Four playlists. Three eras. Too good, the one and only Tom Waits. The Ultimate Playlist https://t.co/gU1GcXoiJy The Asylum Years https://t.co/jXlpLOkdmz The Island Years https://t.co/wzdzwIpVZM The Anti- Years https://t.co/yDwbeI9AzX

#12TunesOfChristmas2025 Friends, it’s time for our annual Yuletide frolic through the amazing panoply of wonder and schmaltz which makes the music of the season. This has been an ongoing bit of Christmas cheer since 2020.

(Turn on sound!) You can find the TBPC Podcast on its YouTube channel: https://t.co/qo9g4CNOUg 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞! #TBPC #podcast #TBonesPrimeCuts

Thanks to everyone who's taken part in #Top30TomWaits. Between Twitter, BlueSky, and Facebook, we've had hundreds of votes and the last few are still making a difference to the final playlists, which will be out later tonight.

Great challenge @metaphoralaura ! Looking forward to the next one!

Thanks for hosting @Top10Nathan ! I was especially curious about how close we'd get once things started to narrow down, but things really did come together in the end there. 😎🍻

#NovMusicByNumbers Day 30: Song with an ordinal number in the lyrics Railroad Bill by Andy Breckman "I said, "Maybe there'll be room in the eighth or ninth verse But right now I want you up in that tree" 😅😅😅 https://t.co/p0N8vadXsx

#Top30TomWaits Day 30, #1: Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To the Wind in Copenhagen), from Small Change https://t.co/PiaWNRKCpz

If Imperial Bedroom is Costello’s Revolver, then Trust is his Rubber Soul, the moment the music gets more curious, imaginative, sonically playful, with an increasing sense this artist is capable of anything, even if the wild leaps are still a step or two away. Crucially, both

Zeppelinites! Let's do #Top5PageSolos in December! Rank (yes, RANK) your Top 5, and from December 10-14, we'll post one a day. At the end, I'll come up with a true, ranked Top 10 list of Jimmy Page guitar solos as determined by US. Who's in?

#NovMusicByNumbers Day 29: Song that mentions a year in the lyrics And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by Eric Bogle "Then in 1915, my country said "son It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done" https://t.co/Pk4Z3jJwly

🚨**Update #1**🚨 December #MusicChallenge(s) Starts December 1, unless otherwise noted Click on the hashtag for details. #Top15Albums25 (@deepblue3378, @RealJTP2) #top31of25 (@The_Telf) #7MonsterSongs (@7RockLists) #AdventChallenge2025 (@music_pearce) #Top31DavidBowie

#Top30TomWaits Day 29, #2: Black Wings, from Bone Machine "Well, some say they fear him Others admire him Because he steals his promise But one look in his eye And everyone denies Ever having met him" https://t.co/lcjIGItuE2

#12TunesOfChristmas2025 Only two more shopping days until all is revealed...

#NovMusicByNumbers number >1000 in the lyrics The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away Way underrated band! "I started drifting to a different place I realized I was falling off the face of the world And there was nothing left to bring me back I'm a million miles away"

#Top30TomWaits Day 28, #3: Martha, from Closing Time "And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose And, Martha, all I had was you, and all you had was me There was no tomorrows, we'd packed away our sorrows And we saved them for a rainy day" https://t.co/ShW1wCCtyR

#NovMusicByNumbers Day 28: Song with number >1000 in lyrics 40,000 Headmen by Traffic "Well, I turned around and 40, 000 headmen hit the dirt Firing 20 shotguns each and, man, it really hurt" https://t.co/bIf12VLmHy

#Top30TomWaits Day 27, #4: Kentucky Avenue, from Blue Valentine And here come the water works... https://t.co/5Q7XUG881m

#NovMusicByNumbers Day 27: Song with 101 to 999 in lyrics Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen "Wound it up to a 110 My speedometer said that I hit top end" https://t.co/K6ESZN4U0f

Check out my interview starting today at 12 noon on Sirius XM with Earle Bailey about the new 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway…