Tom Waits - Solo Albums
Mule Variations (55:37)
(1999) Epitaph
Big In Japan; Low Side 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;

The Black Rider (55:37)
(1993) Island
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.

These songs were based on the play 'Black Rider' with Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs.

Bone Machine (53:41)
(1992) Island 314-512 580-2
Earth Died Screaming; Dirtin 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.

Night on Earth Original Soundtrack Recording (52:50)
(1992) Island 314-510 725-2
Back In The Good Old World (Gypsy); Los Angeles Mood (Chromium Descensions); Los Angeles Theme (Another Private Dick); New York Theme (Hey, You Can Have That Heartattack Outside); New York Mood (a New Haircut & A Busted Lip); Baby I'm Not A Baby Anymore (Beatrice Theme); Good Old World (Waltz); Carnival (Brunello Del Montalcino); On The Other Side Of The World; Good Old World (Gypsy Instrumental); Paris Mood (Un De Fromage); Dragging A Dead Priest; Helsinki Mood; Carnival Bob's Confession; Good Old World (Waltz); On The Other Side Of The World (Instrumental).

The Early Years Vol. 2 (44:17)
(1992) Bizarre/Straight ED CD 371
Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You; Ol' 55; Mockin' Bird; In Between Love; Blue Skies; Nobody; I Want You; Shiver Me Timbers; Grapefruit Moon; Diamonds On My Windshield; Please Call Me, Baby; So It Goes; Old Shoes.

This album released in 1992 was recorded from July to December 1971.

The Early Years(43:39)
(1991) Bizarre/Straight ED CD 332
Goin' Down Slow; Poncho's Lament; I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute; Had Me a Girl; Ice Cream Man; Rockin' Chair; Virginia Ave.; Midnight Lullabye; When You Ain't Got Nobody; Little Trip to Heaven; Frank's Song; Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again; So Long I'll See Ya.

This album released in 1991 was recorded from July to December 1971.

Big Time (live compilation) (67:40)
(1988) Island ITW4 (LP?)

16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six; Red Shoes; Cold Cold Ground; Way Down In The Hole; Falling Down; Strange Weather/ Big Black Mariah; Rain Dogs; Train Song; Telephone Call From Istanbul; Gun Street Girl; Time.

(1988) Island 422-842 470-2 (CD)

16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six; Red Shoes; Underground; Cold Cold Ground; Straight to the Top; Yesterday is Here; Way Down In The Hole; Falling Down; Strange Weather; Big Black Mariah; Rain Dogs; Train Song; Johnsburg, Illinois; Ruby's Arms; Telephone Call From Istanbul; Clap Hands; Gun Street Girl; Time.

Frank's Wild Years (56:46)
(1987) Island ITW3
(ACT I) 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;

(ACT II ) 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).

Rain Dogs (54:03)
(1985) Island ILPS9803
Singapore; Clap Hands; Cemetery Polka; Jockey Full of Bourbon; Tango Till They're Sore; Big Black Mariah; Diamonds & Gold; Hang Down Your Head; Time; Rain Dogs; Midtown Instrumental; 9th & Hennepin; Gun Street Girl; Union Square; Blind Love; Walking Spanish; Downtown Train; Bride of Rain Dog Instrumental; Anywhere I Lay My Head.

Asylum Years (Compilation) (70:32)
(1984) Asylum 960321-1 (LP or cassette only)
Martha; Rosie; Shiver Me Timbers; San Diego Serenade/ Diamonds on My Windshield; (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night; The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House); Small change (Got Rained On With His Own .38); Tom Traubert's Blues/ Step Right Up; Burma Shave; Foreign Affair; Mr. Henry; The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)/Potter's Field; Kentucky Avenue; Somewhere (from West Side Story); On The Nickel; Ruby's Arms.

(1986 WEA) Asylum 960 494-2 (CD only)

Diamonds on My Windshield; (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night; Martha; The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House); Grapefruit Moon; Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38); Burma Shave; I Never Talk To Strangers; Tom Traubert's Blues; Blue Valentines; Potter's Field; Kentucky Avenue; Somewhere (from West Side Story); Ruby's Arms.

Anthology of Tom Waits (Compilation) (56:41)
(1984) WEA/Elektra 7559 60416 4 (LP or cassette only)

Ol' 55; Diamonds On My Windshield; (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night; I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You; Martha; Tom Traubert's Blues; The Piano Has Been Drinking (not me); I Never Talk To Strangers; Somewhere (from West Side Story); Burma Shave; Jersey Girl; San Diego Serenade; A Sight for Sore Eyes.

