAN WHO IS STRONGER ten eye

[@mbsnyderc]

Why all the stupid comments about smoking ?this is what his voice has always sounded like it has nothing to do with smoking.have you ever heard him talk thats what it sounds like.he's not doing anything to make his voice sound like that.it is what it is.

[@oliverdevine2181]

Mate he's even talked about how it was a stylistic choice coz his uncle spoke like that, which wore on his vocal chords

[@caramullen9186]

LIKE LET ME INTRODUCE U TO MY SOULss loves

[@sboccanegra1339]

Te amo gordo

[@Dishsoapdirt1976]

@HunterMann don't smoke. don't smoke. don't smoke. if you dont smoke they'll be more for me! I love it I love it I love it. No, now you got me wrong. I don't love cigarettes. I hate cigarettes. If you smoke em they make you cough. You dont smoke em they make you shake. I dont know whats worse the cough or the shake. Think I'll make me a cough shake. I quit smoking once. quit for 3 weeks. The wife left me. She took the house and left. It was a mobile home......