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Our Complete list of Tom Waits Albums And Songs presents the entire catalog of Tom Waits studio and live albums with all song titles listed on each album. Tom Waits has released seventeen studio albums throughout his legendary musical career. He is considered one of the most innovative songwriters of the classic rock era. His first album was released in 1973. The same years Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel released their debut albums.
Closing Time
Released March 6, 1973
Side A
Ol’ ’55
I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
Virginia Avenue
Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
Midnight Lullaby
Martha
Side B
Rosie
Lonely
Ice Cream Man
Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)
Grapefruit Moon
Closing Time
The Heart of Saturday Night
Released October 15, 1974
Side A:
New Coat Of Paint
San Diego Serenade
Semi Suite
Shiver Me Timbers
Diamonds On My Windshield
(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night
Side B:
Fumblin’ With The Blues
Please Call Me, Baby
Depot, Depot
Drunk On The Moon
The Ghosts Of Saturday Night
Nighthawks at the Diner
Released October 21, 1975
Side A
( Intro)
Emotional Weather Report
On A Foggy Night
Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
Side B
(Intro)
Better Off Without A Wife
Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)
Side C:
(Intro)
Warm Beer And Cold Women
Putnam County
Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
Side D:
Nobody
(Intro)
Big Joe And Phantom 309
Spare Parts II And Closing
Small Change
Released September 21, 1976
Side One:
Tom Traubert’s Blues
Step Right Up
Jitterbug Boy
I Wish I Was In New Orleans
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
Side Two:
Invitation To The Blues
Pasties And A G-String
Bad Liver And A Broken Heart
The One That Got Away
Small Change
I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work
Foreign Affairs
Released September 13, 1977
Side A:
Cinny’s Waltz
Muriel
I Never Talk To Strangers
Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come
A Sight For Sore Eyes
Side B
Potter’s Field
Burma-Shave
Barber Shop
Foreign Affair
Blue Valentine
Released September 5, 1978
Side A:
Somewhere (From “West Side Story”)
Red Shoes By The Drugstore
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
Romeo Is Bleeding
$29.00
Side B:
Wrong Side Of The Road
Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard
Kentucky Avenue
A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun
Blue Valentine
Heartattack And Vine
Released September 9, 1980
Side One:
Heartattack and Vine
In Shades
Saving All My Love for You
Downtown
Jersey Girl
Side Two:
Til the Money Runs Out
On the Nickel
Mr. Siegal
Ruby’s Arms
Swordfishtrombones
Released September 1, 1983
CD Track Listing:
Underground
Shore Leave
Dave The Butcher
Johnsburg, Illinois
16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six
Town With No Cheer
In The Neighborhood
Just Another Sucker On The Vine
Frank’s Wild Years
Swordfishtrombone
Down, Down, Down
Soldier’s Things
Gin Soaked Boy
Trouble’s Braids
Rainbirds
Rain Dogs
Released September 30, 1985
CD Track Listing:
Franks Wild Years
Released August 17, 1987
CD Track Listing:
Hang On St. Christopher
Straight To The Top (Rhumba)
Blow Wind Blow
Temptation
Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
I’ll Be Gone
Yesterday Is Here
Please Wake Me Up
Franks Theme
More Than Rain
Way Down In The Hole
Straight To The Top (Vegas)
I’ll Take New York
Telephone Call From Istanbul
Cold Cold Ground
Train Song
Innocent When You Dream (78)
Bone Machine
Released September 8, 1992
CD Track Listing:
Earth Died Screaming
Dirt in the Ground
Such a Scream
All Stripped Down
Who Are You
The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me
Jesus Gonna Be Here
A Little Rain
In the Colosseum
Goin’ Out West
Murder in the Red Barn
Black Wings
Whistle Down the Wind
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Let Me Get Up on It
That Feel
The Black Rider
Released November 2, 1993
CD Track Listing:
Lucky Day Overture
The Black Rider
November
Just the Right Bullets
Black Box Theme
T’ Ain’t No Sin
Flash Pan Hunter/Intro
That’s the Way
The Briar and the Rose
Russian Dance
Gospel Train/Orchestra
I’ll Shoot the Moon
Flash Pan Hunter
Crossroads
Gospel Train
Interlude
Oily Night
Lucky Day
The Last Rose of Summer
Carnival
Mule Variations
Released April 16, 1999
CD Track Listing:
Big in Japan
Lowside of the Road
Hold On
Get Behind the Mule
House Where Nobody Lives
Cold Water
Pony
What’s He Building?
