Rain Dogs

Ihan ok, ei erityinen.

Cantautor americano con voz profunda, a ratos parece que contando relatos. Algo rítmico y con pocos instrumentos.

Simply brilliant. And the best proof of that brilliance is when you listen to the whole album on a loop around 5 times and it's still as exciting and bizzare. The range of sounds that fit in these songs is amazing: it's circus, it's blues, some random noise, it's all world's strangeness cramped together.

Didn't enjoy this as much as the other Waits album.

If Heartattack and Vine was a 4, this is a reasonably solid 5 for me; it elevates from "good" to "excellent". Standout tracks are the title track and Downtown Train, but the whole thing is pretty great.

Perfection. You could do a remake of nightmare before christmas with this as the soundtrack

No one can explain to me why Tom Waits is such an influence on other musicians, and no one can explain the benefit of his "music" if this album is indicative. I'm not surprised he hasn't had commercial success.

Two Tom Waits albums in a row. Give me a break.

This album is so damn good.

3.5

Like listening to a really shite Leonard Cohen song. I hope Tom is still waiting. Utter tripe.

One of these Tom Waits albums is going to completely grab me to the point where I'm going to stand up and scream, "I get it" like Tony Soprano did while dropping acid in the desert. Maybe I just need better acid, but we're getting closer.

tasty, twangy folk(?) This had enough to day that I could have an opinion on it, much preferred to the recent string of pop

Not a big Tom waits guy in finding out

I didn’t know what to expect, but this surprised me. It wasn’t horrible, but it’s not something I’d willingly listen to.

Fabulous!

Take every undesirable yet attractive thing you read in a dime-store pulp novel and throw it into a pot stirred by an unshaven vagabond, and you get this bourbon-soaked album. Mad hatters and beat poets doing the polka on this postcard mailed from desolation row.

This album may not be something I would sit down and listen to on the reg but the musicianship and weirdness of it all is fantastic. Lyrics are also fantastic.

This is WILD. How have I not listened to Tom Waits yet?! Overall this is what I LOOOOVE about American music - detailed storytelling, varied styles, honest and raw songwriting, and generally unapologetic storytelling. It feels like the audio equivalent of seeing someone switch costumes and characters in a deeply interesting way. 5/5 stars

I love some Tom Waits, it feels like if steampunk was a music genre. It isn't something I'd want to listen to everyday but from time to time I get down with the weird vocals and gritty music.

Tom Waits is not for me.

Interesting. Brilliant. Standouts: Time, Downtown Train, 3.5

If I could give this album a million stars I would. This album FUCKS! I do not care if people find Tom Waits voice off putting or "bad"; NOTHING else can bring out the beauty of the ugly world than those vocals. Favorite tracks: Fucking all of them.

Tämmöne juopporokki vähä vituttaa. Osa biiseistä ok.

Vakava känni_äiä_ukko uuh. Ei vaan jaksa.

I dunno, it's okay I guess and I respect Mr. Waits, but I don't think I'll be returning to this one willingly.

I hate that this album was so good. Not a fan of Waits in any way, until now. This album builds and builds. The first two tracks sound like hot garbage but then the rest settles in to groovy backwoods burlesque. The first tracks make sense now too. The real star is the production that somehow made Tom's spitting and farming into the mic sound great

I really want to like this because it's so interesting, but I can't lie to myself.

Wow that was an odd one. This album sometimes feels more interested in being quirky than it is being, well, good, but it’s a legitimately interesting brew of jazz and blues and rock with an unmistakable mood and approach. Lyrics are strange but help build the seedy old-school America atmosphere, and the same goes for Waits’ warbly roar of a voice. I didn’t enjoy it much, but I appreciate it. Best song: Tango Till They’re Sore

So last Tom Waits album, I didn't really get it. The gravel doesn't lend itself well to general music. This album? Perfect. It's a character actor voice. Here he plays a character on every song and it's genius.

Some interesting sounds and songs.

I still think he sounds constipated and he's really baring down on that shit while singing at the same time.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Stupendous.

A lot of charter not very catchy

I like this album but I grow tired of the fake-drunk carnival singer.

This shit has to stop - he's probably worse at singing than Roger Waters, but at least Roger Waters can write a tune...no more Tom Fucking Waits

Tom Waits is not really for me. But I liked this more than some of his other stuff.

I love this. I don't know why but I do.

3.5 definitely. such an awesome sound from the 80s

I had a lot of trouble and turnoffs with this guy. Most of all the vocal performance, sounding like someone who just ate about an ashtray worth off cigarettes. But also the general sound they go for in the songs. It’s too I don’t know, dark, grim, jazzy, I didn’t connect with the sound unfortunately. 3 out of 10

Wonderful album. Not immediately catchy, sometimes not even melodic. But the lyrics are wonderful, TW's voice is perfect for them, and you want to listen to it again tomorrow.

4.25

I like to listen to a Tom Waits song every now and then…. This was a lot. A difficult listen.

When the first song started my reaction was "....what?". And to be honest I think this fits more like a soundtrack to a movie, rather than something to put on and listen to as a typical album. Despite this I think it took me on an interesting journey. Really made me picture being on an old steamboat at dusk at the turn of the last century, in some tropical place, hanging out with various dubious people playing cards and smoking cigarettes. So even though this might not be something I would just put on and listen to, I still enjoyed it for what it was and I'm glad I heard it. But due to this it's also hard for me to rate it much higher than 3 since I wouldn't say I "liked" it as I usually like 4 star albums.

I once ha a nightmare involving riding the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride at Disneyland, it sounded like this. Honestly it's a great eclectic album. Come for the experience and stay for the amazing "Downtown Train" towards the end. Love the weirdness and the bluesy songs.

Weird album but that's Tom Waits for ya

Surreal and wild as he ever was, Waits does what Waits does here. Talk about someone accessing their true creative core and channelling it into the world without any distillation or sugarcoating. Waits isn't someone burdened by the shackles of what others think or commercial appeal, he just sends his art out into the world and come what may. I wouldn't call myself a fan, but it is nice just knowing that he exists. I have the utmost respect for the method to his madness and the truly one-of-a-kind artistry of him.

Decent 3

I reckon this is a voice you either love or hate. Can’t say I’m a fan. As a note, I don’t like marmite either.

