Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985)

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985)

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Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

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Side one

1. "Singapore"   2:46

2. "Clap Hands"   3:47

3. "Cemetery Polka"   1:51

4. "Jockey Full of Bourbon"   2:45

5. "Tango Till They're Sore"   2:49

6. "Big Black Mariah"   2:44

7. "Diamonds & Gold"   2:31

8. "Hang Down Your Head"   2:32

9. "Time"   3:55

Side two

10. "Rain Dogs"   2:56

11. "Midtown" (instrumental)   1:00

12. "9th & Hennepin"   1:58

13. "Gun Street Girl"   4:37

14. "Union Square"   2:24

15. "Blind Love"   4:18

16. "Walking Spanish"   3:05

17. "Downtown Train"   3:53

18. "Bride of Rain Dog" (instrumental)   1:07

19. "Anywhere I Lay My Head"   2:48

Total length:   53:46

Tom Waits Band Members / Musicians

Tom Waits – vocals (1–10, 12–17, 19), guitar (2, 4, 6, 8–10, 15–17), organ (3, 19), piano (5, 12), harmonium (8, 18), banjo (13)

Michael Blair – percussion (1–4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17), marimba (2, 7, 10, 12), drums (8, 14, 18), congas (4), bowed saw (12), parade drum (19)

Stephen Hodges – drums (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16), parade drum (3)

Larry Taylor – double bass (1, 3, 4, 6, 8–10, 15), bass (7, 11, 14, 16)

Marc Ribot – guitar (1–4, 7, 8, 10)

"Hollywood" Paul Litteral – trumpet (1, 11, 19)

Bobby Previte – percussion (2), marimba (2)

William Schimmel – accordion (3, 9, 10)

Bob Funk – trombone (3, 5, 10, 11, 19)

Ralph Carney – baritone saxophone (4, 14), saxophone (11, 18), clarinet (12)

Greg Cohen – double bass (5, 12, 13)

Chris Spedding – guitar (1)

Tony Garnier – double bass (2)

Keith Richards – guitar (6, 14, 15), backing vocals (15)

Robert Musso – banjo (7)

Arno Hecht – tenor saxophone (11, 19)

Crispin Cioe – saxophone (11, 19)

Robert Quine – guitar (15, 17)

Ross Levinson – violin (15)

John Lurie – alto saxophone (16)

G.E. Smith – guitar (17)

Mickey Curry – drums (17)

Tony Levin – bass (17)

Robby Kilgore – organ (17)

Tom Waits – Record producer

Robert Musso – engineer, mixing (1–16, 18, 19)

Tom Gonzales – recording

Dennis Ferrante – recording

Jeff Lippay – recording, mixing (17)

Howie Weinberg – mastering

Peter Corriston – art direction

Anders Petersen – photography (front cover)

Robert Frank – photography (back cover)

Rain Dogs is the 9th studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York City, Rain Dogs is generally considered the middle album of a trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years.

The album, which includes appearances by guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot, is noted for its broad spectrum of musical styles and genres, described by Rolling Stone as merging "Kurt Weill, pre-rock integrity from old dirty blues, [and] the elegiac melancholy of New Orleans funeral brass, into a singularly idiosyncratic American style."

The album peaked at number 29 on the UK charts and number 188 on the US Billboard Top 200. In 1989, it was ranked number 21 on the Rolling Stone list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s." In 2012, the album was ranked number 399 on the magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".