Tom Waits
Closing Time (50th Anniversary LP) [ Anti- / 2 LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Closing Time foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles that would come to be associated with Waits. It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career "Ol' 55"... |
Tom Waits
The Early Years Volume Two [ Manifesto / LP - released 15/Jun/2018 ] |
Tom Waits
Foreign Affairs (Limited Edition 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... |
Tom Waits
Frank's Wild Years [ Ume / CD - released 1/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... |
Tom Waits
Glitter and Doom Live [ Epitaph Records / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2009 ] An audio document of Tom's critically acclaimed 2008 concerts, containing 17 performances hand-picked by Waits from the tour. Leaning heavily on songs from his more recent releases, Waits also digs into the vaults. |
Tom Waits
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... |
Tom Waits
Heartattack And Vine [ Epitaph / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Heartattack and Vine is the sixth studio album by Tom Waits, originally released in September 1980. This album contains some of Waits' most popular ballads, including "Jersey Girl" (famously a hit for Bruce Springsteen). |
Tom Waits
Heartattack And Vine (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 14/Sep/2018 ] Released in 1980, Heartattack and Vine was Waits' final album on Elektra / Asylum Records. This album contains some of Waits most popular ballads, including "Jersey Girl", which was famously a hit for Bruce Springsteen. |
Tom Waits
Mule Variations (LP) [ Anti / LP - released 1/May/1999 ] |
Tom Waits
Rain Dogs [ Ume / CD - released 1/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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Real Gone [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2004 ] Mixing and mashing: worlds both sonic and ethnic, musical traditions both new and old, and rhythms both mouth-made and sampled from his own instruments, Waits has reached a new pinnacle. |
Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones (180G LP) [ Universal Music / LP - released 1/Jul/2016 ] Originally released in 1983, Swordfishtrombones is now available on vinyl once again. . |
Tom Waits
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... |
Tom Waits
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. |