tom waits would throw one punch at nick cave's gargantuan head and his arm would split, peel, and crumple all the way up to the elbow like strips of old beef jerky. nick would then laugh heartily and tom would collapse and die of cardiac arrest.
Tom Waits already sounds like a stage 4 lung cancer patient when he sings, so Nick Cave would probably just have to give him a sharp tap with a hammer, and Waits would shatter as if he was dipped in liquid nitrogen.
This is a heavyweight contest, but Nick would just about edge it if he can dodge fourteen rounds of Tom swinging a broken Jim Beam bottle at him before collapsing in a drunken stupor.
Funny you should mention this, because one night while driving and listening (on and off) to both Waits and Cave I had a thought about "who would win in a fist fight, Waits listeners or Cave listeners". I have no doubt about this, Waits listeners would. I've found many Cave folks to be more in line of "all talk" (ala "look at meeeee! i'm PSYCHO, don't cha know" before getting peppered by a simple combination, bleeding from the nose and crying home to mommy). So, though I believe an actual fight between the two artists would be closer...I'd still have to give the edge to Waits = grit, all about the grit, as physically it's a wash (Cave has a height and reach advantage, however Waits surely weighs the same if not more). I just think eventually Cave would (pun alert) CAVE in (ala the second fight in Barfly, with Waits as Mickey/Buke and Cave as brother Stallone/bartender - "Guts! I got the guts").
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