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Tom Waits: Rain Dogs [1985]

Posted: March 31, 2011 in Reviews, Tom Waits
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This is too weird for me. I mean, I quite like weird, but this is weird. Part-pirate, part-carnivalesque, part-jazz, part-Tim Burton soundtrack. So fucking weird. The first song, ‘Singapore’ is played on some weird-sounding instrument like a xylophone, and Waits rasps out a pretty hectic, strange song about being whisked off to Singapore. This really [...]