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Tom Waits – The Heart Of Saturday Night (Remastered) (1974/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:33 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

The Heart of Saturday Night, largely dispenses with the romance in favor of poetic depictions of the same setting. The album contains the same mixture of folk, blues, and jazz as its predecessor, with producer Bones Howe occasionally bringing in an orchestra to underscore the loping melodies.

On his second album, Waits moved beyond the simple folk-rock arrangements of his debut to explore jazzier realms. Though artistically Waits was still in his infancy, it was here that he began to develop the bedraggled, chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling, beat poetry-spouting street character image that he expanded on throughout the ’70s. The arrangements are based around Waits’ voice (beginning to develop that famous rasp) and piano, supported ’50s-style West Coast jazz touches. Since Waits was still struggling through the imitation phase of his fascination with the writing of Kerouac, Bukowski, etc., some of the lyrics seem callow, but even at this early stage he could still produce gems. “The Heart of Saturday Night” (sort of a low-key sequel to “Ol’ ’55”) and the late-night lonesome blues of “Please Call Me Baby” are worth the price of entry in and of themselves.

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Tom Waits – The Heart Of Saturday Night (Remastered) (1974/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:33 minutes | 839 MB | Genre: Blues, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

The Heart of Saturday Night, largely dispenses with the romance in favor of poetic depictions of the same setting. The album contains the same mixture of folk, blues, and jazz as its predecessor, with producer Bones Howe occasionally bringing in an orchestra to underscore the loping melodies.

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Tom Waits – Small Change (Remastered) (1976/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:57 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

Backed by a jazz trio comprising of tenor sax player Lew Tabackin, bassist Jim Hughart, and drummer Shelly Manne, Waits finds the most sympathetic backing of his career to that point and creates his early masterpiece. Small Change is the home of Waits’ favorites like “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me),” the moving soldier’s ballad “Tom Traubert’s Blues,” and the manic slide-show of “Step Right Up.”

After signing with Asylum in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humour and profound longing. Nearly 40 years and several musical evolutions later, Waits’ Asylum years still hold a special place in the hearts of many fans.

Released in 1976, Waits recorded Small Change at Wally Heider’s studio in Hollywood. The album opens with ‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’, one of the singer’s most enduring songs, and features memorable cuts such as ‘I Wish I Was In New Orleans’, ‘Bad Liver And A Broken Heart’ and ‘The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)’.

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Tom Waits – Small Change (Remastered) (1976/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:57 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Blues, Rock, Jazz, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

Backed by a jazz trio comprising of tenor sax player Lew Tabackin, bassist Jim Hughart, and drummer Shelly Manne, Waits finds the most sympathetic backing of his career to that point and creates his early masterpiece. Small Change is the home of Waits’ favorites like “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me),” the moving soldier’s ballad “Tom Traubert’s Blues,” and the manic slide-show of “Step Right Up.”

After signing with Asylum in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humour and profound longing. Nearly 40 years and several musical evolutions later, Waits’ Asylum years still hold a special place in the hearts of many fans.

Released in 1976, Waits recorded Small Change at Wally Heider’s studio in Hollywood. The album opens with ‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’, one of the singer’s most enduring songs, and features memorable cuts such as ‘I Wish I Was In New Orleans’, ‘Bad Liver And A Broken Heart’ and ‘The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)’.

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Tom Waits – Real Gone (Remastered) (2004/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:03 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

Tom Waits is one of the most influential musicians in the world today, an artist who never rests on his laurels. He continues to re-invent music, push boundaries and create new sounds. On Real Gone, the up tempo tracks are some of the rawest and most kinetic he’s ever laid down…He’s never sounded like he’s had this much fun…while the ballads are among his most beautiful and even chilling at times. Real Gone also contains his first overtly political song, “The Day After Tomorrow”, a plaintive letter home from a young soldier in the middle of a war. Taken as a whole, the experience is breathtaking.

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Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:09:15 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Experimental
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

“Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards” is a limited edition three CD set by Tom Waits, originally released in November 2006. The album is divided into three sections, with each disc being a separate collection in its own. It borrows from Tom Waits’ rock sound, with the first disc being blues and rock-based, the second centred on slow-tempo, melancholic ballads, and the third on more experimental compositions. Additionally, the record contains influences of other genres, including folk, gospel, jazz and roots music. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards received universal acclaim from critics, who lauded its experimentation and composition, as well as Waits’ vocals. It was listed as one of the highest-scoring albums of the year in Metacritic, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Furthermore, it was a fair commercial success, charting in the United States Billboard 200, as well as in Australia, Switzerland and Austria, reaching the top twenty in the latter.

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Tom Waits – Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered Live) (1975/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:40 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Blues, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

A major part of Tom Waits’s mystique has always been his complex, intriguing persona; part Bukowski-esque barfly poet, part Kerouac-inspired hipster, part Hoagy Carmichael troubadour. Nowhere has that persona been more fully utilized than on “Nighthawks At The Diner”. Throughout the album waits unfurls his colorful, charismatic, artfully amplified personality. It’s like spending the evening with a lounge lizard/raconteur/beatnik standup comic who also happens to compose strikingly beautiful tunes that could have come from the Great American Songbook if not for their lyrical quirkiness. Though it would be a few more years before Waits would reinvent himself on “Swordfishtrombones”, the character who stomps through your brain on “Nighthawks At The Diner” with both guns blazing is as original and impressive a character as you could want.

