Downtown Train - LIVE - BEST Version (Official Audio) Tom Waits New Edit

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  • Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
  • Downtown Train from the official audio of the Album "Storytellers". Performance from the TV show VH1 Storytellers. Recorded near Bob Hope Airport, Burbank, California on April 1, 1999. Edited so that it is only the music, without the story at the start and with video footage.
    I consider this one of Tom Waits' best performances of all time. A personal favourite, really beautiful.
    #tomwaits
    Full Album: • Storytellers

Комментарии • 128

  • @lcdubs7847
    @lcdubs7847 Год назад +174

    Man....what I wouldn't give to spend an evening in a bar drinking Guiness with Tom Waits on stage. The very definition of paradise.

    • @fawzibakeer151
      @fawzibakeer151 Год назад +7

      And Jameson 🥃 ❤

    • @briancarraher7008
      @briancarraher7008 Год назад +4

      Try the Union Hotel in Occidental, California

    • @alanchriston6806
      @alanchriston6806 Год назад +14

      Saw Tom at this last ( probably ) ever gig in uk, with my late wife Barbara, at the Edinburgh playhouse 2008.
      After 2 songs , we both looked at each other and said this is going to be the greatest gig we will see., 2:35 minutes later.
      Outstanding
      Was he really there , the lighting was sepia, in a playhouse from A Victorian time, small 2500 people., opera glasses were provided at 50 pence.
      Best gig ever, and we had seen a few.
      😊🏴‍☠️🎈

    • @jim9214
      @jim9214 11 месяцев назад +3

      Me too!

    • @shawnmcginnity3786
      @shawnmcginnity3786 9 месяцев назад +5

      I don’t drink but would still would like to hang out at the bar with him too

  • @madeleine7411
    @madeleine7411 7 месяцев назад +15

    A poet. There is Tom. There is no one remotely like him.

    • @EMRoscoe
      @EMRoscoe 7 месяцев назад

      Tom and Chuck were musical geniuses! Tom got all of the media; Chuck was always with and for Tom. If you want to say FU to Chuck, then you must have other effing issues!

    • @sep2890
      @sep2890 4 месяца назад

      Maybe John Prine kinda?

  • @nickwilliams1065
    @nickwilliams1065 8 месяцев назад +39

    Been lucky in my 62 years to have witnessed so many great artists like Waits, Cohen and Dylan none of whom are real singers but by god can they write a classic and deliver it better than anyone else. Great to hear such a good recording too.

    • @gerhardstahle7100
      @gerhardstahle7100 8 месяцев назад +1

      Cohen said one times "It is suprising, that so many people comes to my concerts, although my voice only makes noises". My english is not good - I am german.

    • @nickwilliams1065
      @nickwilliams1065 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@gerhardstahle7100 Well Gerhard your English if far better than my German!! I would rather listen to these guys and indeed women out there who actually convey emotion in their vocals than the sterile auto tune garbage we are subjected too by many so called modern superstars. I think they are all aware of the limitations of their voices and have spoken of such but they write and deliver things that others never could..

    • @Adsawtell
      @Adsawtell 5 месяцев назад

      I missed the classics but listened as a child. And concluded john Denver wrote and delivered vocally and his covers. Rubbish these days

    • @Stevewatson3
      @Stevewatson3 3 месяца назад

      It’s because there actually saying something! That’s why it holds us so close it’s real!

    • @nickwilliams1065
      @nickwilliams1065 3 месяца назад

      @@Stevewatson3 Amen to that Steve, I guess we have been very lucky to have witnessed so many in our life time.. not much modern music that I would call classic and the test will come in another 30 to 40 years time, will it be forgotten or recalled?

  • @jefferystock9662
    @jefferystock9662 Год назад +28

    The late great Larry Taylor on Bass!

  • @ahjaanhugh
    @ahjaanhugh 26 дней назад +1

    Even though his voice as been described as "the cookie monster singing with a mouth full of peanut butter" I have always enjoyed all his work. Tom has a style all his own. Many of his LPs in my collection.

