Feb 14, 2024
Our second set of music videos brings Philippa back to Martin and Sam for the last decade-and-change of Waits music videos. Sampling the work of Jesse Dylan, Matt Mahurin and various others, we consider what these videos mean in a post-YouTube world, as well as Waits's filmed promos in the 21st century.
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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes
include:
Hold On, Tom Waits music video from Mule Variations, dir. Matt
Mahurin (1999)
Come On Up To The House, (unauthorised?) Tom Waits music video from
Mule Variations, dir. Anders Lövgren (1999)
What's He Building, Tom Waits music video from Mule Variations,
dir. Lex Brand (1999)
God's Away On Business, Tom Waits music video from Blood Money,
dir. Jesse Dylan (2002)
Lie To Me, Tom Waits music video from Orphans, dir. Danny Clinch
(2006)
Tom Waits Press Conference, promo for Glitter&Doom tour, dir.
unknown (2008)
Tom Waits' Private Listening Party, promo for Bad As Me, dir.
unknown (2011)
Satisfied, Tom Waits music video from Bad As Me, dir. Jesse Dylan
(2011)
Hell Broke Luce, Tom Waits music video from Bad As Me, dir. Matt
Mahurin (2012)
Bad As Me, (unreleased?) Tom Waits music video from Bad As Me, dir.
unknown / Jesse Dylan? (2011/2013?)
Misery’s the River of the World, Tom Waits music / lyric video from
Blood Money 20th Anniversary re-release, artwork by Casey Waits /
animation by Sarah Sheikh Bridge (2022)
Lost In The Harbour, Tom Waits music / lyric video from Alice 20th
Anniversary re-release, artwork by Christy Smith / animation by
Sarah Sheikh Bridge (2022)
God's Away On Business, Tom Waits music / lyric video from Blood
Money 20th Anniversary re-release, artwork by Casey Waits /
animation by Sarah Sheikh Bridge (2022)
Top Of The Hill, Real Gone, Tom Waits (2004)
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