Not a fan

Haven’t listened much of Tom Waits before and most likely won’t listen after this album either

Listened Before? N Super interesting and eclectic. I’m familiar with some of his later work but never listened to the records that made him known. This one was, I felt, a bit weird but very artistic in a good way. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Jockey Full Of Bourbon

I didn’t hate it, but it’s a bit too vaudeville and goofy for my tastes. I can definitely see that it has a time and a place but none of it stands out as something I’d regularly return to.

Another interesting Tom Waits album. It sounds abrasive, sometimes barebones, but still lush in its presentation. I can totally feel and see the image of the dark and dirty corners of a busy city. Wanted to rate this a 3 initially, but now that I see how many songs I saved in a playlist, I'm considering a 4. It's making me feel something at least. + Clap Hands + Cemetery Polka + Tango Till They're Sore + Rain Dogs + Midtown + 9th & Hennepin + Gun Street Girl + Blind Love + Walking Spanish + Bride of Rain Dog

I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. This album is kind of if a pirate met the Dr. Demento. I'm not sure what they were smoking on Midtown.

veldig rart og minne litt om kaizers innimellom

Håpe detta e siste album av Waitsebassen?

Not my favourite of Tom's but it contains some of my favourite songs!

Yet another classic!

Какая-то хрень

Such a unique and quirky record. I adore some of the songs on this raucous beast of an album.

Not really a fan but it was at least interesting.

Creative mixture of stuff...all over the place. Poet like Cohen and sometimes reminded me of Springsteen. His voice raspy was sometimes hard to listen to. I really liked about half of this album. It would have been great if they left off the other half.

Scatterbrained in the best way.

This whole goddamned town is ready to blow.

My fifth and final Tom Waits album. I can't believe this guy got so much space. I just don't get it. I didn't hate this as much as the other albums, but he still got super annoying in a lot of tracks. Never going to listen to him again.

Sehr experimentell

Top Tracks: 1. Time 2. Downtown Train 3. Blind Love

I thought this was class. Great music, fun lyrics.

Chuck berry meets peaky blinders. Love it

Weird and wonderful

Can't stand his voice

Fantastic. All the way around. Creative songwriting. Original, gritty, clever. Love it!

Couldn’t take this album very seriously. It sounded like novelty music. I get why some people may like it and it’s experimental sound, but I hated it

So many eclectic styles in one album. Some people hate his voice. I think it’s quite cool. Just can’t stand the tracks with the extremely 80s saxophones and the carnival style songs.

Not into it.

So weird. Loved it!

The problem is, he just sounds like the Cookie Monster, and I can't get that image out of my head....

Waits- I love the album cover- great photo. Not Tom Waits in the picture but it looks like him! Started off really not into it and then liked it it more as it progressed. “Any where I lay my head down” may be my favorite and “Singapore” and “Cemetary Polka” I did not like. I like the vibe and sound of the record. Cool instrumentation I like the sound of upright bass paired with the bangs and clangs of trashy sounding drums and percussion. Marc Ribots guitar is super cool. Two of my favorites are“hang down your head”and “downtown train “ . I was thinking they sound like they could be Bruce Springsteen songs- their singing and songwriting can seem so similar to me even with the differences stylistically. The instrumentals “Midtown” and “bride of rain dogs”are cool “Blind love”is great too. Tough one to rate I really loved a lot of it but also really disliked some of it too. 4-4.5?

This was so much fun to listen to. Definitely coming back to this. The harmony is so wild, unhinged at times. I like fun street girl, big black Mariah, jockey full bourbon and tango a lot.

Tom Waits is so cool. Favorites were Tango Till They’re Sore and Diamonds and Gold. Not a 5 in the real world but a 5 for this project.

Tom Waits is definitely an acquired taste, but after a while, you'll be glad you tried it. Especially good when accompanied with whiskey.

Picture it. All of the deadbeats, dirtbags, hustlers, scoundrels, down-and-outs of New York City have fallen down a plughole into the fires of Hell. They try and crawl their way back up, circling the drain, gathering grime. The ghost of a Puerto Rican mistress with a wooden leg… Napoleon weeping in a carnival saloon… a crumbling beauty with tattooed tears… all of them are our Rain Dogs. Their plight is related- sometimes with scorn, sometimes with sympathy- by the voice of our ringmaster, the Devil himself, Mr Tom Waits. Soaked in bourbon, grime and kerosene, his voice might be an acquired taste for some, but I can’t imagine any other performing these songs. Waits’ storytelling in “Rain Dogs” is among the most captivating I’ve ever heard, with astounding lyricism and some fascinating turns of phrase. Every line is a painting, but here are some of my favourites… “Steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans” “Outside another yellow moon has punched a hole in the nighttime” “You’re east of East St. Louis And the wind is making speeches And the rain sounds like a round of applause” On the page they’re intriguing, but with the music they really come alive. I’ve known few other albums which diverge so much stylistically, yet retain a crystal-clear singular vision. The slow, menacing crawl of “Clap Hands”; the demented cabaret of “Rain Dogs”; the Springsteen-esque “Hang Down Your Head” and “Downtown Train”; the fiddling country ballad “Blind Love”. All of them are absolutely wonderful and there’s not a single track I dislike, but if pushed for the best of the best, I’d single out “Clap Hands”, “Jockey Full Of Bourbon”, “Time”, “Union Square”, “Downtown Train”, “Anywhere I Lay My Head” as the all-time standouts. Marc Ribot should also be singled out for fantastic and unpredictable contributions on guitar, and Keith Richards for fantastic and predictable ones. When I first heard Rain Dogs some years ago, I had no idea what to make of it. Then the more I listened over the next few months, the more it fell into place until it became an all-time favourite. It’s a rough and slippery ride into the gutter, but stick with it… there’s beauty in these ghosts.

clap hands

This is one of the best and wildest albums out there! I Fucking love Tom Waits and his strange and unusual ways. Everything he does seems like people would tell you to do the opposite but he absolutely crushes it. An absolute psycho and I’m here for it! 10/10

Very odd but likeable. A much needed palette cleanser after John Coltrane.

Þetta er eitthvað. Flottur hljóðheimur og stemning, en ég er ekki alltaf í stuði fyrir þessa stemningu. Kannski við fimmtu hlustun.

It was a nice listen. Sometimes I lost interest, and sometimes his voice was a bit much for me, but I still liked it. A solid three. My favourite song was Hang Your Head Down.

