Tom Waits

Submitted by rudolf55 on Fri, 09/29/2006 - 05:29
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  • Closing Time (1973)


  • 1. Ol'55: 9.4
  • 2. I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You: 9.0
  • 3. Virginia Avenue: 5.1
  • 4. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards): 8.4
  • 5. Midnight Lullaby: 8.8
  • 6. Martha: 10
  • 7. Rosie: 6.2
  • 8. Lonely: 9.6
  • 9. Ice Cream Man: 9.0
  • 10. Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love): 8.7
  • 11. Grapefruit Moon: 6.5
  • 12. Closing Time: 8.4
  • Song Average: 8.2
  • Score: 81%

  • The Heart Of Saturday Night (1974)


  • 1. New Coat Of Paint: 7.7
  • 2. San Diego Serenade: 9.5
  • 3. Semi Suite: 8.1
  • 4. Shiver Me Timbers: 8.4
  • 5. Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For): 6.2
  • 6. The Heart Of Saturday Night: 9.4
  • 7. Fumblin' With The Blues: 9.0
  • 8. Please Call Me, Baby: 9.1
  • 9. Depot, Depot: 5.9
  • 10. Drunk On The Moon: 7.9
  • 11. The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House: 7.6
  • Song Average: 8.0
  • Score: 82%

  • Nighthawks At The Diner (1975)


  • 1. (Opening Intro): 8.0
  • 2. Emotional Weather Report: 8.6
  • 3. (Intro): 9.0
  • 4. On A Foggy Night: 7.8
  • 5. (Intro): 7.5
  • 6. Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson): 9.2
  • 7. (Intro): 6.7
  • 8. Better Off Without A Wife: 9.5
  • 9. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street): 8.4
  • 10. (Intro): 8.7
  • 11. Warm Beer And Cold Women: 9.3
  • 12. (Intro): 8.5
  • 13. Putnam County: 9.4
  • 14. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission): 9.0
  • 15. Nobody: 9.8
  • 16. (Intro): 7.8
  • 17. Big Joe And Phantom 309: 7.7
  • 18. Spare Parts II And Closing: 9.0
  • Song Average: 8.5
  • Score: 84%

  • Small Change (1976)


  • 1. Tom Traubert's Blues: 10
  • 2. Step Right Up: 7.8
  • 3. Jitterburg Boys: 9.4
  • 4. I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward): 9.5
  • 5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me): 9.0
  • 6. Invitation To The Blues: 9.0
  • 7. Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club): 6.7
  • 8. Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell): 9.2
  • 9. The One That Got Away: 8.1
  • 10. Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38): 7.6
  • 11. I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue): 8.4
  • Song Average: 8.6
  • Score: 88%

  • Foreign Affairs (1977)


  • 1. Cinny's Waltz: 8.0
  • 2. Muriel: 7.6
  • 3. I Never Talk to Strangers: 6.1
  • 4. Jack and Neal/California: 5.6
  • 5. A Sight for Sore Eyes: 9.0
  • 6. Potter's Field: 7.7
  • 7. Burma Shave: 6.9
  • 8. Barber Shop: 7.5
  • 9. Foreign Affair: 8.9
  • Song Average: 7.3
  • Score: 74%

  • Blue Valentine (1978)


  • 1. Somewhere (West Side Story): 8.6
  • 2. Red Shoes by the Drugstore: 7.5
  • 3. Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis: 9.2
  • 4. Romeo is Bleeding: 8.4
  • 5. $29.00: 7.4
  • 6. Wrong Side of the Road: 7.9
  • 7. Whistlin' Past the Graveyard: 9.3
  • 8. Kentucky Avenue: 9.0
  • 9. A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun: 7.2
  • 10. Blue Valentine: 9.1
  • Song Average: 8.4
  • Score: 83%

  • Heartattack And Vine (1980)


  • 1. Heartattack and Vine: 7.0
  • 2. In Shades: 5.4
  • 3. Saving All My Love For You: 9.0
  • 4. Downtown: 9.5
  • 5. Jersey Girl: 9.2
  • 6. 'Til The Money Runs Out: 7.5
  • 7. On the Nickel: 9.0
  • 8. Mr Siegal: 8.0
  • 9. Ruby's Arms: 10
  • Song Average: 8.2
  • Score: 80%

  • Swordfishtrombones (1983)


  • 1. Underground: 9.5
  • 2. Shore Leave: 9.6
  • 3. Dave The Butcher: 4.9
  • 4. Johnsburg, Illinois: 9.7
  • 5. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six: 9.2
  • 6. Town With No Cheer: 10
  • 7. In The Neighborhood: 10
  • 8. Just Another Sucker On The Vine: 8.6
  • 9. Frank's Wild Years (For Frankie Z.): 9.0
  • 10. Swordfishtrombones: 9.8
  • 11. Down, Down, Down: 9.0
  • 12. Soldier's Things: 9.6
  • 13. Gin Soaked Boy: 8.4
  • 14. Trouble's Braids: 8.8
  • 15. Rainbirds: 9.0
  • Song Average: 9.0
  • Score: 96%

  • Rain Dogs (1985)


  • 1. Singapore: 9.6
  • 2. Clap Hands: 9.2
  • 3. Cemetery Polka: 9.8
  • 4. Jockey Full of Bourbon: 9.5
  • 5. Tango Till They're Sore: 9.0
  • 6. Big Black Mariah: 7.9
  • 7. Diamonds and Gold: 8.1
  • 8. Hang Down Your Head: 9.0
  • 9. Time: 9.3
  • 10. Rain Dogs: 9.7
  • 11. Midtown: 5.1
  • 12. 9th and Hennepin: 6.2
  • 13. Gun Street Girl: 8.0
  • 14. Union Sqaure: 6.7
  • 15. Blind Love: 9.0
  • 16. Walking Spanish: 8.6
  • 17. Dowtown Train: 9.4
  • 18. Bride of Rain Dog: 4.8
  • 19. Anywhere I Lay My Head: 9.0
  • Song Average: 8.3
  • Score: 91%

