Tom Waits: 10 of the best

From the drunken balladeer to the Brechtian surrealist – here are 10 highights from the career of one of music’s true individualsWhat’s most remarkable about Tom Waits’s 1973 debut album, Closing Time, is just how unremarkable it is. There are some great songs, sure: the instrumental title track, and Martha, which could be a Neil Diamond tune performed by Willie Nelson, as well as Ol ’55 – covered by Asylum labelmates the Eagles – about whom Waits was publicly sniffy, biting the ha