Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
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Free Music Review: The Best O' Waits?
Hit: 5 Stars
It's incredibly tough to choose, but this is probably my favorite Waits disc. It combines some of the more out-there crazy sh-t, like Rain Dogs, with the more melodic ballad-y strain of his songwriting, songs like Hang Down Your Head and Downtown Train (great song, even if Mod Rod had a hit with it).
Other highlights include Gun Street Girl, a story song that, although it doesn't follow a strictly linear path, adds up cumulative detail very powerfully and sends a powerful message. I'm not sure what it means or why, but I will never kiss any women that hail from any street called "Gun", and Walking Spanish (a phrase that actually means something, it's not just a "Waits-ism"...)...
And let me not forget another pair of absolute stunner songs: Tango Till They're Sore and Jockey Full of Bourbon.
It seems that a lot of the essential stuff from the Waits canon resides on this here LP!
Free Music Review: Cause I'm a raindog too
Hit: 5 Stars
A friend of mine from the UK used to say: "The vast majority of good bands in rock-music come from British Isles, but the US compensate it all just by having Tom Waits". America's greatest musician and poet with perpetual laryngitis has created numerous masterpieces none of which duplicates another in any way. RAIN DOGS combines a very broad range of songs and moods as well as accompanying musicians (from Keith Richards to Greg Cohen). The lyrics is wonderful and the music enters your mind right away. If you had started your acquaintance with TW listening to his early albums (CLOSING TIME, HEART OF THE SATURDAY NIGHT,SMALL CHANGE) you can now appreciate how much he expanded the boundaries of the musical space for his stories since early 70's. Two of the songs from this album are used in a movie by Jim Jarmusch "Down By Law" where TW plays one of the main characters. Having this album is a must.Free Music Review: "The rain sounds like a round of applause..."
Hit: 5 Stars
These songs are unforgettable. Waits is a master of evoking bitter, desperate nostalgia for a past in which none of us have (gratefully) lived...He manages to incorporate many forms of American (and some European) folk musics into his tales, and lyrics are fascinating--they seem to be couched in old-world slang of hobos and sailors and hustlers, a code for which the translation book has been lost...The spare arrangements are augmented by all kinds of percussion, stopping short of the kitchen sink...But the songs are the center, and they are at once hook-laden, sad, humorous, and hopeful. A few moments are transcendent: Marc Ribot's guitar solo snaking throughout "Jockey Full of Bourbon" is a frightening telegraph from some deserted and rusty 1940s dance hall...The sound-collage behind Waits' recited prose-poem "9th and Hennepin"...The drunken despair (and then Dixieland hope) of the closing track. One of the 1980s best.Free Music Review: I am a Rain Dog too
Hit: 5 Stars
I was married with a cassette of "Rain Dogs" in my pocket. The marriage lasted 12 years, but the impact of Tom Waits' finest work lives on. There are many reasons why "Rain Dogs" is so special; The variety of mood and tone, the vivid imagery, the balance of humor and pathos are among them. But the most unique thing about it to me is the fact that everyone I know familiar with "Rain Dogs" has their particular favorites. "Singapore", "Time" and "Downtown Train" are most often cited, but I've heard praise singled out for many others. I am myself, a huge fan of "Jockey Full of Bourbon", "Tango Till They're Sore" and "Gun Street Girl". The singing throughout is vintage Waits and so incomparable, while the woozy carnival of music alternates between down and dirty and rootsy dignity. For those unfamiliar, or even put off by Tom Waits' personae, this is the perfect introduction, as well as being his most enduringly fine work.Free Music Review: Incredible
Hit: 5 Stars
Rain Dogs epitomizes, think-throated, eccentric singer/songwriter, Tom Waits' ability to absorb any musical styling or seemingly random amalgamation of stylings and from it produce something uncannily wild. This excellent 1985 album is a cycle of mummbly, sad luck-country ("Time," "Blind Love"), explosive blues growlers ("Union Square," "Big Black Mariah"), ghostly night-folk ("Clap Hands," "Gun Street Girl"), and miscellaneous ("Anywhere I Lay My Head," "Singapore"). Throughout this absolute trip of an album, there is never a moment that seems at all forced or exaggeratedly artsy. It sounds as if spectacles such as the shaky wordplay and broken-keyboard twinkling of "9th and Hennepin" and horn-section jumble of the instrumental, "Midtown" are perfectly customary in the warped world of Mr. Tom Waits. Rain Dogs displays one of music's most astonishing mad geniuses at the height of his power.