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| 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 And Gold |
| 8. Hang Down Your Head |
| 9. Time |
| 10. Rain Dogs |
| 11. Midtown |
| 12. 9th And Hennepin |
| 13. Gun Street Girl |
| 14. Union Square |
| 15. Blind Love |
| 16. Walking Spanish |
| 17. Downtown Train |
| 18. Bride Of Rain Dog |
| 19. Anywhere I Lay My Head |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
How good is this album? Let me tell you...,
By Sierra Wilson (Rhode Island) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rain Dogs (Audio CD)
It is rare for any lyricist to pen a verse as good as "Make sure they play my theme song I guess daisies will have to do/Just get me to New Orleans and paint shadows on the pews/Turn the spit on that pig and kick the drum and let me down/Put my clarinet beneath your bed 'til I get back in town/Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair." It is even rarer for such a brilliant poet to give life to his words by means of a truly authentic, ravagedly bluesy voice. Rarely does anyone approach the genius displayed by Tom Waits on the epochal "Rain Dogs."Waits functions almost like a sponge for every style of American music of the last century; you can hear within the howling, sepia tones of his roughened voice the distant echoes of blues, jazz, ragtime, folk, country, and old school rock 'n roll. Yet for all of his homage to roots music, Waits displays a creative cunning and adventurousness that is seldom seen among singer-songwriters. Take, for example, his adroit use of percussion backdrops--never does he take the easy way out and use a simple drum pattern, opting instead to craft a pulsing rhythmic collage that drifts unsettingly beneath an array of icepick guitar (courtesy of Marc Ribot and, in some places, Keith Richards) and bar-room piano. Such an approach only hints at Waits' unique genius and his seemless mastery of American music. It is hard to determine whether Waits' acute lyrics or his soulful, wounded voice merits more praise; the former are so complex and beautiful ("And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train/You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away/And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget/That history puts a saint in every dream") that they often leave me speechelss, while the latter imbues these words with a grizzled character and the tangible feeling that every scene and every character that escapes from Waits' mouth is just as real and just as colorful as he claims it is. Named for dogs that lose track of their scent in the wake of a rainstorm, "Rain Dogs" is stained with feelings of broken love and bluesy lament; you can almost see Waits sitting at some street corner in the middle of a gullywasher, strumming a guitar and beating a conga whilst bestowing wisdom and pure poetry. The blue and somber and tones of this album ebb and flow brilliantly with Waits' more whimsical moments ("Uncle Vernon, Uncle Vernon, independent as a hog on ice/He's a big shot down there at the slaughterhouse/Plays accordion for Mr. Weiss"), and the result is nothing short of one of the absolute best albums of all-time. You may never find a finer emotional chronicle than "Rain Dogs," whose lyrics read like timeless epistles to everyone who has ever suffered a broken heart.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quintessential,
By vidar (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rain Dogs (Audio CD)
I would like to be Tom Waits for five minuits, just to experience what it's really like to be so shamelessly brilliant. "Rain Dogs" is unquestionably one of Waits' best albums (not that he has ever made an even mediocre one), and it's on my list for the 10 best albums ever made. This is the one to choose if you want to introduce Tom Waits for a newcomer. First time I heard music from the album was at a cinema, watching Jim Jarmush's magnificent "Down by Law". It goes without saying that film is a must see for fans of Tom Waits, not just because he has a prominent role in it, but because the atmosphere of the entire film fits the universe of Tom Waits like a glove. Seventeen years later, I never get tired of listening to "Rain Dogs". An album like this one is simply more than our sad world deserves.
5.0 out of 5 stars
choose wisely the first time and eventually you'll want everything he's done....,
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This review is from: Rain Dogs (Audio CD)
after reading some of the reviews, I realized that the problem is,his stuff is quite diverse from album to album, so it ends up being a matter of personnal taste (unless your tastes run from one end of the spectrum to the other, in which case anything you buy of his will be a score) And personnally, I like everything Tom Waits has done. But if you're relatively new to him (maybe you've heard a song or two and you're looking for more of the same?) then definately investigate everything he's done to figure out which is best for you (i.e. you've heard some raw, folky-ballad-type stuff and you'd like more of that, then get "Small Change". If what you've heard so far is a different, jazzy-noisy-funky-bazaar mix of sounds that you can't quite define but you want more of that, then get "Swordfish Trombones")For some, I think it matters which album you pick up first because it could effect your opinion of him (again, depending on what your preferences are) and it would be a shame if you chose wrong and dismissed him as someone you didn't like. You'd miss out on an awful lot. I believe he's done something for everyone and he's done it well every single time and I believe if you choose wisely the first time, you'll fall in love with his sound and eventually want to buy it all anyway... Having said all that, I think this album is fantastic and I think it's diverse enough within itself to please everyone on some level. I've had it since it came out and I still play it often; it does not get old, ever. Buy it, and you won't be dissappointed, at the same time, investigate all his stuff and treat yourself with more than JUST this one.
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