Hang Down Your Head Time Gun Street Girl Downtown Train 4/19 Only liking 4 of the 19 tracks may be unfair. I cannot say I’ve actually actively listened to Tom Waits before today. I knew he existed but couldn’t name anything by him. Listening to this makes me want to explore his music more. It’s weird and quirky. I’ll give this 3 stars but it’s more like 3.5.

Singapore sounds so much like Colonel Hathi's March from The Jungle Book that I actually looked up whether or not Tom Waits was part of the soundtrack. Anyway back to this album. Same as it ever was for him: gritty singer singing over non-gritty instrumentals. I hate his voice, and I mostly like the background. There did not need to be 3 (and counting? 😩) albums of his in this exercise.

You know how special it is to experience something *new* as you start to get older? How those experiences become more and more rare and you keep chugging along? When you get to experience something for the first time that accompanies actual surprise and delight? This is one of those times.

What a surprise. How do I love this rough voice so much? The kind of album you could always hear something new in.

You can smell the cigarettes and bourbon on this album. Hence the song Jockey Full of Bourbon which was a standout along with Union Square. Waits knows when the songs have run their course which is a lesson Bob Dylan doesn't understand. Not every song is good and it is slightly uneven but it's a decent listen and I'm willing to explore more Tom Waits.

Ok so turns out I really like Waits’ music & voice. I’m so glad I listened to this one.

So good

Love Tom Waits.

In my top 100

We start off with Singapore, and I'm scratching my head about whether I'm listening to Danny Elfman singing as Jack Skellington. Interesting. Clap Hands sounds a bit more familiar as the raspy, "what the hell did you do to your vocie" blues style I'd imagine from Waits. Cemetery Polka runs straight back to Nightmare Before Christmas, however it is also very clearly where the Squirrel Nut Zippers picked up La Grippe from, and Jockey Full of Bourbon carries on as their inspiration for "Hell". More nice raspy blues stuff. Until Rain Dogs, where he turns in The Cookie Monster. Blind Love is unfortunately country-ish. The last trick is "Anywhere I Lay My Head" where Waits transmogrifies into Bobcat Goldthwaite. It's hilarious. Obviously I'm going to have ding a point for the country venture, but I absolutely love Cookie Monster so it'll still be a high rating.

Its interesting, but not my thing. Nothing really stoodout to me, sometimes reminding me of like an Addams Family or Tim Burton soundtrack.

literally my favorite album ever. where do i even begin?

4.5

Välillä tuntui parodialta mitä on humalassa veistelty. Levyllä oli mielenkiintosia kohtia jotka piti mielenkiintoa mutta ei kestänyt loppuun

Yeah really good man, liked the differing styles ans wild eyed stories. Ive failed to dig to Tom to date despite friends recomendations but yeah man, rocked.

Demands and rewards repeated listens, it's the veey opposite of background music

Great moody swathes. Lyrically interesting, but like good classic poetry I feel like it needs undivided attention. I'm going with 4 stars because it seems like an objectively good album, despite the fact I wasn't really appreciating it.

Hadn't listened to any Tom Waits before. It was alright, like. 3.5

Another Tom Waits album. I think this is the last one on the list (thankfully). This one has a number of songs that felt more like tone poems. There are a few times I can feel Waits channeling that inner Springsteen, and then there are those songs where things kinda go to crap. Instrumentals like "Bride of Rain Dog" felt like they didn't really go anywhere because they were so short. They were more of an interstitial thing. Doubtful many people pick those as their favorite tracks on the album. After listening to 5 different albums of Tom Waits, I can't say I'm a fan. I respect his work in that it is so different from the stuff I listen to, but his voice is just so... toneless and animalistic. Very growly. I need a melody in there somewhere, and he just can't seem to carry it from song to song. I never know what to expect. So, yeah. Still not a big fan, although I probably would pick this one amongst the others I have heard if I had to say which one I liked most. But that's REALLY not saying much.

Sorry Tom, I thought you and I had something going there. And then the first track Singapore opens sounding super weird and a lot like the album Swordfishtrombones (which I did not like) - complete with slide whistles and me thinking he sounds like the Cookie Monster again. I've softened on old Tom so even at the second song Clap Hands I thought not bad. But it was a constant yo-yo of weird and decent, with a few real strong tracks - Big Black Mariah (very rocking, I guess thanks to Keith Richards), Hang Down Your Head and Time (both beautiful, and the former sounds like Downtown Train, which is his best), and Downtown Train (others sing it better, but his lyrics and composition are beautiful). And that's one thing with Tom Waits, his lyrics are always top notch. I'd love to see all of his albums redone by strong vocalists just to hear those words come to life with a soothing voice. Anyway, I won't give it a 2 but I can't give it higher than a 3.

This is the fourth Tom Waits album I'm reviewing. For every other one, my first few listens had me deciding whether it should be a 1 or 2 and my last few listens had me deciding between a 4 and 5. This time I decided to skip those first couple of listens and go right to the ones where I like it. Right from the start my reaction was, "Here we go!" "Singapore" sounded like it would make a good Primus song. Really liked "Clap Hands." Very cool song. "Jockey Full of Bourbon" sounds like it belongs in a Quentin Tarantino movie. Tango Till They're Sore got me thinking "He's so weird, but I dig it." Love "Time" - it's an absolutely beautiful song. "Rain Dogs" sounds like it belongs in a Tim Burton movie. Really liked "Blind Love" - it's a case where his voice suits the music (same with "Walking Spanish"). "Downtown Train" was a surprise - I had no idea he wrote it and performed it before Rod Stewart. Don't know what it says about me that I like Tom Waits' version better. The last track "Anywhere I Lay My Head" was definitely pushing how far I can handle his voice, though. I'm giving it a 4 for the same reason as the others - weird stuff, but I continue to dig it.