Black Market Baby
Eyeball Kid
Picture in a Frame
Chocolate Jesus
Georgia Lee
Filipino Box Spring Hog
Take It with Me
Come on Up to the House
Alice
Released May 4, 2002
CD Track Listing:
Alice
Everything You Can Think
Flowers Grave
No One Knows I’m Gone
Kommienezuspadt
Poor Edward
Table Top Joe
Lost In The Harbour
We’re All Mad Here
Watch Her Disappear
Reeperbahn
I’m Still Here
Fish & Bird
Barcarolle
Fawn
Blood Money
Released May 4, 2002
CD Track Listing:
Misery Is the River of the World
Everything Goes to Hell
Coney Island Baby
All the World Is Green
God’s Away on Business
Another Man’s Vine
Knife Chase
Lullaby
Starving in the Belly of a Whale
The Part You Throw Away
Woe
Calliope
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Real Gone
Released October 3, 2004
CD Track Listing:
Top of the Hill
Hoist That Rag
Sins of My Father
Shake It
Don’t Go into That Barn
How’s It Gonna End
Metropolitan Glide
Dead and Lovely
Circus
Trampled Rose
Green Grass
Baby Gonna Leave Me
Clang Boom Steam
Make It Rain
Day After Tomorrow
Chick a Boom
Bad as Me
Released October 21, 2011
CD Track Listing:
Chicago
Raised Right Men
Talking At The Same Time
Get Lost
Face To The Highway
Pay Me
Back In The Crowd
Bad As Me
Kiss Me
Satisfied
Last Leaf
Hell Broke Luce
New Year’s Eve
Tom Waits Live Albums
Big Time
Released September 1988
CD Song List:
Red Shoes
Glitter and Doom Live
November 23, 2009
CD Song list:
Lucinda/Ain’t Goin’ Down
Singapore
Get Behind The Mule
Fannin Street
Dirt in the Ground
Such A Scream
Live Circus
Goin’ Out West
Falling Down
The Part You Throw Away
Trampled Ros
Metropolitan Glide
I’ll Shoot The Moon
Green Grass
Make It Rain
Story
Lucky Day
Tom Tales
Tom Waits Soundtracks
One From The Heart
Released October 1982
Side A:
Opening Montage
Is There Any Way Out of This Dream?
Picking Up After You
Old Boyfriends
Broken Bicycles
Side Two:
I Beg Your Pardon
Little Boy Blue
Instrumental Montag
You Can’t Unring a Bell
This One’s from the Heart
Take Me Home
Presents
Tom Waits Box Set
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Six Record Set divided into three sections
Brawlers
Side A:
Lie to Me
LowDown
2:19
Fish in the Jailhouse
Side B:
Bottom of the World
Lucinda
Ain’t Goin’ Down to the Well
Lord I’ve Been Changed
Side C:
Puttin’ on the Dog
Road to Peace
All the Time
Side D:
The Return of Jackie and Judy
Walk Away
Sea of Love
Buzz Fledderjohn
Rains on Me
Bawlers
Side A:
Bend Down the Branches
You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Long Way Home
Widow’s Grove
Little Drop of Poison
Shiny Things
Side B:
World Keeps Turning
Tell It to Me
Never Let Go
Fannin Street
Side C:
Little Man
It’s Over
If I Have to Go
Goodnight Irene
The Fall of Troy
Side D:
Take Care of All My Children
Down There By the Train
Danny Says
Jayne’s Blue Wish
Young at Heart
Bastards
Side A:
What Keeps Mankind Alive
Children’s Story
Heigh Ho
Army Ants
Books of Moses
Side B:
Bone Chain
Two Sisters
First Kiss
Dog Door
Redrum
Side C:
Nirvana
Home I’ll Never Be
Poor Little Lamb
Altar Boy
The Pontiac
Spidey’s Wild Ride
Side D:
King Kong
On the Road
Dog Treat
Missing My Son
Bonus Lp
Side A:
Crazy ‘Bout My Baby
Diamond in Your Mind
Cannon Song
Side B:
Pray
No One Can Forgive Me
Mathie Grove
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