Tom Waits - "Underground"
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"Underground" by Tom Waits from the album 'Swordfishtrombones'
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#Robots #chopshop - Hudba
He sounds like a living cigarette but its pretty good.
Exactly
He pretty much was.
RIP Soldier
@en random kanal fr tho
That's a brand new sentence right there
I never thought it was an actual song, from an actual artist. I thought they were at the studio like “okay how would robots sing a song of slavery?”
This is a hilariously underrated comment. I had the same exact experience 😂
Not just slavery, but also genocide and organ harvesting
i have a feeling they designed that entire scene inspired from the song alone
Black markets are necessary
How robots sing of slavery? 🧐
We all lift together
"So long,son. Good luck with your dastardly plans!"
Upgrades people, upgrades
Apple in a nutshell
It's a lie
It's true. I really am turning into my Mother. Hits Bigwell on the head again.
Upgrades people upgrades
If you recognize this song you had a good childhood
My dad always played Tom Waits albums. My grandfather enjoyed him also. So I grew up with this music. And now I live underground.
Robot was a good movie
Part of the ship?
Samuel Neal part of the crew
Part of the ship, part of the crew.
“We sir...”
“I’m a woman.”
“Ouch”
*Diesels eyes shatter*
Lol
"Robin Williams doing a good Scottish accent"
Ironically Madame Gasket was actually voiced by a man, actor Jim Broadbent.
He was so in the right
@@imjustaguyprettysimple8572 "We've come to rescue our friends you evil bag of bolts, and you will be defeated by the very outmodes that you scorned and defaced!"
Tom Waits quote: "Im not a percussionist, I just like hitting things."
"Reality is for people who can't face drugs." Also Tom Waits
Shit, I've always been saying "I'm not a musician, I just hit shit with sticks" for years. I hope people don't think I was ripping him off. But if they do, it's cool, because they know an awesome artist's obscure quote.
@@daniel.holbrook I hope that was a joke
@@princeCustos324 you would be very mistaken
@@princeCustos324 I'm pretty sure he was joking
There's something so satisfying about the sound of this song. Steampunk vibes? The guttural vocals? The stoccato guitar? It's sublime
I think dieselpunk would be more apt.
yeahhh
Dieselpunk fits a lot more
I like the jumpy beat and parade tune
And the Drums. The booming bashes of the drum really give umph to the song
To think that one guy in the writers room with an obscure music taste ran into the meeting with this gem
Tom Waits isn't THAT obscure, you know, lol.
Tom Waits is not obscure 💀
@@Soft_Machinehe's not not obscure. He's absolutely niche. In a music appreciator's vinyl collection, absolutely. How many times it's actually spun? Who knows.
Imagine if he formed a metal band
It would been deathly
Yeah man itd be up there with motorhead
Even then he's got that heavy industrial feel. But yes hed be sick as fuck
The voice strangely reminds me of Stringstrom.
His voice sounds like the singer of Killing Joke. Listen to their song Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell, Pandemonium, and Gratitude and thats what this dude would sound like in heavier music
Some of the stuff he’s made has been pretty close to metal
I have no idea how the makers of Robots ever found this song considering how relatively obscure it is but I am glad they did since it fits perfectly with the scene that introduces the chop shop to the audience.
They probably had a guy on the team who was a fan, lucky them.
@@bearoyay Perhaps so, I only wish I could add this information about the song being in the movie to the albums Wikipedia page but they being too lazy to look up things and demanding that most edits have sources to them well it wouldn’t work especially since I tried in the past and those morons removed it even though I tell people to look it up if you don’t believe me.
It's really not that obscure... Tom Waits is a major cult music figure and also a popular actor.
Tom Waits is not obscure 💀
@@Soft_Machine I meant RELATIVELY SPEAKING he is obscure.
