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1	Rain Dogs (1985) more music like this by Tom Waits With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation -- marimba, accordion, various percussion -- as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs is very much a follow-up to Swordfishtrombones, which is to say that it sounds for the most part like The Threepenny Opera being sung by Howlin' Wolf. The chief musical difference is the introduction ... see all copies from $6.57! new only from $8.24!
2	Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) more music like this by Tom Waits 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. It's an appropriate format for compositions that deal even more graphically and, for the first time, humorously with Waits' late-night world of bars and diners. The love lyrics of his debut ... see all copies from $6.70! new only from $16.65!
3	Swordfishtrombones (1983) more music like this by Tom Waits Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits' previous ... see all copies from $8.66! new only from $8.66!
4	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006) more music like this by Tom Waits At this stage of the game, any new Tom Waits record is an event. Listening through the music of his entire career is daunting, to say the least, but it's a journey no one else, with the possible exception of Bob Dylan, has taken before. If one listens to the official recordings, from 1973's Closing Time, featuring the songs of an itinerant Beat ... see all copies from $31.61! new only from $31.61!
5	Small Change (1976) more music like this by Tom Waits The fourth release in Tom Waits' series of skid row travelogues, Small Change proves to be the archetypal album of his '70s work. A jazz trio comprising tenor sax player Lew Tabackin, bassist Jim Hughart, and drummer Shelly Manne, plus an occasional string section, back Waits and his piano on songs steeped in whiskey and atmosphere in which he ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $10.32!
6	Franks Wild Years (1987) more music like this by Tom Waits Tom Waits wrote a song called "Frank's Wild Years" for his 1983 Swordfishtrombones album, then used the title (minus its apostrophe) for a musical play he wrote with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and toured with in 1986. The Franks Wild Years album, drawn from the show, is subtitled, "un operachi romantico in two acts," though the songs themselves ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $8.66!
7	The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) more music like this by Tom Waits 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 depictions of the same setting. On "Diamonds on My Windshield" and "The Ghosts of Saturday Night," Waits doesn't even sing, instead ... see all copies from $5.23! new only from $11.11!
8	Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1991) more music like this by Various Artists A fitfully entertaining collection of contemporary pop stars interpreting classic Cole Porter songs, Red Hot + Blue highlights include U2, Sinead O'Connor, Kirsty MacColl & the Pogues, Neneh Cherry, and David Byrne, but the best part of the disc is the wonderfully campy duet between Deborah Harry and Iggy Pop on "Well Did You Evah." All Music ... see all copies from $8.25! new only from $11.13!
9	Closing Time (1973) more music like this by Tom Waits Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within the apparently narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits and producer Jerry Yester manage a surprisingly broad collection of styles, from the jazzy "Virginia Avenue" to the up-tempo funk of "Ice Cream Man" and from the ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $11.11!
10	Foreign Affairs (1977) more music like this by Tom Waits Tom Waits gives one side of his fifth album, Foreign Affairs, to his more structured, bluesy ballads and the other to his jazz raps. On side one, you get his duet with Bette Midler on the singles-bar dialogue "I Never Talk to Strangers" and his take on his Beat predecessors Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy on "Jack & Neal." On side two, you find the ... see all copies from $11.11! new only from $11.11!
11 view cover	Real Gone (2004) more music like this by Tom Waits On Real Gone, Tom Waits walks a fraying tightrope. By utterly eliminating one of the cornerstone elements of his sound -- keyboards -- he has also removed his safety net. With songwriting and production partner Kathleen Brennan, he strips away almost everything conventional from these songs, taking them down to the essences of skeletal rhythms, ... see all copies from $15.98! new only from $15.98!
12 view cover	Bone Machine (1992) more music like this by Tom Waits Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album, Bone Machine is a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative -- and often harrowing -- effect. In keeping with the title's grotesque image of the human body, Bone Machine is obsessed with decay and mortality, the ease with which earthly ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $13.34!
13 view cover	Mule Variations (1999) more music like this by Tom Waits Tom Waits grew steadily less prolific after redefining himself as a junkyard noise poet with Swordfishtrombones, but the five-year wait between The Black Rider and 1999's Mule Variations was the longest yet. Given the fact that Waits decided to abandon major labels for the California indie Epitaph, Mule Variations would seem like a golden ... see all copies from $8.23! new only from $12.90!
