4. Shiver Me Timbers
5. Diamonds on My Windshield
6. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
7. Fumblin’ with the Blues
8. Please Call Me, Baby
9. Depot, Depot
10. Drunk on the Moon
11. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Production and sound by Bones Howe for Mr. Bones Productions.
Nighthawks at the Diner
Asylum 2008 (1975)
1. Opening Intro
2. Emotional Weather Report
3. Intro
4. On a Foggy Night
5. Intro
6. Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)
7. Intro
8. Better Off Without a Wife
9. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)
10. Intro
11. Warm Beer and Cold Women
12. Intro
13. Putnam County
14. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) (Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss)
15. Nobody Intro
16. Big Joe and Phantom 309 (Tommy Faile)
17. Spare Parts II and Closing
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Production and sound by Bones Howe for Mr. Bones Productions.
Small Change
Asylum 1078 (1976)
1. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
2. Step Right Up
3. Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone with Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie)
4. I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward)
5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)
6. Invitation to the Blues
7. Pasties and a G-String (At the Two O’Clock Club)
8. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (In Lowell)
9. The One That Got Away
10. Small Change (Got Rained on with His Own .38)
11. I Can’t Wait to Get off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Production and sound by Bones Howe for Mr. Bones Productions.
Foreign Affairs
Elektra 1117 (1977)
1. Cinny’s Waltz
2. Muriel
3. I Never Talk to Strangers (duet with Bette Midler)
4. Medley: Jack and Neal/California, Here I Come (Tom Waits/Joseph Meyer, Al Jolson, and Buddy G. De Sylva)
5. A Sight for Sore Eyes
6. Potter’s Field (Tom Waits and Bob Alcivar)
7. Burma Shave
8. Barber Shop
9. Foreign Affair
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Production and sound by Bones Howe. A Mr. Bones Production.
Blue Valentine
Elektra 162 (1978)
1. Somewhere (from West Side Story) (Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)
2. Red Shoes by the Drugstore
3. Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
4. Romeo Is Bleeding
5. $29.00
6. Wrong Side of the Road
7. Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
8. Kentucky Avenue
9. A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
10. Blue Valentines
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Production and sound by Bones Howe. A Mr. Bones Production.
Heartattack and Vine
Elektra 295 (1980)
1. Heartattack and Vine
2. In Shades
3. Saving All My Love for You
4. Downtown
5. Jersey Girl
6. ’Til the Money Runs Out
7. On the Nickel
8. Mr. Siegal
9. Ruby’s Arms
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Production and sound by Bones Howe. A B.H. Production.
Bounced Checks
Asylum 7200 (1981)
1. Heartattack and Vine
2. Jersey Girl (alternate take)
3. Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)
4. I Never Talk to Strangers (duet with Bette Midler)
5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (live version)
6. Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard (alternate take)
7. Mr. Henry
8. Diamonds on My Windshield
9. Burma Shave
10. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Production and sound by Bones Howe.
One from the Heart (Original Soundtrack)
Columbia CK37703 (1982)
1. Opening Montage
a) Tom’s Piano Intro
b) Once Upon a Town (duet with Crystal Gayle)
c) The Wages of Love (duet with Crystal Gayle)
2. Is There Any Way Out of This Dream? (vocal by Crystal Gayle)
3. Picking Up After You (duet with Crystal Gayle)
4. Old Boyfriends (vocal by Crystal Gayle)
5. Broken Bicycles
6. I Beg Your Pardon
7. Little Boy Blue
8. Instrumental Montage
a) The Tango
b) Circus Girl
9. You Can’t Unring a Bell
10. This One’s from the Heart (duet with Crystal Gayle)
11. Take Me Home (vocal by Crystal Gayle)
12. Presents
13. Candy Apple Red*
14. Once Upon a Town/Empty Pockets*
* CD bonus tracks on 2004 reissue.
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Production and sound by Bones Howe.
Swordfishtrombones
Island 422-842 469-2 (1983)
1. Underground
2. Shore Leave
3. Dave the Butcher (instrumental)
4. Johnsburg, Illinois
5. 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six
6. Town with No Cheer
7. In the Neighborhood
8. Just Another Sucker on the Vine (instrumental)
9. Frank’s Wild Years
10. Swordfishtrombone
11. Down, Down, Down
12. Soldier’s Things
13. Gin Soaked Boy
14. Trouble’s Braids
15. Rainbirds (instrumental)
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Produced by Tom Waits.
