Just learned that Les Claypool did bass on this song, as well as on some other Tom Waits songs like Hoist that Rag and Shake It... just want to say, props to that guy for matching Waits' vibe instead of doing his usual thing. Love when they collab.
Waits got a pygmy percussion group that played with bones and he didn't like the way it sounded in the studio so they went outside and recorded them banging on the sidewalk!
This song has always struck me as a twisted, deranged love song. While the earth dies screaming, and while hellfire rains from the sky...a man lies asleep, blissfully unaware of the horror that surrounds him, dreaming about his true love. Could there be anything more romantic?
I think it's almost about how we are so oblivious to the fact that we're deteriorating earth slowly, at least that's an interpretation that the song could take on today.
Rudy's on the midway And Jacob's in the hole The monkey's on the ladder The devil shovels coal With crows as big as airplanes The lion has three heads And someone will eat the skin that he sheds And the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming of you Well, hell doesn't want you And heaven is full Bring me some water Put it in this skull I walk between the raindrops Wait in bug house square And the army ants They leave nothin' but the bones And the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming of you There was thunder There was lightning Then the stars went out And the moon fell from the sky It rained mackerel It rained trout And the great day of wrath has come And here's mud in your big red eye The poker's in the fire And the locusts take the sky And the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming of you
The beauty of this tune is the dirge of cacophony. Such a brilliant tune. Tom is as much vaudevillian as he is a time traveler. He is equally cemented in 19th century ditties as he is 21st century melodies. Old soul in a modern package...Modern man in a 40's coupe. He is time stamped as much as he is timeless. Brilliance. I love you Tom.
My late life intro to Tom Waits was a live performance of chocolate Jesus. Complete with glitter bombs in his hat. I had to hear more,but,you said it he seems like a misplaced vaudeville act.
I try to avoid nihilism, but sometimes it seems like those who have the power to prevent those screams are totally fine with the sound. Makes it sometimes feel like I may as well learn to stop worrying and just go take a nap.
You'd think it'd be longer dead, but I believe the Dead Estate ARG leads to it. If hunters are still working on it, it should see another spike when it's explained.
Watched an old favourite (12 Monkeys) with my best friend as our movie night entry and _instantly_ recognised this as a Tom Waits song from the music alone. Funnily enough, the other film i recognised him in was Robots.
@@xposjii well, i mean not that recently. Im talking about the Beirut explosion. Another thing a lot of people don't know about are the Belarus protests.
I remember the first time hearing $29 in the early 80s and thinking it was an older black guy and being amazed he was a younger white guy. Played it for a friend who asked “is that some weird Muddy Waters?”.
I was into heavy metal, sepultura, etc and a bit of trent reznor, then a buddy of mine in grad school dropped off some random CDs in my basement where I rented a tiny room for $300/mo, next to university of british columbia, this was like 25 years ago, and there was this crazy looking CD with waits and bone machine, it looked so insane I decided to try it, my first impression was like this is the most horrible music ever, but look at me now, with full collection of everything waits wrote and sang... I don't know why I became his fanatic after the first reaction was closer to vomiting in disgust, he does things like that to people
I know karate and voodoo too im going to make myself available to you, I don't need makeup iv got real scars, iv got hair on my chest i look good without a shirt
One of Steve Vai's favorite songs? There's passion and madness in the vocal, but literally nothing else to it. It never changes beat or key or rhythm. Just a quirky tribal song. Sorry, but this is not some kind of legendary music.
Waits is a gift to mankind.
He sure fucking is.
preach
Just learned that Les Claypool did bass on this song, as well as on some other Tom Waits songs like Hoist that Rag and Shake It... just want to say, props to that guy for matching Waits' vibe instead of doing his usual thing. Love when they collab.
That's wild. Les Claypool and Tom Waits.
First ad I got i ain't playing said
"If you are feeling less close to the Lord"
They have discovered us gentlemen
We must run.
It sounds like someone is using human ribcages for xylophones.
They used real bones
Waits got a pygmy percussion group that played with bones and he didn't like the way it sounded in the studio so they went outside and recorded them banging on the sidewalk!
Would technically be an osophone 🤓
I like that comment. I could see that in one of Toms songs.
