Rain Dogs (2023 Remaster) by Tom Waits on Album Whale

This album has been added to 2 private lists and 9 public lists:

1985

James

The album feels assembled from overheard stories, broken machinery, and rhythms dragged in from different continents. Songs like “Clap Hands” and “Jockey Full of Bourbon” move with strange, lopsided momentum, while “Time” and “Downtown Train” reveal how carefully structured the writing actually is beneath the grime. Tom Waits turns junkyard textures into orchestration, using percussion and silence as deliberately as melody. What lingers isn’t the eccentricity—it’s the surprising tenderness hidden inside all that rust and noise.
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PL

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Erikoista tarinaniskentää. Tulee mieleen joku Addams Family tai Saksikäsi Edvard. Siisti ääni Waitsilla kyllä on.
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Neil Hopkins

The title track refers to those dogs who are lost and confused after a storm because all of their familiar scents have been washed away. The opening of this album is a little like that, with the first couple of tracks feeling a little bit more restrained and downbeat, making this album a slow burn. However it swiftly picks up, with Rain Dogs on side 2 being a standout for me.
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