Tom Waits New Album: Artist Reveals Details On Bad As Me (VIDEO)

Tom Waits sits in a room filled with objects recognizably from the past -- a rotary phone, record player -- as he rocks lazily in his chair. This is his Private Listening Party, and you're it in. Watching Waits rock back and forth could have been the whole video introducing his new album, and it still would have been completely fascinating, but this is Tom Waits, remember.

You might not remember, because its been seven years since Waits dropped his last album. His new album, Bad As Me, is out Oct. 25, but first, Waits has a bone to pick.

Now, allow him to continue.

"Well we have a situation -- apparently there's no such thing as private anymore," Waits begins. "It's an internet thing where they say that it's going to go out everywhere, into the bloodstream."

Don't know what he's talking about? Last week, Waits' new album title was leaked. Waits was hurt, and offers an apt comparison for how it feels.

"Here's the way I see it," Waits said. "If you were having a birthday and I came early and I started eating your cake and maybe I opened up all your presents and started playing with your toys, you'd be OK with that?"

Then it gets a lot better when he offers a much less apt comparison and we nod along.

"Or what if you had a root canal and I asked you to gargle with raw sewage. Would you be OK with that? Or would it be safe to jump rope with a live electrical wire? No."

To be honest, we'd probably be OK with gargling raw sewage if Tom Waits asked us to.

"The whole thing is going to have to be rethought, so, I'll let you know what I come up with," he ends.

Oh, Tom. You could literally yell "raw sewage" over and over again into a mic and we'd be happy.

Visit Tom's Private Listening Party:

LISTEN to his single, "Bad As Me":

The full tracklisting for Bad As Me:

01. Chicago
02. Raised Right Men
03. Talking At The Same Time
04. Get Lost
05. Face To The Highway
06. Pay Me
07. Back In The Crowd
08. Bad As Me
09. Kiss Me
10. Satisfied
11. Last Leaf
12. Hell Broke Luce
13. New Year's Eve

Comments

[Redhunteur]

08:56 AM on 08/25/2011

Tom Waits is amazing. I can't wait for this.

[MichaelRobenalt]

06:44 PM on 08/24/2011

God I really wish that stream was still up I heard it like two days ago now I cant find it anywhere!

[Harry Covington]

03:51 PM on 08/24/2011

My favorites will always be ...uh, realizes there are way too many to type. Can't wait to hear what he's up to now, been a fan from the early years. Brilliant lyrics that are in my head almost every day.

[Adam Story]

03:30 PM on 08/24/2011

I just hope this means more Cookie Monster Mashups.

[Reticent2]

01:59 PM on 08/24/2011

On my good days, I listen to T. and Rickie Lee Jones. On my bad days, I listen to them as well.

[abhorson]

01:33 PM on 08/24/2011

awesome AND proof you can live a long life on 90 proof alone ... once you get the Toys-r-Us liver which can be replaced with plastic tweezers.

[tulsey]

08:35 AM on 08/24/2011

The waiting for Waits is almost over, and I hear a little taste of our dear departed Captn Beafheart,

[americancolonyinhell]

11:42 AM on 08/24/2011

Yeah, one hears plenty of Beefheart echoes in Waits' singing.

[Lather]

07:02 AM on 08/24/2011

There are TWO Gods of Music Alive today, Waits is one and Cave is the other.. Thank you Tom for changing me through your music.. Been a HUGE fan since 1980..

[americancolonyinhell]

11:43 AM on 08/24/2011

Why the certitude? I'm sure nobody on your block would agree with you.

[SayYaWantRevolution]

05:44 AM on 08/24/2011

A classic, a poet, I had the pleasure of spending a Halloween back in the late 70s, or early 80's with Tom when he played Bogarts in Cincinnati. Like everyone did back then a bunch of us ended up in the upstairs bathroom which was 50s turquoise green with a gold metal flake counter top. There were people in costume and Tom was, well Tom was Tom. He asked a friend who was dressed as a hooker what she was, she replied "a high class hooker" Tom asked if she "had change for a five". What a night. His next trip there the owner screwed up and there wasn't room on stage for his props, a street light and a gas pump. He called him out on it, apologized to the audience and said "up his a** with a frozen dishrag. He has quite a way with words, thanks Tom, love ya.

[patman77]

01:33 PM on 08/24/2011

I caught that same tour only at the agora in cleveland late 98' or early ninety nine I believe. last chance....
texaco gas sign.

[Feurio]

05:20 AM on 08/24/2011

And a new Leonard Cohen album:
http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/167263/9

A sort of "preview":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAhJg7yj2I

Now if Nick Cave can put together a new album too..

[SLivermore]

04:35 AM on 08/24/2011

Annoyed that there's buzz over his new album? What a curmudgeon! :(

[Erewhon7]

03:19 AM on 08/24/2011

As long as I can drink it from a swordfish trombone...

[ChrisUtzig]

03:17 AM on 08/24/2011

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

[patman77]

01:34 PM on 08/24/2011

under the starry starry night of the buttery,buttery moon. lewd,lascivious and briliant.

[coolbrotha00]

02:32 AM on 08/24/2011

"Never trust a scarecrow wearing shades after dark."

"Today is gray skies tomorrow is tears, we'll have to wait til yesterday is here."

"My piano's been drinking, not me."

Tom Waits, a true American classic.

[donnyraindog]

06:21 PM on 08/24/2011

" all my dreams are made of chrome i have no way to get back home
I'd rather die before I wake like marylin monroe
and you can throw my dreams back in the street
Let the rain make em grow."

[colonelsun68]

02:00 AM on 08/24/2011

I first saw Wait's on Channel 11's "Soundstage" out of Chicago in the mid-to-late 70's and have loved his stuff ever since. His work has become a little more challenging at times--which is okay--but it's his great love of his craft and his wonderful sense of humor that keeps you paying attention. Really looking forward to the new album!