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Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Audio CD

A fair review of the Tom Waits "Rain Dogs" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Tom Waits reviews here, or go back to the Tom Waits tabs.

Tom Waits Band: Tom Waits
Title: Rain Dogs
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Release Date: 1990-06-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Singapore 2: Clap Hands 3: Cemetery Polka 4: Jockey Full of Bourbon 5: Tango Till They're Sore 6: Big Black Mariah 7: Diamonds & Gold 8: Hang Down Your Head 9: Time 10: Rain Dogs 11: Midtown [Instrumental] 12: 9th & Hennepin 13: Gun Street Girl 14: Union Square 15: Blind Love 16: Walking Spanish 17: Downtown Train 18: Bride of Rain Dog [Instrumental] 19: Anywhere I Lay My Head

Quirky Fun
The poetry is fabulous. I learned of Tom Waits in the last year and thought "where have you been all my life?"

This album is great, quirky fun. Some of the songs carry me away somewhere while others have me bouncing around, giggling and smiling like a ten-year old girl. The only one Waits song that could make this album more perfect would be the addition of Step Right Up.

I must warn Waits newbies that this is musical-art, not anything like you'd find in the Top 40. My fiance (a top-40-phile; poor dear) HATES this album with a flaming passion. He looks like he wants to claw his own face off every time I put it on, he also hates The Red Elvises, it's sad really.

If you like things like experimental jazz and non-linear poetry I think you'll really adore this album. If you think Casey Kasem is god's gift to radio, you'll probably want to skip this one.


A Beggars Banquet
It didn't leave my cassette player for 3 weeks. I remember buying this for myself on my 21st birthday. That was 18 years ago.
I would still, and probably always will, rank this in the top 10 albums ever made.
It's hard to imagine another album as diverse and creative as this.
I've tried to introduce others to this masterpiece over the years, with only one real success that I can recall.
Most just return the disc (of course, I replaced the tape eventually) and look at me like I have 3 heads.
That this is a work of genius there can be no doubt, but it is certainly an acquired taste.


A Masterpiece!
"Anywhere I Lay My Head" is my favorite Waits song period. What can I say about this album that hasn't already been said? It's filled with whiskey-drowned pirate-esque tunes (and even a few pretty balads).


Start with this one.
The best, most consistent Waits album I've heard, and a defining marker of his sound. I don't have much to add to any of the extant reviews. This was the one I started with, and the one you should too. The songs on the second half of the album (especially the ballads) had to grow on me, but they're well worth it. Waits is an extremely versatile musician and composer.


One of Tom"s best!!
A top tenner!! A true mid-course career album, where Tom pulls it all together(following Swordfish"s musical turn-around). This is vintage Waits. Certainly, one of my favorite Tom Wait"s masterpieces. A Gem!!@!@.


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