Tom Waits’ Debut Album ‘Closing Time’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

March 3, 2023 Libby Cudmore

Waits’ debut is heart-cracked, paperback poetry set on melodies soaked in rainwater and a lonely night’s last drink. No pretentions. No sarcasm.

Celebrating 35 Years of Tom Waits’ ‘Franks Wild Years’ | Album Anniversary

August 14, 2022 Libby Cudmore

Three-and-a-half decades on, ‘Franks Wild Years’ hasn’t aged a day. It's still new and wild and fresh as a ramble of tiger lily alongside the highway.

Tom Waits’ ‘Alice’ & ‘Blood Money’ Turn 20 | Anniversary Retrospective

May 6, 2022 Brian Grosz

Both written to be soundtracks for theatrical productions, ‘Alice’ will lull you into a comfortable depression and ‘Blood Money’ will make you want to kill.

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Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

If ‘She’s So Unusual’ introduced Lauper as an explosion of personality, ‘True Colors’ asked what existed beneath it.

Casual’s ‘He Think He Raw’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With ‘He Think He Raw,’ Casual crafted a pure and unfiltered view of himself as an emcee, showcasing an underappreciated range that many listeners were not expecting.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Love And Theft’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Where ‘Time Out Of Mind’ was drenched in murky, reverb-heavy production, ‘Love And Theft’ was something else entirely: dry, warm, well-written and self-produced under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

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