Tom Waits 
The best album credited to Tom Waits is Rain Dogs which is ranked number 112 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 11,441.
Tom Waits is ranked number 46 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 33,442.
Tom Waits official website: http://www.tomwaits.com
- See also:
- Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle
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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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Tom Waits best tracks
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| 48 hours ago | bonnequestion | 401 | 71/100 | |
| 03/30/2026 01:37 | thedudeabides | 12 | 78/100 | |
| 02/28/2026 15:06 | zsolti | 218 | 81/100 | |
| 06/13/2025 18:07 | Invader666 | 337 | 71/100 | |
| 02/28/2025 20:19 | pago82 | 1,378 | 67/100 |
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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 84.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.7/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 17.4.
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Unhinged
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.
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.
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.
Onater 01/26/2019 22:02 | #230702
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.
SaulCortes1992 01/10/2019 22:21 | #229472
BETTER THAN BOWIE
Fischman 12/09/2018 21:45 | #226643
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Brad1770 01/08/2018 12:11 | #204982
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One of the greatest voices ever.
Onater 01/07/2017 02:50 | #181925
Paladasiac, if that's a ruined voice, I don't want to hear an intact one.
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