Tom WaitsBest Tom Waits Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
48
Opinions
25
Albums
10
Reviewers
Summary from 48 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Tom Waits’s catalog across 25 albums from 48 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Tom Waits album is Rain Dogs (1985) with a 8.8/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by Alice (Anniversary Edition) and Closing Time (Remastered). The discography on Rate.fm spans 1973 to 2022. Hold On ranks as the highest-rated Tom Waits song on Rate.fm with a 6.0/10 average.
Rain Dogs
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the singer-songwriter’s inimitable 1985 album, a romantic and carnivalesque masterpiece imbued with the avant-garde sound of New York.”
Mule Variations (Remastered)
“I once took a poetry workshop taught by a guy called Ed Dorn. You may have heard of Ed Dorn. He's a fairly famous guy, as poets go, and he's written his fair share of well- known poems. The first day of Dorn's poetry workshop consisted of him delivering a sometimes scathing and mostly nonsensical monologue that veered from Roman aqueducts to the Russian poet Akhmatova to indigenous North African p”
Alice (Anniversary Edition)
“The abundance of elder tunesmiths keeping it real is enough to make a youngster want to move to an assisted-living community in Florida, get his hobble on, and stand behind a screen door in a cardigan yelling, "It's my soccer ball now!" Let's check the oldometer's current readings: **Still Kind of Mildly Half-Cool, In a Way:** David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Robert Pollard, Jagger/Ri”