Very intriguing album but too much for me to process with just one listen. Not like anything I have heard before with it's changes in styles and disgusting (but great) vocals

Listening to this album feels like being smacked in the skull with a sack of bricks. I don’t know what kind of debauchery is being described, but the entire first half of this album just makes me feel dirty. The second half was a lot easier to enjoy, as it was more traditional. I believe it was good. Lyrics were incredible. He was gifted with a very unique voice. Wide range, original chord progressions, and structure was nice. 4/5

Dear reader, when I saw that my album today was "Rain Dogs" by Mystery Men star Tom Waits, I was less than enthused. I tried to listen to a Tom Waits song a few years ago ("Chelsea Hotel?" Is that a Tom Waits song? An album? Was it on some sort of Christmas song list? Hmm, I should Google that), and I hated it. His gravelly voice was an immediate turnoff for me. But I listened to this album anyway, and I gotta say, I was a fan. I really love what Waits was doing with this album: a concept album about the "urban dispossessed" of New York City. From my adolescence on, New York City has been a major tourist destination, a major city that even the most suburban family can enjoy and feel safe in. But before it became that city, it was dirty, grimy, and dangerous. I remember seeing New York City in movies like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Big, and Home Alone 2, and the place looked depressing and grim. And that's exactly what Waits captures here. The music is raw and the lyrics are weird, but everything is incredibly well executed. The natural sounds that Waits uses really transport you to the New York that he knew and experienced. If anything, this feels like a New York City version of a folk album. "Hang Down Your Head," "Time," "Midtown", and "Rain Dogs" were all outstanding. I grew up listening to Rod Stewart's version of "Downtown Train," and I was ecstatic to see that Tom Waits's original version was on this album, and his gravelly voice really gave a desperate feel to the song, a complete shift in tone from Stewart's cover (fun fact: my grandfather always said that Rod Stewart sounded like he got his voice from a bottle of Drano). It's safe to say that I loved this album, and my opinion on Tom Waits has completely shifted (okay, so "Chelsea Hotel" is Leonard Cohen. What the hell Tom Waits song did I listen to?).

This is just odd. The music. The lyrics. The vocals. Just odd.

Interesting but ultimately not as much fun as I thought

In it's entirety, it's not a bad album. Tracks such as "Time" and "9th and Hennepin" were good; however, I've felt that Tom Wait's voice is definitely an acquired taste. I would probably revisit a few tracks from this album on my own.

One of my favorite Waits records. Wish I would've given him a chance years ago.

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Uniquely odd voice. Grew on me. Sometimes sounded like Mr Krabs singing the greasy spoon song. But it grew on me. Liked it by the end. Long album. Guy could sing old north wind from over the garden wall

I still don't know what to make of Tom Waits. I know I said this last time, but I still need more time to form an opinion. I feel like I SHOULD like this, but I just wasn't feeling it today. And let’s be honest, I probably never will.

Unique, very enjoyable, played it to death years ago, haven't listened for a while so good to give it another listen.

Everything but the lyrics kicked ass. Lyrics did not fit at all. Awesome hearing bass marimba in rock though.

This is a yard sale of albums. A random assortment of junk with a couple scratched up gems mixed in.

Really not sure what to think of this album.

Heftige greier!

I must admit that I really only listen to his more popular songs, so this was a nice dive.

Great, different, but it could totally grow on me

I like the funk. This album with the New Orleans influences really spoke to me. I felt like this was the musical equivalent of House of Leaves, it was experimental, and a piece of art. It was spoken poetry one moment and uptown funk the next. It gave me feelings of Audrey Hepburn and then jazz parades, after that, I was turning a corner into a noir film. The next moment I was met by the deep bass voice that ran through the album keeping it coherent and gave the entire thing a flow. All in all I absolutely loved it for the work of art that it is, it filled me up, and didn't let me down. 35/20 bananas. 5 stars.

I love this album so much. It is in my favorite top 3 Tom Waits albums. When I first started listening to Waits around 2001, I wasn’t mature enough to enjoy his piano ballads. Now that I have aged like a fine carton of milk, my soft middle-aged brain/heart accepts every note Tom has ever recorded. Over 20 years ago, I used to skip tracks like Blind Love, but now it feeds my soul. I still get plenty of joy out of the weirdo favorites like Jockey Full of Bourbon and Clap Hands, but hearing songs like Anywhere I lay My Head and Blind Love is what I look for when I put on a Tom Waits album these days. If you like Tom Waits, there is a better-than-a-good chance we would get along. More Waits, please! 6 out of 5 stars.

Great voice, great songs, a brilliant album all-round.

I'm giving it five stars because I was super surprised how much I liked this. It's weird, there's polka, there are highs and lows. But it runs a little long and starts to feel a little more bluesy than I care for at the end. Never mind, I'm giving it four stars.

Loved this - wasn't at all what I was expecting.

Whenever I listen to Tom Waits it just makes me want to read his poetry instead. Can't really get into this one with his vocals over "carnival" style songs.

Rock experimental. La voz de Tom Waits me flipa. Un 4.

Love it!

Barely got through one listen

It’s crazy gruff pirate bullshit interjected with some of the most poetic little grumbles. Like a diamond forming in a quarry run by goblins

With rasping lyrics and idiocentric beats, Rain Dogs is a weird little album. Every song has a different vibe, some of them will enter my every day rotation but some had me tempted to skip.

This album just feels so random. And a little piratey at times? It’s definitely cool and musically very interesting. I just probably won’t ever listen again. It is an interesting auditory exercise.

Interesting lyrics and many tunes had a circus like vibe. His gritty voice is unique but I’ve never really seen the appeal for his music overall

Nah player , take it on the road with the circus . One song was sweet and made me feel something. Nexttttttt

1/4 songs is fine and the rest was retarded carnival music, basically unlistenable.

strange sounded like children’s film music a lot of the time

Wierd music

Weird...

Great

Tom Waits for no one. On his most popular (?) album, the second installment of a trilogy that is bookended by Swordfishtrombones and Frank's Wild Years, Tom simply allows you to make a choice of whether you want to follow him down his eclectic rabbit hole or just observe from afar. Either way, the ride is just as thrilling as it is fluctuating in whatever the listener's tolerance lies. Of course, there is a heart beating somewhere in the surface and it will take one by surprise by how much the guard had been let down and that things would be smooth sailing from there on. But, knowing the artist in question, no such thing is the case. Whether one likes it or not, there is no denying that there will never be an artist quite like Tom Waits and Rain Dogs is indicative of that. Favorites: Clap Hands, Jockey Full of Bourbon, Tango Till They're Sore, Big Black Mariah, Diamonds and Gold, Hang Down Your Head, Time, Rain Dogs, Gun Street Girl, Union Squarw, Blind Love, Downtown Train, Anywhere I Lay My Head.

Instrumentally, this sounds like Pretty Hate Machine-era Nine Inch Nails mixed with the Myst soundtrack. I love that. I think I've finally determined that the reason I can't get into her music is the vocals though. I just don't like her singing at ALL.

Don’t get the hype.

I actually quite liked this one. Favourite tracks: 'Cemetery Polka', 'Big Black Mariah', 'Gun Street Girl'. 4/5

beautiful album, my wife is al over 30 years fan of Tom Waits, for me he has his moments. I like his deep voice, but sometimes i have the feeling, he comes right from the pub. In this album he reaches his top level.

