	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Underground full track	2:00	68,908
2	Shore Leave full track	4:19	57,547
3	Dave The Butcher full track	2:20	35,115
4	Johnsburg, Illinois full track	1:35	54,427
5	16 Shells From A 30.6 full track	4:33	10,005
6	Town With No Cheer full track	4:29	39,769
7	In The Neighbourhood full track	3:07	8,731
8	Just Another Sucker On The Vine full track	1:47	29,676
9	Frank's Wild Years full track	1:53	54,615
10	Swordfishtrombone full track	3:08	44,104
11	Down, Down, Down full track	2:16	42,066
12	Soldier's Things full track	3:24	43,674
13	Gin Soaked Boy full track	2:24	41,192
14	Trouble's Braids full track	1:18	25,060
15	Rainbirds full track	3:14	27,959

About this album

Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1983. It was the first album that Waits produced himself and is marked as such by a sense of artistic freedom that would increasingly characterize his later work.

Stylistically different from his previous LPs, Swordfishtrombones moves away from the piano and string orchestra arrangements of the late seventies replacing them instead with unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract songwriting approach.

Swordfishtrombones peaked at #164 on Billboard’s Pop Albums and Billboard 200 albums chart.

In 1989, Spin Magazine named Swordfishtrombones the second greatest album of all time.

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Rain Dogs
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Closing Time
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Bone Machine
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Mule Variations
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DeeViant1 wrote:
November 2009

music is about many things. easily.

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Idrinkperiods wrote:
November 2009

this is better than raindogs, easily

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Toperametal wrote:
November 2009

O melhor cantor vivo do Planeta Terra e também o mais criativo.

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retardedcore wrote:
October 2009

BEST.

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FootToFace wrote:
October 2009

it's music, it doesn't have to be about anything

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JPolito wrote:
September 2009

Not sure what the hell this album is about, but I like it.

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TheShoveller wrote:
August 2009

Rain Dogs is better, but just barely.

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FootToFace wrote:
August 2009

i've started to like this one a lot more recently.

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Arkistomies wrote:
August 2009

My favorite from Tom Waits, better than Rain Dogs.

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Ackibear wrote:
July 2009

A beautiful album, regardless.

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WhichOneIsPink wrote:
June 2009

Mule Variation , Hearthattack and Wine , rain dogs , swordfishtrombones and of course Franks Wild Years are the best , cant say which one of these is the only winner ;) but hell ! Bone Machine is awesome to ;)

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dee_k7 wrote:
May 2009

Bone machine, rain dogs and this are great

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KumZlatko wrote:
May 2009

This album is nice but I like Bone machine more...

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Fjallman wrote:
April 2009

I know I'm late, but I just bought this and it's my very first Tom Waits record. And it is surprisingly great already

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digitalvelcro wrote:
April 2009

They're all great.

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Marlow22 wrote:
April 2009

I agree with waitsfan79; Raindogs is awesome and as excellent as Swordfishtrombones.

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waitsfan79 wrote:
March 2009

I disagree. Raindogs is superior in my opinion.

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Skwert wrote:
February 2009

This is much better than Rain Dogs, only Real Gone is better than this.

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Ithidet wrote:
January 2009

I love them all.

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sabrage wrote:
November 2008

So good. I fucking hate In the Neighborhood and Town With No Cheer, though. No offense.

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