Rain Dogs

Kinky Melinky

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Really getting into that album. I fell in love with early Tom Waits and found it hard to deal with the decline of his voice years back, but I heard a track off Rain Dogs the other week and it just hit me how atmospheric and just......fecking amazing the music off this album is

Listening to it right now and feel like getting locked on cheap rum or something
 
Brilliant stuff..... did you get the triple album Kinks?
 
Love Tom Waits, is he the coolest person on earth?

anyways the first album I heard by him was Real Gone, its so raw.

As for rain Dogs its a good album, Time is a great tune
 
Kinky Melinky said:
Really getting into that album. I fell in love with early Tom Waits and found it hard to deal with the decline of his voice years back, but I heard a track off Rain Dogs the other week and it just hit me how atmospheric and just......fecking amazing the music off this album is

Listening to it right now and feel like getting locked on cheap rum or something
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This is going to sound corney but I put it on for the first time in years & years only the other day. Brilliant album.
 
Loved it at the time and love it just as much now. His best album IMO.
 
One of the few artists I'd pay serious money to see in a small venue.
 
ninja_alan said:
Without a doubt one of his best albums. Singapore is a classic.
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Singapore is fecking insane

Cross your heart and hope to die
When you hear the children cry
Let marrow bone and cleaver choose
While making feet for children shoes

:eek:
 
I have just got the new album but haven't listened to it. Anyone heard it yet?
 
Eyepopper said:
Brilliant stuff..... did you get the triple album Kinks?
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Like I say I kinda got lost in 'Closing Time' and 'Heart of Saturday Night.' I just hated how his voice went, but I suppose much like how your taste in food changes over time, how I view music is in stark contrast to how I viewed it when I was 23. What I'm seeing now is his sheer brilliance to adapt or to sort of morph into something new whilst continuing to be original and not sounding like he's trying too hard.

When you listen to rain dogs you don't think 'Oh well here's Mr. Waits trying to be arty.' Rather you think 'My God this guy is so fecked up and it's manifested itself through his music.' There is something about that album that creates this atmosphere in my head. It sends my thoughts to the most bizarre of places - and that is drug free !

To have that ability is nothing short of genius.
 
Hated it on first listen as I like him best when it's just a sparse piano/voice sound and Rain Dogs is loaded with bloody trumpets and weird shit. But now and then a track off it comes on random play and I love it. Downtown Train is one example.

I might give the whole thing another listen soon.
 
Melbourne Red said:
Hated it on first listen as I like him best when it's just a sparse piano/voice sound and it's loaded with bloody trumpets and weird shit. But now and then a track off it comes on random play and I love it. Downtown Train is one example.

I might give the whole thing another listen soon.
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You know you're probably quite like me, because Downtown Train was the only one I liked when I heard it first years back. Most of the rest I thought was just too weird. In heinsight I just don't think my ears were ready to hear it. It's like forcing someone a fine red wine when they've never tasted it in their lives. They'll probably puke
 
I was 21 when it came out and despite it being very different from most of the music I was in to at the time I loved it on first listen and it grew on me from there. It has been in my top 5 albums ever since.
 
No, you can't. Ask permission first.

This isn't a feckin democracy.
 
Immense album. Tom has an unbelievable back catalogue but I think this and Swordfishtrombones from the same period are his best works.
 
Kinky Melinky said:
Like I say I kinda got lost in 'Closing Time' and 'Heart of Saturday Night.'
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In the mid 80s when I was a rampant Metallica fan I only decided to check Tom out because James Hetfield was a fan and HoSN was the album I picked. I wasn't keen at all initially so it was another few years before I discovered Rain Dogs.
 
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