Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (New Vinyl) (Limited Edition) (Blue Sky Vinyl)

NEW LP

New sealed copy. 2023 limited edition remastered reissue on Island Records. Pressed on 180 gram opaque blue sky coloured vinyl. Restored album packaging. Limited to 3000 copies worldwide.

Rain Dogs is the ninth 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 features guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot, is noted for its broad spectrum of musical styles and genres, described by Arion Berger as merging "outsider influences – socialist decadence by way of Kurt Weill, pre-rock integrity from old dirty blues, 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. Rod Stewart had success with his cover of "Downtown Train", later included on some editions of his 1991 album Vagabond Heart. 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", and at number 357 in 2020.

TRACKLIST:

A1        Singapore    
A2        Clap Hands    
A3        Cemetery Polka    
A4        Jockey Full Of Bourbon    
A5        Tango Till They’re Sore    
A6        Big Black Mariah    
A7        Diamonds & Gold    
A8        Hang Down Your Head    
A9        Time    
B1        Rain Dogs    
B2        Midtown    
B3        9th & Hennepin    
B4        Gun Street Girl    
B5        Union Square    
B6        Blind Love    
B7        Walking Spanish    
B8        Downtown Train    
B9        Bride Of Rain Dog    
B10       Anywhere I Lay My Head