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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.
Recorded at RCA Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, Farfisa organ, pump organ, harmonium); Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Chris Spedding, Robert Quine, G.E. Smith, Marc Ribot (guitar); Robert Musso (banjo); Ross Levinson (violins); William Shimmel (accordion); Ralph Carney (clarinet, bass saxophone); John Lurie (alto saxophone); Arno Hecht (tenor saxophone); Crispin Cioe (baritone saxophone); Hollywood Paul Litteral (trumpet); Bob Funk (trombone); Robert Kilgore (organ); Larry Taylor, Tony Garnier, Greg Cohen (acoustic bass); Tony Levin (bass); Stephen Arvizu, Taylor Hodges, Micky Curry (drums); Robert Previte (percussion, marimba); Michael Blair (percussion, marimba, congas, drums, bowed saw).
Rolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #21 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey (November 1989).
Q (10/92, p.101) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...[Waits has] thrust spiky tendrils out to the hidden corners of the continent and sucked their influences into his own bourbon-soaked worldview..."
NME (Magazine) (9/25/93, p.19) - Ranked #21 in NME's list of the `50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s.'
NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #70 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.' Rain Dogs Music | List Price | $9.95 (You save $3.46) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Experimental Rock | | Label | Island | | Orig Year | 1985 | | All Time Sales Rank |  1164  | | CD Universe Part number | 1056554 | | Catalog number | 826382 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 15, 1990 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Tom Waits | | Engineer | Robert Musso | | Recording Time | 54 minutes | | Personnel | Tom Waits - vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, Farfisa organ, pump organ, harmonium
Mickey Curry - drums
Greg Cohen - acoustic bass
Larry Taylor
Tony Garnier
Ralph Carney - clarinet, bass saxophone
Arno Hecht - tenor saxophone
Bob Funk - trombone
Michael Blair - percussion, marimba, congas, drums, bowed saw
Crispin Cioe - baritone saxophone
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Tom Waits Rain Dogs Songs Rain Dogs Music Review Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews fantastic
Music doesn't get much better than this.
A soulful experience, listen up.
Submitted by ppoons (New York, NY) 
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Masterpiece, I think together with Blue Valentine the best of Tom Waits.
Rock, blues, jazz, everything mixed up by this absolute genius, one of the album I would bring to a desert island
Submitted by Daniele (Venice, Italy)
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Very unique band, extremely good. Interesting, and I'm a metalhead.
Submitted by SkeleTim (Athens, Ohio)
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When I was a youngster, the music that spoke to me the most was Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and some of the punk stuff I was listening to at the time. I happened across the lyrics of "Clap Hands" in an issue of a "Rolling Stone," advertising the new release of "Rain Dogs: Sane Sane they're all insane, the firemans blind, and the conductors lame... "I was writing poetry at the time, and thought WOW!! what cool stuff!! The lyrics turned me on, and well, when I listened to the music, everything fit. Tom Waits is a very strange animal, covering many kinds of music, with the tribal-vibe beat of "Clap Hands," to the Banjo-accented "Gun street Girl," to the odd, dissonant, and mostly horns, "Midtown." And the song "Time," emulates lots of warm and true moments about life (at least for me.) That song almost makes me cry everytime...
What a wonderful album for anyone interested in a strange lyric, an odd tune, or an unorthodox view to a life you may or may not have had.
Anybody who has listened to the music of Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, or Bob Dylan, this CD may be a choice for you. "Rain Dogs" is a worthy listen.
Submitted by Damon (Pahrump, NV)
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A masterpiece!!! My favourite CD of ALL TIME!
If you don't have this CD, sure you 're not a fan of Tom Waits. Pick this CD and probably you will become. It is the first cd of Tom Waits I heard -some years ago- and now I have all of them! The second of Swordfishtrobones-Rain Dogs-Frank's Wild Years Trilogy, is the most representative of his work.
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After completing the famed "trilogy" that consists of SWORDFISHTROMBONES, RAIN DOGS, and FRANK'S WILD YEARS, Waits took his time following it up. At the time, it was hard to imagine what crazed, exotic sonic vistas Waits had left unexplored. Further proving the mettle of his artistry, Waits pulled a masterstroke on BONE MACHINE. Instead of trying to reach new heights, he effectively plumbed the depths, stripping his sound down to the bare essentials (hence the title). At times, he sounds like a cross between an even more avant-garde Captain Beefheart ...
| | Tom Waits Frank's Wild Years CD (1987)
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FRANKS WILD YEARS by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits had its theatrical debut with the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois on June 22, 1986.
Ostensibly a "concept" piece about the strange adventures of a ne'er-do-well named Frank, FRANK'S WILD YEARS is an album full of masterfully written songs and brilliant arrangements, whether one follows the conceptual thread or not. This final album in the loose trilogy that began with SWORDFISHTROMBONES expands upon the advances of its predecessors both in terms of hazy, dreamlike imagery and eclectic, exotic instrumentation.
Waits is nothing if not theatrical, and he plays a wide range of characters here. On the uproarious "Straight to the Top" he's a gonzo lounge singer. On "Innocent When You Dream" he's an old-world balladeer after ...
| | Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones CD (1983)
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Though Tom Waits had spent most of the '70s establishing himself as one of America's most distinctive singer-songwriters, SWORDFISHTROMBONES found him reinventing himself and creating one of the most original sounds in popular music. Leaving behind his Kerouac-influenced lyrics and lounge-lizard piano-bar stylings for an unprecedented eclecticism that merged Brecht-Weill artsong, Captain Beefheart-style avant blues, Harry Partch-inspired junkyard percussion, along with a healthy dose of everything else but the kitchen sink.
All this sonic exoticism would be for naught where it not accompanied by equally striking, arch songwriting. SWORDFISHTROMBONES moves from the Ken Nordine-style recitative ...
| | Tom Waits Mule Variations CD (1999)
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MULE VARIATIONS won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Hold On" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
Since 1993's BLACK RIDER album consisted of music written by Waits and William Burroughs to accompany a Robert Wilson play, hard-liners consider '92's BONE MACHINE to be the last "official" Waits album before the seven-year wait that ended with the release of MULE VARIATIONS. Unsurprisingly, Waits lives up to the expectations engendered by that lengthy wait. In fact, there are more stylistic threads connecting MULE VARIATIONS to BONE MACHINE than to BLACK RIDER.
The chugging rock drive of the opener "Big in Japan" (featuring Primus) recalls "Goin' Out West." "What's He Building?" is a wonderfully devilish spoken word piece a la Ken Nordine (one of Waits' heroes) much akin to BONE MACHINE's "The ...
| | Tom Waits Small Change CD (1976)
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Unquestionably the definitive recording of Waits' early period, SMALL CHANGE brings his beatnik/grifter/gruff, poetic piano man persona into sharp, defining focus. Waits' blues/jazz/'40s pop amalgam is at its most cohesive here, as he's backed by three West Coast jazz vets and an occasional (never overweening) string section. "Tom Traubert's Blues," later covered by ...
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