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“Back In the Crowd” by Tom Waits
From the album Bad as Me (2011)
“Back In the Crowd” by Tom Waits appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2011. It was first released in 2011 on the album Bad as Me. Its best result is #21 on the WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #86 indie & aaa song of 2011.
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"Back in the Crowd" came out in 2011 as the second single from Bad as Me, Tom Waits' 17th studio album, and it's a sweet, swaying thing: a midtempo ballad with a Latin lilt that Waits himself pitched as an old-fashioned jukebox number for slow dancing with your sweetheart. He wrote and produced it with his wife, Kathleen Brennan.
The guitars do the talking. Los Lobos' David Hidalgo, who also adds percussion, and longtime collaborator Marc Ribot play alongside Waits, with Casey Waits on drums and James Whiton on double bass, and Karl Derfler recorded and mixed. Reviews ran mostly warm: AllMusic's Thom Jurek heard a wasted lover's plea steeped in West Texas mariachi, and Paste's Luke Larsen found its mood infectious even as it drifts in and out in no time at all.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | WRSI 93.9 The River Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA | WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011 | 93 |
| 2011 | 62 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 | 100 |
| 2011 | 48 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011 | 90 |
Also listed as: Back In The Crowd.
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