Tom Waits, Rain Dogs...


I'm embarrassed to say I just heard Tom Waits's Rain Dogs for the first time and I am blown away. It's an album Bruce Springsteen wishes he could make. The sound is just incredible and the arrangements are prefect. Tom makes it all sound so easy where Bruce makes it sound so hard.Bruce has yet to make an album with such an inspired performance and overall great sound quality as this one.
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I'm embarrassed to say I don't understand the motive behind the original post. I think that Wait's (studio recorded) 'Rain Dogs' stands on its own as does perhaps Springsteen's (4-track recorded) 'Nebraska'.

Some Wikipedia trivia:

"In 1989, Nebraska was ranked #43 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 224 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time."

"In 1989, it (Rain Dogs) was ranked #21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 397 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time."

I don't know.