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Tom Waits DiscographyCategory: audio Size: 0 Kb Rating: 0 Source: http://rapidfind.org/upload/showthread.php?t=87939 Cache: This is turning out to be more of an undertaking than I first imagined. The list isn't complete and I'll be adding more to it as I get the time. So show some love. Closing Time (1973)  Waits signed to Asylum Records in 1972, and after numerous abortive recording sessions, his first record the jazzy, folk-tinged Closing Time was released. The album received warm reviews, but Waits did not gain widespread attention until a number of the album's tracks were covered by more prominent artists. http://rapidshare.com/files/39249343/twct-mailman.rar  Revealeding Waits' roots as a nightclub performer, with half-spoken and half-crooned ballads often accompanied by a jazz backup band. Waits described the album as "...a comprehensive study of a number of aspects of this search for the center of Saturday night, which Jack Kerouac relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see." http://rapidshare.com/files/6418214/09-t.w-t.h.s.n_1974_by.karga.rar.html  http://rapidshare.com/files/23402680/1974_-_dime_store_novels_dla_www.peb.pl.rar  In 1975, Waits moved to the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard and released this double album, recorded in a studio with a small audience in order to capture the ambience of a live show. The record exemplifies this phase of his career, including the lengthy spoken interludes between songs that punctuated his live act and the introduction to fans of his newly discovered, exaggeratedly gruff vocal delivery that would dominate many albums to come. http://rapidshare.com/files/39211398/twnatd-mailman.rar  Waits was drinking more and more heavily, and life on the road was starting to take its toll. In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change, which finds Waits in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs presenting a bare and honest portrayal of alcoholism while also cementing Waits' hard-living reputation in the eyes of many fans. Like his previous albums, Small Change is heavily jazz influenced, with a lyrical style that owes a debt to Raymond Chandler and Charles Bukowski as well as a vocal delivery influenced by Louis Armstrong. Small Change's critical and commercial success resulted in a much higher public profile for Waits. He was able to put together a regular touring band having previously toured solo, for the most part. They toured the United States and Europe extensively from October 1976 until May 1977, http://rapidshare.com/files/6298779/06-t.w-s.c_1976_by.karga.rar.html  Musically in a similar vein to Small Change, but showed further artistic refinement and exploration into jazz and blues styles. The album also features Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on "I Never Talk to Strangers." http://rapidshare.com/files/39242111/twfa-mailman.rar  More hard-boiled tales from Tom Waits, who sings in a raw, whiskey-soaked rasp that sounds both comical and deadly serious. Blue Valentine displayed Waits' biggest musical departure to date, with much more focus on electric guitar and keyboards than on previous albums and nearly no strings for a darker, more blues-oriented and hard-edged sound. The song "Blue Valentines" was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar accompanied by Waits' vocal. It was around this time that Waits had a high profile romantic relationship with Rickie Lee Jones (who appears on the sleeve art of the Foreign Affairs and Blue Valentine albums). http://rapidshare.com/files/6158320/02-t.w-b.v._1978_.by.karga.rar.html  Waits' last studio album for Asylum, featured a developing sound that included both balladeer tendencies ("Jersey Girl") as well as rougher-edged rhythm and blues. Though not entirely unprecedented, the album's grittier sound was different for Waits, and foreshadowed the major changes in his music that would take place in the following years. http://rapidshare.com/files/39220203/twmv-mailman.rar  After leaving Asylum, the label released this "Best of" album. It is notable for including an alternate, stripped down version of "Jersey Girl" and the otherwise unreleased "Mr. Henry," as well as an alternate master of "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" and a live performance of "The Piano Has Been Drinking." http://rapidshare.com/files/23496057/1981_-_Bounced_Checks_dla_www.peb.pl.rar  The same year Waits released Heartattack and Vine, he began a long working relationship with Francis Ford Coppola, who asked Waits to provide music for his film One from the Heart. Waits originally wanted to work with Bette Midler, who previously sang a duet with him on from Foreign Affairs; but she was unavailable. Instead, Waits ended up working with singer/songwriter Crystal Gayle as his vocal foil for the album. it remains the most accessibly mainstream music of Waits' storied career. Constructed as a dialog between lovers in a fitful emotional spiral, Waits' raspy growl is the perfect counterpoint to Gayle's own gutsy, surprisingly bluesy diva turns. Waits' score has long since taken its rightful place as a modern classic, a perfectly realized romantic daydream that never forgets the wistful, broken hearts stacking up beneath the Vegas neon. http://rapidshare.com/files/6430450/10-t.w_c.g-o.f.h_1982_by.karga.rar.html  Swordfishtrombones marked a sharp turn in Waits' musical direction. The album differs from Waits' previous output primarily in its instrumentation. While Waits had always played either piano or guitar, he began to gravitate towards less common instruments, saying, "Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone."Swordfishtrombones also introduced instruments such as bagpipes and marimba to Waits' repertoire, as well as pump organs, percussion, horn sections, experimental guitar and obsolete instruments. http://rapidshare.com/files/39075968/twsft-mailman.rar  