Not for me

Fucking clown music

New Orleans. Gothic. Fairy Tales. Blues. Great lyrics.

3 1/2

Don't think I'll ever be a Waits fan, but this is certainly the most listenable thus far.

Singapore and Cemetery Polka are awesome, but they rest is very mediocre.

Listened to on 2/22/23 3/5 Favorite song: Downtown Train This album was like strange, spooky Halloween music but was also wildly entertaining and very unlike most of the music I’ve listened to

I haven't enjoyed most of the Tom Waits albums I've listened to on here, but this turned out to be an exception. It's definitely Waits, but it's less indulgent and more accessible than his later works. PS

Strange music, but also kind of fun.

I've always meant to listen to a Tom Waits album but always had trouble getting into it. Kind of difficult to listen to initially but I started to really enjoy it by the end.

Wasn't a fan of this

вообще не понимаю Тома Уэйтса

My favorite of his

160 records in and one thing I know for certain now is that I’m a Tom Waits convert. This the third of his albums that I’ve been generated, and along with Bone Machine it’s a classic. His style is a unique and chaotic barrage of mawkish noir cocktail bar ballads and bluesy mopes against a generally bizarre musical backdrop of pianos, guitars and the occasional marimba. When you’ve settled into the surrealist confines of Rain Dogs, he throws you a downright pop gem like “Downtown Train” tinged with his sardonic witticisms and that utterly iconic voice. There was a time when I would have found an album like this utterly ridiculous. Throughout its run time it throws up constant surprises and musical jolts that it can almost seem like lunacy. But really, this is just Tom Waits. And I happen to love it now.

Unique voice, but I just can't get over the feeling that he is putting this all on. So cannot wholeheartedly enjoy this

God, this album goes so hard. Yes. Fuck yes, Tom.

I was really surprised by this because I have made my disdain for Tom Waits pretty clear but this album was actually pretty fun. I think it's more of a high 3 than a 4 but it's still the best Waits album I've gotten so far (and hopefully no more unless they're like this). I liked gun street girl and the rest of it had a kind of unique fantasy blues kind of vibe.

Really interesting and super weird.

Delightfully weird and unique.

Garbage. Like all of Waits stuff. Only voice worse is Bob Dylan

A little too werid for me.

Too gruff. Though I like him as an actor.

Ok not my style

Really good album. Great voice and lyrics. Enjoyable all round

Oui! Un vrai choc. C'est bizarre mais merde c'est beau. Au moins je ne me serai pas lancé dans ce bazar pour rien : j'aurai au moins découvert cet album

gleb might be waiting but i think tom arrived on time. 3.5

gleb waits. gleb waits for some good music. gleb listens to rain dogs. gleb still waits.

I enjoyed this but it isn't something I feel is listen to repeatedly.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: not really, felt and sounded like just a lot of nothing really? Favourite song: didn’t have one

Only two songs I'd ever listen to again.

Singapore? WTF. Clap Hands? OK, this I like. The rest? I don't know. What is Midtown doing there after a song where Tom Waits tries to sing like a dog? What a wild ride.

A bit off the wall but i really just can't stand his voice so it was a struggle!

Somehow I really like this 4

Not for me, too experimental

Escuché el primer tema y se me vino a la cabeza instantáneamente la parte de Robots que están en el deshuesadero. Y claro, es un tema del mismo chabón (busquen Underground de Tom Waits). Alto disco, flashero y experimental.

me gustaron muy pocos temas

Genial.

Is this Monkey Island? Muy buen album conceptual.

this is the best album associated with captain beefheart

Nah I'm sorry not for me

A classic

I still do not get this guy, that being said it was an enjoyable record

I love this album! Tom Waits is definitely an acquired taste though, not everyone's cup of tea.

It's OK but I much prefer his barfly period to the Beefheart one. The songs aren't really that much fun to listen to, and it's not as clever as it thinks it is, a bit one-note in theme and sound. Contrast to e.g. Closing Time which is up there with the best ever

Tom Waits at his finest.

Not a fan of his voice, or his attempts for songs to be "weird"

I was recently turned on to this album and so this is my third or fourth listen. It’s awesome and gritty.

eh

Better than a lot of the shouty Tom Waits stuff I've heard

weird geezer

It's magical when someone is able to create something novel. We all have access to the same raw materials, techniques, and tools after all. But somehow, sometimes, someone is able to combine them in a way that creates something so entirely new that it changes how people approach their own creative process from that point forward. I'm not going to claim I'm a huge Tom Waits fan after listening to this album. I still struggle to relate to the allure. But I do think this album delivers as novel of a musical vision as any of the greats. The whole album evokes imagery of a gritty world filled with hard lived lives, viewed through the blurred lenses of hungover eyes.

Sounds fresh even 40 years later

This album was very hit or miss for me. Overall, I enjoy the concept and I think it's effective in capturing a dirty NYC. I also really enjoyed Tom Waits' vocals regardless of the track, and the lyrics and imagery were constant highlights. The more blues-inspired tracks were astounding, and I kind of wish they were more present on the record. Bangers like Big Black Maria and Gun Street Girl add a folksy edge to some awesome blues rock, and tracks like Time, Blind Love, and Diamonds and Gold are so packed with emotion, in the lyrics, vocals, and atmosphere. What really brings the record down for me is the more polka/sea shanty inspired tracks, which unfortunately are what most of this record is especially in the first half. I'm already not a huge polka fan, but these tracks especially felt ver melodramatic theater-core. The singing was always great, but it wasn't enough to save those tracks. Overall, a very hit-or-miss record.

A good bit more tolerable than Heartattack and Vine, but it still just sounds like someone doing a bit.

I already knew and liked “Clap Hands”. I thought this was a little too repetitive and the growling got annoying by the end, but I still like the style.

I'm quite familiar with this. It's Tom Waits. You probably love it or hate it. This is a no Brainerd 5 for me. Tom is just a phenomenal dude.