  • @centarsveta435
    @centarsveta435 8 месяцев назад +13

    A bass, two guitars, a man with a hat, and a whole universe

  • @dodofriambodo5032
    @dodofriambodo5032 Месяц назад +2

    AMAZING..... beautiful Musics and Voice.....THANKS

  • @ankitsuwal7608
    @ankitsuwal7608 6 месяцев назад +8

    A good 18 years single malt with a girl by my side in a bar with Waits playing this!

  • @larryschmid3834
    @larryschmid3834 8 месяцев назад +17

    One of my favorite performers. He is in my opinion the most "original" artist out there.

  • @VinnyfromJersey
    @VinnyfromJersey Месяц назад +1

    America's greatest poet, of my lifetime.
    Thank the lord (or whoever) that he came to live on the East Coast and NYC to discover and render such beauty...

  • @timrowe9583
    @timrowe9583 Год назад +25

    A wonderful voice, feeling, passion, sentiment and empathy all rolled into one musical piece of perfection.

  • @liveandmore
    @liveandmore 7 месяцев назад +13

    His voice brings out one’s core inside out. He’ll touch your inner self and stir it. It hurts but it’s damn good!

  • @zak4738
    @zak4738 4 месяца назад +4

    Been listening to Tom since 1974, still the best lyrical threader about, need to cast a shadow down under again!! Sooo good!!

  • @keithdm1466
    @keithdm1466 2 месяца назад +3

    It is a thing of beauty. Thank you Tom Waits. Your song, delivered your way.

  • @deadnd444
    @deadnd444 Год назад +21

    Man this is amazing never thought I would get a good quality of this version

  • @aledojustajones
    @aledojustajones 7 месяцев назад +4

    😀 Great way to start the morning with an awesome video! Happy 2024!!! 😀

  • @agnieszka1094
    @agnieszka1094 Год назад +10

    UWIELBIAM TOMA W TYM UTWORZE CIARY CHODZĄ PO SKÓRZE !

  • @curtisniteenterprises193
    @curtisniteenterprises193 6 месяцев назад +4

    what a powerful rendition of this classic

  • @funshopmemphis
    @funshopmemphis Год назад +18

    Thank you for uploading this. Perfect performance of such a great song.

  • @rossanozanga9581
    @rossanozanga9581 5 месяцев назад +1

    The better voice and song writer of all time, a huge genius.

  • @larryschmid3834
    @larryschmid3834 7 месяцев назад +1

    Love the suits, and hats, with the music, voices and you re-creating an almost lost beautiful time and place of music that brings on rushes of back home sweet feelings.

  • @willhooker9567
    @willhooker9567 Год назад +18

    definitely the best live version of this song imo.

  • @boxerrobert4005
    @boxerrobert4005 Год назад +11

    The bass❤️

  • @ericfurman5227
    @ericfurman5227 11 месяцев назад +11

    I actually teared up😢that was gorgeous ❤

  • @fraserbailey6347
    @fraserbailey6347 10 месяцев назад +9

    Such a great song. I have loved it from the time of its first release on Rain Dogs.

    • @mustafa1name
      @mustafa1name 2 месяца назад

      Me too. I'd like to hear Tom sing it in his normal voice, rather than the rather silly affectation which has made him famous. This song deserves it

  • @robertm7889
    @robertm7889 9 месяцев назад +7

    Magic pure souleful wonderous....that guitar acompanying is goosebump inducing genius! Love Tom Waits

  • @treesplease4053
    @treesplease4053 Год назад +11

    What an Absolute Treasure

  • @kellyketcham1101
    @kellyketcham1101 7 месяцев назад +1

    I’d take any train to see this grand talent and his unique excellence! Thank you Mr. Waits!

  • @apostrophe.t
    @apostrophe.t Год назад +7

    Brilliant

  • @FredGehlhoffbestsongever
    @FredGehlhoffbestsongever 5 месяцев назад +1

    I can feel this songs !

  • @josephkolozi9364
    @josephkolozi9364 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great. The song absolutely needs his voice.

  • @eddiepelosi6136
    @eddiepelosi6136 Год назад +10

    Absolutely wonderful...

  • @larryschmid3834
    @larryschmid3834 7 месяцев назад

    U are still the most extreme original artist out there. I love the scratchy throat, your inflections, your props, your voice, your expresdions, your longing. I left so much more out but I want to listen, finger stop!

