Tom Waits – Original Album Classics (5CD Boxset) (2011)
UK five CD box set containing a quintet of albums from the highly acclaimed and eclectic singer/ songwriter, each housed in a ‘mini LP’ sleeve.
Includes the albums ‘Closing Time’ (1973), ‘The Heart Of Saturday Night’ (1974), ‘Nighthawks At The Diner’ (1975), ‘Small Change’ (1976) and ‘Foreign Affairs’ (1977).
Thomas Alan “Tom” Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding “like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car.” With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz,…
…and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down by Law and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Lyrically, Waits’ songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: “Jersey Girl”, performed by Bruce Springsteen, “Ol’ ’55?, performed by the Eagles, and “Downtown Train”, performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits’ albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1973 Closing Time
01 Ol’ ’55
02 I Hope That I Don’T Fall In Love With You
03 Virginia Avenue
04 Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
05 Midnight Lullaby
06 Martha
07 Rosie
08 Lonely
09 Ice Cream Man
10 Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)
11 Grapefruit Moon
12 Closing Time
1974 The Heart Of Saturday Night
01 New Coat Of Paint
02 San Diego Serenade
03 Semi Suite
04 Shiver Me Timbers
05 Diamonds On My Windshield
06 (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night
07 Fumblin’ With The Blues
08 Please Call Me, Baby
09 Depot, Depot
10 Drunk On The Moon
11 The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone’s Pizza House)
1975 Nighthawks At The Diner
01 (Opening Intro)
02 Emotional Weather Report
03 (Intro)
04 On A Foggy Night
05 (Intro)
06 Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
07 (Intro)
08 Better Off Without A Wife
09 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)
15 Nobody
16 (Intro)
17 Big Joe And Phantom 309
18 Spare Parts II And Closing
1976 Small Change
01 Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
02 Step Right Up
03 Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body And The Mug And Artie)
04 I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)
05 The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)
06 Invitation To The Blues
07 Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O’Clock Club)
08 Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)
09 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)
1977 Foreign Affairs
01 Cinny’s Waltz
02 Muriel
03 I Never Talk To Strangers
04 Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come
05 A Sight For Sore Eyes
06 Potter’s Field
07 Burma-Shave
08 Barber Shop
09 Foreign Affair
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