Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Remastered)Tom Waits · 2006

pitchfork

8.4

“This 3xCD box set is compartmentalized into style-segregated discs and features 30 new songs alongside a smattering of outtakes, soundtrack cuts, and other rarities.”

rollingstone

8.0

“When Tom Waits claims he doesn’t know why he called this three-CD set Orphans, he’s being cagey. Orphans obviously began as an outtakes collection — unreleased work tapes plus old soundtrack, tribute and benefit tracks. Only then, Waits, painfully aware that odds-and-sods projects were lame, decided to fill in some blanks with new songs, couldn’t […]”