  • @Darci3333
    @Darci3333 11 месяцев назад +9

    Adore Tom Waits❤❤❤❤

  • @henriksiegel7101
    @henriksiegel7101 7 месяцев назад +1

    100 % feeling, 100 % composing genious

  • @user-yi8gl4se1t
    @user-yi8gl4se1t 3 месяца назад

    This ! This is how you do it !!!

  • @snapfinger1
    @snapfinger1 Год назад +7

    Nailed.

  • @arbarrony
    @arbarrony 4 месяца назад

    Maravillosa canción con su autor ,cantante excepcional 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @harveyjones1245
    @harveyjones1245 7 месяцев назад +1

    Outside another yellow moon
    Has punched a hole in the nighttime mist
    I climb through the window and down to the street
    I'm shining like a new dime
    The downtown trains are full
    Full of all them Brooklyn girls
    They try so hard to break out of their little worlds
    You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
    They have nothing that'll ever capture your heart
    They're just thorns without the rose
    Be careful of them in the dark
    Oh, if I was the one you chose to be your only one
    Oh, baby
    Can't you hear me now?
    Can't you hear me now?
    Will I see you tonight on a downtown train?
    Every night, every night it's just the same
    On a downtown train
    I know your window and I know it's late
    I know your stairs and your doorway
    I walk down your street and past your gate
    I stand by the light of the four way
    And watch them as they fall, oh baby
    They all having their heart attacks
    They stay at the carnival
    But they'll never win you back
    Will I see you tonight on a downtown train?
    Every night, every night, it's just the same
    You leave me lonely
    Will I see you tonight on a downtown train?
    All my dreams, all my dreams fall like rain
    On a downtown train
    Will I see you tonight on a downtown train?
    Every night, every night, it's just the same
    Will I see you tonight on a downtown train?
    All my dreams, all my dreams, fall like rain
    On a downtown train
    On a downtown train
    All my dreams fall like rain
    On a downtown train
    Songwriters: Thomas Alan Waits / Kathleen Brennan
    Downtown Train lyrics © Jalma Music

  • @lilmasha29
    @lilmasha29 Год назад +11

    damn , i'll give 10 years of my life to be in that room .....:3
    🖤

  • @trolar70
    @trolar70 6 месяцев назад

    My favorite song.

  • @user-zc2vh4xh3w
    @user-zc2vh4xh3w 11 месяцев назад +5

    Brilliant. 😊

  • @anelladambrosio2513
    @anelladambrosio2513 9 месяцев назад +2

    Che voce straordinaria!amo Tom!la sua e una voce unica inimitabile....😊🤗😍😘🎶🎸🎶💘💓💋💯🌅

  • @JVTrickypants
    @JVTrickypants Год назад +5

    Great quality!! I need to find the story part of this as well.

  • @ARookwood
    @ARookwood 8 месяцев назад +1

    I bet that was a fantastic concert. Genius.

  • @rodconaway
    @rodconaway 7 месяцев назад

    Greatness

  • @gaynorplant
    @gaynorplant 8 месяцев назад

    Would love to see him live but tickets are so hard to come by, all the musicians want to go to see how you do it 👍

  • @jamesbeech8793
    @jamesbeech8793 7 месяцев назад +1

    I’d like to have a few beers with him 😅

  • @syd989
    @syd989 Год назад +4

    He's great in The Dead Don't Die movie as hermit Bob.

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 8 месяцев назад

      He's great in every movie he's in that I've seen him in. Dracula, Rumble Fish, Fischer King seven psychopaths...

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 8 месяцев назад

      He's great in every movie he's in that I've seen him in. Dracula, Rumble Fish, Fischer King seven psychopaths...

  • @OlymPigs2010
    @OlymPigs2010 7 месяцев назад

    .......Hope Tom Finally Found a Personality He Could Comfortably Live With !!!

  • @TheEn1992
    @TheEn1992 6 месяцев назад

    punched a hole in my heart

  • @EMRoscoe
    @EMRoscoe 8 месяцев назад +1

    For those that do not know, Tom had a partner in musical excellence. Please explore Chuck E Weiss, from the great "Chuck E's in LOve," tune by ? I live in DEnver, Chuck and his brother lived here. Please check out Chuck.

