Tom Waits

   
Artist: Tom Waits

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Alternative
   Experimental
   Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   Jazz: Jazz-Rock
   Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 OrphansLie To Me

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 1


   
 Orphans (Limited Deluxe)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 56


   
 Orphans (cd3)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 20


   
 Orphans (cd2)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 20


   
 Orphans (cd1)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16


   
 Real Gone

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 Blood Money

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 13


   
 Alice

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 1992 - The Early Years Vol.2

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 1991 - The Early Years Vol.1

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13


   
 1986 - Asylum Years

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 14


   
 1982 - One From The Heart (198

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 1979 - Romeo Is Bleeding (Live

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 Mule Variations

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 16


   
 The Island Years - Beautiful Maladies

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 23


   
 The Black Rider

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 20


   
 Bone Machine

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 16


   
 Swordfishtrombones

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 15


   
 Franks Wild Years

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 17


   
 Frank's Wild Years

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 17


   
 Asylum Years

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 14


   
 Rain Dogs

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 19


   
 Blue Valentine

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


   
 Foreign Affairs

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 9


   
 Small Change

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 11


   
 Nighthawks At The Diner

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 18


   
 Heartattack and Vine

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 9


   
 The Heart Of Saturday Night

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 11


   
 Heart Of Saturday Night

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 11


   
 Closing Time

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 12


   
 Big Time (Part 2)

   Year:    
Tracks: 5

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In the seventies, Tom Waits combined a lyric nidus on dire, puke characters with a image that seemed to substantiate the same modus vivendi, which he panax quinquefolius near in a raspy, raspy part. From the '80s on, his exploit became increasingly theatrical as he touched into playing and composition. Growing up in southern California, Waits attracted the attention of coach Herb Cohen, world Health Organization likewise handled Frank Zappa, and was signed by him at the beginning of the seventies, resulting in the real later released as The Early Years and The Early Years, Vol. 2. His formal recording debut came with Shutdown Time (1973) on Asylum Records, an album that contained "Ol' 55," which was covered by labelmates the Eagles for their On the Border album. Waits attracted critical spat and a cult audience for his subsequent albums, The Heart of Saturday Night (1974), the two-LP live specify Nighthawks at the Diner (1975), Small Change (1976), Foreign Affairs (1977), Gamey Valentine (1978), and Core Attack and Vine (1980). His music and persona proved highly cinematic, and, starting in 1978, he launched analogue careers as an worker and as a composer of moving-picture show music. He wrote songs for and appeared in Nirvana Alley (1978), wrote the title song for On the Nickel (1980), and was hired by director Francis Coppola to write the music for One from the Heart (1982), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. While working on that jut, Waits met and married dramatist Kathleen Brennan, with whom he by and by collaborated.


Moving to Island Records, Waits made Swordfishtrombones (1983), which constitute him experimenting with horns and percussion and using unusual transcription techniques. The same year, he appeared in Coppola's Rumble Fish and The Outsiders, and, in 1984, he appeared in the director's The Cotton Club. In 1985, he released Rain Dogs. In 1986, he appeared in Mastered By Law and made his theatrical debut with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in Frank's Wild Years, a musical play he had written with Brennan. An album based on the play was released in 1987, the same year Waits appeared in the films Candy Mountain and Vernonia. In 1988, he released a film and soundtrack album depiction one of his concerts, Fully grown Time. In 1989, he appeared in the films Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale, Cold Feet, and Waitress Until Spring. His work for the theater continued in 1990 when Waits partnered with opera house film director Robert Wilson and flap novelist William Burroughs and staged The Black Rider in Hamburg, Germany. In 1991, he appeared in the films Queens' Logic, The Fisher King, and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. In 1992, he scored the film Nox on Earth; released the album Bone Machine, which won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album; appeared in the film Bram Stoker's Dracula; and returned to Hamburg for the staging of his moment collaborationism with Robert Wilson, Alice. The The Black Rider was attested on CD in 1993, the same class Waits appeared in the film Short Cuts.


A long absence from recording resulted in the 1998 tone ending of Beautiful Maladies, a retrospective of his work for Island. In 1999, Waits finally returned with a new album, Scuff Variations. The track record was a critical achiever, fetching a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk album, and was too his number one for the independent Epitaph Records' Anti subsidiary. A small-scale term of enlistment followed, merely Waits jumped right back into the studio apartment and began working on non unitary simply deuce new albums. By the time he emerged in the spring of 2002, both Alice and Rip Money were released on Anti Records. Blood Money consisted of the songs from the third Wilson/Waits collaboration that was arranged in Denmark in 2000 and won Best Drama of the year. After limited touring in livelihood of these deuce endeavors, Waits returned to the recording studio and issued Real Gone in 2004. The album marked a tumid exit for him, in that it contained no keyboards at all, focusing only on rhythm-stringed instruments.