Tom Helsen

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Sun In Her Eyes 02:58 Tools
Goodbye 03:28 Tools
Change Yourself 03:15 Tools
Easy 02:05 Tools
Slowly 03:15 Tools
When Marvin Calls 03:51 Tools
Don't Let Them Get You Down 03:02 Tools
Out of Something 03:39 Tools
Pocket Full of Roses 03:05 Tools
Home 03:09 Tools
Longface 03:04 Tools
Tom Is Doing Great 03:48 Tools
A Perfect Day 04:26 Tools
Something Great 03:19 Tools
They Don't Make 'em Like You Anymore 03:19 Tools
Rocket 03:15 Tools
Every Little Thing 02:46 Tools
8 A.M. 02:36 Tools
Supermodel 03:58 Tools
New Girl 00:31 Tools
Slow Me 03:28 Tools
Night and Day 04:15 Tools
Yeah Yeah 03:39 Tools
Sleepless Nights 03:33 Tools
Hotellounge 03:03 Tools
Hilite Hotel 02:13 Tools
Road Of Hell And Sweetness 03:24 Tools
Love Yourself To Death 04:05 Tools
Claire 04:15 Tools
More Than Gold 03:29 Tools
Julia and I 03:22 Tools
The final countdown 02:47 Tools
Somewhere 03:21 Tools
Angelina Jolie 02:38 Tools
Downside 03:59 Tools
About The Store 02:52 Tools
Interstate 03:36 Tools
Love And A Bad Chase 03:26 Tools
Ain't Over Till 03:58 Tools
House 05:50 Tools
Adelaide 04:05 Tools
Sophisticated Lover - Feat. Tom Helsen 04:05 Tools
Sophisticated Lover 02:34 Tools
Numbers And Figures 04:05 Tools
Shades 03:23 Tools
Castle Walls 04:17 Tools
Up To You 04:08 Tools
Niets is wat het lijkt 04:08 Tools
All You Broken Homers 04:17 Tools
Please 02:40 Tools
I am 04:09 Tools
Bow beat 00:00 Tools
If 00:00 Tools
Everytime We Kiss We Say Goodbye 03:26 Tools
Lonely Boy 03:41 Tools
Bring it Home 03:11 Tools
Sober 03:18 Tools
Tom Helsen & Regi - Night & Day 03:35 Tools
I Am (Tom Helsen Presents Barbara Dex) 03:26 Tools
I'm Right 03:41 Tools
Altijd Heb Ik Je Lief 03:48 Tools
Part Of You 03:47 Tools
New Story 02:42 Tools
Screamer 02:42 Tools
Great American Sex Scandal 03:07 Tools
Theatre 03:46 Tools
Airmiles 04:02 Tools
Charlotte 02:41 Tools
Faithful 03:57 Tools
Home - Acoustic 02:38 Tools
Polyester 04:57 Tools
Don't Go Yet 01:23 Tools
Hygiene 5 03:26 Tools
Faithful (Tom Helsen Presents Myrthe) 03:41 Tools
Lalalover (Tom Helsen Presents Hannelore Bedert) 03:40 Tools
The Truth About That Girl and Me (Tom Helsen Presents Sarah Bettens) 03:17 Tools
Sun In Her Eyes (Live) 04:02 Tools
Quarantaine 03:06 Tools
Pretty when You Leave (Tom Helsen Presents Kaat) 03:03 Tools
Sweet Lorraine (Tom Helsen Presents Marike Jager) 03:26 Tools
Heartbroken (And Maybe More) 03:30 Tools
Hide from the Sun (Tom Helsen Presents Marie Daulne) 04:23 Tools
Head On 01:23 Tools
i can't fall in love if it doesn't feel right 03:35 Tools
Laser Farm 05:42 Tools
Demons (Tom Helsen Presents Lady Linn) 03:00 Tools
Rebecca 03:43 Tools
Sure Won't Let It Go 01:23 Tools
Intro With Alex 01:23 Tools
Unbreakable 01:23 Tools
Billboards 02:38 Tools
Hotel nr. 83 04:12 Tools
Got To Get To You (Tom Helsen Presents Jacqueline Govaert) 03:28 Tools
It Ain't Bad (Tom Helsen Presents Eva De Roovere) 03:30 Tools
Night And Day - Radio Edit 03:35 Tools
All Your Broken Homers 04:16 Tools
I Believe in You 03:03 Tools
Happy 02:38 Tools
Sophisticated Lover (Ft Marie Daulne) 04:05 Tools
Hurt You 04:05 Tools
CM Lieke 02:40 Tools
Home (acoustic) 02:38 Tools
Cupcakes 03:42 Tools
Irresistible 03:28 Tools
Miss Wallace for one day 02:38 Tools
Bye Bye 03:03 Tools
sun in her eyes (edit) 02:38 Tools
Broccoli & Wortels 00:31 Tools
I Am (Feat. Barbara Dex) 03:55 Tools
Be the One 03:55 Tools
Lalalover 03:49 Tools
Night and day (with Regi) 03:49 Tools
Demons 03:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 03:26 Tools
Night And Day (With Regi) (Bonustrack) 03:42 Tools
The truth about that girl and me 03:42 Tools
It Ain't That Bad 03:35 Tools
Pretty When You Leave 03:03 Tools
Szukam 03:03 Tools
Got To Get You 03:28 Tools
I Can't Fall in Love If It Doesn't Feel Right (feat. Ellie Rosewood) 03:12 Tools
tom helsen- change yourself 03:28 Tools
Home (Ft. Geike Arnaert) 03:12 Tools
All About You 03:05 Tools
I Am (pres. Barbara Dex) 03:05 Tools
The Truth About That Girl And Me (feat. Sarah Bettens) 03:01 Tools
Hide From the Sun 04:23 Tools
Sophisticated Lover (Zap Mama Feat. Tom Helsen) 04:04 Tools
Sophisticated Lover (Ft. Marie Daulne) 04:04 Tools
Pretty When You Leave (Ft Kaat) 04:04 Tools
Pretty When You Leave (feat. Kaat) 02:18 Tools
Like her vacation 04:04 Tools
Sleeping on My Own 04:04 Tools
