Tom Waits discography

This is a discography of releases from Tom Waits.

Discography

Albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions							Certifications (sales thresholds)
		US	AUS	AUT	FRA	NLD	NO	UK
1973	Closing Time Label: Asylum	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	UK: Gold
1974	The Heart of Saturday Night Label: Asylum	201	-	-	-	-	-	-	UK: Gold
1975	Nighthawks at the Diner Label: Asylum	164	-	-	-	-	-	-	UK: Silver
1976	Small Change Label: Asylum	89	-	-	-	-	-	-	UK: Silver
1977	Foreign Affairs Label: Asylum	113	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	Blue Valentine Label: Asylum	181	-	-	-	-	-	-	UK: Gold
1980	Heartattack and Vine Label: Asylum	96	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	One from the Heart Label: CBS	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1983	Swordfishtrombones Label: Island	167	-	-	-	48	18	62
1985	Rain Dogs Label: Island	188	-	26	-	23	12	29	CAN: Gold
1987	Franks Wild Years Label: Island	115	-	24	-	21	13	20	CAN: Gold
1988	Big Time Label: Island	152	-	-	-	-	-	84
1992	Night on Earth Label: Island	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Bone Machine Label: Island	176	41	22	-	31	15	26
1993	The Black Rider Label: Island	130	-	-	-	68	-	47
1999	Mule Variations Label: ANTI-	30	13	7	22	12	1	9	CAN: Gold
2002	Blood Money Label: ANTI-	32	25	5	36	21	4	21
	Alice Label: ANTI-	33	26	3	27	16	3	20
2004	Real Gone Label: ANTI-	28	27	11	39	10	2	16
2006	Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards Label: ANTI-	74	-	15	46	5	4	49	US: Gold
2009	Glitter and Doom Live Label: ANTI-	-	-	30	91	36	5	76
2011	Bad as Me Label: ANTI-	6	11	5	28	3	1	10

Compilations

• Bounced Checks (Asylum, 1981)
• Anthology of Tom Waits (Asylum, 1984)
• Asylum Years (Asylum, 1986)
• The Early Years, Volume One (Bizarre, 1991)
• The Early Years, Volume Two (Bizarre, 1993)
• Beautiful Maladies – The Island Years (Island, 1998)
• Used Songs 1973–1980 (Rhino, 2001)