Swordfishtrombones (41:49)
(1983) Island 90095 (1983) Island ILPS 9762
Underground; Shore Leave; Dave The Butcher (Instrumental); Johnsburg, Illinois; 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six; Town With No Cheer; In The Neighborhood/ Just Another Sucker On The Vine (Instrumental); Franks' Wild Years; Swordfishtrombones; Down, Down, Down; Soldier's Things; Gin Soaked Boy; Trouble's Braids; Rainbirds (Instrumental).

One from the Heart Original Soundtrack Recording (w/ Crystal Gayle) (42:06)
(1982) CBS 37703
(1982) CBS 70215

Tom's Piano Intro; Once Upon A Town*; The Wages Of Love*; Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream?*; Picking Up After You*; Old Boyfriends*; Broken Bicycles; I Beg Your Pardon; Little Boy Blue; The Tango; Circus Girl; You Can't Unring A Bell; This One's From The Heart*; Take Me Home*; Presents.

(* features Crystal Gayle).

Bounced Checks (Compilation) (46:25)
(1981) Asylum K52316 (LP or cassette only) (Out of print)
Heartattack and Vine; Jersey Girl (alt. master); Eggs and Sausage; I Never Talk To Strangers; The Piano Has Been Drinking (Live @ Dublin Ireland, March '81); Whistlin' Past the Graveyard (alt. master); Mr. Henry (previously unreleased); Diamonds On My Windshield; Burma Shave; Tom Traubert's Blues.

Heartattack and Vine (44:30)
(1980) Asylum 6E-295 (inner bag)
(1980) Asylum K52252
Heartattack and Vine; In Shades; Saving All My Love For You; Downtown; Jersey Girl/ 'Till the Money Runs Out; On the Nickel; Mr. Siegal; Ruby's Arms.

The album was provisionally titled "White Spades".
The caption under his picture on the cover states "Shortly before dawn, Saturday, a South Central Los Angeles man was seen leaving the corner of Western and 110th St. in burnt sienna Chrysler Imperial and heading in the direction of the San Bernardino Mts."

Blue Valentine (49:37)
(1978) Asylum 6E-162 (gatefold sleeve)
(1978) Asylum K50388
Somewhere (from West Side Story); Red Shoes By The Drugstore; Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis; Romeo Is Bleeding; $29.00; Wrong Side of the Road; Whistlin' Past the Graveyard; Kentucky Avenue; A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun; Blue Valentines.

Foreign Affairs (42:07)
(1977) Asylum 7E-1117
(1977) Asylum K50368
Cinny's Waltz (Instrumental); Muriel; I Never Talk To Strangers (duet with Bette Midler); Medley: Jack and Neal, California, Here I Come; A Sight For Sore Eyes; Potter's Field; Burma Shave; Barber Shop; Foreign Affair.

Small Change (49:59)
(1976) Asylum K50350
(1976) Asylum 7E-1078
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen); Step Right Up; Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone with Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie); I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward); The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King); Invitation to the Blues; Pasties and a G-String (At the Two-O'Clock Club); Bad Liver and A Broken Heart (In Lowell); The One That Got Away; Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38); I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue).

Nighthawks at the Diner (live)(73:53)
(1975) Asylum 7E-2008 (gatefold sleeve)
(1975) Asylum K63002
Opening Intro; Emotional Weather Report; On a Foggy Night; Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson); Better Off Without a Wife; Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street); Warm Beer and Cold Women; Putnam County; Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission); Nobody; Big Joe and Phantom 309; Spare Parts II.

The Heart of Saturday Night (41:33)
(1974) Asylum 7E-1015 (with text insert)
(1974) Asylum K53035
New Coat of Paint; San Diego Serenade; Semi Suite; Shiver Me Timbers; Diamonds on my Windshield; (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night; Fumblin' with the Blues; Please Call Me, Baby; Depot, Depot; Drunk on the Moon; The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House).

Closing Time (45:52)
(1973) Asylum SD 5061
(1973) Asylum SYL 9007 - reissued (1976) Asylum K53030
Ol' 55; I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You; Virginia Avenue; Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards); Midnight Lullaby; Martha; Rosie; Lonely; Ice Cream Man; Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of your Love); Grapefruit Moon; Closing Time (Instrumental).

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