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Rain Dogs
by Tom Waits
The 88th greatest album of all time
Rain Dogs, released in 1985, finds Tom Waits moving further from his earlier piano-based singer-songwriter style into a grittier, more experimental sound. The album mixes blues, rock, and Americana with off-kilter rhythms, found percussion, accordion and jagged guitar, providing a cinematic, streetwise backdrop for Waits's gravelly vocals and vivid narratives about urban outsiders. It follows Swordfishtrombones and further solidifies his turn toward theatrical, collage-like arrangements and genre-bending songwriting.
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