Tom Waits has personally curated a 76-song playlist of Tom Waits songs from the first decade of his career. This would normally be considered strange and narcissistic behavior by the gruff troubadour, however Waits got with the times to coincide with the reissue of his seven Elektra Asylum Records releases, from 1973’s Closing Time through 1980’s Heartattack and Vine, all released on Elektra Asylum Records back in the day.
Several of these records have been out of print for quite some time, and all 180-gram vinyl reissues have been remastered under Waits’ strict supervision. The records will be released throughout 2018.
You can listen to his playlist below on Spotify, or you can stream it on Apple Music.
Roll down the windows, turn up the Tom, and go get lost…
Waits on Waits: A Career Playlist
01. Clap Hands
02. Come on Up to the House *
03. Cemetery Polka
04. I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward)
05. House Where Nobody Lives *
06. Ol’ 55
07. Goin’ Out West
08. God’s Away on Business *
09. A Sight for Sore Eyes
10. Take Care of All My Children *
11. Cold Cold Ground
12. Pony *
13. Bad As Me *
14. Jesus Gonna be Here
15. All the World is Green *
16. Army Ants *
17. Lost in the Harbour *
18. Temptation
19. Day After Tomorrow
20. Talking at the Same Time *
21. Eggs and Sausage
22. Take it With Me *
23. The Briar and the Rose
24. Heartattack and Vine
25. Good Old World (Vocal Waltz)
26. Johnsburg, Illinois
27. On the Nickel
28. Chicago *
29. Shore Leave
30. New Coat of Paint
31. Fish and Bird *
32. Hang on St. Christopher
33. Home I’ll Never Be *
34. Invitation to the Blues
35. Little Rain (For Clyde)
36. Trampled Rose
37. Lucky Day
38. Broken Bicycles
39. Walk Away
40. What’s He Building? *
41. Step Right Up
42. Make it Rain
43. Jockey Full of Bourbon
44. Raised Right Men *
45. Blue Valentines
46. Picture in a Frame *
47. 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six
48. Get Behind the Mule *
49. The Heart of Saturday Night
50. Mr. Siegal
51. Alice *
52. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
53. The Part You Throw Away *
54. What Keeps Mankind Alive *
55. Hoist that Rag
56. Misery is the River of the World *
57. I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
58. Time
59. Chocolate Jesus *
60. Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
61. Fawn *
62. Innocent When You Dream (1978)
63. Green Grass
64. Ruby’s Arms
65. Way Down in the Hole (1987)
66. In the Neighborhood
67. Lord I’ve been Changed *
68. Strange Weather (Live)
69. Nobody (Live)
70. Hell Broke Luce *
71. Lowside of the Road *
72. Kommienezuspadt *
73. Table Top Joe *
74. Watch Her Disappear *
75. Get Lost *
76. November
* Remastered
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