Tom Waits discography

This is a discography of releases from Tom Waits.

Discography

Albums

Compilations

*"Bounced Checks" (Asylum, 1981)
*"Anthology of Tom Waits" (Asylum, 1984)
*"Asylum Years" (Asylum, 1984)
*"The Early Years, Volume One" (Bizarre, 1991)
*"The Early Years, Volume Two" (Bizarre, 1993)
*"Beautiful Maladies - The Island Years" (Island, 1998)
*"Used Songs 1973-1980" (Rhino, 2001)

Contributions

*1975 "Homeplate", by Bonnie Raitt: Waits plays piano and sings backing vocals on "Your Sweet and Shiney Eyes."
*1985 "": Waits performs "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" (from "The Threepenny Opera").
*1987 "A Black and White Night": Tribute concert to and with Roy Orbison. Waits played piano and guitar.
*1987 "Smack My Crack": Compilation by Giorno Poetry Systems. Includes "The Pontiac". A two minute monologue about cars he's owned.
*1988 "": Waits performs "Heigh Ho (The Dwarfs Marching Song)."
*1989 "Sea of Love" Movie Soundtrack: Waits performs the song "Sea of Love", which played over the movie's end credits.
*1990 "Red Hot + Blue", a benefit album by various artists: Waits performs Cole Porter's "It's All Right With Me." Music video directed by Jim Jarmusch.
*1991 "Sailing the Seas of Cheese", by Primus: Waits does character vocals on "Tommy the Cat."
*1991 "Devout Catalyst", by Ken Nordine: Waits appears on "Thousand Bing Bangs" and "The Movie."
*1992 "Beautiful Mess", by Thelonious Monster: Waits appears as a guest singer on "Adios Lounge."
*1993 "Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet", by Gavin Bryars: Waits appears as guest singer.
*1993 "Born to Choose", a benefit album by various artists: features an early version of "Filipino Box Spring Hog."
*1995 "Little Criminals" soundtrack: features Waits's song, "Clap Hands."
*1996 "Dead Man Walking" soundtrack: Waits performs original compositions "Fall of Troy" and "Walk Away."
*1997 "All for Nothing/Nothing for All", by The Replacements: Waits appears as guest singer on "Date to Church."
*1999 "Antipop", by Primus: Waits produces, provides vocals, and plays the mellotron on the song "Coattails of a Deadman."
*1999 "More Oar: A Tribute to Skip Spence" by various artists: Waits covers Spence's "Books of Moses."
*1999 "Extremely Cool", by Chuck E. Weiss: Waits appears as a guest vocalist and guitarist. Waits also co-produced and executive produced the album with Kathleen Brennan, and co-wrote "Do You Know What I Idi Amin?" and "It Rains on Me."
*2000 "Helium", by Tin Hat Trio: Waits appears as guest singer on "Helium Reprise."
*2000 "Free the West Memphis 3", a benefit album by various artists: Waits performs the Chuck E. Weiss song "Rains on Me."
*2000 "Beatin' the Heat", by Dan Hicks: features Waits' original song, "The Piano Has Been Drinkin'". Waits also performs with Hicks on song "I'll Tell Why That Is."
*2001 "It's a Wonderful Life", by Sparklehorse: Waits does vocals on "Dog Door."
*2001 "Witness", by Dave Douglas: Waits is featured in the 25-minute track "Mahfouz", reading an excerpt from Naguib Mahfouz's work.
*2001 "Big Bad Love" soundtrack: features two original songs, "Long Way Home" and "Jayne's Blue Wish."
*2002 "Hullabaloo Soundtrack", by Muse: Waits reading his song "What's He Building in There" hidden in the disc's pregap. Also used as the Intro Music for the Le Zenith concert on the Companion Concert DVD
*2002 "For the Kids" benefit album by various artists: Waits performs the lullaby "Bend Down the Branches."
*2002 "Don't Give Up On Me", by Solomon Burke: features Waits' original song, "Diamond in Your Mind."
*2003 "We're a Happy Family - A Tribute to the Ramones", by various artists: Waits covers "The Return of Jackie and Judy."
*2003 "Long Gone", original song "Bottom of the World" by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
*2004 "The Ride", by Los Lobos: Waits sings on the track "Kitate."
*2004 "The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered", by various artists: Waits covers Johnston's "King Kong."
*2005 "Blinking Lights and other Revelations", by Eels: Waits screams on the track "Going Fetal."
*2006 "Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain", by Sparklehorse: Waits plays piano on the track "Morning Hollow."
*2007 "People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938", by various artists: Waits wrote the introduction for this 3 CD reissue anthology produced by Christopher King and Henry "Hank" Sapoznik (Tompkins Square Records).
*2007 "Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation" by various artists: Waits performs four of his songs with Kronos Quartet: "Way Down In The Hole", "God's Away On Business", "Lost In The Harbor", and "Diamond In Your Mind."
*2007 "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly": features one Waits song on the soundtrack, and another in the film's credits.
*2008 "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold" by Atmosphere: Waits contributes the beatbox on the track "Waitress."