Rain Dogs
Island 7 90299-2 (1985)
1. Singapore
2. Clap Hands
3. Cemetery Polka
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
5. Tango ’Til They’re Sore
6. Big Black Mariah
7. Diamonds and Gold
8. Hang Down Your Head (Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits)
9. Time
10. Rain Dogs
11. Midtown (instrumental)
12. 9th & Hennepin
13. Gun Street Girl
14. Union Square
15. Blind Love
16. Walking Spanish
17. Downtown Train
18. Bride of Rain Dog (instrumental)
19. Anywhere I Lay My Head
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Produced by Tom Waits.
Anthology of Tom Waits
Asylum 9 60416-4-E (1985)
1. Ol’ 55
2. Diamonds on My Windshield
3. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
4. I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You
5. Martha
6. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda)
7. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
8. I Never Talk to Strangers (duet with Bette Midler)
9. Somewhere (from West Side Story) (Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein)
10. Burma Shave
11. Je
rsey Girl
12. San Diego Serenade
13. A Sight For Sore Eyes
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Production and sound by Bones Howe for Mr. Bones Productions, Inc.
Produced by Jerry Yester for Third Story Productions
Asylum Years
Asylum/WEA International 960 494-2 (1986)
1. Diamonds on My Windshield
2. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
3. Martha
4. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)
5. Grapefruit Moon
6. Small Change
7. Burma Shave
8. I Never Talk to Strangers (duet with Bette Midler)
9. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda)
10. Blue Valentines
11. Potter’s Field (Tom Waits and Bob Alcivar)
12. Kentucky Avenue
13. Somewhere (from West Side Story)(Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein)
14. Ruby’s Arms
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Production and sound by Bones Howe for Mr. Bones Productions, Inc.
Produced by Jerry Yester for Third Story Productions.
Frank’s Wild Years: Un Operanchi Romantico In Two Acts
Island 422-842 357-2 (1987)
Act I
1. Hang On St. Christopher
2. Straight to the Top (Rhumba) (Tom Waits and Greg Cohen)
3. Blow Wind Blow
4. Temptation
5. Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
6. I’ll Be Gone (Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)
7. Yesterday Is Here (Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)
8. Please Wake Me Up (Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)
9. Frank’s Theme
Act II
10. More Than Rain
11. Way Down in the Hole
12. Straight to the Top (Vegas) (Tom Waits and Greg Cohen)
13. I’ll Take New York
14. Telephone Call from Istanbul
15. Cold Cold Ground
16. Train Song
17. Innocent When You Dream (78)
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Produced by Tom Waits.
Big Time
Island 7 90987-2 (1988)
1. 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six
2. Red Shoes
3. Underground*
4. Cold Cold Ground
5. Straight to the Top*
6. Yesterday Is Here
7. Way Down in the Hole*
8. Falling Down
9. Strange Weather
10. Big Black Mariah
11. Rain Dogs
12. Train Song
13. Johnsburg, Illinois*
14. Ruby’s Arms*
15. Telephone Call from Istanbul
16. Clap Hands*
17. Gun Street Girl
18. Time
* cd bonus tracks
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Produced by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
Recorded live in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dublin, Stockholm, and Berlin
The Early Years (Volume One)
Bizarre/Manifesto PT3 40601 (1991)
1. Goin’ Down Slow
2. Poncho’s Lament
3. I’m Your Late Night Evening Prostitute
4. Had Me a Girl
5. Ice Cream Man
6. Rockin’ Chair
7. Virginia Ave.
8. Midnight Lullabye
9. When You Ain’t Got Nobody
10. Little Trip to Heaven
11. Frank’s Song
12. Looks Like I’m Up Shit Creek Again
13. So Long I’ll See Ya
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Produced by Robert Duffey.
Recorded July to December 1971, Los Angeles.
The Early Years (Volume Two)
Bizarre/Rhino R2 71089 (1992)
1. I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You
2. Ol’ 55
3. Mockin’ Bird
4. In Between Love
5. Blue Skies
6. Nobody
7. I Want You
8. Shiver Me Timbers
9. Grapefruit Moon
10. Diamonds on My Windshield
11. Please Call Me, Baby
12. So It Goes
13. Old Shoes
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Mastered by Robert Duffey and Ken Perry.
Recorded July to December 1971, Los Angeles.
