Just stumbled across the Observer Music Monthly and this:
In the first of an occasional series in which the greatest recording artists reveal their favourite records, Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished albums of all time.
The check-list:
- In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra (Capitol) 1955
- Solo Monk by Thelonious Monk (Columbia) 1964
- Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart (Straight) 1969
- Exile On Main St. by Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones Records) 1972
- The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars (Point Music) 1975
- The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan (Columbia) 1975
- Lounge Lizards by Lounge Lizards (EG) 1980
- Rum Sodomy and the Lash by The Pogues (Stiff) 1985
- I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen (Columbia) 1988
- The Specialty Sessions by Little Richard (Specialty Records) 1989
- Startime by James Brown (Polydor) 1991
- Bohemian-Moravian Bands by Texas-Czech (Folk Lyric) 1993
- The Yellow Shark by Frank Zappa (Barking Pumpkin) 1993
- Passion for Opera Aria (EMI Classics) 1994
- Rant in E Minor by Bill Hicks (Rykodisc) 1997
- Prison Songs: Murderous Home Alan Lomax Collection (Rounder Select) 1997
- Cubanos Postizos by Marc Ribot (Atlantic) 1998
- Houndog by Houndog (Sony) 1999
- Purple Onion by Les Claypool (Prawn Song) 2002
- The Delivery Man by Elvis Costello (Mercury) 2004
