Official Sites

Beautiful Maladies Site (USA)

Very nice looking site about Island's Tom Waits compilation from Polygram. Not much about Beautiful Maladies itself but some good video clips from the 'Limo Interview' and the Downtown Train and I Don't Wanna Grow Up videos.

Beautiful Maladies Site (UK)

The UK site for Beautiful Maladies includes plenty of info, a short biography, full lyrics, and plenty of soundclips.

Personal pages

Tom Waits Miscellania

Gary Tausch's extensive site exploring every crevice of Tom Wait's ouevre. Gary is friendly, passionate and approachable. A true raindog.

The Tom Waits Picture Gallery

Almost every picture of Tom that has appeared in print, or on video. As you would expect, it's graphically heavy and sometimes very slow loading. A great resource.

Harry's Harbour Bizarre

Graham's site for Tom Waits mp3's sound files. Graham has a policy of offering only songs not available anywhere else [except expensively from bootleggers] Therefore not depriving Tom of any profit. He currently has the whole of the Oakland benefit show, 2 songs from the Paris concert, and some rare studio cuts,and soon A Cold Beer on a Hot Night

Raindogs Mailing List Archives

The greatest number of serious collectors, experts, and passionate fans is concentrated on this mailing list. If you have a question about any aspect of Wait's work a search these archives usually gives an answer.

Waitstock 8

This is a very well done site dedicated to an annual gathering of Waits fans in Poughkeepsie, NY. In 1998 it will be held on October 10. Details on the site, and pics and reports of last year.

The Danish Tom Waits Society

A very nice site. Including biog and album info, quizzes, and the 'World Wide Waits', a campaign to get Tom to tour again.

Tom Waits: From Black Rider to Closing Time

A graphically superb site concentrating on the mainstream of Wait's work, but also including news and gathered comments from fans.

Frank's Wild Years: A Thesis on the Music of Tom Waits

An interesting and intellectual exploration of the deeper themes in Wait's work.

The Church of Dan

Contains an extensive Waits section with lots of pictures. Can be slow loading

Tom Waits på nettet

A Tom Waits site in Norwegian. Seems very extensive. Has good links.

Commercial sites

Wall of Sound

The Waits section of this excellent music news site

Tomography

I have a problem with this site. He is hoping to make money from his cd-rom, and smothers everything he does with his own copyright notices but he's obviously lifted most of his material from the web [including lyrics complete with formatting and typo's from the 'old' Tom Waits Digest]. Still the parts that are his own work are good, and it's a good idea, with the proviso that he doesn't rip off Tom doing it, and that he credits the originators of stuff he uses.

Allied sites

Tape Trader Network

An excellent site for Waits Completists out there. Very many people in this site's index trade Tom Waits tapes.

Leonard Cohen Fan Information Files

There is a considerable overlap between Waits and Cohen fans.

Randy Newman

Very many Waits fans also like Newman's lyrical songs. I, for one, would love to hear Tom do 'Davy the Fat Boy'

Lou Reed

Reed shares many of Waits themes on the seemy underbelly of life

The Van Morrison Website

Van the Man

KCRW

Radio Station. Including the 'Morning Become Eclectic' archives with 2 interviews with Tom. Lots of other stuff of interest too.

The Pogues: In the wake of the Medusa

One of the best sites about this great irish band much loved by many Waits afficionados.

Bob Dylan

The man who initially inspired Tom to write original songs