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Tom Waits Album Rankings

Rain Dogs

3.6389

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. ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 5.96

(2) sellers

Small Change

3.5417

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 ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 5.76

(3) sellers

Alice

3.4322

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. ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 8.95

(3) sellers

Real Gone

3.3256

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. ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 11.98

(3) sellers

Swordfishtrombones

3.3223

Between the release ofHeartattack and Vinein 1980 andSwordfishtrombonesin 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 5.95

(2) sellers

Closing Time

3.2731

Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 4.47

(3) sellers

Bone Machine

3.2419

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 ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 11.05

(2) sellers

Blood Money

3.2251

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. ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 8.50

(3) sellers

Mule Variations

3.0830

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 ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 8.99

(3) sellers

Franks Wild Years

3.0756

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 ...more about Tom Waits

Album from 6.10

(2) sellers

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