Rain Dogs |  | Artist: Tom Waits
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Category: Music
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 2590
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 54 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 826382
UPC: 042282638229
EAN: 0042282638229
ASIN: B000001FFJ
Release Date: May 24, 1989
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| Tracks:
| • | Singapore | | • | Clap Hands | | • | Cemetery Polka | | • | Jockey Full Of Bourbon | | • | Tango Till They're Sore | | • | Big Black Mariah - Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits | | • | Diamonds And Gold | | • | Hang Down Your Head | | • | Time - Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits | | • | Rain Dogs | | • | Midtown | | • | 9th Hennepin | | • | Gun Street Girl - Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits | | • | Union Square | | • | Blind Love | | • | Walking Spanish | | • | Downtown Train | | • | Bride Of Rain Dog | | • | Anywhere I Lay My Head |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The middle album of the trilogy that includes iSwordfishtrombones/i and iFranks Wild Years/i, iRain Dogs/i is Waits's best overall effort. The songs are first-rate, and there are a lot of them--19 in all, ranging from grim nightlife memoirs ("9th and Hennepin," "Singapore") to portraits of small-time hustlers ("Gun Street Girl", "Union Square") to bursts of street- corner philosophy ("Blind Love", "Time"). The album also contains the original version of "Downtown Train", which Rod Stewart turned into a smash hit. The image of "rain dogs"--animals who've lost their way home because the rain has washed away their scent--is an appropriate symbol for the entire cast of characters Waits has brought to life over the years, and this album has thus far proved to be his most enduring effort. i--Daniel Durchholz/i
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I heard she has a wooden leg August 13, 2006
Mike J. Wheeler (Kingswinford, England)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
This is the Tom Waits album that I keep coming back to. It was also the first one I heard many years ago and its appeal has really lasted. For anyone who hasn't heard any of Waits' music before it is also the ideal point to come in. Some of his earlier and later works ('Small Change', 'Real Gone', 'Frank's Wild Years')are much more inaccessible and require a lot of patience whilst his early stuff like 'Heart of saturday Night' is pretty unrepresentative of the bulk of his work. 'Rain Dogs' has the advantage of perfectly capturing the spirit of Waits but also being an album of very good songs. But be prepared to work at it if you are coming to Tom Waits fresh then he requires a couple of listens after the initial reaction of "What the hell is this!?!" It is wonderously atmospheric in its representation of society's dark underbelly. Waits' gravelly, liquor-soaked voice fits perfectly with the weird, carnivalesque music of tracks like "Singapore", "Rain Dogs" and "Cemetary Polka" whilst the latino-inspired "Jockey Full of Boubon" is a wonder. The lyrics throughout are simply amazing - lyrics don't come much better than "Uncle Bill will never leave a will, and the tumor is as big as an egg. He has a mistress, she's Puerto Rican, and I heard she has a wooden leg". There are just too many standout tracks here to mention, true of 'Rain Dogs' more than any other of Waits' albums. However, "Time" is simply Waits at his best musically whilst "9th and Hennepin" is him at his most poetic and evocative. Musically this album has taken virtually the entire gamut of music from jazz, blues, latin dance, rock, Cajun and American folk as its inspiration. Its beyond measure in its reach. One of the best albums ever made.
Astonishing album May 10, 2002
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is THE strangest and most evocative album I've ever heard. I agree with a previous reviewer that it does get under your skin, the melodies and lyrics, on first hearing, seem ugly and discordant, but the more you listen the more you realise just how complex, clear and beautiful they are.pThis may sound strange, but somebody should make a movie just to fit around this album...featuring seedy, foggy docksides, whaling ships, sweaty Cuban jazz clubs, hookers, cops, cigars, bourbon, tequila and steamy downtown neon-lit streets - it's all in there.
A grower, stick with it May 1, 2002
Mr. P. J. Bamford
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This has been my favourite album for the last 10 of the 15 years I have owned it - in spite of some of the more accessible tracks like Downtown Train, Gun Street Girl and Blind Love, the album as a whole took some time to really take root in me. You may not love this right from the start but give it time, it gets under your skin. The lyrics and dogged pace of Singapore is unlike anything else (who else could describe sailors' shore leave activities as "making feet for childrens' shoes"?!), to the darkness and dankness of 9th and Hennepin, the rocking track Walking Spanish, to the 3am, whisky fuelled version of Anywhere I Lay My Hat, it's going to take at least another 10 years before I get bored of this classic.
A work of unmitigated genius August 2, 2004
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
If you ever want to get an understanding of just how varied Waits is, listen to, oh, Nighthawks At The Diner... then this. This is a dark, funny, difficult, and complex work; and is, to my mind, the first time Waits really let his nightmares loose. Listen to this album, stick with, listen to it in the dark midnight, in the car, in the bath. Pretty soon, you won't want to be without it. The imagery is downright "wrong", in the same way that a Lynch film is just "wrong", you know you shouldn't watch, but before you know it, you're hooked; Singapore is damn disturbing for instance. The musicianship is awesome - the broken melody of Tango 'Til They're Sore is incredible, the whole song sounds like it's about to collapse in on you, and magically manages to make it through.pEven if you're not a full on Waits nut, this is an essential purchase for anyone interested in music, and what it can be.pBuy it now!
Twisted, dark, and humerous June 20, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A collection of dark, twisted songs about the freaky and perverted side of life. Has been described-correctly in your reviewer's opinion-as Swordfish Trombones part 2. Here though the songs are fuller and more rounded. Each song is more complete in its narrative than in the preceeding album. Rain Dogs is romanceless, romance being replaced with a sort of brothel-humour. The listner is left to drink and dance with shotgun-criminals, tattoed sailors, and gambling dwarves.
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