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Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musicals and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
Waits' lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also included among the 2010 list of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers. and the 2015 list of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
"Shake It" is an English language song by Greek singer Sakis Rouvas and was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. The song is an up-tempo number, with Rouvas telling his lover that "I would trade my life for a night with you" and asking the lover to "shake it" for him. The music - by Nikos Terzis - also features some traditional Greek instrumentation as well as the heavy dance beats increasingly prominent at the Contest.
The performance was similarly sexualised, with Rouvas beginning by dancing with two girls wearing suits. As he sang the line "my world's on fire", he pulled red scarves from the trousers of his backing dancers. Later, he removed the suits from his dancers, revealing skimpy gold costumes. They later returned the favour by tearing his white jacket from him at the start of the final chorus, leaving him wearing a singlet and jeans. Live recordings of the performance feature loud cheers from the crowd as well as audible panting from Rouvas at the end of his athletic dance routine.
Shake It is the third mini album by South Korean girl group Sistar. It was released on June 22, 2015 with the song "Shake It" to be used as the lead single.
The song "Shake It" was written and composed by Duble Sidekick.
The full music video and EP were released on June 22, 2015. On June 24, Sistar released a dance practice video for "Shake It".
The promotions of the song "Shake It" started on June 25, 2015 on M! Countdown. The song was also promoted on the shows, The Show, Music Bank, Music Core and Inkigayo. They ended their promotions after promoting for a month.
Let's Dance is a 1983 album by David Bowie. Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album contained three of his most successful singles; the title track, "Let's Dance", reached No. 1 in the UK, US and various other countries, "Modern Love" and "China Girl" both reached No. 2 in the UK. "China Girl" was a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for the latter's 1977 album The Idiot. The album also contains a re-recorded version of the song "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" which had been a minor hit for Bowie a year earlier. Let's Dance was a stepping stone for the career of the Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who played on it. The album was released as a limited edition picture disc in 1983. Let's Dance has sold 10.7 million copies worldwide, making it Bowie's best-selling album.Let's Dance is Bowie's 18th official album release since his debut in 1967, including two live albums, one covers album (Pin Ups, 1973), and a collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra (1977).
"Amsterdam" is a song by Jacques Brel. It combines a powerful melancholic crescendo with a rich poetic account of the exploits of sailors on shore leave in Amsterdam.
Brel never recorded this for a studio album, and his only version was released on the live album Enregistrement Public à l'Olympia 1964. Despite this, it has been one of his most enduringly popular works. It was one of the songs Mort Shuman translated into English for the Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris musical.
Brel worked on the song at his house overlooking the Mediterranean at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the house he shared with Sylvie Rivet, a publicist for Philips; a place she had introduced him to in 1960. "It was the ideal place for him to create, and to indulge his passion for boats and planes. One morning at six o'clock he read the words of Amsterdam to Fernand, a restaurateur who was about to set off fishing for scorpion fish and conger eels for the bouillabaisse. Overcome, Fernand broke out in sobs and cut open some sea urchins to help control his emotion."
Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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A Rush of Blood to the Head is the second studio album by British alternative rock band Coldplay. Released on 26 August 2002 in the UK through the label Parlophone, the album was produced by the band and British record producer Ken Nelson. Recording started after the band became popular worldwide with the release of their debut album, Parachutes, and one of its singles in particular, "Yellow". The album makes greater use of electric guitar and piano than its predecessor.
The album was made available in August 2002, two months after its original planned release date. It was released on 27 August in the United States through Capitol Records. Capitol released a remastered version of the album in 2008 on a 180-gram vinyl record as part of the "From the Capitol Vaults" series. The album debuted and continued their huge commercial legacy, an ongoing pattern that began with Parachutes which made Coldplay one of the best-selling bands worldwide. It topped the UK Albums Chart upon its first week of release in the United Kingdom, and became the eighth biggest-selling album of the 21st century in the UK. The British Phonographic Industry has since certified the album 9× Platinum for its accumulated sales of over 2.8 million units in the UK and over 19 million worldwide. The album spawned the hit singles "In My Place", "The Scientist", and "Clocks". "God Put a Smile upon Your Face" was also released, but was significantly less successful.