  • Frank's Wild Years (1987)


  • 1. Hang On St. Christopher: 9.0
  • 2. Straight to the Top (Rhumba): 7.5
  • 3. Blow Wind Blow: 8.1
  • 4. Temptation: 7.0
  • 5. Innocent When You Dream: 8.3
  • 6. I'll Be Gone: 6.6
  • 7. Yesterday Is Here: 8.5
  • 8. Please Wake Me Up: 6.7
  • 9. Frank's Theme: 7.1
  • 10. More Than Rain: 8.4
  • 11. Way Down in the Hole: 8.0
  • 12. Straight to the Top (Vegas): 7.2
  • 13. I'll Take New York: 5.1
  • 14. Telephone Call From Istanbul: 8.1
  • 15. Cold Cold Ground: 9.0
  • 16. Train Song: 7.9
  • 17. Innocent When You Dream (78): 6.5
  • Song Average: 7.5
  • Score: 79%

  • Bone Machine (1992)


  • 1. Earth Died Screaming: 9.0
  • 2. Dirt In The Ground: 9.2
  • 3. Such A Scream: 6.3
  • 4. All Stripped Down: 3.7
  • 5. Who Are You: 9.3
  • 6. The Ocean Doesn't Want Me: 5.6
  • 7. Jesus Gonna Be Here: 8.0
  • 8. A Little Rain: 8.6
  • 9. In The Colosseum: 7.5
  • 10. Goin' Out West: 10
  • 11. Murder In The Red Barn: 9.2
  • 12. Black Wings: 8.1
  • 13. Whistle Down The Wind: 9.1
  • 14. I Don't Wanna Grow Up: 8.2
  • 15. Let Me Get Up On It: 4.0
  • 16. That Feel: 9.0
  • Song Average: 7.8
  • Score: 80%

  • Mule Variations (1999)


  • 1. Big In Japan: 4.6
  • 2. Lowside Of The Road: 6.1
  • 3. Hold On: 8.4
  • 4. Get Behind The Mule: 6.3
  • 5. House Where Nobody Lives: 7.5
  • 6. Cold Water: 4.9
  • 7. Pony: 7.8
  • 8. What's He Building?: 3.7
  • 9. Black Market Baby: 4.0
  • 10. Eyeball Kid: 4.2
  • 11. Picture In A Frame: 9.0
  • 12. Chocolate Jesus: 6.4
  • 13. Georgia Lee: 7.3
  • 14. Filipino Box Spring Hog: 4.5
  • 15. Take It With Me: 6.8
  • 16. Come On Up To The House: 7.4
  • Song Average: 6.1
  • Score: 63%

  • Blood Money (2002)


  • 1. Misery Is The River Of The World: 9.1
  • 2. Everything Goes To Hell: 8.0
  • 3. Coney Island Baby: 5.7
  • 4. All The World Is Green: 9.3
  • 5. God's Away On Business: 9.1
  • 6. Another Man's Vine: 7.5
  • 7. Knife Chase: 5.5
  • 8. Lullaby: 9.0
  • 9. Starving In The Belly Of A Whale: 6.0
  • 10. The Part You Throw Away: 7.9
  • 11. Woe: 7.6
  • 12. Calliope: 6.7
  • 13. A Good Man Is Hard To Find: 7.3
  • Song Average: 7.5
  • Score: 76%

  • Alice (2002)


  • 1. Alice: 9.0
  • 2. Everything You Can Think: 9.2
  • 3. Flower's Grave: 9.4
  • 4. No One Knows I'm Gone: 8.1
  • 5. Kommienezuspadt: 9.0
  • 6. Poor Edward: 9.1
  • 7. Table Top Joe: 7.0
  • 8. Lost In The Harbour: 6.7
  • 9. We're All Mad Here: 8.2
  • 10. Watch Her Disappear: 7.9
  • 11. Reeperbahn: 5.7
  • 12. I'm Still Here: 8.6
  • 13. Fish & Bird: 9.2
  • 14. Barcarolle: 8.0
  • 15. Fawn: 7.5
  • Song Average: 8.1
  • Score: 82%

  • Real Gone (2004)


  • 1. Top Of The Hill: 3.9
  • 2. Hoist That Rag: 5.5
  • 3. Sins Of My Father: 5.9
  • 4. Shake It: 4.8
  • 5. Don't Go Into That Barn: 5.0
  • 6. How's It Gonna End: 6.2
  • 7. Metropolitan Glide: 4.3
  • 8. Dead And Lovely: 7.5
  • 9. Circus: 6.9
  • 10. Trampled Rose: 6.0
  • 11. Green Grass: 7.8
  • 12. Baby Gonna Leave Me: 4.0
  • 13. Clang Boom Steam: 3.7
  • 14. Make It Rain: 6.0
  • 15. Day After Tommorow: 7.9
  • Song Average: 5.6
  • Score: 55%
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Rankings

1. Swordfishtrombones *****/*****
2. Rain Dogs ****1/2/*****
3. Small Change ****/*****
4. Nighthawks At The Diner ****/*****
5. Blue Valentine ****/*****
6. The Heart Of Saturday Night ****/*****
7. Alice ****/*****
8. Closing Time ****/*****
9. Heartattack And Vine ****/*****
10. Bone Machine ****/*****
11. Frank's Wild Years ***1/2/*****
12. Blood Money ***1/2/*****
13. Foreign Affairs ***1/2/*****
14. Mule Variations ***/*****
15. Real Gone **1/2/*****