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Topic: Tom Waits vs Procol Harum Posted: March 24 2013 at 19:25 |
Hie
just to share one of my odd pairing, I found Tom an Procol deal with many similar topics and genre styles, blues, see chanteys, symphonic, gypsy/romani people music , chanson, jazz, baroque, and characteristic voices of the singers,
often dark and cabaret and theater influenced
do anyone else find similar elements or traits between Procol Harum and Tom Waits?
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Posted: March 24 2013 at 19:44 |
PH if I must choose.
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Posted: March 24 2013 at 19:46 |
Come to think of it, Keith Reid's lyrics do often have a desperate, degenerate tone to them, as do Tom Waits' lyrics. Especially when they sing about being drunk.
I'll pick Procol Harum. Waits is a supreme badass but I love Procol.
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Posted: March 24 2013 at 20:02 |
Tom Waits by far. Everything that guy puts out is gold.
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Posted: March 24 2013 at 20:32 |
Devil Dolls is heavy influenced by both i will dare say
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Posted: March 25 2013 at 12:54 |
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Posted: March 25 2013 at 12:58 |
Couldn't get into Tom Waits' music yet. I choose Procol.
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Posted: March 25 2013 at 13:11 |
Really like both but I will go with Tom Waitz whoever he iz?
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Posted: March 25 2013 at 13:14 |
he iz waitsing for tanzing der walttzs
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Posted: March 25 2013 at 23:09 |
I chose both. But while I listened to Procol Harum more in the 70s and 80s, I've listened to Waits more in the past decade or so.
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 11:16 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
I chose both. But while I listened to Procol Harum more in the 70s and 80s, I've listened to Waits more in the past decade or so.
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can you hear their influence in Kaizers and in Major Parkinson
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Posted: March 26 2013 at 23:01 |
Procol for me.......been into them from day one and I have never been able to 'get into' Waits....though I have liked various tracks over the years.
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Posted: March 27 2013 at 00:44 |
Love Procol, but Waits as an artist has an unbelievable discography of very consistent quality and with so much ground explored. He gets my vote.
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Posted: March 27 2013 at 02:20 |
Voted for PH, Mr Waits' catalogue is so boring imho.
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Posted: January 20 2014 at 21:17 |
Procol Harum
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Fox On The Rocks wrote:
Tom Waits by far. Everything that guy puts out is gold.
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Agreed. Procol Harum only ever released one album that I'm actually into...
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Posted: January 22 2014 at 05:51 |
aginor wrote:
do anyone else find similar elements or traits between Procol Harum and Tom Waits?
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Both carbon based mammalian lifeforms who sing in English? Just two of an infinite number of rock artists who have embraced soul, blues and R'N'B in their work?
Nope. I think yer just having' a laff. (maybe a poll Tom Waits vs Captain Beefheart would have been more credible?)
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Posted: January 22 2014 at 06:00 |
There's often guitar in their tunes as well as other rock instruments. Are those the similarities you're referring to Agi?
Ahem, yeah I don't really hear any similarities between the two. Raspy cookie monster does experimental ramble tamble blues rock and then you've got the inventors of double cream rock with big orgiastic keys and triumphant almost heroic instrumental sections. Pretty long ways from each other methinks.
I choose the double cream btw.
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Posted: January 22 2014 at 06:26 |
Guldbamsen wrote:
There's often guitar in their tunes as well as other rock instruments. Are those the similarities you're referring to Agi?Ahem, yeah I don't really hear any similarities between the two. Raspy cookie monster does experimental ramble tamble blues rock and then you've got the inventors of double cream rock with big orgiastic keys and triumphant almost heroic instrumental sections. Pretty long ways from each other methinks. I choose the double cream btw. |
1) dark lyrics, 2) albums feels like dark cabarettes , dark theaters, 3) i feel both should be regarded as influence to the Devil Dolls, ) any rock and metql act who use element from theatre and circus, often very heavy ibstrumned Diablo Swing Orchestra, i look to albums like Grand Hotel, Home and the afruit albums could/should be seen as stepping stones for the development of cirkus/avan garde metal of DSO and SGM and Unexpect .
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