Tom Waits – Big Time (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1988

Big Time is an LP by Tom Waits from 1988 released on the Island Records label.

About this album

Big Time captures Tom Waits at his most feral and theatrical, turning late-1980s live performance into a bruising, inventive spectacle. Issued in 1988 and tied to the film and soundtrack of the same name, it draws on the sharpened songwriting and cracked humour of the Rain Dogs era, with songs such as 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, Way Down in the Hole and Time reworked for the stage. Waits’ gravel voice, elastic rhythms and junkyard arrangements give the album its distinctive bite, making it an essential document of his experimental blues-rock period and a vivid portrait of a singular American songwriter.