Quite simply one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
@lesliepedersen2539
Ай бұрын
The best ❤️
@officebloke9154
4 жыл бұрын
"I was born at a very young age" went right over their heads
@kevinhallisey5201
7 жыл бұрын
They say that learning a foreign language, especially a complicated one (like Japanese) changes your brain. That was what happened to me the first time I heard Tom Waits. It was the "Blue Valentines" album and music has never been the same.
@waloacme
4 жыл бұрын
Same here buddy.
@Azazello321
3 жыл бұрын
Simply golden. When he talks about those spokes and wings and wheal chairs i just about near cried myself silly!
@flip65515
Жыл бұрын
I feel the same way. My life changed after I traded by copy of Alice in Chains' "Dirt" for "Small Change"
@ipguyman108
Жыл бұрын
Tears at the end of this song , every time 😢
@marcofiorentini4939
Жыл бұрын
Just the same for me.....
@deliawolfe
7 ай бұрын
Tom Waits and I are very close in age. This song, a train of childhood memories laces into an abstract pictures of growing up in the 1950s. It's particularly touching, especially as I had a friend with polio who wore braces. One day we planned to cut them off with a hacksaw. I suppose that was because we were age six, or maybe seven, and those braces kept our friend from the kinds of freedom we took for granted.
@Jostoc
15 жыл бұрын
This is the ONLY known video recording of Kentucky Avenue. Thanks for sharing.
@herb-music
7 жыл бұрын
gotta say something in my poor english... there is no song out there that brings me to tears like this one. Don´t know exactly why, but the way he sings about his childhood is more intense to me than any lovesong could be. So whenever somebody asks me what my favourite song is or which one touches me the most, the answer is always "Kentucky Avenue". Since more than 20 years now.
@mattzakszewski3282
6 жыл бұрын
Herb Felho Van Morrison has been known to say "It's not the words but the feeling behind them". Something like that. In this case it's both. He's also just a great teller of stories.
@rgball1960
6 жыл бұрын
Herb Felho I feel the same way , it’s perfection. I have to hear it at least once a day.
@CharlesHess
5 жыл бұрын
Herb Felho yup.
@lyndamcardle4123
4 жыл бұрын
It's when he says/sings "I'll take those spokes from your wheelchair and a magpie's wings and I'll tie them to your shoulders and your feet....I'll steal a hacksaw from my dad, cut the braces off your legs and we'll bury them th'night out in the cornfield............" that tears out my heart
@JonTate
4 жыл бұрын
Same. Thank you for saying so.
@mikehoage5261
6 жыл бұрын
i can understand this song i am also in a wheel chair with no legs thank you tom for this beautyful piece of music
@thechemistscholar
3 жыл бұрын
I hope one day we can make you fly, so you never have to walk.
@gg-wr4wv
Жыл бұрын
I can identify with this song. My grandmother lived next door to a boy I used to play with when we crossed town to visit her. Jimmy and I were the same age, but one day, I was told he couldn't come out to play. From that time on, I could see his hospital bed in their many-windowed sunroom. We had a sign-language, of sorts, but he was never able to come out and play again. It was late 40s, prime polio season, and the adults never told me what was wrong or why he died. I get the feeling that although Tom could wreak havoc on the neighborhood, he was the only one who was compassionate enough to be a true friend to the boy who is the subject of this song.
@butch755
Жыл бұрын
Only Tom could weave a tale that brings you back and rips at the depths of your your soul at the same time. Timeless and incomparable. Peerless in the history of performers.
@sclogse1
13 жыл бұрын
If Tom had only done this one song...he'd still be the best thing that ever happened to me in the last 35 years.
@tubytubey
5 жыл бұрын
This is definitely biographical -- about a friend he had as a youth. I think many of us can identify with his emotion about his young friend as he describes the "antics" they can only dream of and how he wishes his friend weren't hindered by the shackles of polio. He even breaks down near the end when he can do nothing but continue on the piano chorus when he leaves out the line that he carved his initials on his arm with a rusty nail. Tom's heart is showing because in that moment it's breaking.
@WheresPoochie
15 жыл бұрын
One of his most underrated songs and one his best period.
@crystalbluewire3339
2 жыл бұрын
By who's standard ?