From a band that played background percussion called The Boners.
"I walk between the raindrops" is my favorite Tom Waits line.
tom waits is as cool as the other side of the pillow.
@@RobertSlover 🤪
@@Plagolago64 ?
@@RobertSlover you’re goofy so you you get goofy emoji
@@Plagolago64 "you you"?
This song has always struck me as a twisted, deranged love song.
While the earth dies screaming, and while hellfire rains from the sky...a man lies asleep, blissfully unaware of the horror that surrounds him, dreaming about his true love. Could there be anything more romantic?
You're totally right, of course.
Tom's the king of romance.
All the captives in my dungeon say so.
@@Mercury-Wells Satan fronts a Tom Waits cover band.
I think it's almost about how we are so oblivious to the fact that we're deteriorating earth slowly, at least that's an interpretation that the song could take on today.
What’s more romantic than dying in the moonlight?
If you’ve never loved and lost, you might never understand.
Geez man. The army ants really do leave nothing but the bones huh?
Rudy's on the midway
And Jacob's in the hole
The monkey's on the ladder
The devil shovels coal
With crows as big as airplanes
The lion has three heads
And someone will eat the skin that he sheds
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you
Well, hell doesn't want you
And heaven is full
Bring me some water
Put it in this skull
I walk between the raindrops
Wait in bug house square
And the army ants
They leave nothin' but the bones
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you
There was thunder
There was lightning
Then the stars went out
And the moon fell from the sky
It rained mackerel
It rained trout
And the great day of wrath has come
And here's mud in your big red eye
The poker's in the fire
And the locusts take the sky
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you
He does say i love you in the end doesn't he? I like to read the lyrics while i listen, so i dont miss anything. Thanks for posting them.
What better way to start an album called BONE MACHINE than a song that sounds like skeletons playing their own bones
The bones are their money, in their world bones equal dollars, the skeletons are coming out TOnight to get their bones from youuuu
@@John-sr2hr Stop that, you're givin' me the willies.💀
The beauty of this tune is the dirge of cacophony. Such a brilliant tune. Tom is as much vaudevillian as he is a time traveler. He is equally cemented in 19th century ditties as he is 21st century melodies. Old soul in a modern package...Modern man in a 40's coupe. He is time stamped as much as he is timeless. Brilliance. I love you Tom.
Well said. You get the Maestro!
My late life intro to Tom Waits was a live performance of chocolate Jesus. Complete with glitter bombs in his hat. I had to hear more,but,you said it he seems like a misplaced vaudeville act.
@@shannonhughes610 Vaudeville was the late 1800's into the turn of the century. He is like a throwback to a different era. His catalog is amazing.
A friend once described this as, "the song you hear when you're headed down the river styx."
There is some deep horror that slips between apocalyptic to mythic in this thing
tom waits is as cool as the other side of the pillow.
Damn. That's pretty cool.
Stuart Scott!
His music is like being smothered by the other side of the pillow. Hehe
@@britneyowenby2720 ?
OMG have you seen family guy too!!!!!!? 🙄
Always was and always will be a fan of this fantastic music
Year after year Tom Wait's music turns more and more coherent than almost everything outhere. Even than life itself.
We're aging into it.
One of my favorite records of all time.
The lyrics seem like a dream.
Tom Waits is always original. That is what an artist should be.
I absolutely love this song. I first heard it years ago, and I think I love this song more now than before. Tom's voice is amazing.
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming
Well the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming
Dreaming of you
Greatest lyric ever Written.
He can sure write, @focalized.
This is one of my favorite albums ever and why I don't own it yet is beyond me. Xmas is coming up, maybe I'll treat myself to some good music.
After all the shit this year yeah treat yourself.
Good luck it's $380
@@pathines6995 I don’t want to believe you.
But I do.
This album and Small Change are my favorite albums, but I dig Tom Waits altogether. The dude is a real trip.
Hope you got it!
I've been a fan of tom waits for decades...one of a kind!!
the first time I ever saw/heard him I thought I was watching a SNL sketch..
One of my favourites
Hell doesn't want one person and Heaven is full.
Tom waits...musical genius...
This is one of my favorite TW records.