Lalalover (feat. Hannelore Bedert) 03:11 Tools
King Kong 03:11 Tools
I Am (Ft Barbara Dex) 04:04 Tools
Got To Get To You (Ft Jacqueline Govaert) 03:28 Tools
Sweet Lorraine (Feat. Marike Jager) 03:28 Tools
Loser 00:31 Tools
Faithful (Ft Myrthe) 03:28 Tools
Anger 00:31 Tools
It Ain't Bad (Ft Eva De Roovere) 03:28 Tools
Demons (Ft Lady Linn) 03:28 Tools
The Truth About That Girl And Me (Ft Sarah Bettens) 03:28 Tools
Lalalover (Ft Hannelore Bedert) 03:28 Tools
Sophisticated Lover feat Marie Daulne (Zap Mama) 03:28 Tools
29 16 03:28 Tools
Untill You Fade Out 00:31 Tools
Sweet Lorraine (Ft Marike Jage 03:26 Tools
Got To Get To You (feat. Jacqueline Govaert) 03:26 Tools
Hide From The Sun (Ft Marie Daulne) 03:26 Tools
Home (feat. Geike Arnaert) 00:31 Tools
Sliding Doors 00:31 Tools
Like Never Before 00:31 Tools
Sophisticated Lover (Feat. Marie Daulne) 03:11 Tools
I Love My Dog 00:31 Tools
Aint Over 00:31 Tools
I Miss You 00:31 Tools
Faithful (feat. Myrthe) 00:31 Tools
Hotellounge (bonustrack) 00:31 Tools
Night and Day (feat Regi) 00:31 Tools
Penny's Open House 00:31 Tools
Demons (feat. Lady Linn) 00:31 Tools
Tom Helsen - Slowly 00:31 Tools
Sunshine 00:31 Tools
Right to be wrong 03:55 Tools
Hide From The Sun (feat. Marie Daulne) 03:55 Tools
Night And Day - Daniel Bovy Extended 07:28 Tools
Slowly (single version) 07:28 Tools
It Ain't That Bad (feat. Eva Deroovere) 07:28 Tools
Slowly (Acoustic Version) 00:00 Tools
Rugrats and the straycats 02:16 Tools
Daybreaker 07:28 Tools
Norma gates 02:16 Tools
Racing Hallways 02:06 Tools
Inside-out 07:28 Tools
the great american sex scandal 07:28 Tools
Drive on nine 02:18 Tools
Night & Day 00:00 Tools
The Truth About That Girl and Me (ft. Sarah Bettens) 02:18 Tools
I Am (ft. Barbara Dex) 00:00 Tools
Slowly (Radio Edit) 02:16 Tools
The girls are always right 02:25 Tools
Hey Girl 02:25 Tools
Let the beat go 02:18 Tools
Hey Girl (Zornik Ft Tom Helsen) 02:18 Tools
The final countdowm 02:18 Tools
Night And Day - Extended 02:18 Tools
Slowly (Acoustic) 02:18 Tools
Night an day (with Regi) 02:18 Tools
They Don´t Make ´Em Like You Anymore 02:18 Tools
bonus track: slowly 03:01 Tools
Morangos com açucar- Goodbye 03:01 Tools
Sophisticated Lover (feat. Zap Mama) 03:01 Tools
Slowly (Single-Version) 03:01 Tools
Home (Radio Edit) 03:11 Tools
Hotel nr° 83 03:11 Tools
Something Great (Acoustic Version) 03:11 Tools
Sun In Her Eyes (Video Version) 03:11 Tools
Come Pick Me Up (Acoustic Version) 03:26 Tools
Until You Fade Out 03:11 Tools
When Marvin Calls (acoustic) 03:11 Tools
Slow 00:00 Tools
Live at Rock Werchter (Day 4) 03-07-2005 00:00 Tools
Hotel lounge 00:00 Tools
Bonus track 00:00 Tools
Got to Get to You 00:00 Tools
Long face 00:00 Tools
Faithful (ft. Myrthe) 00:00 Tools
Sun In Her Eyes (That's Live - BNN) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine (ft. Marike Jager) 03:26 Tools
Hide from the Sun (ft. Marie Daulne) 03:26 Tools
Night And Day - Daniel Bovy Short 03:26 Tools
Night And Day - Dave Lambert & Housetrap Vocal Extended 03:26 Tools
Sun in her Eyes (Radio Edit) 03:26 Tools
Tom Helsen - When Marvin Calls 03:26 Tools
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Tom Helsen is a Belgium artist from Keerbergen. Tom was discovered in 1996, when he had been practising on his first guitar for only about a year or two, during the Humo's Rock Rally of that year. Through a number of self-written songs and an impressive cover-versionof the song Hotellounge of dEUS, Tom Helsen landed a terrific second place, behind Novastar (but in front of An Pierlé and Arid). The jury concluded that "Tom Helsen is a solo-man who brings songs that touch you, and who knows that a good song does not need to filled with layer upon layer of superfluous guitar-picking" Later, he told this episode to Knack as: "When I entered the Rock Rally, I even hardly knew what that was. I thought it was a presentation of big bands that already have at least one cd. I had little material then, a few hoempapa-tunes, but my brother said : "you've got at least one song that kicks ass, take that". I then recorded a tape and sent it in, without expectations. And then I ended up becoming second in the final, I went crazy. But well, since then I've been doing my homework and I realised what has happened to all the bands that have come second in the history