Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits nació en Pomona, California el 7 de diciembre de 1949, es un pianista, cantante, compositor y actor estadounidense, su música ha sido experimental , en cada disco se ha reinventado, hay dos constantes que se han repetido a lo largo de su carrera; desde que en 1973 grabara el ya mítico Closing Time: la reinvención de la música popular-blues, folk, rock- y la reivindicación en sus textos de un mundo absurdo y surrealista.

Day After Tomorrow - Tom Waits

Real One (2004)

Lyrics.

1. "Top of the Hill" – 4:55
2. "Hoist That Rag" – 4:20
3. "Sins of My Father" – 10:36
4. "Shake It" – 3:52
5. "Don't Go into That Barn" – 5:22
6. "How's It Gonna End" – 4:51
7. "Metropolitan Glide" – 4:13
8. "Dead and Lovely" – 5:40
9. "Circus" – 3:56
10. "Trampled Rose" – 3:58
11. "Green Grass" – 3:13
12. "Baby Gonna Leave Me" – 4:29
13. "Clang Boom Steam" – 0:46
14. "Make It Rain" – 3:39
15. "Day After Tomorrow" – 6:56
16. "Chickaboom" – 1:17 (hidden track)

Soldier's Things - Tom Waits

Swordfishtrombones ( 1983)

Lyrics




Side One
1. "Underground" – 1:58
2. "Shore Leave" – 4:12
3. "Dave the Butcher" (instrumental) – 2:15
4. "Johnsburg, Illinois" – 1:30
5. "16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six" – 4:30
6. "Town With No Cheer" – 4:22
Side Two
1. "In the Neighborhood" – 3:04
2. "Just Another Sucker on the Vine" (instrumental) – 1:42
3. "Frank's Wild Years" – 1:50
4. "Swordfishtrombone" – 3:00
5. "Down, Down, Down" – 2:10
6. "Soldier's Things" – 3:15
7. "Gin Soaked Boy" – 2:20
8. "Trouble's Braids" – 1:18
9. "Rainbirds" (instrumental) – 3:05

Warm Beer Cold Women-Tom Waits

Nighthawks at the Diner ( 1975)

1. "(Opening Intro)" – 2:58
2. "Emotional Weather Report" – 3:47
3. "(Intro)" to "On a Foggy Night" – 2:16
4. "On a Foggy Night" – 3:48
5. "(Intro)" to "Eggs and Sausage" – 1:53
6. Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson) – 4:19
Side Two
1. "(Intro)" to "Better Off Without a Wife" – 3:02
2. "Better Off Without a Wife" – 3:59
3. "Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)" – 11:30
Side Three
1. "(Intro)" to "Warm Beer and Cold Women" – 0:55
2. "Warm Beer and Cold Women" – 5:21
3. "(Intro)" to "Putnam County" – 0:47
4. "Putnam County" – 7:35
5. "Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)" (Waits, Chuck E. Weiss) – 6:25
Side Four
1. "Nobody" – 2:51
2. "(Intro)" to "Big Joe and Phantom 309" – 0:40
3. "Big Joe and Phantom 309" (Tommy Faile) – 6:29
4. "Spare Parts II and Closing" (Waits, Weiss) – 5:13

Discografía

1973 Closing Time
1974 The Heart Of Saturday Night
1975 Nighthawks At The Diner
1976 Small Change
1977 Foreign Affairs
1978 Blue Valentine
1980 Heartattack and Vine
1982 One From The Heart
1983 Swordfishtrombones
1985 Rain Dogs
1986 Asylum years
1987 Frank’s Wild Years
1988 Big Time
1992 Bone Machine
1992 Night On Earth
1993 The Black Rider
1998 Beautiful Maladies
1999 Mule Variations
2001 Used Songs
2002 Alice
2002 Blood Money
2004 Real Gone
2006 Orphans

Influencias - estilo: el sonido aspero de rock de los sesentas, tono áspero inspiradas en escritores de la generación Beat, en especial Jack Kerouac y Charles Bukowski. Música que va desde el blues al tango.