You can tell if you'll like Rain Dogs or detest it by a line that occurs in the first song Singapore. A wilfully eccentric sea shanty about a oddball crew of sailors, halfway through we get the detail, "The captain is a one-armed dwarf." How you react to that image gauges how positively you'll view the album. If you find it intriguing and macabre, Rain Dogs will reward you heavily. If it hits you as hackneyed and comicbookesque (not to mention borderline offensive), this album will have nothing to offer you. Both are perfectly valid responses, and right now I'm not sure exactly how I view this album, since I see the merit in both takes. Rain Dogs saw Tom Waits continue on the trajectory he began with Swordfishtrombones, where he had rejected his earlier piano-based approach and adopted more idiosyncratic instrumentation and songwriting informed by outsider musicians such as Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart. So we get a motley series of vignettes depicting New York's indigents, thugs, lovers, winos, creeps and dreamers, set to marimba and double bass and with Tom Waits delivering his lyrics with a highly corrupted howl. Curiously, what decides whether you'll appreciate this album or not is your attitude to theatricality. This is an album revelling in artifice, with the manner of a gobshite barfly spinning his yarn about how he scaled Kilimanjaro to win a night in bed with the Empress of Abyssinia, all in the hope you'll sling him a large scotch. Now, several scholars have noted that, whereas "poetic" and "balletic" are adjectives with wholly positive associations of beauty, elegance and grace, the similarly artistically derived "theatrical" comes with the negative baggage of artificiality, pomposity and histrionics. (I should point out that another of the standard barbs against the theatrical is its campness, with definite emphasis on the sexual connotations.) Now, all rock involves performance, obviously, so rock cannot shed the theatrical, at least not wholly. Yet another factor that has traditionally exemplified rock has been that antithesis to theatricality, authenticity. Only time has enabled the Monkees to be treated as a classic band, the years granting the Monkees the authenticity of history. Boybands are traditionally the most decried of acts, to the extent that defenders of them regularly claim the authenticity lies not in the bands themselves, but in the intemerate, untutored tastes of the teenage girl. (Whether authenticity is actually that valuable a concept is a discussion for another day, but I'll say in passing that I suspect it's not). And it's not as it Tom Waits doesn't understand the import of conveying authenticity. The gaslit strangeness is how the album sells its realness. Of course, such a tactic is oft the bait to yet another emperor's new clothes hustle. Yet the weirdness makes it a very straightforward album to assess, especially in the light of your own tastes. I like Tom Waits and I like Rain Dogs. It's fun, it's inventive, it's humorous and it's generally charming. There's the caveat that, even with a warm disposition to the album, you may easily find it sails well close to the boundary of exasperation, and perhaps fully into those dark waters. And if you have no tolerance for the determinedly kooky, don't bother with this. Fittingly for such a dramatic work, it has a specific audience, it knows it has a specific audience, and it seeks only to cater to that specific audience. You'll know during the first song whether you belong with that rather slim crowd. Me, I'm on the outskirts; I like it, but I can't say I love it. Good enough for 4 stars, but a second longer and it would have forfeited one. NoRadio, signing off (200th album! Woohoo!).

I don't like the Tom Waits schtick but the songwriting is undeniable.

did not like. listened to like 4 songs and couldnt listen to anymore lol

Really evocative vignettes. I wasn’t 100% in a Waits-y mood, but always an interesting listening

Noget af en blandet landhandel - men fungere sgu meget godt alligevel

Couldn’t finish it, as the third song started like a man out of his mind, kicking down the door while wearing one of those tuba drum type contraptions on his back. I haven’t enjoyed a single one of this guys albums and I’m starting to wonder if it’s coincidence that Waits rhymes with Hates.

Damn, Tom Waits album number four. As usual, the guy sounds like a cartoon skeleton singing in a jazz bar in a Tim Burton movie. There were a couple songs on here that I actually enjoyed, but quite a few others that are frankly unbearable. In other words, the usual. Favorite tracks: Gun Street Girl, Clap Hands, Anywhere I Lay My Head (hilarious vocal performance). Album art: I like this style, it reminded me of London Calling and maybe a Smiths album? The bright font border is cool, nothing else to keep this in my brain though. 2.5/5

The more I played it the better it gets.

This one has been on my list for a long time. Very weird but the combination of Waits' signature snarl, lyrics about the "urban dispossessed" and bold experimentation is a winning formula.

I think I like the idea of Waits music more than I like actually listening to it.

Sideshow Bob vibes on a couple tracks.

Some great jazz and blues number but most tracks very Avant Garde

My first Tom Waits album and still one of my favourites.

Love it. I could listen to this all the time. Never was there a greater combination than Tom Wait's voice and the quirky folk music he sings over.

Great album. I have listened to it quite a bit before, but not for at least a few years. 4/5

A good introduction for Tom Waits. Not my favorite, but it’s weird without being too weird, and showcases his brilliant ear for songwriting and character. B+

Superb album. Great tracks with some super standout numbers, Hang Down Your Head & Jockey Full of Bourbon. Revitalised Rod Stewart’s career as well.

The instrumentation on this album is so good. The groove, the melodies, the music is absolutely fantastic. Moments of pure enjoyment and appreciation for how well the band plays each song, only to get interrupted by Tom Waits. Tom Waits is the villain in this album.

Captain Beefheart, bathtubs and tubas. Crazy linking tracks, scary tunes and fantastic song writing. I discovered Tom with this album and Swordfishtrombones and was massively disappointed when I went back to his earlier lounge stuff, heresy for Tom fans I know. That said, I reckon Tom knew he had to get out of tenor sax solos and moody introspection before he turned into a B grade Billy Joel. And here is where Captain Beefheart comes in. Rain Dogs is a straight lift on the Clear Spot template, and that is no criticism. Beefheart's stunningly beautiful My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains informs so much of Tom's new found voice and by jingoes it works. Wait's is rightly lauded for his sound, but I think his songwriting gets missed, he is a great writer of lyric and melody, Cole Porter would have got it. Clap Hands is alluringly freaky, drags me in every time, Big Black Maria is rolling thunder, Downtown Train worthy of a Roddy Stewart cover and Hang Down Your Head is a bona fide pop classic. Blind Love is in my country and western playlist and let me say whenever someone at work is giving me the shits, I instantly start humming Walking Spanish (no doubt they are thinking and humming the same thing). Love this record, the apotheosis of mid 80's pop.

Quirky yet approachable, with some really interesting sounds, vibes and the occasional cut-through song. Not sure when I’d ever think “now that’s what I want to hear tonight”, but I enjoyed hearing it. Another 3.5 from me.