"Hold On" by @tomwaits from the album 'Mule Variations,' 1999 Directed by Matt Mahurin TOM WAITS ▶ Store: https://tomwaits.ffm.to/store ▶ Website: http://www.tomwaits.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomwaits ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomwaits ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomWaits ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LC1qg9 ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/3v3UGlz ▶ Amazon: https://amzn.to/3rWIqkK ANTI- RECORDS ▶ Store: https://antircrds.io/store ▶ Website: http://www.anti.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antirecords ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antirecords ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/antirecords ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3F8wIHU ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/33kCNDl #tomwaits #mulevariations
from the album "The Early Years Vol.II" Audio HQ
"Downtown Train" by @tomwaits from the album 'Rain Dogs,' 1985 Directed by Jean Baptiste Mondino TOM WAITS ▶ Store: https://tomwaits.ffm.to/store ▶ Website: http://www.tomwaits.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomwaits ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomwaits ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomWaits ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LC1qg9 ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/3v3UGlz ▶ Amazon: https://amzn.to/3rWIqkK ANTI- RECORDS ▶ Store: https://antircrds.io/store ▶ Website: http://www.anti.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antirecords ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antirecords ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/antirecords ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3F8wIHU ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/33kCNDl #tomwaits #raindogs
"Hell Broke Luce" by @tomwaits from the album 'Bad As Me,' 2011 Directed By Matt Mahurin TOM WAITS ▶ Store: https://tomwaits.ffm.to/store ▶ Website: http://www.tomwaits.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomwaits ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomwaits ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomWaits ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LC1qg9 ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/3v3UGlz ▶ Amazon: https://amzn.to/3rWIqkK ANTI- RECORDS ▶ Store: https://antircrds.io/store ▶ Website: http://www.anti.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antirecords ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antirecords ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/antirecords ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3F8wIHU ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/33kCNDl #tomwaits #badasme
"God's Away On Business" by @tomwaits from the album 'Blood Money,' 2002 Directed by Jesse Dylan TOM WAITS ▶ Store: https://tomwaits.ffm.to/store ▶ Website: http://www.tomwaits.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomwaits ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomwaits ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomWaits ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LC1qg9 ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/3v3UGlz ▶ Amazon: https://amzn.to/3rWIqkK ANTI- RECORDS ▶ Store: https://antircrds.io/store ▶ Website: http://www.anti.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antirecords ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antirecords ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/antirecords ▶ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3F8wIHU ▶ Apple: https://apple.co/33kCNDl #tomwaits #bloodmoney
Tom Waits Greatest Hits (FULL ALBUM) - Best of Tom Waits [PLAYLIST HQ/HD]. Tom Waits Greatest Hits (FULL ALBUM) - Best of Tom Waits [PLAYLIST HQ/HD]
"I Don't Wanna Grow Up" by Tom Waits from the album 'Bone Machine,' 1992 Directed by Jim Jarmusch Official Site: http://www.tomwaits.com/ Official Store: http://tomwaitsstore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomwaits/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomwaits #tomwaits #bonemachine
Released October 15, 1974 The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released in 1974 on Asylum Records. The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. Tom Waits – vocals, piano, guitar Jim Hughart – double bass Pete Christlieb – tenor saxophone Tom Scott - clarinet Jim Gordon – drums 01 - 00:00 New Coat of Paint 02 - 03:23 San Diego Serenade 03 - 06:53 Semi Suite 04 - 10:22 Shiver Me Timbers 05 - 14:49 Diamonds on My Windshield 06 - 18:01 (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night 07 - 21:54 Fumblin' with the Blues 08 - 24:57 Please Call Me, Baby 09 - 29:23 Depot, Depot 10 - 33:09 Drunk on the Moon 11 - 33:17 The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)
Tom Waits performs "The Piano Has Been Drinking" from the album 'Small Change' live On Fernwood Tonight in 1977 Official Site: http://www.tomwaits.com/ Official Store: http://tomwaitsstore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomwaits/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomwaits #tomwaits #smallchange
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musicals and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
Waits' lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also included among the 2010 list of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers. and the 2015 list of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
Good mornin mr. snip snip snip witchur haircut jus as short as mine
Bay rum lucky tiger butch wax cracker jacks shoe shine jaw breaker
Magazine racks hangin round the barber shop a side burnin close crop
Mornin mr. furgeson what's the good word witcha been
Stayin outa trouble like a good boy should i see you're still cuttin hair
Well i'm still cuttin classes i just couldn't hep myself
I got a couple of passes to the ringle bros. barn bail circus afternoon
I see you lost a little round the middle and your lookin reel good
Sittin on the wagon stead of under the hood
What's the low down mr. brown heard you boy's leavin town
I just bought myself a struggle buggy suckers powder blue
Throw me over sports page cincinnati's lookin' good
Always been for pittsburgh lay you 10 to 1
That the pirates get the pennant and the series for their done
You know the hair's gettin longer and the skirts gettin shorter
You can get a cheaper haircut if you wanna cross the border
Now if your mama saw you smokin why she'd kick your ass
Put it out you little juvenile and put it out fast
Oh if i had a million dollars well what would i do
Probly be a barber not a bum like you
Still gotchur paper route now that's just fine
Now you can pay me double cause you gypped me last time
You be keepin little circus money and spend it on a girl