Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (w/ guest Moksha Gren)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome cohost of the Pruning Session podcast (from audiobonsai.com) Moksha Gren to help us talk about Tom Waits' Rain Dogs (1985, Island). The successor to the album where Waits left his balladier days behind him, the experimental Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs found universal critical acclaim as it solidified the eclectic music mixed with found sounds and a raspy vocal that Waits became synonymous with. Bill, Brian, and Moksha discuss how they first came to be fans of Toms Waits, the production of the album, and then a track by track review. Along the way, we also find room for a lot about Rod Stewart, how Moksha is raising his kids with the right kind of music, a bit about the state of country music, and more!

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0:00.0	Well, it's Ninth in Annapin. All the donuts have names to sound like prostitutes.
0:12.0	And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky, like a tarp thrown all over this.
0:19.0	And a broken umbrellas like dead birds the steam comes out of the grill
0:23.6	like the whole goddamn town's ready to blow and the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
0:30.6	and everyone is bathing like dogs and the horses are coming down
0:37.6	violin road and ditches dead on his feet.
0:41.3	And all the rooms, they smell like diesel.
0:43.5	And you take on the dreams of the ones who slept there.
0:47.4	And I've lost in the window.
0:50.0	I hide in the stairway and I hang in the curtain.
0:52.9	Hello.
0:53.9	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm in the curtain and I sleep. Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:56.4	I'm Bill.
0:56.8	And I'm Brian.
0:57.6	And today we have a guest joining us via Skype, Maksha Graham.
1:02.4	Hello.
1:03.5	Maksha is one of the hosts of the pruning session podcast from AudioBonsai.com.
1:10.6	And Maksha, would you mind just giving us a little bit about that program? session podcast from audio bonsai.com. And,
1:11.5	Maksha,
1:11.8	would you mind just giving us a little bit about that program and what it is you guys do?
1:16.9	No,
1:17.2	absolutely.
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