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Rain Dogs

Tom WaitsMP3 Download
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
Price: £5.49 (VAT included if applicable)
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  • Original Release Date: 2 Jan 1995
  • Format - Music: MP3
  • Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
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Play   2. Clap Hands 3:46 £0.59  Buy MP3 
Play   3. Cemetery Polka 1:46 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play   4. Jockey Full Of Bourbon 2:46 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play   5. Tango Till They're Sore 2:51 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play   6. Big Black Mariah 2:43 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play   7. Diamonds And Gold 2:32 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play   8. Hang Down Your Head 2:31 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play   9. Time 3:54 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 10. Rain Dogs 2:55 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 11. Midtown 1:03 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 12. 9th & Hennepin 1:56 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 13. Gun Street Girl 4:37 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 14. Union Square 2:24 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 15. Blind Love 4:20 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 16. Walking Spanish 3:06 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 17. Downtown Train 3:50 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 18. Bride Of Rain Dog 1:08 £0.69  Buy MP3 
Play 19. Anywhere I Lay My Head 2:47 £0.69  Buy MP3 
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  • Original Release Date: 2 Jan 1995
  • Release Date: 2 Jan 1995
  • Label: Mercury Records Limited
  • Copyright: (C) 1985 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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  • Total Length: 53:39
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  • ASIN: B001R95L0M
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,734 in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 in MP3 Albums)

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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I heard she has a wooden leg 13 Aug 2006
Format:Audio CD
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. (10/10 - I've loved this for years, I still do)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A grower, stick with it 1 May 2002
Format:Audio CD
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.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing album 10 May 2002
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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.

This 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.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars A great slumming album that doesn't leave a bad smell on your clothes
I don't think that I can sum up Tom Waits 9th studio album any better than Garry Mulholland does in his quixotic Fear Of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk And Disco. Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars Good place to start
Tom Waits is a bit of an acquired taste but this record is an excellent place to start, once acquired you will have no regrets.
Published 1 month ago by C. M. Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Good buy, very good service and great product. Received it very quickly, extremely well packed. Cannot fault it in anyway. Good company to deal with.
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Terence Collins
5.0 out of 5 stars Exclusively remastered
Island Records originally released this in 1985.

The item offered (which is an "exclusively remastered 180 gram audiophone vinyl pressing"), was released in 2011 by... Read more
Published 15 months ago by C. X. Linton-Willoughby
5.0 out of 5 stars £3.99?!
Hard to think of an album with 5 better opening tracks and that's not to say that these 5 are necessarily the best on the album. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Golactico
5.0 out of 5 stars Blown Away!!!
Downtown Train was my first introduction to Tom Waits as is so many other people, it was on the strength of this one song i bought the album, "Bloody Hell, what an album". Read more
Published 19 months ago by zippy boi
5.0 out of 5 stars probably waits's best album
the middle of the trilogy that best defines tom waits the artist, this is generally regarded as his best album. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Biffer Spice
5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece
Yet another 5 star review! An album of staggering variety, wild invention & scarcely a weak track to be heard. Read more
Published 19 months ago by oldhasbeen
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Six stars'
The follow up to 'Swordfishtrombones' but even better ,takes you to some strange places & introduces you to some interesting characters . Read more
Published 20 months ago by D. S. Sample
5.0 out of 5 stars Through the yellow windows of the evening train
"We sail tonight for Singapore,
We`re all as mad as hatters here"

So begins Tom Waits` eighth album, in a mood & manner that barely lets up till the exhausted last... Read more
Published 21 months ago by GlynLuke
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