Tom Waits
Tom Waits started out in the early 1970s as a piano-based barroom balladeer with a penchant for beat poetry and West Coast jazz. By the late '80s he had mutated into a brilliantly adventurous artist whose style suggested an amalgam of Howlin' Wolf, Kurt Weill, and Captain Beefheart. Ever the theatrical figure, Waits also found success as an actor in several films. He's also worked on numerous theatrical/musical projects with avant-garde theater king Robert Wilson. Though generally regarded as a cult artist, he's widely respected, and everyone from Rod Stewart to the Eagles to the Ramones has covered his songs.
Listen to Tom Waits
at Finetune.
Albums
- (2008) The Heart Of Saturday Night
- (2008) Small Change
- (2008) Nighthawks At The Diner
- (2008) Heartattack And Vine
- (2008) Foreign Affairs
- (2008) Closing Time
- (2008) Blue Valentine
- (2006) Mule Variations
- (2006) Blood Money
- (2006) Alice
- (2006) Real Gone
- (2006) Orphans
- (2006) Orphans
- (2005) Used Songs
- (2005) The Asylum Years
- (1999) Mule Variations
- (1998) Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
- (1993) The Early Years Vol. 2
- (1993) The Black Rider
- (1992) Bone Machine
- (1991) The Early Years: Vol. One
- (1990) Big Time
- (1990) Swordfishtrombones
- (1990) Heartattack And Vine
- (1990) Rain Dogs
- (1990) Franks Wild Years
- (1989) Small Change
- (1989) The Heart of Saturday Night
- (1978) Blue Valentine
- (1977) Foreign Affairs
- (1975) Nighthawks at the Diner
- (1973) Closing Time
Top Tracks
- Closing Time
- Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You
- Big In Japan
- The Heart of Saturday Night
- Underground
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Comments
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cakebelly on 2008-04-24 18:00:05.737:
I believe "Blue Valentine" is on 'finetune' (in response to Emma2) - you can't really go wrong with Mr. Waits; one of the very few recording songsters worthy of the title 'artist'. -
cakebelly on 2008-04-24 18:00:03.347:
I believe "Blue Valentine" is on 'finetune' (in response to Emma2) - you can't really go wrong with Mr. Waits; one of the very few recording songsters worthy of the title 'artist'. -
Emma2 on 2007-07-02 23:48:47.140:
I would love to hear some of his older stuff Blue Valintine etc, I have loved this guy from the first time I heard his voice. -
danielkevinogorman on 2007-06-20 17:34:27.140:
A true legend his lyrics should be on the school english curriculum .