Tribute albums

*1989 "Fjorton sånger - Tom Waits på svenska", Bad Liver och hans brustna hjärtan
*1990 "The piano has been drinking", Gerd Köster, in German - Cologne dialect, refer to German Wikipedia for details
*1995 "Temptation", Holly Cole
*1995 "", various artists
*1996 "Rød pust: Sven Henriksen synger Tom Waits", Sven Henriksen
*1998 "Povabilo Na Bluz (Invitation to the Blues)", Jani Kovacic (Slovenian)
*1999 "Tom Waits" from the album "Urban Solitude", by Dutch singer Anouk
*2000 "Nach mir die Sintflut – Ambros singt Waits", Wolfgang Ambros
*2000 "New Coat of Paint", various artists
*2001 "Wicked Grin", John Hammond (produced by Tom Waits, who appears on several tracks)
*2001 "Saving All My Love – A Tribute to Tom Waits", Claudia Bettinaglio [ [http://www.bettinaglio.ch Claudia Bettinaglio | Official Homepage ] ]
*2001 "Days of Roses", Delmore
*2003 "Greetings from HELL – The Tom Waits Songbook", Hell Blues Choir
*2003 "Pornoshow - Laura Fedele Interpreta Tom Waits", Laura Fedele
*2003 "Piosenki Toma Waitsa" ("Tom Waits's Songs"), Kazik Staszewski
*2005 "Being Tom Waits", Billy's Band [ [http://www.billysband.ru Billy's Band - Официальный сайт ] ]
*2005 "The Silver Hearts Play Rain Dogs", The Silver Hearts
*2008 "Anywhere I Lay My Head", Scarlett Johansson
*2008 "Grapefruit Moon", Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band

Filmography

*1978 Movie debut as 'Mumbles' in "Paradise Alley".
*1980 Worked with Francis Ford Coppola on the soundtrack to "One from the Heart".
*1981 Cameo as a bar-owner seen singing "Jitterbug Boy" from his album "Small Change" in "Wolfen"
*1982 Soundtrack of "One from the Heart". Nominated for an Academy Award for best original score.
**Played petrified man in carnival in "The Stone Boy".
**Appeared as himself in "Poetry in Motion"
*1983 Played Buck Merrill in "The Outsiders".
**Played Bennie the pool hall owner in "Rumble Fish".
*1984 Played Irving Stark in "The Cotton Club".
**Soundtrack to "Streetwise", a documentary about street kids on Pike St. in Seattle. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088196/ Streetwise (1984) ] ]
*1986 Starred as Zack in "Down by Law", which also features the songs "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" and "Tango Till They're Sore" from "Rain Dogs" .
*1987 Played Rudy The Kraut in "Ironweed".
**Played Al Silk in "Candy Mountain".
*1989 Played the 'Punch & Judy Man' in "".
**Starred as Kenny the Hitman in "Cold Feet".
**Voice of the radio DJ "Lee Baby Sims" in "Mystery Train". Composer on "Sea of Love"
*1990 Played a plainclothes police officer in "The Two Jakes".
*1991 Played Wolf in "At Play in the Fields of the Lord".
**Played a disabled Veteran beggar in "The Fisher King".
**Wrote the score of "Night on Earth" (With Kathleen Brennan).
**Played Monte in "Queens Logic".
*1992 Composer (With Kathleen Brennan) on "American Heart".
**Played Renfield in Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula".
*1993 Played Earl Piggott in "Short Cuts".
**Appeared as himself in the IFC TV series "Fishing with John".
*1995 "Earth Died Screaming" appears in the movie "Twelve Monkeys".
**"Jockey Full of Bourbon" appears in the movie "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead".
**"Innocent when you dream" and "Downtown Train" appears in the movie "Smoke".
*1996 Composer on soundtrack of "Dead Man Walking".
**Composer on soundtrack of "The End of Violence".
**"Cold Cold Ground" and "Temptation" appeared on the soundtrack to "Léolo".
**"Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" appears in the biopic "Basquiat"
*1999 "Mystery Men" – played an inventor who specialized in non-lethal weapons.
** "Goin' Out West" appears in the movie "Fight Club".
*2000 Contributed song "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" to the film "Maelström".
** Contributed song "The World Keeps Turning" to the film "Pollock".
** Contributed song "Please Call Me, Baby" to the film Keeping the Faith.
*2001 Composer on soundtrack of "Big Bad Love".
*2002 "Night at the Golden Eagle" opens to the sound of "Swordfishtrombones".
*2002 "Way Down in the Hole" is used as the title music for the second season of The Wire. Previously, the cover version of the same song by Blind Boys Of Alabama had been used.
*2003 Appeared in conversation with Iggy Pop in Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes" on the "Somewhere In California" sequence (filmed in 1993).
*2004 Composer (with Kathleen Brennan) on soundtrack of "Shrek 2". Also appears, in a shared role with Nick Cave, as an animated piano-playing Captain Hook singing "A Little Drop Of Poison".
** Contributed song "On the Nickel" to film "Mon Ange"
** "Heartattack and Vine" appears in the film "Hellboy
*2005 Played the Wanderer in "Domino". Also contributed the songs "Cold Cold Ground" and "Jesus Gonna Be Here" to the film's soundtrack.
** Contributed song "Soldier's Things" to soundtrack of film "Jarhead".
** Played himself in the 2005 Italian movie "La Tigre e la Neve" (English: The Tiger and the Snow) and contributed song "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" to the film's soundtrack.
** Contributed song "Underground" to film "Robots".
** Contributed to soundtrack of the film "The Secret Life of Words"
** Contributed songs to movie "":
***"Temptation"
***"What's He Building?"
***"Straight To The Top (Vegas)"
***"God’s Away On Business"
** Contributed music including "Innocent When You Dream" to Jessica Yu's documentary "Henry Darger: In The Realms of the Unreal".
*2006 Played Raphael Kneller in ""
*2009 To play The Devil in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"

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