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This is a discography of releases from Tom Waits.

Discography

Albums

Year Title Additional information Record label U.S. Billboard 200 peak UK Albums Chart peak[1]
1973 Closing Time Asylum -
1974 The Heart of Saturday Night -
1975 Nighthawks at the Diner Recorded live in the studio over two nights for small audiences #164
1976 Small Change #89
1977 Foreign Affairs #113
1978 Blue Valentine #181
1980 Heartattack and Vine #96
1982 One from the Heart With Crystal Gayle; soundtrack for the Francis Ford Coppola film The soundtrack was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score. CBS -
1983 Swordfishtrombones Island #167 #62
1985 Rain Dogs #188 #29
1987 Franks Wild Years Collaboration with Benoît Christie #115 #20
1988 Big Time Live album, movie, video release #152 #84
1992 Night on Earth Soundtrack for the Jim Jarmusch film of the same name - -
Bone Machine Won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album #176 #26
1993 The Black Rider Collaboration with William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson #130 #47
1999 Mule Variations Won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album ANTI- #30 #9
2002 Blood Money Music to Robert Wilson's version of the play Woyzeck #32 #21
Alice Music to Robert Wilson's play of the same name #33 #20
2004 Real Gone #28 #16
2006 Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards Three-disc collection of new and old recordings. Nominated for a Grammy in Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album category. #74 #49
2009 Glitter and Doom Live Two-disc collection of live music from the Glitter and Doom Tour of the US & Europe in summer 2008. - #76

Compilations

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: Waits performs "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" (from The Threepenny Opera).
  • 1987 Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night: Tribute concert with Roy Orbison, in which Waits played piano and guitar.
  • 1987 Smack My Crack: Compilation by Giorno Poetry Systems. Includes "The Pontiac," a two minute monologue about cars he's owned.
  • 1988 Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films: Waits performs "Heigh Ho (The Dwarfs Marching Song)."
  • 1989 Sea of Love soundtrack: Waits performs the song "Sea of Love."
  • 1990 Red Hot + Blue, a benefit album by various artists: Waits performs Cole Porter's "It's All Right With Me." Music video directed by Jim Jarmusch.
  • 1991 Sailing the Seas of Cheese, by Primus: Waits does character vocals on "Tommy the Cat."
  • 1991 Devout Catalyst, by Ken Nordine: Waits appears on "Thousand Bing Bangs" and "The Movie."
  • 1992 Beautiful Mess, by Thelonious Monster: Guest singer on "Adios Lounge."
  • 1993 Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet, by Gavin Bryars: Waits appears as guest singer.
  • 1993 Born to Choose, a benefit album by various artists: features an early version of "Filipino Box Spring Hog."
  • 1995 Little Criminals soundtrack: features the song "Clap Hands."
  • 1996 Dead Man Walking soundtrack: Performs original compositions "Fall of Troy" and "Walk Away."
  • 1997 All for Nothing/Nothing for All, by The Replacements: Guest singer on "Date to Church."
  • 1999 Antipop, by Primus: Waits produces, provides vocals, and plays the mellotron on the song "Coattails of a Deadman."
  • 1999 More Oar: A Tribute to Skip Spence by various artists: Waits covers "Books of Moses."
  • 1999 Extremely Cool, by Chuck E. Weiss: Waits appears as a guest vocalist and guitarist; 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 singer on "Helium Reprise."
  • 2000 Free the West Memphis 3, a benefit album by various artists: Performs the Chuck E. Weiss song "Rains on Me."
  • 2000 Beatin' the Heat, by Dan Hicks: features the song "The Piano Has Been Drinkin'". Waits also performs with Hicks 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: Waits is featured in the 25-minute track "Mahfouz", reading an excerpt from Naguib Mahfouz's work.
  • 2001 Big Bad Love soundtrack: features two original songs, "Long Way Home" and "Jayne's Blue Wish."
  • 2002 Hullabaloo Soundtrack, by Muse: Waits reading his song "What's He Building in There" hidden in the disc's pregap. Also used as the 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 the Ramones, by various artists: Waits covers "The Return of Jackie and Judy."
  • 2003 Long Gone, original song "Bottom of the World" by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
  • 2003 Go Tell It On The Mountain (Album), by [The Blind Boys of Alabama] features Waits on the title track.
  • 2004 The Ride, by Los Lobos: Waits sings on the track "Kitate."
  • 2004 The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, by various artists: Waits covers Johnston's "King Kong."
  • 2005 Blinking Lights and other Revelations, by Eels: Waits screams on the track "Going Fetal."
  • 2006 Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, by Sparklehorse: plays piano on the track "Morning Hollow."
  • 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 (Tompkins Square Records).
  • 2007 Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation by various artists: Waits performs four of his 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: features one Waits song on the soundtrack, and another in the film's credits.
  • 2007 Traineater, by The Book Of Knots: Waits contributes lyrics/vocals, guitar and percussion on "Pray."
  • 2008 When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold by Atmosphere: Waits contributes the beatbox on the track "Waitress."
  • 2008 Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits by Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band: Waits duets with Southside Johnny on a cover of his song Walk Away.
  • 2009 The Spirit of Apollo by N.A.S.A.: Waits sings in the song "Spacious Thoughts."

Tribute albums

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.
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.[4]
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
2009 Played the Devil in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

References

  1. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 589. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ^ Claudia Bettinaglio | Official Homepage
  3. ^ Billy's Band - Official homepage
  4. ^ Streetwise (1984)
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