What's your favourite Tom Waits album?

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Original, I know

Has he ever released a bad one?

>>72045345
There is only metal fan children in fit

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>>72045345
Pictured, but I really love everything he's done, shit, even his B-Sides and Rarities is really good.

>>72045450
Probably not, no, consistency is key with Waits.

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Top tier right here

>>72045376
This, easily one of the greatest albums of all time, Bone Machine is a close second...Small Change, Franks Wild Years and Rain Dogs fill out the rest of his Top 5

>>72045450
Yes, Foreign Affairs is the most obvious example but he's also got plenty of middling ones, and I say this as a huge fan whose got like 5000+ plays of his work

Personally, I've long-held the belief a lot of his work is revered because people are told Tom Waits is great but can't handle the best stuff so they instead give unwarranted attention to his less unique work (such as his earliest stuff or his most recent stuff, though the latter also comes from the fact that people didn't praise him enough when he was doing his best stuff, so retroactively they must praise his new stuff to make up for it)...he's an artist who clearly did their best work for a distinct period of time in the middle of his career

>>72045450

if live albums count, I've gotten through Glitter and Doom once and have absolutely no desire to listen to anything on it ever again

I also claim Bad As Me and Real Gone are both worse than Foreign Affairs

>>72045450
One from the Heart is offensively ghastly

>>72045535

>WELL THE EARTH DIEED SCREAAAAMIIIIING

>>72045345
i don't listen to fedora neckbeard music

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>No Bad as Me

Well, mines Bad as Me

Wasted and wounded
It ain't what the moon did

One of my legs (below the knee) is entirely devoted to tattooed Tom Waits lyrics, the only full song is Anywhere I Lay My Head though that's not even in my Top 3 favorite Waits albums...I think Small Change is my favorite lyrically

>>72045744
it's a good fucking album, mang.