Waits' new emphasis on experimenting with various styles and instrumentation reached its pinnacle on Rain Dogs, a sprawling nineteen-song collection considered by many fans and critics to be among his finest works to date. Contributions from renowned guitarists Marc Ribot, Robert Quine, and Keith Richards contributed to Waits' ever-increasing move away from piano-based songs, in juxtaposition with an increased emphasis on instruments such as marimba, accordion, double bass, trombone, and banjo. http://rapidshare.com/files/6266223/04-t.w-r.d_1985_by.karga.rar.html  Franks Wild Years, a musical play by Waits and Brennan, was staged in 1986, and the release of the album, Franks Wild Years included studio versions from the play of the same name. The album saw a heightened emphasis on brass instrumentation and a further broadening of Waits' musical palette. Rolling Stone summed up the album's myriad styles this way: "Everything from sleazy strip-show blues to cheesy waltzes to supercilious lounge lizardry is given spare, jarring arrangements using various combinations of squawking horns, bashed drums, plucked banjo, snaky double bass, carnival organ and jaunty accordion. http://rapidshare.com/files/39235877/twfwy-mailman.rar  Waits performed in Big Time, a surreal concert movie and soundtrack which he cowrote with his wife, Kathleen Brennan. Waits and band, takes us through the jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes from his album "Franks Wild Years". with as much focus on stage performance as the musical performance. It's a piece of evidence that all the music in the 80's wasn't synthesizers and bad haircuts. http://rapidshare.com/files/6189872/01-t.w-b.t_1988_by.karga.rar.html  The soundtrack album of the 1991 film of the same name, directed by Jim Jarmusch. It is is built around a recurrent theme reminiscent of Rain Dogs and manipulated into moods that reflect the cities in which the movie's various stories are told. Banjo and accordion are used to great effect to evoke the three European cities. Elsewhere, marimba and other percussion that Tom Waits was using on his "official" recordings at the time are well suited to the darkness and humor in Jarmusch's stories. http://rapidshare.com/files/23567825/1992_-_Night_On_Earth_dla_www.peb.pl.rar  Waits's most harrowing album ever, thanks not only to such heartwarming sentiments as "What does it matter, a dream of love or a dream of lies / We're all going to be in the same place when we die" but also to the ravaged, shamanistic croak with which he delivers them. This stark record featured a great deal of percussion and guitar (with little piano or sax), marking another change in Waits' sound. The album is musically entrancing and richly poetic--"Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?" Waits asks a perennially unfaithful lover in "Who Are You." There's also room for some foolishness, as with "I Don't Wanna Grow Up," which has been memorably covered by the Ramones, and a boozy sing-along (with Keith Richards), "That Feel." http://rapidshare.com/files/39266759/twbm-mailman.rar  Summoned to Hamburg, Germany, to write music for a live stage production of Robert Wilson's The Black Rider, musical mastermind Waits took to the task at hand with gusto, assembling an eclectic crew of musicians to become "the pit band [he'd] always dreamed of." Several years later Waits assembled another "orchestra" in San Francisco to record many of the songs he'd written for the live production. Those tracks are found here, alongside a few rough gems from sessions in Hamburg. You'll find some musical matter familiar to Waits fans: accordions, carnivals, violas, banjos, the devil (a key figure in The Black Rider), a singing saw, bassoons, and trombones. Waits's many voices tell the rather disjointed story with a variety of musical styling, a touch of Day of the Dead, a whiff of carny, a nod to Brecht, a dash of film noir, and the scent of narcosis (with William Burroughs). Not easy listening, by any means, but a feast for the ears. http://rapidshare.com/files/39065345/twtbr-mailman.rar  A Tom Waits compilation album, consisting of previously-released songs from his years recording with Island Records, most notably from the albums Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Frank's Wild Years. The tracks were selected by Tom Waits. After this release, Waits left the Island label for Epitaph. http://rapidshare.com/files/24500066/1998_TW_BM_dla_www.peb.pl.rar  Seven years passed between the release of Bone Machine and Mule Variations. During that time Tom Waits eschewed cutting another "conventional" (the term used loosely here) song collection, occupying his time with acting projects, a soundtrack (Night on Earth), a stage project (The Black Rider), and sundry smaller diversions. What's surprising about Mule Variations is how little he's strayed from the old Bone yard through the years. Waits intersperses the tough and the tender, mixing exercises in creative noisemaking with tunes that fall on just the right side of maudlin. Waits has again assembled a crew of attuned sidemen and, as always, Waits and his wife/co-songwriter/co-producer Kathleen Brennan exhibit an uncanny ear for the arcane. In the end, Mule Variations is the aural equivalent of a salvage shop that, while largely familiar, still has a few secluded chambers and trap doors. http://rapidshare.com/files/22178365/Differentpackanimals.rar  A "best of" that collects songs already included in proper albums released between 1973 and 1980. No rarities or non-album versions here, but a good introduction to Tom Waits http://rapidshare.com/files/24305161/2001_-_Used_Songs_1973-1980_dla_www.peb.pl.rar  Based upon Robert Wilson's socio-political play "Woyzeck" for which Waits supplied the music in 2000. Woyzeck is inspired by a true story of a German soldier who was driven mad by bizarre army medical experiments and infidelity which led him