@WheresPoochie
2 жыл бұрын
@@crystalbluewire3339 Mine :)
@AmyPhetamine
12 жыл бұрын
there's nothing like a Tom Waits binge for falling in love with an old song, for the first time.
@ThePegasus101
8 ай бұрын
he could write the best xmas songs ever
@milesj.943
6 ай бұрын
Well you're in for a real treat kzitem.info/news/bejne/zq6M1Wmjo31lmJw
@mad4flight
12 жыл бұрын
So its not just me that is reduced to tears every time they listen to this incredible song. Tom at his genius best, this will still stun folk in a thousand years time. Fantastic !!!
@lyndamcardle4123
6 жыл бұрын
Exactly sir... I'm so glad someone else feels the same as me. REPLY
@shirleyvmaui
3 жыл бұрын
Nobody can break my heart like Tom Waits being tender. No one.
@DBoss9070
11 жыл бұрын
Even after hearing this song 20,000 times give or take 5k, this song still manages to make me tear up...
@marcofiorentini4939
Жыл бұрын
After more or less 35 years still bring tears in my eyes....
@dadsongamingworld6731
6 жыл бұрын
Spent most of my life being Bob Dylan....that was until I discovered Tom Waits.... You could read the words and be blown away, but when he sings it...and performs it.... I personally think no one comes close.....
@hermann6739
6 жыл бұрын
Daniel Marchant the same here
@rgball1960
6 жыл бұрын
Daniel Marchant Nobody is remotely close. What a breath of fresh air.
@galefreeman1356
5 жыл бұрын
Dad&Son Gamingworld: I so much agree. His is a unique and breathtaking talent. He wrote such amazingly and universally insightful lyrics and melodies, and different from anything else at the time. When I've introduced someone (usually younger than I) to his music, so many times he or she has asked, "So, what kind of music does he play, anyway?" The only reasonable answer I've been able to think of is, "He plays Tom Waits music."
@nightjar8898
5 жыл бұрын
D&S: Tom surpasses Dylan by lightyears.
@ferox965
5 жыл бұрын
Dylan gets all the kudos...I think Waits should.
@hypnotoads
14 жыл бұрын
Beautiful - makes me yearn for a place I wasn't, a time that will never be, and a person I will never know. The Tom Waits Magic I suppose...
@irishgoat123
Жыл бұрын
I know exactly what you mean
@danieltripp2578
4 жыл бұрын
best song ever, EVER, written about childhood, for us urbanites..
@controlpluszed
11 жыл бұрын
god, it's a true "hairs on the back of your neck" song.... cannot get past the "magpies wings" lyric without a lump in my throat. just amazing.
@moonlitme
6 ай бұрын
every single time...
@Mark8395217
10 жыл бұрын
Love comes to us in many ways. To me, this is the most heartfelt way I've ever heard someone say... I love you.
@mypalfootfoot9591
2 ай бұрын
Having grown up in Brooklyn in the 1950's, this song means so much to me. I've listened to Tom's Blue Valentine album more times than I can count and still cry every time I hear Kentucky Avenue.
@louann5840
9 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I wanted my cousin to see our tree fort. He had MD which I didn't understand so well. He kept saying don't do it.don't do it, but pushed his chair on .....and he fell out of the wheelchair. The next 15 minutes he spent SCREAMING "I hate you" "I hate you"....but you see I wanted him to see our tree fort....That's what this song reminds me of.
@faalonikdovah982
5 жыл бұрын
I had a friend with MS when I was young. Most the kids in the neighborhood didn't like him because he was an asshole. Which he admittedly was, but I mean you try being 11 when you start using a cane and by 14 your stuck in a wheelchair. I played video games with him, and raised hell round the neighborhood when I could sneak him out at night. He died just after he turned 16. I miss him. He didn't deserve the hand he was dealt. That's what this song reminds me of.
@joeswanson7502
3 жыл бұрын
@@faalonikdovah982 That’s rough man. It’s story’s like that that make me see how lucky the rest of us are.
@xs20000
16 жыл бұрын
I'm not a American, and I don't fully understand lyric of this song but I love this song and lyric And feel how Tom waits have lived.