14 view cover	Big Time (1988) more music like this by Tom Waits Big Time is an 18-track live album running nearly 68 minutes, its material drawn mostly from Tom Waits' trio of recent studio albums, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Franks Wild Years. (One track, "Falling Down," is a previously unissued studio recording. The performance of "Strange Weather" marks Waits' first recording of a song he and his ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $13.34!
15 view cover	One from the Heart (1982) more music like this by Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle One From the Heart is the score to the most misunderstood of Francis Ford Coppola's films. Far ahead of its time in terms of technology, use of color, montage, and set design, its soundtrack is the only thing that grounds it to earth. Coppola's movie is a metaphorical retelling of the exploits of Zeus and Hera set in Las Vegas. Coppola claims to ... see all copies from $5.33! new only from $5.33!
16 view cover	Blue Valentine (1978) more music like this by Tom Waits Two welcome changes in style made Blue Valentine a fresh listening experience for Tom Waits fans. First, Waits alters the instrumentation, bringing in electric guitar and keyboards and largely dispensing with the strings for a more blues-oriented, hard-edged sound. Second, though his world view remains fixed on the lowlifes of the late night, he ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $11.11!
17 view cover	Stay Awake: Interpretations of Vintage Disney Films (1989) more music like this by Various Artists Whether you regard him as one of the greatest storytellers in American history or a cold-hearted marketing genius who forced a set of prepackaged consumerist myths on several generations of unsuspecting youth, there's little argument that the films of Walt Disney have become an indelible part of our collective subconsciousness. Then again, for ... see all copies from $13.34! new only from $13.34!
18 view cover	Blood Money (2002) more music like this by Tom Waits Tom Waits has said: "I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth." When it comes to the material on Blood Money, I don't know if I can call Waits' mouth pretty, but he certainly offers plenty of bad news in a very attractive, compelling way. Released simultaneously with Alice, a recording of ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $12.90!
19 view cover	The Black Rider (1993) more music like this by Tom Waits Tom Waits' The Black Rider is an operetta that was written with William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide see all copies from $13.34! new only from $13.34!
20 view cover	Heartattack and Vine (1980) more music like this by Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine, Tom Waits' first album in two years and his last of seven for Asylum Records, is a transitional album, with tracks like the rhythm-heavy title song and "'Til the Money Runs Out" foreshadowing the sonic experiments of the Island albums, while piano-with-orchestra tracks like "Saving All My Love for You" and "On the Nickel" ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $11.11!
21 view cover	Alice (2002) more music like this by Tom Waits It's been long time since Tom Waits recorded an album as saturated with tenderness as this one. The carny-barker noise merchant who has immersed himself in brokenness and reportage from life's seamy, even hideous underbelly for decades has created, along with songwriting and life partner Kathleen Brennan, a love song cycle so moving and poetic ... see all copies from $11.32! new only from $12.90!
22 view cover	Free the West Memphis 3 (2000) more music like this by Various Artists A fine collection of mainly punk rock covers, with some extra variety sprinkled in. The album is a benefit for, as you might expect, the West Memphis Three. These are three guys incarcerated in the late '90s, either with life sentences or on death row. The details of their conviction are quite problematic, as both the liner notes and Jello Biafra ... see all copies from $11.34! new only from $11.34!
23 view cover	Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years (1998) more music like this by Tom Waits Tom Waits' brilliance is messy -- he has so many ideas that sometimes unrealized songs are juxtaposed with moments of greatness on his albums. That may make for the occasional uneven record, but each album has its own distinct tone that makes it a unique listening experience, whether it's a masterpiece or a missed opportunity. And that's the ... see all copies from $4.48! new only from $13.34!
24 view cover	Punk-O-Rama, Vol. 4 (1999) more music like this by Various Artists It would be inaccurate to say that Epitaph's Punk-O-Rama compilations cater to punk purists 100 percent of the time. Not everything on Punk-O-Rama, Vol. 4, which Epitaph assembled in 1999, is hardcore punk -- some of the material is simply alternative rock with a strong punk influence. But it is safe to say that Vol. 4 is punk-oriented, and it is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.16!
25 view cover	Used Songs (1973-1980) (2001) more music like this by Tom Waits Rhino's fine 16-track collection Used Songs (1973-1980) chronicles Tom Waits' first seven albums, all recorded for Asylum Records. This contains pretty much all his staples from the '70s -- "Heartattack and Vine," "Burma Shave," "Ol' 55," "Jersey Girl," "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night," and "Tom Traubert's Blues" among them -- sequenced ... see all copies from $16.65! new only from $16.65!

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