to murder his lover. Waits simultaneously released two albums, Alice and Blood Money. Both collections had been written almost ten years previously and were based on theatrical collaborations; Both albums revisit the tango Tin Pan Alley and spoken-word influences of Swordfishtrombones, while the lyrics are both profoundly cynical and melancholic. http://rapidshare.com/files/23853591/2002_-_Blood_Money_dla_www.peb.pl.rar  Based upon Robert Wilson's avant-garde opera of the same name for which Waits originally composed music in 1992. Alice is based loosely on author Lewis Carroll's obsession with young Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired his Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass novels. http://rapidshare.com/files/23842797/2002_-_Alice_dla_www.peb.pl.rar  The Early Years Vol. 2 (2004)  In 1971, Waits moved to the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles (at the time, also home to musicians Glenn Frey of the Eagles, J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne, and Frank Zappa) and signed with Herb Cohen at the age of 21. From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of demo recordings for Cohen's Bizarre/Straight label, including many songs for which he would later become known. These early tracks were eventually to be released twenty years later on The Early Years, Volume 1 and Volume 2. http://rapidshare.com/files/39038359/twtey-mailman_Vol._1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39030269/twtey-mailman_Vol._2.rar  Waits' only album to date to feature absolutely no piano on any of its tracks. Waits beatboxes on the opening track, "Top of the Hill," and most of the album's songs begin with Waits' "vocal percussion" improvisations. It is also more rock-oriented, with less blues influence than he has previously demonstrated," There's little risk of confusing Tom Waits with the gentle pop folk who have covered his songs--Rod Stewart, Sarah McLachlan, Everything But the Girl, just to name a few. That's because even though the eccentric songwriter is capable of summoning the most tender sentiments, his preferred method of delivery is through carnival melodies, crackpot instruments, and a bourbon-soaked bark. Real Gone continues the dark experimental streak of not just its predecessors like Alice and Blood Money, but the past 30 years. Yes, the percussion is sharper, the arrangements stranger, and the voice more ghost-like than ever, but at the center of all the chaos remains an uncanny storyteller--capable of ripping down governments ("Sins of My Father") and building up tears ("Day After Tomorrow"). http://rapidshare.com/files/23941784/2004_Real_Gone_dla_www.peb.pl.rar  http://rapidshare.com/files/39306936/tway-mailman.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39293957/tway-mailman.part2.rar  A 54-song 3 disc box set of rarities, unreleased tracks, and brand-new compositions. The three discs are subdivided relating to their content: "Brawlers" features Waits' more upbeat rock and blues songs; "Bawlers," his ballads and love songs; and "Bastards," songs that fit in neither category, including a number of spoken-word tracks. Orphans also continues Waits' newfound interest in politics, with a song about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "Road To Peace." http://rapidshare.com/files/39160705/twobbb-mailman.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39146245/twobbb-mailman.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39111121/twobbb-mailman.part3.rar URLs: http://rapidshare.com/files/39249343/twct-mailman.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/6418214/09-t.w-t.h.s.n_1974_by.karga.rar.html http://rapidshare.com/files/23402680/1974_-_dime_store_novels_dla_www.peb.pl.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39211398/twnatd-mailman.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/6298779/06-t.w-s.c_1976_by.karga.rar.html http://rapidshare.com/files/39242111/twfa-mailman.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/6158320/02-t.w-b.v._1978_.by.karga.rar.html http://rapidshare.com/files/39220203/twmv-mailman.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/23496057/1981_-_Bounced_Checks_dla_www.peb.pl.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/6430450/10-t.w_c.g-o.f.h_1982_by.karga.rar.html http://rapidshare.com/files/39075968/twsft-mailman.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/6266223/04-t.w-r.d_1985_by.karga.rar.html http://rapidshare.com/files/39235877/twfwy-mailman.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/6189872/01-t.w-b.t_1988_by.karga.rar.html http://rapidshare.com/files/23567825/1992_-_Night_On_Earth_dla_www.peb.pl.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39266759/twbm-mailman.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39065345/twtbr-mailman.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/24500066/1998_TW_BM_dla_www.peb.pl.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/22178365/Differentpackanimals.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/24305161/2001_-_Used_Songs_1973-1980_dla_www.peb.pl.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/23853591/2002_-_Blood_Money_dla_www.peb.pl.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/23842797/2002_-_Alice_dla_www.peb.pl.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39038359/twtey-mailman_Vol._1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39030269/twtey-mailman_Vol._2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/23941784/2004_Real_Gone_dla_www.peb.pl.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39306936/tway-mailman.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39293957/tway-mailman.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39160705/twobbb-mailman.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39146245/twobbb-mailman.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/39111121/twobbb-mailman.part3.rar |