@mariacampbell797
2 жыл бұрын
My favourite love song makes me cry
@jmsanze
Жыл бұрын
Es difícil decir que es la mejor. En mi opinión también es la mejor de Tom. Y también lloro, desde luego, pero no por la tristeza de mi vida, sino por la belleza de la canción
@majaldinho
11 жыл бұрын
No one can match old Tom Waits. He was born, he came in 1949 to this world carrying something magic and diferent with his soul that no other human being can share with him. Yes, that is right, in his talent, in infinite sensitiveness and perception of really, Mr Tom Waits, the Guy from California, is lonelist guy in this planet. All my respect to you, Mr. Waits!
@Mark8395217
12 жыл бұрын
This song is to be played at the celebration of my life... swear... it's in my will...
@6ollie66
11 жыл бұрын
The most beautiful, sentimental & hopeless song i've heard. One of my alll all time favs!
@Nightwizard17
14 жыл бұрын
i tried cohen, i tried cave, i tried dylan... but i always come back to old tom.... you're awesome!
@CelticFan
15 жыл бұрын
The finest Tom Waits song Ever. And there's so, so many. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM FOR 7th DEC 08 59yrs. Sorry, mate, no secrets in the world any longer!
@sclogse1
13 жыл бұрын
With this song Tom manages to completely focus the listener. There is nothing else happening. It's completely consuming. They used to talk about Miles Davis getting on stage in a club, aim that trumpet down, and play really quietly in a noisy club. He pulled all the energy of the room toward him....everybody shut up, and then there was nothing else heard besides him. He got your full attention. There was only THIS..
@Resenbrink
14 жыл бұрын
Its beautiful isn't it - I had tears in my eyes the first time I ever heard this.
@mammashazza
6 жыл бұрын
This is my fave tom song, always makes me cry at the end
@skahtboi
16 жыл бұрын
One of the saddest, and most moving songs ever written.
@TerrenceAybar
9 жыл бұрын
I love this man.
@Teech1958
11 жыл бұрын
Tom walks a path nobody can follow. In a world of x factored dross he shines like a diamond. Bless you Tom. Thanks for the music.
@paultoner01
14 жыл бұрын
Each and every time I hear this song I'm 10yrs old again with my 8 and a half year old brother Dave. I'm transported... true genius. Thanks Tom
@marygowdyngai1311
9 жыл бұрын
He has been breaking my heart since I saw him in a tiny venue in Toronto in 1976.
@lowrencemayfield4271
8 жыл бұрын
+Mary Gowdy Ngai You've been very lucky Mary, i wish i was there too, in that tiny venue in 1976.
@normanwebb3806
8 жыл бұрын
I Was Crying my eyes out in the front row; it was soooo beautiful. Tomee looked at me and said "Don't Let It Get To You!" all Raspy --been my motto for forty plus years.
@galefreeman1356
6 жыл бұрын
says everything...
@waanaabe-4795
6 жыл бұрын
lucky Mary Gowdy Ngai
@mkrtchjan7639
5 жыл бұрын
Mary Gowdy Ngai OMG! I only was born in 1976, but love Tom so much!
@clocktower7
15 жыл бұрын
I am shedding tears as i watch this clip of Kentucky Avenue. It is such a touching piece of work and it reminds me of people who i know and who i have lost along the way in my life. Tom waits is simply astounding!
@mh11281
3 жыл бұрын
During the worse days/moments, this song is always the warm arms that provide comfort.
@Mightyplayer
13 жыл бұрын
Show me a 29-year old musician today, who has the ability to write something this fantastic! It's just so well-written, well-performed and heartfelt that it transcends mere singer/songwriting and becomes something higher, something deeper , something infinitely more beautiful. My undying love for Tom Waits is the only thing in life that I'm really sure of ...
@harrybrown4077
4 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite song ever written. If I had one song to listen to before I passed away, this would be the song.
@steelyjackson
12 жыл бұрын
Yep, you've got it. One of the most brilliant songs ever written.
@helenuzuegbunam5341
3 жыл бұрын
I just love the way that the comments on Tom waits songs are as poetic and emotional as his songs x 💕💕💕💕
@amisspelledtomato5923
3 жыл бұрын
Haha exactly.. absolutely love them, including yours :)
@msirt
12 жыл бұрын
"Growin' up". It's about empowerment. Here's the testimony of an adolescent cataloguing that which empowers boys of that age: a catalogue of mischief : breaking windows, smoking cigs', jumping off roofs, etc. But the real empowerment is love: the braggart loves a wheelchair bound friend who could never participate in such acts of empowerment on his own, so the braggart will take action to share such exploits with him, thus empowering his friend also. I can't stop weeping. Thank you Tom.