Robots was underrated
I agree! This is one of my favorite movies (next to “Monster House” and “Shrek 2”)
@@TelieaSellers OH CLASSICS! I really like to rewatch the avatar( blue monkey cats one.... ), it made me imagenitive and I made plasteline figures of the animals
fire hurts to touch
@@TelieaSellers Shrek also featured a Tom Waits song. Coincidence? I think not
I remember when I was just a kid and rewatched that movie just for this song and it bearly lasted 30 seconds but it was the highlight of my day
Wow this song is great, it would sound so good if it was used in a movie about robots
Lol
Its already there
Eh, heh, heh. Yeah...funny you should say that.
Dude, imagine if Robin Williams was in it, right? What could've been.
@@thatguy8777 I know, right? That'd be awesome. I bet he would kill it as Fender. 😏🤭 (this is fun)
Rattle big black bones
In the danger zone
There's a rumblin' groan
Down below
There's a big dark town
It's a place i've found
There's a world going on
Underground
They're alive, they're awake
While the rest of the world is asleep
Below the mine shaft roads
It will all unfold
There's a world going on
Underground
All the roots hang down
Swing from town to town
They are marching around
Down under your boots
All the trucks unload
Beyond the gopher holes
There's a world going on
Underground
Kinda sound like it's about ants
@@Sussy651 fr
It reminds me of those incidents where everyone around the country was hearing strange "booming" sounds underground. But I don't think this song is related to it cause it's so far apart🤣
Mr waits .superb is the only word I can think of .thanking you for your patience with the listener.
Totally not me writing a new D&D campaign based off this song
little did he know his song would be used in the movie robots.
My three-year-old grandson plays this non-stop. Non-stop.
@@michaelkucsmas2939 That's pretty funny
@@michaelkucsmas2939 best song ever grams when this movie came out it was of the only i would rewatxh over and over
@@michaelkucsmas2939 the song or the movie???
@@ryanw.4983 the song.
Not sure how they ended up choosing this for Chop Shop but I'm damn glad they did
Because The Chop Shop is practically underneath the city. Like the song's title, It's underground.
It's just perfect for the melancholy and cruel reality of the place.
Chris Wedge is a Tom Waits fan. He had Tom Waits do the soundtrack for his short film "Bunny."
@@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177that must have been such an honor for Chris.......
Honestly, if I was working in a factory and they had this kinda music playing.. It wouldn’t be half bad.
I had to hammer a 1m spike into the ground. I just put this song on and it went much better
For some reason that make me feel like a miner in a socialist country.
@@Yeshayahu. Or a Monopoly Capitalist country!
I think it's the beat of the song
@@stefschouwenaars9562 the rythm gives a good tempo for hammering
This song lives rent free on the deepest side of my head since 2005
Lyriucs:
Rb a dub dub
I heard it in a tiktok and it triggered ancient memories lol
Wow back when I was still in my dad's sac.
Damn, I can't believe it's been that long since the movie came out...
That movie truly is an ancient treasure hoard of truly amazing art.......
This man, 100%, ate a bowl of nails for breakfast.
Without any milk.
wtf, without milk, without the fooking milk, damn
He has a lifetime membership for the Salty Spitoon and NO ONE GOES NEAR HIS TABLE
Bro this was my favorite part in Robots before I even knew about Tom Waits lol
Same here. Still gives me chills.
Same
Same bro
Sameee
This song still goes so hard
Indeed🔥🔥🔥
And its criminally underrated for it.
Hell yeah 👍
Upgrades people, upgrades
That’s how we make the dough.
@@WampaStompa1996 eye of the tiger playing In the background
@@thewondersofawesometv1414 why be you. When You can be New
@@Starvazeyou can shine no matter what you're made of
I came here from Robots but this song intrigues me even more out of context. The choice of instruments, the composition, the singer's voice, the persistent beat across the whole thing, all of these elements work together to create an extremely well-realized sound in a way that feels almost effortless. If the lyrics were absent or vague you'd still get something close to the image of these toiling laborers working in their own little society just from listening to the music alone.
Welcome to Tom Waits.