    • @nicria1
      @nicria1 7 месяцев назад

      Ricky Lee Jones is the name... Guess you already knew that.

    • @EMRoscoe
      @EMRoscoe 7 месяцев назад

      The point was not RLJ, but he greatness of my Denver resident, Chuck E Weiss. There is a good story about her song. Google it!@@nicria1

  • @mattslater4605
    @mattslater4605 9 месяцев назад

    Fabulous

  • @chrisjames6327
    @chrisjames6327 2 месяца назад

    A unique interpretation of the Rod Stewart classic ❤

    • @jonnaden3898
      @jonnaden3898 2 месяца назад +1

      For the avoidance of doubt, this was written by Tom Waits😊

    • @andrewbargh1623
      @andrewbargh1623 Месяц назад

      Got to be taking the piss

    • @rossanozanga9581
      @rossanozanga9581 Месяц назад

      Rod Stuart?? Please go far away from here

    • @juliev940
      @juliev940 23 дня назад

      @chrisjames6327 : Tom Waits wrote it and Rod Stewart's version is totally lame!

  • @musicmoodroberto8840
    @musicmoodroberto8840 7 месяцев назад

    Waits l'ha scritta e Rod Stewart in primis e Waits poi con le royalties ci hanno fatto i soldi
    Immensa l'originale, ma molto bella e ben fatta la cover di Rod The Mod

  • @honeychildlor
    @honeychildlor Год назад +2

    Clear throat .

  • @johnnywatson4286
    @johnnywatson4286 9 месяцев назад +1

    It was is

  • @ConnieLynchitzWhoElse
    @ConnieLynchitzWhoElse 17 дней назад

    (Official Audio) BEST Version ... as opposed to what ?

    • @OdditiesandRarities
      @OdditiesandRarities  17 дней назад

      official audio as opposed to the crap bootleg vhs audio version.. also I say this is the best version because its better than the album version in my opinion, less 80s pop sounding, more soulful.

  • @TheBlueskyson
    @TheBlueskyson 7 месяцев назад

    The Springsteen of brooklyn. cool guitar. overplayed but nice tone. ty

  • @pedromedinatalavera3920
    @pedromedinatalavera3920 7 месяцев назад

    El sonido de las calles, de las prostitutas en las esquinas, de trenes que pasan por las vías elevadas, de los cubos de basuras, de los yonkis que te piden unas monedas, de una mujer maltratada gritando en injurias a su marido, del neón que se apaga después de ese eterno último trago, de la niebla que escupen los respiraderos del del metro: el sonido de la esperanza perdida.

  • @tonykeith76
    @tonykeith76 2 месяца назад

    I'll never understand why playing live, the artists change the songs..
    In the original record, the guitar is incredibly beautiful..
    Here, the guitar is close to the ridiculous.. What a pity

    • @mustafa1name
      @mustafa1name 2 месяца назад

      The "original record" is not the original version of the song, it is a long way into the process, and has been commercialized for general consumption by a producer. Artists don't often appreciate a producers edit, find it difficult to play, and naturally tend to play their own version instead. They even imagine that this is the "real" version, because it is what they actually wrote. Any true artist explores the song anew every time, finding new angles. In live performance, they adapt, using whatever musicians, stages and sound systems are available. Audiences want the producer's version and expect an exact reproduction of it, even though it was made in a studio by different personnel, in completely different circumstances from a live performance.

    • @tonykeith76
      @tonykeith76 2 месяца назад

      @@mustafa1name
      I meant the "original version" on Rain Dogs album..
      ( For example, Genesis, Yes and Emerson Lake & Palmer played the songs live, exactly like on the original albums.
      Note for note )

    • @mustafa1name
      @mustafa1name 2 месяца назад

      @@tonykeith76 I know what you meant. If those old prog-rock bands really reproduced studio conditions at different venues, that's a very weird and boring thing to do, but in the olden days the biz relied on vinyl sales, so maybe that was a commercial constraint.

