Mir fällt es wirklich schwer, einen oder mehrere Favoriten für die Umfrage auszumachen.
Anbei habe ich als Anregung mal ein paar Tom Waits Fave Tracks-Listen gepostet.
Erstaunlich, wie wenig Konsens da zwischen den verschiedenen Magazinen bzw. Zeitungen besteht.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jun/10/tom-waits-10-of-the-best
(Juni 2015)
01) (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
02) Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
03) Step Right Up
04) Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
05) Heartattack and Vine
06) Johnsburg, Illinois
07) Rain Dogs
08) What’s He Building?
09) Hoist that Rag
10) Hell Broke Luce
https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-11-best-tom-waits-songs-by-brian-fallon
(März 2016)
01) Downtown Train
02) Anywhere I Lay My Head
03) Ruby’s Arms
04) Hold On
05) Down There by the Train
06) Never Let Go
07) Long Way Home
08) I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
09) Dirt in the Ground
10) Who Are You
11) Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
https://www.spin.com/2017/12/tom-waits-30-best-songs/
(Dezember 2017)
01) Take It with Me
02) Downtown Train
03) Jersey Girl
04) Kentucky Avenue
05) Martha
06) (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
07) Time
08) Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
09) Come On Up to the House
10) Jockey Full of Bourbon
11) Alice
12) I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You
13) The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
14) On the Nickel
15) Anywhere I Lay My Head
16) Hold On
17) 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
18) Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
19) Everything You Can Think
20) Cold Cold Ground
21) All the World Is Green
22) Ol‘ ’55
23) Lie to Me
24) Johnsburg, Illinois
25) Dirt in the Ground
26) Hell Broke Luce
27) What’s He Building?
28) Hoist that Rag
29) Georgia Lee
30) Way Down in the Hole
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-tom-waits-songs/voteable
(Juni 2019)
01) Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
02) I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You
03) Jockey Full of Bourbon
04) Hold On
05) Martha
06) Downtown Train
07) 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
08) Rain Dogs
09) Ol‘ ’55
10) Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
11) Singapore
12) Make It Rain
13) Goin‘ Out West
14) Shore Leave
15) (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
16) God’s Away on Business
17) Cold Cold Ground
18) The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
19) In the Neighborhood
20) Tango till They’re Sore
21) Cemetery Polka
22) Alice
23) Hang On St. Christopher
24) Step Right Up
25) Time
26) Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
27) Come On Up to the House
28) Jersey Girl
29) Gun Street Girl
30) Telephone Call from Istanbul
https://www.popmatters.com/15-best-tom-waits-songs-2495787321.html
(März 2020)
01) Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
02) (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
03) Gun Street Girl
04) Hang On St. Christopher
05) Temptation
06) Warm Beer and Cold Women
07) Downtown Train
08) Hoist that Rag
09) Jockey Full of Bourbon
10) Step Right Up
11) 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
12) Anywhere I Lay My Head
13) Goin‘ Out West
14) Hell Broke Luce
15) Just the Right Bullets
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