Artist	Song
Tom Waits	I Want You 1:18
	Take Me Home (sung by Holly Cole) 2:22
	Heart of Saturday Night 3:53
	New Coat of Paint 3:23
	I Can't Wait to Get Off Work 3:17
	Drunk On the Moon (edit) 3:06
	Ghosts of Saturday Night 3:16
	Step Right Up 5:45
	Little Boy Blue 3:43
	Whistlin' Past the Graveyard 3:17
	More Than Rain 3:52
	Telephone Call From Istanbul 3:12
	Train Song (live) 4:30
	Black Wings (edit) 3:57
	In the Colosseum 4:50
	Goin' Out West 3:20
	Who Are You 3:20
	I'll Shoot the Moon (live) 4:31
	Get Behind the Mule (edit) 4:17
	Hold On 5:33
	Take It With Me (When I Go) 4:24

Comment:

Like the title says... The Beautiful Maladies is proabaly the best place to start for an introduction to this songwriting genius with a sandpaper larynx... This mix, in my opinion, would make a great follow-up: A smattering of his early work, a few essentials that I couldn't believe the first one missed (Train Song and I'll Shoot the Moon for example), and a handful from his the Grammy-winning Bone Machine and Mule Variations... I also threw in a version of his lovely early-period ballad Take Me Home sung by Canadian singer/songwriter Holly Cole (from her fine all-Tom-Waits-covers album Temptation)... If it seems like I all but ignored the albums Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs, it's because A) They're so essential they should be heard in their entirity, and B) Well, um, I didn't actually HAVE either of those albums handy when I made this mix... It's still a solid compilation.

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