Big Time
by Tom Waits
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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 113 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,450.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Big Time track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Big Time rankings
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Big Time ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 01/03/2026 11:27 | liquidbottle | 385 | 88/100 | |
| 12/31/2025 08:14 |  MadhattanJack | 5,700 | 66/100 | |
| 11/07/2024 16:42 | cicadelic | 12,298 | 73/100 | |
| 04/19/2024 02:32 |  ScrumpyArbuckle | 1,131 | 78/100 | |
| 09/30/2023 11:27 |  Liedzeit | 2,365 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 70.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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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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