Tom Waits' Asylum Albums to be Reissued on Vinyl

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee and all-around badass Tom Waits is getting the vinyl-reissue treatment soon.

Rhino will rerelease Waits’ first four Asylum records on vinyl on Dec. 21. Closing Time, The Heart of Saturday Night and Small Change will all be available in stores and online for $24.98, while the double-LP Nighthawks at the Diner will be priced at $34.98.

1000 limited edition 180-gram red vinyl versions of each album will also be available on Waits’ website. You can pre-order them here.

Closing Time tracklisting:

Side One
1. Ol’ ’55
2. I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
3. Virginia Avenue
4. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
5. Midnight Lullaby
6. Martha

Side Two
1. Rosie
2. Lonely
3. Ice Cream Man
4. Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)
5. Grapefruit Moon
6. Closing Time

The Heart of Saturday Night tracklisting:

Side One
1. A New Coat Of Paint
2. San Diego Serenade
3. Semi Suite
4. Shiver Me Timbers
5. Diamonds On My Windshield
6. (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night

Side Two
1. Fumblin’ With The Blues
2. Please Call Me, Baby
3. Depot, Depot
4. Drunk On The Moon
5. The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone’s Pizza House)

Nighthawks at the Diner tracklisting:

Side One
1. (Opening Intro)
2. Emotional Weather Report
3. (Intro)
4. On A Foggy Night
5. (Intro)
6. Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)

Side Two
1. (Intro)
2. Better Off Without A Wife
3. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)

Side Three
1. (Intro)
2. Warm Beer And Cold Women
3. (Intro)
4. Putnam County
5. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)

Side Four
1. Nobody
2. (Intro)
3. Big Joe And Phantom 309
4. Spare Parts II And Closing

Small Change tracklisting:

Side One
1. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
2. Step Right Up
3. Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone with Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie)
4. I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)
5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)

Side Two
1. Invitation To The Blues
2. Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O’Clock Club)
3. Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)
4. The One That Got Away
5. Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)
6. I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)

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