Contributions

• 1975 Homeplate, by Bonnie Raitt: piano and backing vocals on "Your Sweet and Shiney Eyes"
• 1985 Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill: performs "What Keeps Mankind Alive?"
• 1986 Dirty Work, by The Rolling Stones: backing vocals on "Harlem Shuffle"
• 1987 Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night: Roy Orbison tribute concert, with Waits on piano and guitar
• 1987 Smack My Crack: Giorno Poetry Systems compilation, includes "The Pontiac," a monologue about cars
• 1988 Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films: performs "Heigh Ho (The Dwarfs Marching Song)"
• 1989 Sea of Love soundtrack: performs the song "Sea of Love"
• 1989 El Condor Herido by Diomedes Diaz – Juancho Rois: performs "Chorus and Guacharaca"
• 1989 SOS United charity album, for SOS Children's Villages: performs "Silent Night"
• 1990 Red Hot + Blue, benefit album by various artists: performs Cole Porter's "It's All Right With Me"
• 1991 Sailing the Seas of Cheese, by Primus: character vocals on "Tommy the Cat"
• 1991 Devout Catalyst, by Ken Nordine: appears on "Thousand Bing Bangs" and "The Movie"
• 1991 Mississippi Lad by Teddy Edwards: appears on "Little Man" and "I'm Not Your Fool Anymore"
• 1992 Beautiful Mess, by Thelonious Monster: guest vocals on "Adios Lounge"
• 1993 Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet, by Gavin Bryars: guest vocals
• 1993 Born to Choose, benefit album by various artists, features early version of "Filipino Box Spring Hog"
• 1995 Little Criminals soundtrack: features the song "Clap Hands"
• 1996 Dead Man Walking soundtrack: original compositions "Fall of Troy" and "Walk Away"
• 1997 All for Nothing/Nothing for All, by The Replacements: guest vocals on "Date to Church"
• 1998 Rare On Air, Vol. 4 KCRW, performs "Fall of Troy"
• 1998 Fishing With John, field recordings on "River of Men" and "World of Adventure."
• 1999 Antipop, by Primus: production, backing vocals, and mellotron on "Coattails of a Deadman"
• 1999 More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album by various artists: covers "Books of Moses"
• 1999 Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road: covers "On the Road" with Primus
• 1999 Extremely Cool, by Chuck E. Weiss: guest vocals and guitar; he also co-produced and executive produced the album with Kathleen Brennan, and co-wrote "Do You Know What I Idi Amin?" and "It Rains on Me"
• 2000 Helium, by Tin Hat Trio: guest vocals on "Helium Reprise"
• 2000 Free the West Memphis 3, benefit album by various artists: performs the song "Rains on Me"
• 2000 Beatin' the Heat, by Dan Hicks: features the song "The Piano Has Been Drinkin'"; Waits performs on song "I'll Tell Why That Is"
• 2001 It's a Wonderful Life, by Sparklehorse: vocals on "Dog Door"
• 2001 Witness, by Dave Douglas: reads an excerpt from Naguib Mahfouz's work on the 25-minute track "Mahfouz"
• 2001 Big Bad Love soundtrack: features two original songs, "Long Way Home" and "Jayne's Blue Wish"
• 2002 Hullabaloo Soundtrack, by Muse: Waits reads his song "What's He Building in There" hidden in the disc's pregap; also used as intro music for the Le Zenith concert on the companion concert DVD
• 2002 For the Kids benefit album by various artists: performs the lullaby "Bend Down the Branches"
• 2002 Don't Give Up On Me, by Solomon Burke: features Waits' original song, "Diamond in Your Mind"
• 2003 We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, by various artists: Waits covers "The Return of Jackie and Judy"
• 2003 Long Gone, original song "Bottom of the World" by Waits and Kathleen Brennan
• 2003 Go Tell It on the Mountain (album), by The Blind Boys of Alabama features Waits on title track
• 2004 The Ride, by Los Lobos: vocals on the track "Kitate"
• 2004 The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, by various artists: covers "King Kong"
• 2005 Blinking Lights and other Revelations, by Eels: screaming on the track "Going Fetal"
• 2006 Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, by Sparklehorse: piano on "Morning Hollow"
• 2006 They Can't All Be Zingers, by Primus: character vocals on "Tommy the Cat", backing vocals and mellotron on "Coattails of a Dead Man"
• 2007 People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913–1938, by various artists: Waits wrote the introduction for this 3 CD reissue anthology produced by Christopher King and Henry "Hank" Sapoznik
• 2007 Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation by various artists: Waits performs four songs with Kronos Quartet: "Way Down In The Hole," "God's Away On Business," "Lost In The Harbor," and "Diamond In Your Mind"
• 2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: one Waits song is on the soundtrack, and another in the film's credits
• 2007 Traineater, by The Book Of Knots: lyrics, vocals, guitar, and percussion on "Pray"
• 2008 When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold by Atmosphere: beatboxing on the track "Waitress"
• 2008 Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits by Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band: duet vocals on a cover of his song "Walk Away"
• 2009 The Spirit of Apollo by N.A.S.A.: vocals on "Spacious Thoughts"
• 2011 Hard Ground by Michael O'Brien: contributed poems to accompany photographs of homeless people in Austin, TX taken by Michael O'Brien
• 2011 Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town by Hank Williams III: vocals on "Ghost to a Ghost" and "Fadin' Moon"

Tribute albums

• 1989 Fjorton sånger – Tom Waits på svenska, Bad Liver och hans brustna hjärtan
• 1990 The piano has been drinking, Gerd Köster, in German – Cologne dialect, refer to German Wikipedia for details
• 1995 Temptation, Holly Cole
• 1995 Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits, various artists
• 1996 Rød pust: Sven Henriksen synger Tom Waits, Sven Henriksen
• 1998 Povabilo Na Bluz (Invitation to the Blues), Jani Kovacic (Slovenian)
• 2000 Nach mir die Sintflut – Ambros singt Waits, Wolfgang Ambros
• 2000 New Coat of Paint, various artists
• 2001 Wicked Grin, John Hammond (produced by Tom Waits, who appears on several tracks)
• 2001 Saving All My Love – A Tribute to Tom Waits, Claudia Bettinaglio
• 2001 Days of Roses, Delmore
• 2003 Greetings from HELL – The Tom Waits Songbook, Hell Blues Choir
• 2003 Pornoshow – Laura Fedele Interpreta Tom Waits, Laura Fedele
• 2003 Piosenki Toma Waitsa (Tom Waits's Songs), Kazik Staszewski
• 2005 Being Tom Waits, Billy's Band
• 2005 The Silver Hearts Play Rain Dogs, The Silver Hearts
• 2007 À Espera de Tom, Carlos Careqa
• 2008 Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson
• 2008 Grapefruit Moon, Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band

