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Tom Waits
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.9507
Tom Waits Album Rankings
1
Tom Waits is a man who makes a living sounding as if he's always either just waking up or nodding off from the end of a bourbon binge.
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2
Tom Waits is a unique individual, and probably the best way to describe him and his music is best defined inROLLING STONE Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll:Singer/songwriter Tom Waits is a one-man Beatn
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3
This album is beautiful, and restrained, and brilliantly executed. It is a masterwork of melodies that are haunting, dark, self-consciously perverse and above all else, moving.
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4
Between the release ofHeartattack and Vinein 1980 andSwordfishtrombonesin 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company.
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5
Slapping his knees, spitting and grunting, Waits makes the already raw blues sound of songs like "Metropolitan Glide" and "Trampled Rose" sound even more grizzled.
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6
Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness.
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7
Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album,Bone Machineis a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative -- and often harrowing -- effe
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8
The bleakness at the core of Blood Money won't make it a first choice for a late-night spin, but it's manna for the artist's fans.
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9
In the spoken-word piece ''What's He Building?'' Tom Waits puzzles over the mysterious goings-on behind a neighbor's doors: ''He's pounding nails into a hardwood floor/And I swear to God I heard someo
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10
Track listing: 1) Hang On St Christopher ; 2) Straight To The Top; 3) Blow Wind Blow; 4) Temptation; 5) Innocent When You Dream (Ballroom); 6) I'll Be Gone ; 7) Yesterday Is Here ; 8) Please Wake Me U
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11
Just when it seemed that Los Angeles' premier bar casualty could not get any weirder, on his 15th album, Tom Waits teams up with beat writer William Burroughs (who turns up on one song) to score a 19t
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12
'What's Orphans?' asks Tom Waits, rhetorically, of his new three-disc, 54-song epic, in the accompanying 95-page booklet of lyrics and photographs. Answer: 'I don't know.
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13
OnHeartattack and Vine, the patron saint of America's hobo hipsters returns to the sentimental ballad style he abandoned for jazzier, less song-oriented turf afterThe Heart of Saturday Night.
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14
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.
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15
Tom Waits' 1982 soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's offbeat musical is a smooth-sailing counterpart to a beautiful car crash of a movie.
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16
Track listing: 1) 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six; 2) Red Shoes; 3) Underground; 4) Cold Cold Ground; 5) Straight To The Top; 6) Yesterday Is Here; 7) Way Down In The Hole; 8) Falling Down; 9) Stran
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17
'Semi Suite' is a pure Jazz glory, glorious vocals and lyrics smoky and seedy and mentioning steam.
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18
Track listing: 1) Somewhere ; 2) Red Shoes By The Drugstore; 3) Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis; 4) Romeo Is Bleeding; 5) $29.
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19
Track listing: 1) Cinny's Waltz ; 2) Muriel ; 3) I Never Talk To Strangers ; 4) Jack & Neal/California Here I Come; 5) A Sight For Sore Eyes; 6) Potter's Field; 7) Burma Shave; 8) Barber Shop; 9)
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23
This scruffy troubadour is best known for his lyrical depictions of lowlife malaise.
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24
Rhino's fine 16-track collection Used Songs (1973-1980) chronicles Tom Waits' first seven albums, all recorded for Asylum Records.
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29
The second British Tom Waits compilation was a more extensive look at the 1973-1980 Asylum Records catalog than the first, Bounced Checks from 1981 (fourteen tracks vs.
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