Don’t get me wrong - I love Tom Waits. The concert I saw him give at the State Theatre, Sydney, in 1979, was one of the greatest concerts I’ve ever attended. But that was 70’s Tom. From Frank’s Wild Years onward, I’ve had to deal with a different Tom. The problem for me was that he just stopped writing tunes. I own Rain Dogs, but I don’t think I’d played it for a couple of decades. It hasn’t improved with age. There are only a couple of throwbacks to what I consider his golden period - Walking Spanish is the best thing here by a mile & ranks among his best talking songs; 9th & Hennepin is also terrific, but very short; while Downtown Train was always a good song & was covered by quite a few. The rest are just okay. There’s little else here that really grabs me.

My mate, Peter, said he couldn't understand why Tom Waits stopped doing actual songs, and devolved into "crashing rubbish bins around while screaming", not an entirely unfair assessment. Swordfishtrombones was the beginning of that 'devolution', which continues on Rain Dogs which is my favourite Tom Waits record. It hits a kind of mid-point between the bar-room balladry of his early albums, with elements of the creepy circus, rubbish-bin-crashing production of his 90s albums. There are some absolute crackers songs on this record (Time, Downtown Train, Hang Down Your Head) that deserve their status as modern standards, along with more atmospheric grooves (Jockey Full of Bourbon, Tango Til Their' Sore), and occasional rocker (Big Black Mariah). It doesn't surprise me that Jockey and Tango ended up on the soundtrack of Down By Law; they fit the dissolute atmosphere of that film (also starring our hero, Mr Waits, as a dissolute loser). I love this Waits quote about production style "If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it." The wrongness of the sounds, the deliberately bad recording quality is, to my ears, charming, but I know not everyone thinks so. MVP on the album is Marc Ribot who is a guitar player who very distinctly plays 'wrong' a lot, but in a way that always catches my ear. In my youth, when friends had a particularly bad break up or some other life set-back, we would buy a bottle of Jamesons and sit up to 4am commiserating. And this is the record I would play.

Like a novelty record, enjoyed it at first, soon got tiresome. 3.2

Ehhhhh good to hear

nicht so meins

Too odd for me, couldn’t get into it

His best album in my opinion, which I don't say lightly as a superfan. It sounds like he was so in-stride. In some ways it's a great distillation of his career, because he uses so many styles, dabbles in different genres, uses various voices and characters. Lots of great songs, not a dud on the album. I could go on and on, if I could give this one an extra star I would. My favorites on the album are probably the first and the last song, "Singapore" and "Anywhere I Lay My Head."

Easily my second favorite Tom Waits album and probably his best. I don't want to live in the world he depicts but goddamn do I love imagining it as he describes it one story at a time. He is the king of texture, especially with his signature outside the box percussion. "Anywhere I Lay My Head" is a fantastic closer, like a New Orleans funeral that tears you up, but also feels triumphant and joyful. Bonus: he mentions both Cincinnati and Minneapolis in the lyrics.

Waits, discussing his mistrust of then fashionable studio techniques, said, "If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it. Most things you can get with a button nowadays. So if I was trying for a certain drum sound, my engineer would say, 'Oh, for Christ's sake, why are we wasting our time? Let's just hit this little cup with a stick here, sample something (take a drum sound from another record) and make it bigger in the mix, don't worry about it.' I'd say, 'No, I would rather go in the bathroom and hit the door with a piece of two-by-four very hard.' Hell ya. Also the inclusion of guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot add a very nice chaotic-playing style. Although quite abrasive, there is a mix of some quieter songs like "Time". Classic Waits.

Enjoyed this one much more than the last

notes - experimental rock semi concept album - tom waits 9th album - features keith richards - ive never really been able to get into tom waits but i feel like maybe i’m just missing something - characteristic smoky baritone voice - some songs on here have what i would vcall a circus sound but twisted fav - jockey full of bourbon - Loooove the groove and performance on this song least fav - singapore - One of the noisier tracks, doesn’t do it as well as others later on - Bit of a litmus test for how you’ll feel about the rest of the album 3/5 - I can appreciate the artistry behind it but its not something I would choose to listen to

While it might be his most commercial album, there is a certain charm to this album that made me a life-long fan.

This is exactly the kind of album this project should have more of. From the opening song, it sets a certain mood, makes you feel a certain way, and then sticks to that mood throughout. It was a refreshing change from all the filler augmented one hit wonder albums I've been getting lately. Also of note, it doesn't sound like every other album made around it's time. Four glasses of whiskey out of five! 🥃🥃🥃🥃

Just weird enough for me to nod my head and go hmm at the end in a good way

A scary drunk (ghost?) pirate wanders into a haunted house, sits down at the piano, and orders another whiskey

So, I du not know what to call this music, and it's certainly not an every day vibe, bit I REALLY like this. Dark, weird, kinda grating, but also catchy and captivating.

I usually find Tom Waits a struggle. He is like a really good friend from my very chaotic booze fuelled years that had more highs than lows. I appreciate their friendship and will always hold the fact that they stuck by close to my heart but now they are little too full on and too much of a reminder of days go by.

My ear normally is at it most blissful when listening to lush, polished pop, but this album struck something deep within me. I wish I could teleport myself to New York City on a snowy day to enjoy it in its full glory. 9/10 Fave: Time or maybe Anywhere I lay my head

Wow, never heard anything quite like this. Might never listen again, but glad I’ve heard it.

Greasy unique atmospheric raspy clonky cool. If Bourdain was musical he'd be Tom Waits. If Bernard Black was musical he would be Tom Waits too. The same with any scruffy, dissolute, boozy favourite uncle actually. The sort of music enjoyed by precocious students more than genuine grown ups but still very very enjoyable.

Music was good, but eventually I got tired of Toms singing.

3.8/5 I think Waits is a fun songwriter, but I do not really vibe with the folk-jazz-cabaret style of his music

My first impression is that Tom Waits is an acquired taste. This album is so different from Closing Time which is the only other Tom Waits album I've listened to. Rain Dogs gets a little to experimental and that's coming from someone who listens to Zappa. The album grows on you as it progresses and it just takes a while to cross the threshold. It's definitely worth a listen but probably not for everyone.

Classic

Late in the evening, in the land of one-armed dwarves, broken promises, women with wooden legs and dive-bars, Tom Waits is King. "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things"

Superb album with a great and intense interpretation of all the lyrics and also an outstanding composition: masterpiece!

Weird weird, but some nice

Like the story-telling but not really the instrumental. Reminds me of music from medieval times.

Weird and interesting, but I think hearing it once is enough for me.