    • @tonykeith76
      @tonykeith76 2 месяца назад

      @@mustafa1name
      Instead, I believe that reproducing music as faithfully as possible to the original, is an indication of professionalism and above all, respect for the public...
      That's my opinion as a musician..

    • @andrewbargh1623
      @andrewbargh1623 Месяц назад

      Love it being different every tour. Boring to just recreate exactly. Another opinion. As Tom said in Edinburgh playhouse, “they’re all requests, but they’re your requests.

  • @omnianima5395
    @omnianima5395 Год назад +2

    what the hell? 1:19

    • @marmal320
      @marmal320 Год назад +3

      I think he’s covering the Rod Stewart version of his own song there 😅

    • @omnianima5395
      @omnianima5395 Год назад +1

      ​@@marmal320idk why i commented this now that I saw your reply lol I guess it's because of the loud guitar out of the blue lol

    • @DrrobertLondon
      @DrrobertLondon Год назад +1

      What happened ? I didn’t get it

    • @dtsenear
      @dtsenear 11 месяцев назад

      @@DrrobertLondonrod Stewart guitar lick, not the Tom waits version lol

    • @DrrobertLondon
      @DrrobertLondon 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@dtsenear sounds like his own version to me? Rod’s one has keyboards rather than lead guitar doesn’t it ?

  • @williamkelly9859
    @williamkelly9859 5 месяцев назад

    Tom waits might not want to converse.so what?you maybe wouldn't like the fella..be yourself and stick.

  • @madelcarmenrodriguezcamarg9678
    @madelcarmenrodriguezcamarg9678 Год назад +2

    Me gusta muchísimo mas con mi bellisimo Rod steward

    • @eduardopalacios2265
      @eduardopalacios2265 9 месяцев назад

      My Buena interpretation con el increible rod Stewart

    • @anelladambrosio2513
      @anelladambrosio2513 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@eduardopalacios2265sono due voci diverse...😊🤔😌

  • @RicardoPF2
    @RicardoPF2 10 месяцев назад

    Very good performance and a beautiful song. But I still prefer Bob Seger's version.

  • @jonny5times286
    @jonny5times286 5 месяцев назад

    Rod made it better, let’s be honest.

    • @rossanozanga9581
      @rossanozanga9581 5 месяцев назад

      Rod who??? You said some space bullshit man.

    • @JakeArmstrong-xi1yo
      @JakeArmstrong-xi1yo 4 месяца назад

      Wouldn't it be great if your opinion meant something. You obviously don't know much about music lyrics poetry living it and singing about it is pure genius. Rod Stuart couldn't carry Tom waits equipment,and certainly couldn't ride a downtown train in Brooklyn

    • @rossanozanga9581
      @rossanozanga9581 4 месяца назад

      @@JakeArmstrong-xi1yo Sorry mate, english is not my mother language, i believe that you hate Tom Waits. My mistake, I love Tom Waits music, lyrics and voice. Bye.

    • @zainmukadam5861
      @zainmukadam5861 3 месяца назад

      Even though I love this, the public obviously agrees with your opinion.
      Rod's version went to No. 1, and sold much much more than Tom waits.

    • @rossanozanga9581
      @rossanozanga9581 3 месяца назад +1

      @@zainmukadam5861 Well, that's like saying Taylor Swift is the best singer for people who don't understand anything about good music mate.

  • @vdoggydogg3922
    @vdoggydogg3922 5 месяцев назад

    This guy cannot sing.

    • @rossanozanga9581
      @rossanozanga9581 4 месяца назад

      Yes, like you I hope.

    • @vdoggydogg3922
      @vdoggydogg3922 4 месяца назад

      @rossanozanga9581 so you agree. And never said I could sing.

    • @rossanozanga9581
      @rossanozanga9581 4 месяца назад

      @@vdoggydogg3922 You mate can not sing ever. Probably you do not know nothin about Tom Waits. Go back to the scool and read some book about your ignorance.

    • @ursulareeder8568
      @ursulareeder8568 Месяц назад +1

      I only wish I could sing like Tom-it’s absolutely beautiful!

  • @djoe1106
    @djoe1106 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hello Mr. Pocket. 😂