Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

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.

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