Not a fan, Kinda waited for it to be finished

Am a bit conflicted about this one. It is unique and awesome, but also a bit gimmicky and I get tired of it at the End of the whole album.

Cool album but a bit hard on the ear after a while. I prefer the somewhat more 'friendly' Tom Waits music

This album is a party. I can't say I was ever much of a Tom Waits fan other than moderately admiring his off-beat persona, but this album changed everything. I love this whole thing from start to finish. I like the instrumentals, Waits's unique voice, the poetic lyrics, and the variations in terms of the musicality. There are songs like Singapore and Clap Hands that are wacky, theatrical pieces, there are songs like 9th and Hennepin that are full-on beat poetry recitations, and then there are songs like Downtown Train that feel like an attempt at a Top 40 single in the style of Dire Straits, the Cars, or Springsteen. Love this album. Will definitely re-listen to it!

4.5

Totaal mijn ding niet

Very unpredictable track to track but still very good

Not my favorite

Quite alright. So much gravel. Too many songs. Would have been a tighter album if it was a little shorter. Downtown train was pretty good

Not at all what I expected but a very fun listen. Lots of catchy tunes.

A fucking brilliant Tom Waits album, one of his very best no doubt. Getting this on Halloween weekend also really works for me so cheers for that. Just so much fun. Jockey Full of Bourbon is something else. As is the title track. Marc Ribot is tremendous. All of it is something else. The stories! I feel sad for anyone who just can't enjoy this. But they almost certainly hated Devo too. Phil Collins...

8/10

We bought this album when it was released and didn’t listen to it much – I remember liking the title track, Gun Street Girl and Cemetery Polka, but the rest I had forgotten. It requires a more intense listen, preferable with lyrics handy. You get a feel for the underbelly of America with its imagery of people huddled in doorways and alley ways in the rain. Lots of references to pawn shop guns and of course, dogs. Waits’ gravelly voice and the sloppy, muddy production adds to the feel as do the accordions and trombones and banging percussive sounds. It’s great that a performer late in his career is brave enough to take a turn away from commercial success and toward a more Avant Gard sound.

Tom Waits is in fine form here, quirky and offbeat. The first side hits you with a barrage of brilliant songs, but it falters slightly on the second side. Scanning the reviews of the others I mostly see 4 and 5 star ratings, so I'm surprised this album doesn't have a higher global rating. This record is essential listening.

Tom's got the magic marimba blues and it's beautiful.

This is one wild motherfucker. I enjoyed the dense variety of the instruments, with some tracks being borderline demented circus shit. Tom's voice is very hit or miss to me (and probably many others), but even when I wasn't feeling the vocal performance, it still worked very well compositionally with the music.

ideal long walk home in the rain slicked streets album

This is the second album of the trilogy (along with Swordfish Trombones and Franks Wild Years) that mark the start of the second phase of his career. It's when the influence of his wife Kathleen Brennan starts to be felt. He switches from his old blues/jazzbo style to incorporate influences from everywhere in a much more experimental sound. Tom has been my favorite artist since I first heard Heart of Saturday Night back in the early 70s. This album is quite possibly my favorite (although that varies from day to day). There isn't a bad song on it. I really believe that when the history of 20th century music is written years from now that Tom will be recognized as one of the seminal figures. So many artists are indebted to him for the way he opened the doors to try new things.

Tom Waits is certainly creative, but I can't handle his voice. I like Step Right Up, but it's not on this album. I think that's all I can listen to of his.

Magnificent album, the best of the 'Franks' wild years' trilogy and my favourite Tom Waits album. It's a kaleidoscope of styles, sounds and stories all rooted in a downtown world of dives, old world funerals, and hard-bitten women for whom 'nothing that a $100 wouldn't cure'

WTF is this? Terrible... It sounds like drunk Johnny Depp from Pirates of the Caribbean trying to make a concept album...

Tom waits is fucking weird and I'm here for it.

A great eclectic listen. Downtown Train is an all-timer.

Un genre de Berthold Brecht de la fin du 20e s. Créatif, original, intéressant!

This was a bit of a treat. With Tom Waits it kind of depends on whether or not you like his shtick, and I generally do. But I don't think I'd ever heard this record, though I know some of the songs. It's great, musicically adventurous and lyrically interesting. Best song for me is Hang Down Your Head just pipping the more obvious Downton Train.

Growly, masculine, vocals. Sometimes ballad-y, sometimes jazz-ish.

Music from the fucking upside down dimension or something. Tom Waits is a scary individual, wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley. There's a lot of good songs in here - "Clap Hands" is great because it sounds like Breaking Bad music. "Downtown Train" is like Bob Dylan if he was good. Nevertheless, I found myself exhausted by the end. While not a particularly long album, it's 19 songs long (a lot of songs - more than 6 songs, for example) and a big chunk of it didn't stick in my brain at all. I'll probably return to this.. needs about two or three more listens, but a strong 3/5 for now.

Fantastic collection different sounds and moods for each song all tied together by the uniquely beautiful voice of Tom Waits

Very interesting, but not my cup of tea. Such a distinct voice. 2/5

weird. felt like i was at a circus. that said, his version of Downtown Train is my favorite.

Pretty good.

Everyone deserves to hear Tom Waits' cigarettes and sandpaper voice sing them this gutter opera.

Bluesss

Kan fortfarande inte "fatta" Tom Waits. Min tidigare review gäller då albumet fortfarande känns kaos och många låtar håller inte.

Un album que je possède et ai écouté souvent. Impossible de ne pas avoir de frissons quand on entend Anywhere I Lay My Head... J'aime la voix et j'aime que ce soit unique.

Never heard of this one! here are some of my thoughts throughout the listening: already sounds fun! could be in an old movie if it isn't already. this dude could be a voice actor as a disney villain. very interesting.. alright, i did some research and some of these songs are in a soundtrack to a movie if i understood right! interesting beats and interesting voice! "Hang Down Your Head" and "Union Square" are probably my favs Not something i would put on my playlist but as an experience cool! Overall 2/5, not really my thing

Solid 5.

This is not my favourite Tom Waits album but it is fun and funky and shakes up our perceptions of what music is and how it should sound (and I've always loved "Time").

Not my genre but good

Five stars. One of the absolute best albums on the list.

Halloweenie

This is lame

There’s some artistic value here I guess but not for me and isn’t really any different than bone machine, has no business being the first artist I’ve seen twice and this barely gets the second star

Pile of shit his voice is crap and creepy