Tom Waits
Brawlers (2LP) [ Epitaph / ADA / 2 LP - released 15/Jun/2018 ] Brawlers presents probably the best-known of Tom Waits' personalities, filled as it is with vocal cord damage, found percussion, old-timey arrangements, and cartoon-buzz lead guitar. It's also the disc that flirts most dangerously with cliché, filled... |
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The Early Years Vol 1 [ Manifesto / CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] |
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The Early Years Vol 2 [ Manifesto / CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] |
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Foreign Affairs (LP) [ Epitaph / ADA / LP - released 13/Jul/2018 ] 1977's Foreign Affairs takes the jazz and poetry that Tom Waits explored on his earlier albums in a more cinematic direction, foreshadowing his own breakthrough work in the 80s. Opening with the instrumental "Cinny's Waltz" and featuring some new... |
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Frank's Wild Years (LP) [ Ume / LP - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits' 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago's Steppenwolf... |
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Heart of Saturday Night (180g LP) [ Rhino Records / LP - released 14/Nov/2011 ] Limited edition 180g LP reissue. If Closing Time, Tom Waits' debut album, consisted of love songs set in a late-night world of bars and neon signs, its follow-up, The Heart of Saturday Night, largely dispenses with the romance in favor of poetic... |
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Orphans - Brawlers [ Anti / CD ] Country ballads, earthy blues, raging rockabilly…16 tracks planted in the American roots music that first lit a fire under Tom Originally included in the Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, now available as a single remastered CD |
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Rain Dogs (LP) [ Ume / LP - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Noted as Tom Waits' most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of... |
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Swordfishtrombones (LP) [ Ume / LP - released 22/Sep/2023 ] 2023 Marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went from '70's-era "bluesy, boozy" wordsmith and... |
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Transmission Impossible [ Eat To The Beat / 3 CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] This triple disc broadcast collection features three complete live sets from across the 1970s. |
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Black Rider [ A&M Records / CD - released 2/Nov/1993 ] |
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Foreign Affairs [ Asylum / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] |
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Nighthawks At The Diner [ Warner / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] For his third album, Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits set up a nightclub in the studio, invited an audience, and cut a 70-minute, two-LP set of new songs. It's an appropriate format for compositions that deal even more graphically and, for the... |
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Nighthawks at the Diner (180g 2LP) [ Rhino Records / 2 LP - released 14/Nov/2011 ] Limited edition 180g Double LP reissue. For his third album, Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits set up a nightclub in the studio, invited an audience, and cut a 70-minute, two-LP set of new songs. It's an appropriate format for compositions that... |
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Alice [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 16/May/2002 ] Maelstrom or fever-dream, a tone poem, with torch songs/waltzes |
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Alice (LP) [ Warner Music / 2 LP - released 24/Nov/2017 ] Alice is one of the most distinctive of all Waits' creations, occupying its own corner in the odd-angled room that is Tom Waits' body of work and while there are the familiar parts--the redoubtable ragged voice, jazz ballads and poignant musings on... |
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Alice (LP) [ Anti Records / LP - released 28/May/2002 ] |
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Bad as Me [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 25/Oct/2011 ] Throughout his career, Tom Waits has created milestone albums that serve both to refine the music that has come before, and to signal a new phase in his career. Now comes 'Bad As Me', Waits' first studio album of all new music in seven years,... |
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Bad As Me (LP) [ Anti / LP - released 10/Nov/2017 ] Tom Waits is one of the most innovative artists in popular music. His singular vision embraces everything from blues to tin-pan-alley to jazz to just about anything else you can think of. Grammy winner, actor, poet, a master of the musical collage... |
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Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years 1983-1993 [ Island Records / CD - released 25/May/1998 ] Best Of Waits' work |