Essential Tom Waits

[astronauts_suck]

Not much to this, pretty self explanitory........

 

[DougP]

ALL Tom Waits is essential

 

[Steve Clark]

ALL Tom Waits is essential

+1

 

[astronauts_suck]

Ok, I'll rehprase.
Any good suggestions for Tom Waits albums?

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Small Change.

If it doesn't make you feel something, you have no soul.

 

[page]

Buy these first, then explore around the others :

Small Change
Blue Valentine
Swordfishtrombones
Rain Dogs
Real Gone

 

[bassman275]

Dime Store Novels,Rain Dogs,Franks Wild Years,...Hell get every Tom record you can get your hands on!

 

[smidgley]

My bass instructor is a huge Tom Waits fan, so I looked around for something by Waits he might not have and found something called "Tales From the Underground" that I was able to download and surprise him with. It is six hours and nine seconds of demos, outakes and live performances - 88 songs in all.

Shouldn't be too hard to find, but beware, it's a 1.75 gigabyte download.

 

[B String]

Nighthawks at the Dinner is one of my fav's. Jim Hughart
is the bassist on it. After all these years, we live about
a block apart. One of my fondest memories is going to the
driving range, and hitting balls between Ray Brown and
Jim Hughart, and talking bass. It was amazing!

 

[DougP]

my personal favs are Rain Dogs and Real Gone

 

[rulyøngo]

to me, "Swordfishtrombones", "Bone Machine", "mule Variations"... I prefer his late stuff...

 

[Phe]

Bone Machine, Real Gone, Black Rider and Blood Money... maybe Mule Variations and Alice. New stuff rocks.

 

[Matt Till]

Rain dogs blows my mind.

Real gone has a more stripped down abrasive sound, but is very powerful.

I'd say Rain Dogs is my favorite though.