TOM WAITS RAIN DOGS LP w/INNER (Listen) EX UNPLAYED

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TOM WAITS RAIN DOGS LP w/INNER (Listen) EX UNPLAYED

THIS IS NOT A CD...IT IS VINYL!!

ALL records are from MY PERSONAL COLLECTION.

This is the Tom Waits LP "Rain Dogs". It has NEVER BEEN PLAYED.

Includes original inner sleeve with lyrics

Selection #-ISLAND 90299

Year-1985

Country-US

All LPs are visually graded:

Vinyl is EX with paper scuffing and has NEVER BEEN PLAYED/cover is EX with slight pointwear. Promo stamp on back.

With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation -- marimba, accordion, various percussion -- as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs is very much a follow-up to Swordfishtrombones, which is to say that it sounds for the most part like The Threepenny Opera being sung by Howlin' Wolf. The chief musical difference is the introduction of guitarist Marc Ribot, who adds his noisy leads to the general cacophony. But Rain Dogs is sprawling where its predecessor had been focused: Tom Waits' lyrics here sometimes are imaginative to the point of obscurity, seemingly chosen to fit the rhythms rather than for sense. In the course of 19 tracks and 54 minutes, Waits sometimes goes back to the more conventional music of his earlier records, which seems like a retreat, though such tracks as the catchy "Hang Down Your Head," "Time," and especially "Downtown Train" (frequently covered and finally turned into a Top Ten hit by Rod Stewart five years later) provide some relief as well as variety. Rain Dogs can't surprise as Swordfishtrombones had, and in his attempt to continue in the direction suggested by that album, Waits occasionally borders on the chaotic (which may only be to say that, like most of his records, this one is uneven). But much of the music matches the earlier album, and there is so much of it that that is enough to qualify Rain Dogs as one of Waits' better albums.

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I spent 33 years as the Purchasing Director for a chain of Record/CD stores in NYC which gave me the opportunity to acquire many rare and interesting items. Everything I sell is from my own personal collection.
As the Buyer for Record Explosion and Jimmy's Music World, two of the biggest independent music retail chains in NYC. I collected these records with the thought that one day I would retire and have the chance to listen to them all. With the advent of CDs and MP3s, now I have the ones I want digitally, so I am selling off my vinyl. Sorry purists, I just need to travel lighter!