I think of goblins or some shit for a dnd thing. Tom waits has such great music for a filthy and grimy city it's awesome
all that IS Tom waits
@@bongibot1104 yeah all tho its still a song about Miners and their horrible Work condicions.
Hard to believe I would've never discovered this song if it wasn't for an animated movie about robots in the early 2000s.
That is pretty much true for most people like myself especially those who have watched Robots when they were a kid.
"All right, break time."
very short pause
"Well, break time's over. Chop chop!"
“ALL RIGHT, BREAK TIME!”
“ALL RIGHT BREAK TIMES OVER, CHOP CHOP!”
Alright, breaktime.
*pause*
...alright! Break times over! Hahahaha
@@wrensnesting2776 chop chop. Hahahaha.
mathew lapa
“Hey, mom!”
“Ah hello, sweetie!”
@@wrensnesting2776 great! I did just what you told me no more spare parts. In a couple of weeks all those broken down losers out there are gonna be nothing but scrap metal. You be up to your bloomers broken outmode junk.
@Cherubi 95 exactly. you have wanna swing that one by me again?
ok, break time's over, chop chop!
Oh....
This song is one of my earliest memories
Those outmodes look up to him, supposing he decides to come back.
A world below the world. A maze of churning, grinding, hissing machines. The air is more smoke than oxygen. Eyes too sensitive to light to understand the sun. Nightmarish things below us all. That's what this song feels like.
So The Falmer from The Elder Scrolls?
To me this song makes me think of mining and the dangerous working conditions and the beat of the somg sounds like pickaxes hitting the walls almost in the mine
This is how a dwarf bard would sound like.
Underrated comment
Robots is the movie everyone's seen but no one talks about.
True
Not minding the lyrics, just tonation, i always imagine this would be a song dwarfs would sing in their underground workshop, melting metal, producing weapons etc. Love it
it has such an Industrial Feel to it, thats the only way i think of it
Close. Its about Miners. In the early days Miners were threaten horribly and they practicly lived in Mines or had Housings just outside of the mine entrances.
Yes i was thinking the same thing
Check out the Hal Wilmer project...all Disney songs done by various artist. Tom waits does hi-ho. The dwarves working song.
I love how all the comments are from Robots
RIP bluesky, never made that damned sequel
Me at the ripe age of 6 about to have my taste in music changed forever:
Engineers in the Tuefort sewers:
engineers and pybros
lmao
@@samboyd1828 Someone's gotta watch for those dang spies, airblast scouts back into the killbox.
Be careful of pyrosharks
I like the dryness of the original version compared to the one I heard when I was 6 in robots lol
I like both, but I still agree
@@TelieaSellers same, they both have their positives. The dryness is definitely a great juxtaposition to Wait's voice, and the scored version on the soundtrack compliments his voice well.
I think the industrial clang of the robots versions compliments the song
I remember that when I saw Robots (2005) when I was a Kid, I always replayed the Scene of the ChopShop because of this Song! Glad I found the Film Version of the Music with Wait's Gravelly Voice in it!
I love how the beat is basically a melodic strike of tools used in manual labor.
Very apt
Lyrics:
Rattle big black bones
In the danger zone
There's a rumblin' groan
Down below
There's a big dark town
It's a place i've found
There's a world going on
Underground
They're alive, they're awake
While the rest of the world is asleep
Below the mine shaft roads
It will all unfold
There's a world going on
Underground
All the roots hang down
Swing from town to town
They are marching around
Down under your boots
All the trucks unload
Beyond the gopher holes
There's a world going on
Underground
Lryrics:
Rub a dub dub
three men in a tub@@saturnus423
Tom Waits blesses this earth with music that focuses on primal emotion first, with equally pungent lyrics second. It says a lot about his ability to take noise and form it into an atmosphere that you can perceive without even needing to comprehend his lyrics.
Welcome back to my favorite game "What Genre is Tom Waits Now?"
Tom Waits is his own genre
As said by Lord Stompy, Tom Waits' genre is...Tom Waits.
