Tom Waits - Telephone call from Istanbul

From the movie Big time

[@M4ut4ll1c4]

I hope this never gets removed from YT. Such a comfort chaotic song to quietly ruin your life too while the world sleeps. Genius.

[@15chipshops]

My favorite Tom Waits tune..... Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, Never drive a car when you're dead. Wise Words Tom!

[@edstone1]

I wish Tom Waits would stop interrupting Tom Waits.

[@Ilovzero_YT]

😂😂

[@Mongol_kohevnik]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@crustyoldman]

the first tom waits song i ever heard. the line 'never drive a car when you're dead" made me a life long fan.

[@SwampDaddy7]

This cat's a genius, man. Roots in Jazz so he can experiment like a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein with his music.

[@connoreccles5584]

Fuck. Yes.

[@Skylark1957]

He moves me. How could anyone listen to him and somehow miss the fact that they are in the presence of pure inspiration? He puts every single thoughtcell into everything he does.

[@crassazell]

This man changed my life the day I first heard the ball-bearing gargling monster. Now it's whisky on my cornflakes everyday.

[@illustriouschin]

tom waits is freaking great, my favorite one

[@reinsnes1]

its fun to hear this song now, when İ am in İstanbul.. met a guy from belgium who chose to travel to this city because of this song :D

[@bifferspice]

and all this time i've been dancing WITHOUT a huge lightbulb. i feel such a bloody idiot. I will rectify this immediately.

[@artseeker5218]

Poet, genius, madman, Tom - love it!

[@kippers4u]

It's like stumbling across a watering hole for your soul that makes you simultaneously wonder why you never noticed the desert before and forget it. There aren't enough of them in the world and you'll be hard pressed to find one that runs deeper then Tom Waits.

[@gk_knight]

This is true antidote to the American Idol generation

[@sinergetico]

How different is this version from the studio's recorded! Wow! This one has more passion!

[@runswithwindz9875]

If you had to describe to somebody why this is majestic and mind-blowing, you would not be able to.....

[@thankafe]

The dance of the garrage lamp! God, what a style!

[@Switcharoo12]

Don't make em like Tom anymore. ✌️

[@spinnact]

Blue Velvet...

[@peterschorn1]

The meaning of this scene is that you can miss some really great stuff in life while you're moping around wondering whether someone loves you or not. But sometimes that's just what you gotta do.

[@vrsq0863]

this is ridiculously good. pure art

[@sidwidle]

Only Tom Waits could wear silk overalls, Elton John shades and a Cruella Deville ciggarette ans still look 100% badass...long live Sir Waits!

[@keynestortoise]

"Never trust a man in a blue trenchcoat / Never drive a car when you're dead" Pure genious!

[@Alephvoid]

This version is so much better than the Franks Wild Years version. It's one of my favorites.

[@scholz9876]

the subtelty of tom waits does not solely lie in the deepness of his lyrics, but mostly in the incomprehensible way they are put forward in. it seriously takes me 5 intensive listens to even understand one song, by that time you are already on one level with the guy.

[@ErianTrotland]

That sax player.

[@seyitcezaoglu528]

Yeah

[@ContraMundumPress]

+Seyit Cezaoğlu Ralph Carney is his name and he burns, hell yeah.

[@iancalbreath79]

Thanks !

[@thankafe]

The bass player...

[@PanosElGatto]

He's the ABSOLUTE ARTIST. Wish I could see him sometime here in Greece...

[@bcac94]

the most fantastic group of musicians,sweet jesus!

[@ThePsychoReturns]

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.

[@colindolan92]

By far the best version 10/10

[@eil77]

Best performer ever.

[@turansan1638]

2005 yılında küçükyalı'da bu şarkıyı üst üste 3 saat dinleyerek rekor kırmıştık .işin ilginci bıkan olmamıştı .hipnoz olmayalım diye ben el atmıştım olaya direkt kapatmıştım .herkes bomboş hissetmişti kendini şarkıyı kapatınca.

[@osman359]

+turan san Çünkü Küçükyalı'lı olmak bunu gerektirir. Tebrik ederim güzel kardeşim. Sağlam kaybedenmişsiniz.