@tomwalsh891
4 жыл бұрын
msirt beautifully put my friend.
@Troken7
15 жыл бұрын
such a touching song, captures the essence of childhood very well
@clongownian1
12 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite Tom Waits songs. I just love this performance.
@mohamedabdelgani8475
11 жыл бұрын
Best Song Ever...
@INTillerMaN99
5 жыл бұрын
Same for me buddy. Him forgetting the words makes it even more real in weird way.
@matseman46
12 жыл бұрын
OMG! U just burst me into tears...I´m an old man and u just made me remeber true love..
@alaneisenberg1438
7 жыл бұрын
This artist is so unique. This song never fails to send copious tears from my eyes.
@lyndamcardle4123
6 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad someone else feels the same as me.
@rhombusskullvsteal1
9 жыл бұрын
Tom waits, "don't talk to strangers" 1979 one year after the release of "blue valentine" god bless
@MrBeanthere1
8 жыл бұрын
this is most special. Means something to anybody that grew up with disabled siblings. The only guy who ever spoke to me. f. sympathy d. duh.
@pretorious700
14 жыл бұрын
only a few songs you will ever hear in your life will make time stand still.....this is one of them
@mammashazza
12 жыл бұрын
i love and adore tom waits this song never fails to reduce me to a weeping wreck fantastic.
@christinebeales9216
3 ай бұрын
My favourite song x
@roor06
15 жыл бұрын
Tom Waits for President ... Gets ma vote ...
@JosephSantangelo
11 жыл бұрын
Aw Tom.... this is you at your best. You said what I felt years back for a kid and I'm still that kid and I'll always feel it. If you don't feel a tear coming after this you got nothin' in your heart
@bevyg49
15 жыл бұрын
I truly don't believe there are any similar artists. He is one of a kind. A genius.
@Phish1995
Жыл бұрын
Beverly I hope you are still around. If you are I so agree with you.
@georgemagee5225
4 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest songs ever
@CANDOKNOWHOW
15 жыл бұрын
This song always makes me wanna help someone out who might be having hard times...
@ferouihamza
5 жыл бұрын
i would have never thought that tom was born in a very young age
@nightjar8898
5 жыл бұрын
Tom is a f@*#ing genius. He 's one of the few writers/musical artists that can plumb this depth of feeling and not turn it into a saccharine Hallmark special.
@madrussian1000
14 жыл бұрын
Thanks 2 Tom one does not have 2 "suffer" in search of metaphors...he did it 4 me...or in stead...What a piece...what a poetry...what a music...what a genius ....
@pretorious700
15 жыл бұрын
Impossible to have a "favorite" Waits song, but this one packs an emotional wallop. He is a rare artist, capable of deep melancholy and humor sometimes in the same line. He and Ray Davies are my favorite songwriters.
@grrant54
16 жыл бұрын
You are definitely not weird. You love music. Tom is one of the best.
@ellengowanmediapublications
4 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite songs of all time!
@mammashazza
12 жыл бұрын
@Mightyplayer how true, i am 50 and came across tom when i was 18. i am devoted, this song kills me i love it to the core
@theradiolion3559
Жыл бұрын
"I'll take the spokes from your wheelchair and a magpies wings, and I'll time em' to your shoulders and your feet" gives me chills everytime
@frankmitman3347
2 жыл бұрын
Such a beautifully constructed tune
@ynotttt
2 жыл бұрын
The song brings so many people back to place and time very relatable to this. EVERYTHING. Not every crime or nefarious act ….but I can attach a name to everyone of them. That’s the genius of a song writer. They know where we’ve all been.
@thomas56283
14 жыл бұрын
It's one of the deepest Waits Songs.... Great, beautyful and fragile.... unbelievable
@dottorluca
15 жыл бұрын
poetry, music, mixed togheter: we can't ask anything else to an artist. and Tom is such an Artist
@markburrell8320
4 жыл бұрын
Best Tom Waits Song !!
@jackryder-sw9rk
4 жыл бұрын
can't listen to this without crying, and I still listen to it.
