Tom Waits/YMMV

""Who are the ones that we kept in charge? Killers, thieves, lawyers!""
 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: Bad As Me, his first wholly original album since 2004's Real Gone, was greeted with much fanfare.
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: From "God's away on business"


 * Covered Up: Happens to him all the time. "Downtown Train" seems to be the most popular cover choice.
 * The Eagles did this with "Old '55."
 * Bruce Springsteen with "Jersey Girl"
 * Crazy Awesome: Sums up just about anything he's ever produced since the eighties.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: A few examples, but Hoist That Rag stands out.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Poor Edward. "Some still believe he was freed from her, but I knew her too well; I say she drove him to suicide, and took Poor Edward... to hell..." *shudder*
 * Also, "We're All Mad Here". Urrrrgh. Don't listen to it late at night...
 * "What's he building in there?"
 * All of Bone Machine.
 * Especially And the Earth Died Screaming.
 * Misery is the River of the World. Good GOD!
 * His cover of "Heigh Ho" from Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs.
 * Hell Broke Luce from the new album Bad As Me. War Is Hell does not begin to describe it.
 * Misaimed Fandom: The interpretations of "Poor Edward." The song is actually about exactly what it sounds like.
 * Also, when TV ads wanted to use his song "Step Right Up", apparently without listening very closely to the lyrics.
 * Older Than They Think: The gravelly voice used by Rowlf the Dog has been described as a Tom Waits impression -- although Waits was only 13 when Rowlf debuted.
 * Paranoia Fuel: "What's He Building In There?", "Buzz Fledderjohn", "Don't Go Into that Barn", and at least two thirds of both Bone Machine and Blood Money.