[@meldasis3935]

Direk kapatmışmıydın :) 3 saat sonra direk

[@katkal3]

toms a great dancer!! i love this song!

[@slessorpr]

'with a voice like gravel' - Tom Waits u are beyond any superlative i can think of. How do u define genius? Tom Waits is my definition, role model, even!

[@a.t.3192]

One of the coolest fucking musicians to ever walk the earth. There won't be another like Tom Waits any time soon.

[@MegaSammich]

as far as im concerned best video on youtube

[@alekvizerski8756]

What a song! Incredible artist...

[@SweetParadise68]

Bloody hell this band is so incredibly tight.

[@JohnMcCash]

Is there anything better on you tube than this ? If there is it,ll be another Tom Waits video . Incredible , I wish he was my friend. Brilliant !

[@Ilovzero_YT]

Only one here in 2019 Edit: here 2023

[@sweetpotatojim]

I will be here every year until expiration.

[@Ilovzero_YT]

I respect @@sweetpotatojim

[@Switcharoo12]

Only one here 2020.

[@OnTwiggysTerms]

Just found this. Until I read the comments I thought it was, “Ever drive a car with your dad?” Incredible must have replayed this seven or eight times now.

[@spershall]

I haven't seen this video since my beat-up bootleg VHS of it in college 20 years ago. I wondered how it would hold up, and I love it just as much as I ever did.

[@camiloazula]

amazing! great artist!

[@freewheelinQ]

BEST. PERFORMER. EVAH!!!

[@almadora]

here's one my mother didn't even pretend to understand... bravo!

[@gbrioche]

Will never forgive the director for cutting away during Ralph Carney's and Marc Ribot's solos...

[@arlancastillo1637]

Tom Waits...the great

[@jonnybellie]

'Never drive a car when youre dead' brilliant!

[@MrSpithas7]

Thank you god of music for Tom.

[@sinisterbuthappy208]

better than the album version

[@SpoonJuggler]

Yeah, the faster tempo gives it so much more swing

[@pyrox2518]

too bad it keeps getting interrupted. wonder if there is a version without it.

[@SpoonJuggler]

@@pyrox2518 Yes there is, on the live album "Big Time"

[@zachwoodard1566]

@@SpoonJuggler good luck getting your hands on it though !

[@a.t.3192]

Both are great, just totally different vibes

[@lenny121]

i love how he always creats a certain atmosphere when he plays

[@The_momur]

An evening with Waits and Ribot is a fine evening of entertainment i tells ya.

[@jellyacc]

I still have this vhs from the library...

[@denizasar87]

İstanbul'dan telefon geldi Yârim bugün eve dönüyormuş - - - I got a telephone call from Istanbul My baby's coming home today

[@smack9835]

Have been waiting for a translation of this for ever PLEASE! ! !

[@denizasar87]

@@smack9835 Which language?

[@smack9835]

@@denizasar87 Thanks Deniz but I found one.It was the...that made me crazy.But Merci Bien!

[@denizasar87]

@@smack9835 de rien :)

[@opredeleno]

WOW I've never seen the video. EPIC enormous ahh ahhh I'm in awe. After all these years, I keep rediscovering Tom. ♥ ♥ ♥

[@bscondict]

Never drive a car when you're dead , remember that !

[@DerrickTheFork]

Tom Waits' musicians are always cool as fuck

[@antoniocesardias9990]

he's magic!!!!!

[@camiloazula]

amazing! great artists!

[@Skylark1957]

"never drive a car when you're dead".... LOL what a lyricist. LOVE him.

[@victormodjeski4173]

He always makes me smile.

[@mmiaxx2002]

my friend Mead........ has only moments of his day when this shit does not happen to him .... he will buy the next round when I see him

[@fahim113]

Exactly what I thought when I first heard him all those yrs ago...and my reaction every single time I hear him!!

[@gregmattox]

Bought this album and Waits freaked me out. Been one of favorites ever since.

