Any Tom Waits Fans?

I am a big fan. Amazing, unique voice. A great gift for metaphor. So many of his songs create both aural and visual images that listening to him is like experiencing synesthesia. Here is my current Tom Waits playlist:

Black Wings
Dead & Lovely
Green Grass
Swordfishtrombone
Sins of My Father
Way Down in the Hole
Jesus Gonna Be Here
How's It Gonna End

I seriously need to get Swordfishtrombones. That's one I don't have. I'm always looking for a clean copy when I go to record shows. And I agree, Jax2, Small Change, and Rain Dogs are absolute classics. I too have Orphans on CD. Bend Down The Branches is worth the price of the CD alone.

I'm a big fan. A great poet. If Dylan is a journalist, Waits is a cinematographer.

Big fan. Saw him at Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta. Probably late 70's. One of the best shows I've ever seen. He did 5 encores.

Heck, yeah. Best show I EVER saw was Waits at the Fox in Atlanta on his Glitter and Doom tour...the coolest crowd, too. He started an hour late, but when he started, it was like nothing I'd ever heard. His band was killer too. Utterly effortless and relaxed sound like none of them were working. This show I later found out was recorded in its entirety for NPR's All Songs Considered, and it's a jewel.