Rain Dogs - Tom Waits [CD]

Noted as Tom Waits' most critically acclaimed album, 'Rain Dogs' follows the new musical path Waits had taken with 'Swordfishtrombones'. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with 'Swordfishtrombones' and 'Franks Wild Years', 'Rain Dogs' is the first of Waits' albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute, 19-track monster album is a kind of mutant, late 20th century musical 'Canterbury Tales' with a shape-shifting band. There are banjos and marimbas and bowed saw and parade drum and howling horns (and Keith Richards and Marc Ribot) on this rollicking, rough-hewn opus - and Waits, using his voice in increasingly weird-and-wild ways. The songs are stories, sagas, laments, breakdowns, character studies, comedies and cabaret numbers.

Disc 1
1. Singapore - Tom Waits (2.45)
2. Clap Hands - Tom Waits (3.49)
3. Cemetery Polka - Tom Waits (1.47)
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon - Tom Waits (2.47)
5. Tango Till They're Sore - Tom Waits (2.52)
6. Big Black Mariah - Tom Waits (2.44)
7. Diamonds and Gold - Tom Waits (2.33)
8. Hang Down Your Head - Tom Waits (2.34)
9. Time - Tom Waits (3.56)
10. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits (2.57)
11. Midtown (Instrumental) - Tom Waits (1.03)
12. 9th & Hennepin - Tom Waits (1.57)
13. Gun Street Girl - Tom Waits (4.38)
14. Union Square - Tom Waits (2.25)
15. Blind Love - Tom Waits (4.20)
16. Walking Spanish - Tom Waits (3.07)
17. Downtown Train - Tom Waits (3.53)
18. Bride of Rain Dogs (Instrumental) - Tom Waits (1.10)
19. Anywhere I Lay Head - Tom Waits (2.48)