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Rain Dogs

~ Tom Waits
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  • Audio CD (24 May 1989)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
  • ASIN: B000001FFJ
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,534 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. Singapore 2:44£0.69
Listen  2. Clap Hands 3:46£0.59
Listen  3. Cemetery Polka 1:46£0.69
Listen  4. Jockey Full Of Bourbon 2:46£0.69
Listen  5. Tango Till They're Sore 2:51£0.69
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Listen  7. Diamonds And Gold 2:32£0.69
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Listen  9. Time 3:54£0.69
Listen10. Rain Dogs 2:55£0.69
Listen11. Midtown 1:03£0.69
Listen12. 9th & Hennepin 1:56£0.69
Listen13. Gun Street Girl 4:37£0.69
Listen14. Union Square 2:24£0.69
Listen15. Blind Love 4:20£0.69
Listen16. Walking Spanish 3:06£0.69
Listen17. Downtown Train 3:50£0.69
Listen18. Bride Of Rain Dog 1:08£0.69
Listen19. Anywhere I Lay My Head 2:47£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

The middle album of the trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs 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. --Daniel Durchholz


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Tom Waits discarded his bohemian sage persona with the radical Swordfishtrombones, and this follow-up release synthesized and developed themes from that groundbreaking album. Ever-shifting percussive textures are supported, where applicable, by horns or Farfisa organ and several guest musicians, including Rolling Stone Keith Richards, contribute to its melange. Waits' bourbon-laced voice is as riveting as ever, intoning lyrics that are, at various times, touching, evocative,sly or simply funny. His off-kilter perceptions encompass country, polkas and heart-rending ballads, each of which he expresses with consummate ease. Rain Dogs is yet another strong statement from a highly innovative artist.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I heard she has a wooden leg, 13 Aug 2006
By Mike J. Wheeler (Kingswinford, England) - See all my reviews
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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.
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18 of 18 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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5.0 out of 5 stars A grower, stick with it, 1 May 2002
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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5.0 out of 5 stars I may be young - but this is an amazing album
i admit - i am only 12 but this album is amazing! none of my friends have ever even heard of him, but i still say he is my favourite artist and that raindogs is my favourite album... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant mid-career set - My favourite Waits album
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5.0 out of 5 stars For I am a Rain Dog Too
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Published on 12 Jul 2007 by ChinaBoatMan

5.0 out of 5 stars 1st and still best
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Published on 20 April 2007 by I. Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars oh god...
One of the greatest albums of all time.. no more, no less. Its hard for me to understand why I like Rain Dogs.. Read more
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Published on 22 Dec 2006 by Mr. P. C. Miller

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the first day of the rest of your life!
This album will change your life.
I have just bought another copy as I wore out the first.

Pure genius

Buy it now.

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