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Vinyl collectors have another batch of reissues ahead: the first four albums by rock icon Tom Waits.

The distinctive singer-songwriter – recently nominated for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – will have his first four albums for Asylum Records reissued by Rhino on December 21. Additionally, Waits’ own online store is selling limited edition sets of each album on red vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies each.

Reacquaint yourself with the track lists to these unique albums after the jump.

Tom Waits, Closing Time (Asylum SD-5061, 1973)

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
7. Rosie
8. Lonely
9. Ice Cream Man
10. Little Trip to Heaven (on the Wings of Your Love)
11. Grapefruit Moon
12. Closing Time

Tom Waits, The Heart of Saturday Night (Asylum 7E-1015, 1974)

1. 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
7. Fumblin’ with the Blues
8. Please Call Me, Baby
9. Depot, Depot
10. Drunk on the Moon
11. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)

Tom Waits, Nighthawks at the Diner (Asylum 7E-2008, 1975)

Disc 1

1. Opening Intro
2. Emotional Weather Report
3. Intro/On a Foggy Night
4. Intro/Eggs and Sausage (in a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)
5. Intro/Better Off Without a Wife
6. Nighthawk Postcards (from Easy Street)

Disc 2

1. Intro/Warm Beer and Cold Women
2. Intro/Putnam County
3. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
4. Nobody
5. Intro/Big Joe and Phantom 309
6. Spare Parts II/Closing

Tom Waits, Small Change (Asylum 7E-1078, 1976)

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 Ste