[@polcloister]

I've been lighting my smokes with cards since I watched this video (VHS) a thousand years ago.

[@leonardniamh]

Pure................... perfect & raw

[@raphaelstohr7947]

Tom is the greatest!

[@christinapeter1001]

Crazy man and 50/60er sound

[@mylulac]

A true genius!!!! No one like him!

[@feltthefluff]

my favorite artist

[@azazilSF]

hugs and kisses from istanbul, tom :)

[@eugennyy2970]

Накануне пятницы, за неделю до Тринадцатого, за два дня до Нового Дня, от американца Тома Вэйтса, поклонника русского Достоевского...

[@rocsil]

Tom Waits, yes... very good Thank you.

[@DanielGillard4Labour]

Love that the stats for this one show it's most popular in Turkey...lol

[@carolzuvich1235]

Just...brilliant!

[@davidwalker5054]

Definatly hear the great django's influence in the guitar solo

[@Lucas-bd9nd]

Django Reinhardt?

[@alpers.6068]

insan kılığında tanrı haşa

[@JohnLouisBishop84]

"Chantilly lace! And a pretty face! You know what I like!" I love it when Tom Waits gets possessed by a rock & roll spirit.

[@lisadiane10001]

BRILLIANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bobbytylenol]

that horn player tho! hilarious, the highlight!

[@seansweeney3532]

Best compliment I've ever gotten was "wow, your stuff reminds me of a fusion of Tom Waits and King Crimson"... which is actually what I was channeling. But like the Beatles, I never worried about being influenced by people... because if you emulate someone very poorly, then by process of elimination, you're being original... the fact that I actually sounded like my two influences on that one song, just means I was emulating too well... I must fail at this more effectively...

[@opto3010]

jamming ca so fascinating, perfect song, altough live. great.

[@JHandcock1111]

This is a top comment if I've ever seen one - the truth in a nutshell and so beautifully put. Tom would agree with you - frank too.

[@Jazzixiri]

I wish, I was there listening to him...

[@XavierKatzone]

"Rough"- and a great vehicle for The Red Elvises' version!

[@AuctionBump]

Tom is the best!

[@markobegus]

tom waits=prophecy.

[@samsbz8740]

J'adoooooore ce dingue !

[@Regdot]

Tom was the most powerful voice of all time. Beats Cohen. Beats Dylan. Beats Lanegan. He's the best!

[@timbildorp.9766]

gürcan markete hoşgeldiniz. for english press nine. - arif:hallo! + hacı abi: hallo wassup? - hacı abi, they put me in a time machine. they send me in a different time line. + what are you talking about? who are you? - it's me, arif. listen to me. hacı abi, listen to me. they put me in a time machine, time machine, have you seen time machine? + no fax machine i don't have it. no fax... - no fax machine. who told you there i'm ask if fax machine... time machine! + i don't get it! who are you yav?! - why the fuck are we speaking english? türkçe konuştun da... 2'ye bas, türkçeye geç 2'ye bas! + no faks machine - stupid! stupid! *

[@ege35goz]

Oh this one's so emotional

[@cesurmert]

bunu yazarken gora izleyip ne kullandin be hacım ajdjsh

[@Yantryman]

Outstanding!

[@anononomous]

oooooo, love this version.

[@kara1464]

FABULOUS

[@christertonnberg8411]

i am glad i find this song from the king

[@JHandcock1111]

Don't forget the red and black floor, cards, sweet ass zippo and cool hat. They are essential items for rocking out. :D

[@ИванРоманов-в9щ]

The very best

[@LeVeL58pnz]

such untunesable tunes!!!!!!!!

[@NessaK94]

FRIK love Tom Waits!

[@Lunatykowaty]

its so finesse, i love him so very fuckin much. sick, damn

[@talesfromiDEATH]

i wish this would come out on dvd

[@badbadbadb1]

Istanbul is waiting for you Mr Waits.

[@JHandcock1111]

THANK YOU.

[@MSYNGWIE12]

Some people say, David Bowie ( much missed) was The Coolest Guy, but I gotta go with Tom...Namaste Everybody. Hug a neighbor today...