One of the few that classify as his own
his genre is Tom Waits
"Okay, break time."
"Break time is over. Chop chop."
THEYRE AWAKE
WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD IS ASLEEP
I am getting Banjo Kazooie vibes from this. In a demonic and despair-driven way.
Thank you that was perfect
Conker's Bad Fur Day is what you're looking for.
Tom has gone from sounding like a middle aged man after a third divorce to sounding like Oscar the Grouch on an all gravel and whiskey diet
Bro that movie introduced me to a fantastic songwriter and I didn’t even realize it at the time. Thanks, Robots!
This song should be used for the Morlocks' theme in a version of H.G. Wells' Time Machine
Yes!
THANK YOU for reminding me of this! i forgot what the story was called but i love it
Apparently Waits was inspired by, among other things, the homeless colonies underneath New York City; so this would also make a great theme song for C.H.U.D. which came out the year after Swordfishtrombones and focused on that very topic.
I might make that one day lol
@@tachankafreeman3442 I've been thinking about this today... looking for help?
Someone needs to make a heavy metal version of this song like holy shot
Thought the excat same thing
Giving me ideas…
When I first heard this in robots it hit hard af
Still does today!
Adding this banger to my Dwarven miners playlist ⛏️
Post it my guy
The back room of every store
Omfg I used to work in the back this is so accurate 😂
"ALRIGHT! Break time!"
*...*
"ALRIGHT, BREAK TIME'S OVER! CHOP CHOP!"
The Chop Shop intro was such a good scene
Ong one of the best scenes Blue sky studies ever put together
It permanently lives rent free in my head.
Madame Gasket: *”Alright!* Break Time...”
Every Single Worker: “Huh?!”
Madame Gasket: “Alright, Break Time is over! *Chop, Chop! (Laughs)* Oh, look who’s here!”
Ratchet: “Hi, Mom.”
Madame Gasket: “Hi, Sweetie! How’s my boy?”
Ratchet: *”Great!* I did just what you told me; “no more spare parts”. In a couple of weeks, all of those broken down losers out there are gonna be nothing, but *scrap metal!* You will be up to your bloomers in broken outmode junk!
Madame Gasket: “Such a good boy! And after you finish off Bigweld, there will be *nobody out there to fix them.”*
Ratchet: *”Exactly!* …Y-You want to swing that one by me again?”
Madame Gasket: *”Idiot!* Those *outmodes* look up to him. Suppose he decides to come back!”
Ratchet: “Oh come on, Mom! He’s not gonna be in any trouble, where he is.”
Madame Gasket: “What are you afraid of?! *Grow some bolts!* Or do you want to end up like your father?”
Mr. Gasket: *”Hey, Son! Good to see you.”*
Madame Gasket: “Think what it would mean. Not Bigweld Industries- *Ratchet Industries!”*
Ratchet: “Keep talking.”
Madame Gasket: *”Ratchet City!”*
Ratchet: Yes. Everything... *shiny.”*
Madame Gasket: “No more Bigweld… *No more outmodes!”*
Ratchet: *”LEEEEEEEEEETTT’S do it!”*
Madame Gasket: “That’s my boy!”
*(“Underground” continues to play, as they both dance for a brief moment)*
Madame Gasket: “Are you hungry? Can I get you something? You look thin...”
Ratchet: “No, no, no, Mom. I gotta go, bye! Oh, bye Pop.”
Mr. Gasket: *”So long, son. Good luck with your dastardly plans.”*
*(“Underground” plays once again, as the scene transitions to Rodney in a trash can)*
You really took the time to post the scrip for us?🥺 I love you
Yes exactly omfg 🥺🥺🥺
Thank you for this🙏
My god he tells the hole movie
Joy
When you are just randomly listening to Tom Waits on CZcams, and then you decide to put on for the first time this song, and without asking you get a flashback of 2005
All right, break time’s over. Chop chop!
RATCHET CITY!!
Everything... Shiny... >:)
No more Bigwell, no more outmodes >:D
@@TelieaSellers LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS DO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!
