Appendix 1

Waits’ Greatest Tracks: A Top 40 Countdown

40 Closing Time (Closing Time)

39 I Don’t Wanna Grow Up (Bone Machine)

38 Soldier’s Things (Swordfishtrombones)

37 Whistle down the Wind (Bone Machine)

36 Johnsburg, Illinois (Swordfishtrombones)

35 Walking Spanish (Rain Dogs)

34 Saving All My Love for You (Heartattack and Vine)

33 Jitterbug Boy (Small Change)

32 I’m Still Here (Alice)

31 Blind Love (Rain Dogs)

30 Hold On (Mule Variations)

29 $29.00 (Blue Valentine)

28 Mr. Henry (Bounced Checks)

27 What’s He Building? (Mule Variations)

26 Blue Valentines (Blue Valentine)

25 Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson) (Nighthawks at the Diner)

24 On the Nickel (Heartattack and Vine)

23 Cemetery Polka (Rain Dogs)

22 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six (Swordfishtrombones)

21 I Beg Your Pardon (One from the Heart)

20 (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night (The Heart of Saturday Night)

19 Pony (Mule Variations)

18 Ruby’s Arms (Heartattack and Vine)

17 Shore Leave (Swordfishtrombones)

16 Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (Blue Valentine)

15 Lowside of the Road (Mule Variations)

14 What Keeps Mankind Alive? (Orphans)

13 Potter’s Field (Foreign Affairs)

12 Temptation (Frank’s Wild Years)

11 Muriel (Foreign Affairs)

10 Such a Scream (Bone Machine)

9 Hoist that Rag (Real Gone)

8 Burma Shave (Foreign Affairs)

7 Ol’ ’55 (Closing Time)

6 Kentucky Avenue (Blue Valentine)

5 Heartattack and Vine (Heartattack and Vine)

4 Broken Bicycles (One from the Heart)

3 Goin’ out West (Bone Machine)

2 Take It with Me (Mule Variations)

1 Tom Traubert’s Blues (Small Change)