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Tom Waits – Mule Variations (Remastered) (1999/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:40 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

Not much else can be said about this album other than this is Tom Waits at his best. Tom Waits is one of the most innovative artists in popular music. His singular vision embraces everything from blues to tin-pan-alley to jazz to just about anything else you can think of. Grammy winner, actor, poet, a master of the musical collage and lyrical surprise, Tom Waits is simply a giant. Mule Variations offers the most complete picture of Tom Waits of any of his albums. Edgy stomps, humor and experimentation are interspersed with some of the most beautiful and personal songs he’s ever written.

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Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine (Remastered) (1980/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:29 minutes | 782 MB | Genre: Blues, Jazz, Rock, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
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The final Asylum album from 1980 couldn’t be more different than Waits’ ’73 debut – his voice sounds like the marvellous ruin that we know and love today, the ballads remain (On the Nickel is beautiful and even Springsteen took a crack at Jersey Girl) but it’s the twisted warped blues of the title track that points the way to the extraordinary world of Swordfishtrombones.

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Tom Waits – Glitter And Doom (Remastered) (2009/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:35 minutes | 871 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

“Glitter And Doom: Live” is a live album by Tom Waits recorded during the Glitter and Doom Tour of the USA and Europe in the summer of 2008. Disc One is designed to sound like one evening’s performance, even though the 17 tracks are selected from 10 cities, from Paris to Birmingham; Tulsa to Milan; and Atlanta to Dublin. Sonically the album is superb and has been beautifully recorded and meticulously mastered. Disc Two is a bonus compendium called TOM TALES, which is a selection of the comic bromides, strange musings, and unusual facts that Tom traditionally shares with his audience during the piano set. Waits’ topics range from the ritual of insects to the last dying breath of Henry Ford.

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Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs (Remastered) (1977/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:06 minutes | 702 MB | Genre: Blues, Rock, Jazz, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

Absolutely essential. ANTI- are releasing mastered reissues of Tom Waits first seven albums, originally released through Elektra Asylum Records in the 1970’s. 1977’s Foreign Affairs takes the jazz and poetry that Tom Waits explored on his earlier albums in a more cinematic direction, foreshadowing his own breakthrough work in the 80s. Opening with the instrumental Cinny’s Waltz and featuring some new standards like Muriel and I Never Talk To Strangers, his dramatic duet with Bette Midler, this album gets into some of Waits’ most ambitious storytelling ever. Foreign Affairs also features the jazzy, colourful Jack and Neil and the sweeping, dramatic Potters Field as well as classic Waits ballads Burma Shave and Sight for Sore Eyes.

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Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs (Remastered) (1977/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:06 minutes | 902 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

Absolutely essential. ANTI- are releasing mastered reissues of Tom Waits first seven albums, originally released through Elektra Asylum Records in the 1970’s.

1977’s Foreign Affairs takes the jazz and poetry that Tom Waits explored on his earlier albums in a more cinematic direction, foreshadowing his own breakthrough work in the 80s. Opening with the instrumental Cinny’s Waltz and featuring some new standards like Muriel and I Never Talk To Strangers, his dramatic duet with Bette Midler, this album gets into some of Waits’ most ambitious storytelling ever. Foreign Affairs also features the jazzy, colourful Jack and Neil and the sweeping, dramatic Potters Field as well as classic Waits ballads Burma Shave and Sight for Sore Eyes.

Foreign Affairs is possibly Waits’ most consistently “Chandlerian” album, a series of vignettes from “dimestore novels” and “penny arcades” that could all take place in the same seedy block of skid row Los Angeles (or New York, in the case of “Potter’s Field”). Features Waits’ duet with Bette Midler on the singles-bar dialogue “I Never Talk to Strangers” and his take on his Beat predecessors Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy on “Jack & Neal.”

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Tom Waits – Closing Time (Remastered) (1973/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Anti – Epitaph

The 1973 album that introduced a young singer-songwriter to the world at large is a far cry from the wonderfully twisted sonic landscape that would define “Swordfishtrombones” a decade later. The Waits of “Closing Time” was a barroom balladeer too, but one who fit neatly into the early-’70s folk-rock, singer-songwriter paradigm (“Closing Time’s opener “Ol’ ’55,” in fact, was covered by the Eagles on their first album). The arrangements here are straightforward, piano-based affairs that present the songs with a minimum of fuss.

Waits’s voice isn’t the deep, gravelly instrument that would bellow its way through RAIN DOGS, but a smoky, measured one, devoid of artifice. Accordingly, the song structures are simpler, and the best (“Martha,” “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You”) attain a timeless feel. For all his relative conventionality on this debut, though, Waits is still closer in spirit to the great American songwriters of the ’40s than any ’70s California rocker. Listeners looking for the eccentric, carnivalesque atmosphere that typifies Waits’s work from the ’80s and ’90s will be surprised by the relative straightforwardness of “Closing Time”, yet the album announces an important talent.

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