Filmography

Year	Film
1978	Movie debut as 'Mumbles' in Paradise Alley.
1980	Worked with Francis Ford Coppola on the soundtrack to One from the Heart.
	Wrote and performed soundtrack to On the Nickel.
1981	Cameo as a bar-owner seen singing "Jitterbug Boy" from his album Small Change in Wolfen.
1982	Soundtrack of One from the Heart. Nominated for an Academy Award for best original score.
	Played petrified man in carnival in The Stone Boy.
	Appeared as himself in Poetry in Motion
1983	Played Buck Merrill in The Outsiders.
	Played Bennie the pool hall owner in Rumble Fish.
1984	Played Irving Stark in The Cotton Club.
	Soundtrack to Streetwise, a documentary about street kids on Pike St. in Seattle.
1986	Starred as Zack in Down by Law, which also features the songs "Jockey Full of Bourbon" and "Tango Till They're Sore" from Rain Dogs .
1987	Played Rudy The Kraut in Ironweed.
	Played Al Silk in Candy Mountain.
1989	Played the 'Punch & Judy Man' in Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale.
	Starred as Kenny the Hitman in Cold Feet.
	Voice of the radio DJ "Lee Baby Sims" in Mystery Train.
	Composer on Sea of Love
1990	Played a plainclothes police officer in The Two Jakes.
1991	Played Wolf in At Play in the Fields of the Lord.
	Played a disabled Veteran beggar in The Fisher King.
	Wrote the score of Night on Earth (With Kathleen Brennan).
	Played Monte in Queens Logic.
	Uncredited appearance as Barroom Pianist in Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World.
1992	Composer (With Kathleen Brennan) on American Heart.
	Played Renfield in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.
1993	Played Earl Piggott in Short Cuts.
	Appeared as himself in the IFC TV series Fishing with John.
1995	"Earth Died Screaming" appears in the movie Twelve Monkeys.
	"Jockey Full of Bourbon" appears in the movie Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.
	"Innocent when you dream" and "Downtown Train" appears in the movie Smoke.
1996	Composer on soundtrack of Dead Man Walking.
	Composer on soundtrack of The End of Violence.
	"Cold Cold Ground" and "Temptation" appeared on the soundtrack to Léolo.
	"Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" appears in the biopic Basquiat
1999	Mystery Men – played Dr. A. Heller, an inventor who specialized in non-lethal weapons.
	"Goin' Out West" appears in the movie Fight Club.
2000	Contributed song "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" to the film Maelström.
	Contributed song "The World Keeps Turning" to the film Pollock.
	Contributed song "Please Call Me, Baby" to the film Keeping the Faith.
2001	Composer on soundtrack of Big Bad Love.
2002	Night at the Golden Eagle opens to the sound of "Swordfishtrombones".
	Way Down in the Hole is used as the title music for the second season of The Wire. Previously, the cover version of the same song by The Blind Boys of Alabama had been used.
2003	Appeared in conversation with Iggy Pop in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes on the "Somewhere In California" sequence (filmed in 1993).
2004	Composer (with Kathleen Brennan) on soundtrack of Shrek 2. Also appears, in a shared role with Nick Cave, as an animated piano-playing Captain Hook singing "A Little Drop of Poison".
	Contributed song "On the Nickel" to film Mon Ange
	"Heartattack and Vine" appears in the film Hellboy
	Contributed music including "Innocent When You Dream" to Jessica Yu's documentary In the Realms of the Unreal.
2005	Played the Wanderer in Domino. Also contributed the songs "Cold Cold Ground" and "Jesus Gonna Be Here" to the film's soundtrack.
	Contributed song "Soldier's Things" to soundtrack of film Jarhead.
	Played himself in the 2005 Italian movie La Tigre e la Neve (English: The Tiger and the Snow) and contributed song "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" to the film's soundtrack.
	Contributed song "Underground" to film Robots.
	Contributed to soundtrack of the film The Secret Life of Words
	Contributed songs to movie Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: "Temptation" "What's He Building?" "Straight to the Top (Vegas)" "God’s Away on Business"
2006	Played Raphael Kneller in Wristcutters: A Love Story
2007	Contributed songs "All the World is Green" and "Green Grass" to the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
2009	Played Mr. Nick in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2010	Played Engineer in The Book of Eli