Big Time (live album) by Tom Waits

Big Time by Tom Waits
(Live album)
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 11,238th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 58 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (157th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,602nd)
Award Best albums of all time (11,238th)
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Tom Waits bestography

Big Time is ranked 19th best out of 27 albums by Tom Waits on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tom Waits is Rain Dogs which is ranked number 112 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,101.

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Big Time track list

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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 58 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 70.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.

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A sort of live album, all taken from different shows that fades out after each song, the sound is awful too. The only redeeming factors for Tom Waits fans are the previously unreleased tracks, the live, strange weather, which is great, and the excellent, falling down, which is the only studio recording on the album. The rest? Only for Tom Waits completists.
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