@whatsthiscalled1
14 жыл бұрын
heard this whispering to me through the speakers at a party one night, followed by somehwere ,had sufficient articulationto ask who was singin,and though gassed to the eyeballs went out and bought asylum years the next day, twenty years on, lost the album but not the memory of this song. thank you .
@basskick10
13 жыл бұрын
unmathcatchable. This is the kind of piece that leaves you without words to properly represent it.
@Speedfeuer
14 жыл бұрын
the best romance song ever written! ***** AWESOME
@burgesmate
16 жыл бұрын
In the days before ipods and KZitem, when getting access to music was much harder, many music lovers used to watch the The Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC2 to see what was new. I still remember being blown away when TW was first featured. I'd never heard of the guy before. It was the beginning of a very long love affair with his music.
@emmitaLarkin
12 жыл бұрын
@MrDiederikDuck everytime I hear this song, always bring me to tears...
@AutumnMoth
11 жыл бұрын
I just found a skull and crossbones ring and I'm giving it to my X-wife 17 years too late. Thanks for this video, This song touched me in a way that left me changed.
@dmcresco
13 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite songs of Tom's.. It is truly written the heart... and some dear childhood memories.
@NotAFanAnymore
Жыл бұрын
This is my TW jam.
@EwolDJ
14 жыл бұрын
How do you choose, say, just ten masterpieces from the oeuvre of a prolific genius such as Waits? For me, this has always been in the top ten since I first heard it on 'Blue Valentine' in '78. A magnificent piece of nostalgic Americana, Tom at his lyrically evocative best, which is most of the time. And the title is so cryptic as well - it gives you no anticipation of the hidden theme within. Indescribable poignancy, a great artist at work.
@tontokurt
15 жыл бұрын
Outstanding!
@haydne
10 ай бұрын
I think if I was ever on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4, this would be one of my choices. This isn't a song, it's a poem, a story, it captures your imagine of where he lived. The cornfield is so strong an image. Yes, the skull and cross bone ring! Is this a boy or a girl that he sings about? does it matter? No, it doesn't, it his friend!
@joshchandler13
14 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite song. It has so many references to my childhood.
@hondosmith9791
6 жыл бұрын
me too peace
@10003949
14 жыл бұрын
@EwolDJ You are so right................."indescribable poignancy" perfectly sums up the power within this song. I'm a cynical, 40 something, who should know better but this transports me to childhood, evoking images and memories and invariably reduces me to tears..........simply wonderful in every sense.
@mabelem3618
8 жыл бұрын
one of my favourites :)
@astayathomebrad
10 жыл бұрын
This is one of the first of his songs I ever heard and it's one of my favorites!
@astayathomebrad
10 жыл бұрын
How is it not?
@tomdekler9280
7 жыл бұрын
"one of the first *OF HIS SONGS*" is what I read here. Was it edited?
@Rusty_shackle
7 жыл бұрын
Was not edited...Valid is just being a dick, trying to correct someone, who made something a bit more wordy than he had to, but it still made sense...Valid was just too dumb to comprehend it, and tried to make Stay at home brad, look bad...in order to make himself seem more intelligent...WAY TO GO DOUCHEBAG..You're whats wrong with the internet...End rant... :D
@tattooedfagin
11 жыл бұрын
leaves me a wreck every time I hear it
@INTillerMaN99
5 жыл бұрын
Same for me buddy. Him forgetting the words makes it even more real in weird way.
@waloacme
4 жыл бұрын
This tune is beautiful. One of my favourites
@maaikakruger
10 жыл бұрын
Helena, for you - a thousand times over.
@maggyalderton1206
9 жыл бұрын
Danny Green sent me This..man did I cry for JoythiisiLtove(it hits the mark) Biggest Love imaginable. Mathebag
@paulclark5156
3 жыл бұрын
As Herb so beautifully put it, tears are the only possible response.
@Fleagle27
15 жыл бұрын
It always moves me to tears. Tom turns 60 this year.
@blastofre
15 жыл бұрын
Beautiful love song! I agree. I haven't listened to Blue Valentines in a while. What a great album.
@6ollie66
14 жыл бұрын
The simplest famous things!!!! Stunning!
@roor06
15 жыл бұрын
As well as a great musician, his lyrics hits the spot ... Happy birthday Tom ...
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