Release Date: May 7, 2002. Label: Anti-. Genres: Experimental Rock. Number Of Tracks: 15. The melodies on Alice are easily the most direct Waits has written since Blue Valentine, but are more elegant than even those found on Foreign Affairs or Black Rider.

POSTED: 08/14/2008 - 04:27 am

Released: Oct 21, 2011. Genre: Rock, Experimental. Label: ANTI-. Number Of Tracks: 13. It's been 7 years since Tom Waits last released a studio album. Perhaps it was his recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that inspired him to work a new album.

POSTED: 10/26/2011 - 06:18 am

Release Date: May 7, 2002. Label: Anti-. Genres: Experimental Rock. Number Of Tracks: 13. Blood Money is a set of 13 songs written by Waits and Kathleen Brennan in collaboration with dramatist Robert Wilson.

POSTED: 02/23/2008 - 02:14 am

Release Date: Aug 1992. Label: Island. Genres: Singer/Songwriter, Experimental Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 16. The more upbeat ending hardly dispels the cloud of doom hanging over the rest of Bone Machine, but it does give the listener a gentler escape from that terrifying sonic world.

POSTED: 09/10/2007 - 09:25 am

Release Date: 1973. Label: Asylum. Genres: Singer/Songwriter. Number Of Tracks: 12. Closing Time announces the arrival of a talented songwriter whose self-conscious melancholy can be surprisingly moving.

POSTED: 09/06/2007 - 05:48 am

Release Date: Apr 20, 1999. Label: Anti/Epitaph. Genres: Experimental Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 16. Mule Variations would seem like a golden opportunity to redefine himself and begin a new phase of his career.

POSTED: 08/14/2008 - 04:33 am

Released: Nov 20, 2006. Genre: Rock, experimental. Label: ANTI-. Number Of Tracks: 54. 'Orphans' is a three-disc album by Tom Waits, which aims to cover three different sides of his music.

POSTED: 01/19/2011 - 03:48 am

Release Date: Aug 1985. Label: Island. Genres: College Rock, Experimental Rock, Album Rock. Number Of Tracks: 19. Much of the music matches the earlier album, and there is so much of it that that is enough to qualify Rain Dogs as one of Waits' better albums.

POSTED: 03/19/2007 - 10:13 am

Release Date: 1974. Label: Asylum. Genres: Singer/Songwriter, Album Rock. Number Of Tracks: 11. If Closing Time consisted of love songs set in a late-night world of bars and neon signs, its follow-up, The Heart of Saturday Night, largely dispenses with the romance in favor of poetic depictions of the same setting.

POSTED: 08/14/2008 - 04:23 am