CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Pop (Ballads)      

Written and produced by Tom Waits (exept #8 - Kathleen Brennan & Tom Waits)

With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation - marimba, accordion, various percussion - as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs was very much a follow-up to Swordfishtrombones, which is to say that it sounded for the most part like The Threepenny Opera being sung by Howlin' Wolf. The chief musical difference was the introduction of guitarist Marc Ribot, who added his noisy leads to the general cacophony. But Rain Dogs was sprawling where its predecessor had been focused: Waits' lyrics here sometimes were 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 went back to the more conventional music of his earlier records, which seemed 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) provided some relief as well as variety. Rain Dogs could not surprise as Swordfishtrombones had, and in his attempt to continue in the direction suggested by that album, Waits occasionally bordered on the chaotic (which may only be to say that, like most of his records, this one was uneven). But much of the music matched the earlier album, and there was so much of it that that was enough to qualify Rain Dogs as one of Waits' better albums

All Music Guide