Tom Waits Discography
Albums in original release order.
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1973
Closing Time
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1974
The Heart of Saturday Night
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1976
Small Change
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1977
Foreign Affairs
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1978
Blue Valentine
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1980
Heartattack and Vine
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1983
Swordfishtrombones
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1985
Rain Dogs
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1983
Swordfishtrombones
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1985
Rain Dogs
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1987
Franks Wild Years
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1992
Bone Machine
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1993
The Black Rider
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1999
Mule Variations
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2002
Alice
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2002
Blood Money
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2004
Real Gone
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2011
Bad as Me
Discography data: MusicBrainz.
About Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underbelly and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, jazz, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Jim Fusilli calls him "A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden" who "creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view." His unique voice was described by Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."
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Ranked
- Mule Variations (1999)
- Closing Time (1973)
- Rain Dogs (1985)
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