Night On Earth (Original Soundtrack Recording)
Island 314-510 725-2 (1992)
1. Back in the Good Old World (Gypsy) (vocal)
2. Los Angeles Mood (Chromium Descensions)
3. Los Angeles Theme (Another Private Dick)
4. New York Theme (Hey, You Can Have That Heartattack Outside Buddy)
5. New York Mood (A New Haircut and a Busted Lip)
6. Baby, I’m Not a Baby Anymore (Beatrice Theme)
7. Good Old World (Waltz)
8. Carnival (Brunella Del Montalcino)
9. On the Other Side of the World (vocal)
10. Good Old World (Gypsy Instrumental)
11. Paris Mood (Un de Fromage)
12. Dragging a Dead Priest
13. Helsinki Mood
14. Carnival Bob’s Confession
15. Good Old World (Waltz) (vocal)
16. On the Other Side of the World (instrumental)
All songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
Produced by Tom Waits.
Songs arranged by Tom Waits and Francis Thumm.
Bone Machine
Island 314-512 580-2 (1992)
1. Earth Died Screaming (Tom Waits)
2. Dirt in the Ground
3. Such a Scream (Tom Waits)
4. All Stripped Down (Tom Waits)
5. Who Are You
6. The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me (Tom Waits)
7. Jesus Gonna Be Here (Tom Waits)
8. A Little Rain
9. In the Colosseum
10. Goin’ Out West
11. Murder in the Red Barn
12. Black Wings
13. Whistle Down the Wind (Tom Waits)
14. I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
15. Let Me Get Up On It (Tom Waits)
16. That Feel (Keith Richards and Tom Waits)
All songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan except where noted.
Produced by Tom Waits.
Associate Producer: Kathleen Brennan.
The Black Rider
Island 314-518 559-2 (1993)
1. Lucky Day Overture
2. The Black Rider
3. November
4. Just the Right Bullets
5. Black Box Theme
6. T’Ain’t No Sin (vocal by William Burroughs) (Walter Donaldson and Edgar Leslie)
7. Flash Pan Hunter (Intro)
8. That’s the Way (Tom Waits and William Burroughs)
9. The Briar and the Rose
10. Russian Dance
11. Gospel Train (Orch)
12. I’ll Shoot the Moon
13. Flash Pan Hunter (Tom Waits and William Burroughs)
14. Crossroads (Tom Waits and William Burroughs)
15. Gospel Train
16. Interlude (Greg Cohen)
17. Oily Night
18. Lucky Day
19. The Last Rose of Summer
20. Carnival
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Produced by Tom Waits.
Beautiful Maladies — The Island Years
Island 314-524 519-2 (1998)
1. Hang on St. Christopher
2. Temptation
3. Clap Hands
4. The Black Rider
5. Underground
6. Jockey Full of Bourbon
7. Earth Died S
creaming
8. Innocent When You Dream (78)
9. Straight to the Top (Tom Waits and Greg Cohen)
10. Frank’s Wild Years
11. Singapore
12. Shore Leave
13. Johnsburg, Illinois
14. Way Down in the Hole
15. Strange Weather (Live)
16. Cold Cold Ground (Live)
17. November
18. Downtown Train
19. 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six
20. Jesus Gonna Be Here
21. Good Old World (Waltz) (Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)
22. I Don’t Wanna Grow Up (Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)
23. Time
All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.
Produced by Tom Waits.
Mule Variations
Anti/Epitaph 86547-2 (1999)
1. Big in Japan
2. Lowside of the Road
3. Hold On
4. Get Behind the Mule
5. House Where Nobody Lives (Tom Waits)
6. Cold Water
7. Pony (Tom Waits)
8. What’s He Building? (Tom Waits)
9. Black Market Baby
10. Eyeball Kid
11. Picture in a Frame
12. Chocolate Jesus
13. Georgia Lee
14. Filipino Box Spring Hog (Tom Waits)
15. Take It with Me
16. Come Up to the House
All songs written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan except where noted.
Produced by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
Used Songs 1973-1980
Elektra/Rhino R2 78351 (2001)
1. Heartattack and Vine
2. Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)
3. A Sight For Sore Eyes
4. Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard
5. Burma Shave
6. Step Right Up
7. Ol’ 55
8. I Never Talk to Strangers (duet with Bette Midler)
9. Mr. Siegal
10. Jersey Girl
11. Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
12. Blue Valentines
13. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
14. Muriel
15. Wrong Side of the Road
16. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
All songs written by Tom Waits.
Original Recordings Produced by Bones Howe and Jerry Yester.
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