of the rock rally: none of them has any stature now. So it doesn't hurt to put things into perspective." As a promotion of his one-man band, he recorded a first single in the fall of 1996 (Like her vacation), and did a number of performances, alone in clubs and on a small tour with the The Sands & Sheffield Wednesday. Somewhere in the middle of all that, he grew tired of the idea of being looked upon as a rocking troubadour (the belgian Billy Bragg, was the most often heard comparison) and realized the solo-formula had some serious limitations. "It was never my intention of remaining a solo-artist forever. I only wanted to try out the songs on my own. I was finding myself, and I know that it was not a bad idea to continue on my own in the slipstream of the rock-rally publicity. Until I grew tired of the limitations. Unless you have a very well-known repertoire, it obviously is almost impossible to keep the audience interesed for more than 10 minutes." In March of 1997, he found in Desmond van Weddingen on drums and in Wim Janssens on the bass two "compagnons de route", and together they started working on a first CD: Tom Helsen had become a band. The attention to the song-material had remained, but with the trio-formula the sound had of course changed completely, and almost all of the songs from the solo-period had been swept overboard. As it was said in in the bio in 1998: "Gone is the Billy Bragg of the Low Countries, instead here's a band that brings you crystal clear guitarpopsongs in the rich tradition of for example Buffalo Tom". Another commenter said "nice melodic songs with a tasteful accompaniment of guitar, bass and rums. If you want to stick a label onto it, Tom Helsen is the perfect crossbreed of The Counting Crows and Buffalo Tom". Or as gvn said in Humo : "The debut of Tom Helsen is not the world-class album that will put your senses into "astonishing"-mode, but it just contains 11 fragile songs (of which at least 7 will not lose their appeal by next month), which are played with an enthusiasm that makes you suspect they will be even better live. And then you hear Tom Helsen live - that voice! - and you are certain. It's that kind of an album. At least that's something". The songs "All you broken homers" & "Great American Sex Scandal" also were released a single, but didn't cause much upheaval. Very calmly, the band (nowa quartet with Geert Peeters on bass) continued working on a second CD, that was released with much delays in the fall of 2000. In the meantime, the only sign of life had been the beautiful single "Tom is doing Great", and that also became the title of the full-CD. The reason for the delay was that a number of the songs had been totally re-arranged with the aid and cooperation of Joost Zweegers of Novastar. The single "When Marvin Calls" had all the quality that cooperation promised, and became the breaktrough for the band. Tom about this in Humo : "Joost has taught me that I was focusing on the wrong thing in songwriting: I was writing stories with a beginning and an end, but I neglected the struchtur of the songs ... I've been making music in a very naieve way from the start : I just did it, without thinking. The best is to combine these two ways as Joost does: to make music that is very sensitive and has the goal to touch people, but also: knowing how to do that and how to bring about those effects". The result was an album with 10 storng songs with a rather melancholic undertone, and with more evidence of a unique voice than on the first cd. The ambition : "When the first album came out, I really had the urge to score, to have success and sell a lot of records so I would be able to live off my music and do 100% what I wanted to. Now I have a part-time job so I can make music in a much more relaxed manner. If I gain something from a gig or so, it's a nice extra. ... I only would really like to have a really huge budget for my next album, to make everything sound exactly as I want it to ... I've been on a melancholic trip for the past two years, but these last times I've really felt like starting to rock again". Band members : - Tom Helsen (vocals, guitar, piano) - Wim Janssens (vocals, guitar, keyboard) - Geert Peeters (bass) - Desmond van Weddingen (drums) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.