THAT’S MY BOY!!!!!!!
@@TelieaSellers (insert part of the song here)
This song is so black metal, most black metal fans will never recognize it as black metal. goal achieved, i'd say
He sounds like he spits asphalt. In a good way.
It's a rare and joyous occasion when I find a song that I don't need to strain myself to sing.
It would be so cool if this was made in a movie about robots
So I’m an 18 year old musician who’s into a lot of music. I’ve been meaning to get into Tom Waits for a while, but just didn’t know where to start. A good friend of mine is mailing me some of his CDs for free, and this is one of them. I was eager to check it out, and when this started, the amount of euphoria I experienced from flashbacks of me watching the Chop Shop scene is Robots when I was little was uncanny
Tom waits has one of the coolest voices I've ever heard
There's a Dirty Colossus or Great Mighty Poo feel to this. I love it.
How did a 60sec snippet of this song in a movie change my music taste for the rest of my life?
Becues you was young maybe
Becuase the music composer and everyone else on the team was doing God's work in giving us the most thermonuclear banger of the mid 2000s
Robots was so real for this
We going to bigweld's with this one
Even as a kid, I knew this absolutely slapped! 💯
I know right
It's incredible how much Tom Waits songs are in so much movie's!
Alright, break time! Alright break time’s over, chop chop!
Very happy to know this singer is still alive for now!
Really 😮
Heard this in an instagram story, and thought, "dude what animation did you heard this before". Looked up in the google to find out it was Robots, I watched it maybe 15 years ago last time, maybe more. Time flyes
Finally, i found this song!
I’m just finding out this is a real song by a real man. And that this man was the original inspiration for the heath ledger joker. What is life.
Welcome to the underground world of Tom Waits lol
Masterpiece! Greetings from Poland!
Even as a kid (I was about 10 when I first heard this song in the movie Robots) I thought this song was awesome. Little did I know that this sound is basically Tom Waits whole vibe. He's become one of my favorite artists more recently.
My introduction to Tom waits was in the movie robots
One of the most badass songs I've heard
one of the songs what i hear in Robots
This song is starting now to be known in Greece!
for some reason its crazy to me i was introduced to tom thru this song in that weird robots movie but the scene this is in stuck with me the most by far and then got heavily into him like 10 years later
"I know this place like the back of my hand"
"Oh that's newAAAAHHHhhhhhh..........."
This has no reason going so hard.
I never knew this was an actual song and never questioned it because it just fits in the Robots movie so perfectly
I never knew this was a tom waits song. What versatile music; you can use it to introduce villains in a kids movie about robotd or as background music for the punisher wielding a sledgehammer
No one had more fun with music than Waits.
I love this song and the movie it was in (robots) but this would be perfect for Bioshock too.
If I had a nickel for every time an animated kids movie from the early 2000s had a Tom Waits villain song dropped in the middle of it, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much and I really wish it happened more
Fun fact: This guy did the "Hell broke loose" song the plays where Punisher butchers construction workers with a sledgehammer
There’s two undergrounds?!
Wow yes.
Yes theres Tom Waits song underground and the weird Robots version
Rattle big black bones in the danger zone
There's a rumblin' groan down below
There's a big dark town, it's a place I've found
There's a world going on underground
They're alive, they're awake
While the rest of the world is asleep
Below the mine shaft roads it will all unfold
There's a world going on underground
All the roots hang down, swing from town to town
They are marching around down under your boots
All the trucks unload beyond the gopher holes
There's a world going on underground
Love this song!
Legendary’s Monsterverse pretty much
this song is a gem
One of the best songs I heard as a kid, it’s still a solid song now.
Some works of art i have ever wished they would exist and then when i find them i m so relived.
This song goes so hard. Unbelievably satisfying and extremely well put together. Well done.
WE MAKIN IT OUTTA THE CHOP SHOP WITH THIS ONE 💯💯💯🗣🗣🗣💢💢💢
I love that Robots is half the comments as it should