Tom Waits United States

The best album credited to Tom Waits is Rain Dogs which is ranked number 108 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 13,195.

Tom Waits is ranked number 46 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 36,769.

Tom Waits official website: http://www.tomwaits.com

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Tom Waits best albums

The following albums by Tom Waits are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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1985
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13,191
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1983
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1973
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1992
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1999
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1976
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1,474
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1974
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1,389
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1978
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1,120
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1987
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985
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2011
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Total albums: 22. Page 1 of 3

This may not be a complete discography for Tom Waits.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

Tom Waits bestography composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 0 0%
1970s 6 0%
1980s 6 0%
1990s 7 0%
2000s 6 0%
2010s 1 0%
2020s 0 0%
Compilation? Albums %
No 21 81%
Yes 5 19%
Live? Albums %
No 22 85%
Yes 4 15%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 25 96%
Yes 1 4%

Tom Waits best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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2.
Rating: 88 (156 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Closing Time)
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Rating: 88 (136 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album Closing Time)
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Rating: 88 (283 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Rating: 88 (282 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Rating: 88 (165 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Swordfishtrombones)
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Rating: 88 (278 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Rating: 87 (251 votes)Comments: 5
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Rating: 87 (248 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Rating: 87 (277 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Rating: 86 (259 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Rating: 86 (69 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Franks Wild Years)
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Rating: 86 (140 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Swordfishtrombones)
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Rating: 86 (36 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Real Gone)
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Rating: 86 (237 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Rating: 86 (104 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Bone Machine)
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Rating: 86 (261 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album Rain Dogs)
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Tom Waits ratings

Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 178 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 86.0/100, a mean average of 84.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.6/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 17.5.

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From 01/23/2024 03:12
Not my cup of tea.

IMO, his voice is awful, it sounds like he smoked the entire Marlboro factory and downed it with 75 litres of whiskey. His cadence is laughable, it's all over the place in this cringey, folsky, fake blues sort of way.

Just my opinion.
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From 04/22/2022 04:15
I'm hearing a whole lot along the lines of, "I don't get it" in here. What, are you listening to him in your car? With headphones? Get a good sound system and a bottle of something strong. Give each album a couple listens each with the lyrics out.

He's absolutely got to be the single most underrated artist on here.
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From 05/08/2020 11:37
Tom Waits is a truly fantastic artist. Regardless of the decade or the genre, Waits produces music of a consistently great quality, while making each and every song unique but instantly recognisable as one of his. Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs are two of the best albums of the 80s, and I'm yet to hear a Tom Waits album that I dislike.
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From 01/26/2019 22:02
I don't know if there's a single other artist with the same emotional range as Tom Waits. He can send me from laughter to tears to feeling like the coolest person in the world to feeling like I need to take a shower within the span of a couple songs.
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From 01/10/2019 22:21
BETTER THAN BOWIE
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From 10/09/2017 17:08
One of the greatest voices ever.
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From 01/07/2017 02:50
Paladasiac, if that's a ruined voice, I don't want to hear an intact one.
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From 03/23/2016 19:45
Superb, a one off . . . Nothing else needs to be said
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