Tom Waits - Bounced Checks (HQ Vinyl - Full Album)

A few blues slept me to lunch here at my new digs with the flop set , yet I did get all 6 gut strings strapped on that box of mines last night... The instant is good if you let the sink hot run a good while, and my roomies are having a big time on all the junk food n soda I bought with my Missouri E.B.T. card...do I want to "attend group" they woke me with an algebraic diagnoser on a cordless she sounds gorgeous but my gal prolly won't even answer; autistic son likes to play with her phone...oh well, couple blues left to go with all this salt of the Earth experience I'm suckin up as I go and 6 gut strings all the group I "plan" to be attending...g.o.d. love yens yunst and even yewins

He just had a great way to explain life for so many that are lost

THANK YOU from the bottom of my scar tissue heart 70 yrs living

I'm 79 and a lifelong jazz, Zappa, blues, stream of consciousness poetry and prose, Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, George Carlin, etc etc lover all my long life so everything this guy's done since he came on the scene is Gold to me. 🎉🎉❤️❤️🙏🙏🤪

The Piano Has Been Drinking... amazing.

Tom Waits is and always has been my "wtf has gone wrong with music...i'm off to listen to something of real substance by Mr Waits"...THANK GOD for Tom Waits...sorry i mean't to say THANK GOD FOR TOM WAITS!!!!!!!!!! Feels like coming home.....i met this man's music back in 1989 late one evening whilst hearing his manifestations of zeee mind bouncy off the walls of the loft area in a house of multiple occupation of a dude called Graham, who invited me up and we drank coffee into the wee small hours, with great conversation and Tom's stuff playing on and on.. Graham and i are still friends....and Tom Waits is still floating around the both of us. Great stuff.

Never heard this version of "the piano has been drinking" GENIUS....

This compilation was my intro to Tom Waits. I bought it on a secondhand casette when I was 15-16 yrs old, and I obsessively listened to it. Thank you so very much for uploading this on YouTube as I haven't been able to find that casette for quite some time! I find the versions on this compilation to be amazing and bring back memories of my teenage years.

YEAH TOM YOU YOUR BAND AND THE SINGERS ARE THE BEST 1T IS 5 20 O CLOCK I WOKE UP A HOUR AGO AND MADE FIRE IN MY STOVE I AM DRINKING MY COFFEE AND MULTIVITAMIN A CAT IS SLEEPING ON THE BED I AM SITTING STRAIGHT ON THE EDGE OF IT MY BACK HURTS ME SO I CAN NOT LAY I AM VERY SAD BECAUSE MY OLD SHEPHERD DOG ROCKY IS DEAD I CRY A LOT BUT THE TIME WILL DRY MY TEARS STILL I HAVE A CAT JACK ONLY LIVING SOUL IN MY SOLITUDE I AM GOING TO WASH MY LONG BLONDE HAIR IN A POT I DO NOT HAVE A BATHROOM BUT I AM CLEAN TODAY IS COMING A LADY WITH A GUITAR AND I WILL SING BLOWING IN THE WIND I AM IN LOVE WITH MR. BOB DYLAN BUT HE DOES NOT CARE LISTENING TO YOU COMFORTS ME YOU ARE THE LEGEND AND I AM LIKE JERSEY GIRL

From one rain dog to another - TW you are a genius. Thank You.

Happy memories of working ridiculously long hours developing games for a radical new console - that didn't make it - with this playing every couple of hours. The absolute best version of The Piano Has Been Drinking, too.

Tom était beauté, message, violence et rêve, mais surtout l'instrument puissant d'une volonté formidable. il disait "Je veux" quand beaucoup d’autres marmonnaient "je voudrais" Il a atteint son but sans se plier à la plus infime compromission, comme une charrue accrochée à une étoile. Une fois pour toutes, ce poète-là traçait son chemin et ne s'en écartait jamais, refusant toute flagornerie qui fait de la musique populaire d'aujourd'hui une lasse prostituée 🌺🕊

Thanks, @Erstauf, for posting this gem for the rest of us. Been listening to and loving Tom Waits since first hearing "Invitation To The Blues" back in 1992, 31 years and about a month ago...I was almost 20 and about to discover my inner bleeding heart artiste...and I'm still on this blessed pilgrimage on this lovely blue-and-green marble we call Earth. Tom Waits is unparalleled as a songwriter, storyteller and poet of the heart. Cool human, too. Totally digging these "lost" tracks. 💗🙏🏼🎶🪷

Thank you posting. I love the crackling in the background -- makes sense for Tom Waits music.

Thanks Man!!!... from one of the oldest Tom Waits fans...70...never heard most of these versions...standout for me was revelatory version of 'The Piano Has Been Drinking' just fucking poetic transcendant recording...love him so much ...seen 7 times starting in 1974...,collected all LP's /tapes & ...etc ...ps met once in Houston at Lonestar/Texas opry house...interesting story that night...will be in my ?? soon to be published memoir of that era..."A Peyote Pilgrim's Progress'...Mostly True Tall Tales/Short Stories of a North Country Farm Boy who hitr the road likje Kerouac with the Draft Board hot on his winding hot & cold Trail...etc...adios Thanks,,,too fucking cool~!~!!~

was sleeping on this record. Oh,I thought I had heard ALL of Tom Waits (sheeeit, as if there's always more when an artist is as prolific and lovable as 'ol' Tom Frost') releases and recorded stuff, but I SORELY MISTAKEN when I heard this version of The Piano Has Been Drinking!? Which must be the greatest song ever flipping mad, if not at least it's this week's number one on repeating track! Just can't get this itch scratched right now! It IS. THE. THE version of that song. Where has it been all my life? I'm going to go sit in timeout and think about what I've done wrong.

ANOTHER GREAT QUALITY SHARE

Tom Waits is one of my fave muso.

"Heartattack and Vine" 00:04 "Jersey Girl" (alternate master) – 04:47 "Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)" – 09:26 "I Never Talk to Strangers" (Duet with Bette Midler) – 13:43 "The Piano Has Been Drinking" (recorded live - Dublin, Ireland, March 1981) – 17:20 "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" (alternate master) – 23:33 "Mr. Henry" (previously unreleased) – 26:34 "Diamonds on My Windshield" – 30:04 "Burma Shave" – 33:18 "Tom Traubert's Blues" – 39:48

..but you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.