I try to avoid nihilism, but sometimes it seems like those who have the power to prevent those screams are totally fine with the sound. Makes it sometimes feel like I may as well learn to stop worrying and just go take a nap.
Yes but do you know karate?
Right on target again .
Thank you 😊
This is a great song
Sadly this song is really relatable right now, but it's already long dead. We just keep blazing it's corpse.
You'd think it'd be longer dead, but I believe the Dead Estate ARG leads to it. If hunters are still working on it, it should see another spike when it's explained.
Watched an old favourite (12 Monkeys) with my best friend as our movie night entry and _instantly_ recognised this as a Tom Waits song from the music alone. Funnily enough, the other film i recognised him in was Robots.
Fucked me up when I discovered Tom Waits at 20 and discovered I'd actually listened to him as a kid in Robots
I remember first hearing with on 12 Monkeys with Bruce Willis and fell in love instantly
That's what cemented 12Monkeys as my all time favorite movie. First soundtrack I heard Waits on.
"Tom Waits for know one"
This LP was released in 1992...
A timely classic for June 2020.
I’ll fuck 37 melons if you don’t paypal me
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A god damn city exploded recently, so yeah I'd say we're doing pretty good.
@@lukassskywalker6806 wait what? what the fuck happened now?
@@xposjii well, i mean not that recently. Im talking about the Beirut explosion. Another thing a lot of people don't know about are the Belarus protests.
perfect all the album¡¡¡
Thanks for upload ey
Great stuff
love tom
Gracias genio!!!
No other creature on earth has a voice like Mr Waits :/
He has a Springsteen quality, but Springsteen tuned half an octave down and played at 33.1/3
I remember the first time hearing $29 in the early 80s and thinking it was an older black guy and being amazed he was a younger white guy. Played it for a friend who asked “is that some weird Muddy Waters?”.
This gets under my skin in a good way
Crows as big as planes.
"i say as i wali,my bones clinking like a xylophone
Obra maestra sin igual.
“PAAAIN YOU MADE ME A YOU MADE ME A BELIEVER! BELIEVER!” - Brad Taste during that Tom Waits song
Well, hell doesn't want you
And heaven is full🔥🔥🔥
Norah Jones used a similar percussion sound after that. It was a good album too
I was into heavy metal, sepultura, etc and a bit of trent reznor, then a buddy of mine in grad school dropped off some random CDs in my basement where I rented a tiny room for $300/mo, next to university of british columbia, this was like 25 years ago, and there was this crazy looking CD with waits and bone machine, it looked so insane I decided to try it, my first impression was like this is the most horrible music ever, but look at me now, with full collection of everything waits wrote and sang... I don't know why I became his fanatic after the first reaction was closer to vomiting in disgust, he does things like that to people
theres one guy who is still day dreaming...
Les claypool is all over this!
And heaven is full...
Monday morning,driving to work
Ah, those dulcet tones.
Humans-
Able complicate simplicity to no end
Alright this guys Tyler and Richard's Best buddy .
feels sadly situational right now
Jammie ....
I know karate and voodoo too im going to make myself available to you, I don't need makeup iv got real scars, iv got hair on my chest i look good without a shirt
Don’t lose my composure in a high speed chase
dreaming of you...
Simple Man. That's Why
Funny how a kids film is the reason why I know him.
Did Wayward bring anyone else here?
Oh Tom what happened? Play Its Closing Time!
Pandemic soundtrack
EEEEEEeeeeeeevvvvvviiiillllllll LMAO at the "squares" srry too old to come up with a better label. Peace yall
One of Steve Vai's favorite songs? There's passion and madness in the vocal, but literally nothing else to it.
It never changes beat or key or rhythm. Just a quirky tribal song. Sorry, but this is not some kind of legendary music.
not all music has to be complex
Steve Vai is gay
holy shit this sucks
It is..........VERRRRRY gOOOOOOOOD......vErrrrrryyyyyy nicccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Go listen to drake then
@@lostwisdom4462 more like boner machine lol
@@lostwisdom4462 hey don’t get all mad just cause someone does have the same taste as you
@@Plagolago64 I'm not mad it's just I don't get why you'd go out of your way to comment that on a song you don't like that's all