{"product_id":"rain-dogs-vinyl-by-waits-tom","title":"Rain Dogs (Vinyl) - By: Waits, Tom","description":"\u003cp\u003eNoted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 53-minute, 19-track monster, Rain Dogs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s the aching “Hang Down Your Head,” and the moving anthem, “Downtown Train,” which was covered by Patti Smith and Rod Stewart.Waits coined the term, “rain dog,” a reference to dogs who lose their way when touchstone scents are washed away in storms. Among the lost dogs on the album: gruff, wandering merchant marines (“Singapore”), an accordion player in a slaughterhouse (“Cemetery Polka”), a “jockey full of bourbon” (also the song title), an abandoned, withdrawn woman (“Time”), a “gun street girl,” the old drunks and hustlers of Union Square, and even Waits, himself: Aboard a shipwreck train \/ Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs \/ For I am a Rain Dog, too...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 1985 on Island Records, the album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album packaging has also been restored. Rain Dogs includes tracks such as “Downtown Train,” “Clap Hands” and “Jockey Full Of Bourbon.” Available on 180g black vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLabel\u003cbr\u003e\nUSM\u003cbr\u003e\nGenre\u003cbr\u003e\nPop \u0026amp; Rock  LP - SIDE A\u003cbr\u003e\nSingapore\u003cbr\u003e\nClap Hands\u003cbr\u003e\nCemetery Polka\u003cbr\u003e\nJockey Full Of Bourbon\u003cbr\u003e\nTango Till They're Sore\u003cbr\u003e\nBig Black Mariah\u003cbr\u003e\nDiamonds And Gold\u003cbr\u003e\nHang Down Your Head\u003cbr\u003e\nTime\u003cbr\u003e\nLP - SIDE B\u003cbr\u003e\nRain Dogs\u003cbr\u003e\nMidtown\u003cbr\u003e\n9th \u0026amp; Hennepin\u003cbr\u003e\nGun Street Girl\u003cbr\u003e\nUnion Square\u003cbr\u003e\nBlind Love\u003cbr\u003e\nWalking Spanish\u003cbr\u003e\nDowntown Train\u003cbr\u003e\nBride Of Rain Dog\u003cbr\u003e\nAnywhere I Lay My Head\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Universal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50010814709953,"sku":"B0037078-01","price":57.59,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/6482\/1953\/files\/430280-Product-0-I-638917023976660995.jpg?v=1771979743","url":"https:\/\/techsupplyshed.co.nz\/products\/rain-dogs-vinyl-by-waits-tom","provider":"TECH SUPPLY SHED","version":"1.0","type":"link"}