It's only rock'n'roll. So humble ans so strong at the same time. Excellent!

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> It's only rock'n'roll. So humble ans so strong at
> the same time. Excellent!

Yes, IT'S ONLY ROCK'N ROLL is a great title. Trouble is the cover was awful (the anti-thesis of rock'n'roll), and the album didn't deliver: do you really think "Time waits for noone", "If you really blah blah blah" and "Till the next goodbye" contain any grain of rock'n'roll? I think the title was just a bluff and it was meant very ironically. Mick was in a very cynical mood at the time.

i think iorr was one of their best....i like it yes i do!

it covered all types of music...thats why its so good...mick taylor helped make it a great album....

yep one of their best! think it's a bit underrated!

Exile On Main Street

Captures so much of the album's spirit and the band's state of being in a single phrase

London Calling

Beautifully hints at the danger and urgency of the period in a way that's nostalgic, apocalyptic, and fresh.

Damn The Torpedoes

Could be the subtitle for any good rock'n'roll album.

Mule Variations
Bone Machine
Rain Dogs
Swordfishtrombone
Heartattack and Vine
Closing Time

In my opinion, Waits is perhaps the most accomplished and poetic lyricist in contemporary pop music. His metaphors are almost always original and compelling for both his key genres: grand weepers and grim creepers.

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> Bone Machine
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> Heartattack and Vine
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> In my opinion, Waits is perhaps the most
> accomplished and poetic lyricist in contemporary
> pop music. His metaphors are almost always
> original and compelling for both his key genres:
> grand weepers and grim creepers.
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> Camper88...love Waits' wordplay....my fav is Rain Dogs (tons of great lyrical imagery & musical atmosphere)...Picture in a Frame from Mule Variations makes me melt everytime..Check out Jim Jarmuschs' film Down by Law and you'll find a rain dogs tune playing to the opening scene (of a b & w filmed New Orleans) fits the mood perfectly...Waits is one eccentric musical character (the twisted stepson of Howlin' Wolf & Captain Beefheart)
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> smell the glove(spinal tap)

LOL! I always liked "Break Like The Wind" also!

Ross

1) Let it Bleed
2) It's Only Rock N Roll
3) Voodoo Lounge

Deep Purple - Bananas
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Ted Nugent - Intensities in 10 Cities

I cannot believe no one has said


STICKY FINGERS


yet....

exactly...Sticky Fingers

Appetite for Destruction is a great one as well....

American Idiot by Green Day

Babylon by Bus....Bob Marley

oh.,...and "Sign of the Times" by Prince

How about Shootout at the Fantasy Factory by Traffic



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Suckin' in the seventies

"The Kids are All Square" by the Headcoats

How about Revolver.

Leonard Keringer Wrote:
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> Check out Jim Jarmuschs' film Down by Law and you'll find a rain
> dogs tune playing to the opening scene (of a b
> & w filmed New Orleans) fits the mood
> perfectly...Waits is one eccentric musical
> character (the twisted stepson of Howlin' Wolf
> & Captain Beefheart)

Yeah, that's Jockey Full of Bourbon during the title sequence of Down By Law, Jaramusch is a perfect fit for Waits. And Jockey Full Of Bourbon's a great title for a song, never mind an album. I like the stepson analogy, very apt, but he's got a lot of influences . . .

Here's a few that surprised me:

"Frank's Theme." "Little Rudy Vallee there. Interviewer: At what age? TW: From the grave. Rudy Vallee. From beyond the grave, we now bring you& the missing broadcast."

"More Than Rain." TW: "Oh, yeah, a little Edith Piaf attempt."

"Cold, Cold Ground." "That's the only real Marty Robbins-influenced number on there. Just kind of a hardening back to his earlier times; a romantic song thinking about home, and all that."

And some that didn't surprise me:

"He [Keith Richards] writes songs in some ways similar to the way I do--you kind of circle it, and you sneak up on it; it was a real joy to write with him. You can't drink with him, but you can write with him. I felt like I have known him for a long time, and he's made out of very strong stock, you know. He's like pirate stock. He loves those shadows."

"That Feel" TW: "I had this thing I used to say. This sound, I didn't know how to identify it, and I used to say, "That Keith Richards-type style thing." So instead of learning how to explain what I meant, I heard he was coming to New York, and it worked out."

A cool little movie "Smoke", with Harvey Keitel and William Hurt, uses Waits' "You're Innocent When You Dream" in its final scene. Really cool use of a great song.

Love those quotes, thanks.

Karl

get your ya yas out ,, rumors ,,blood on the tracks ,, tommy,,pet sounds ,,decembers children ,,band on the run ,,who do we think we are,,

A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK TO A BLIND HORSE, Faces! LOVE THAT! Let It Bleed, always loved that and how can you get better than STICKY FINGERS!? YOU CAN'T! Nasty images called to mind in both cases! Other great album titles: IMAGINE, ( Lennon)LOW SPARK OF HIGH-HEELED BOYS, ( Traffic), HONKIN ON BOBO ( Aerosmith), BLESS It'S POINTED LITTLE HEAD( Airplane), STOP MAKING SENSE( Talkin Heads.

Schoolboys In Disgrace

Night in the Ruts (AKA Right in the Nuts)

Panama Red

The Morning After

Eat A Peach

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Sooooooo right rainhog! lol Or how about one of their other albums, Intervenus De Milo?

The Wetter, The Better - Wet Willie

I always thought "I've Got My Own Album To Do" was clever. Straight and to the point and tongue in cheek at the same time. A Nod's as Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse always makes me laugh. Bless It's Pointed Little Head by Jefferson Airplane is great, too. Great cover with Jack Cassidy by himself, passed out drunk holding a bottle of wine at the end of an enormous empty table.

But, you all already thought of those. Let's see ...

Midnite Vultures by Beck
Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Get Behind Me Satan by the White Stripes
Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow by Funkadelic

Wheels of Fire
Truth
Music From Big Pink
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Pet Sounds

Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers

"Wheels of Fire" is a great call.

The Wailers: "Catch A Fire"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
Stills-Young Band: "Long May You Run"
"The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul"
Bob Dylan: "World Gone Wrong"
Elizabeth Cotton: "Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs And Tunes"
John Coltrane: "A Love Supreme"

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Hahahahahaha

The Smoker You Get, The Drinker You Are Joe Walsh

Beside Rum, Sodomy and The Lash by the Pogues, there is another great album called "Cop Shoot Cop". Takes a minute to get, but it's a good one.
I;m glad to see more Tom Waits fans. I am a huge fan.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - Pink Floyd

ES LEBE DER ZENTRALFRIEDHOF - Wolfgang Ambros

GET YER YA-YAs OUT - The Rolling Stones

Do the girls still scream, when you perform on stage? KR: Not on stage, but when I perform, yeah.