Rain Dogs

Having trouble sleeping so i thought I would toss out a quick blog and talk about the Album "rain dogs" from Tom Waits. Released in the mid 80's, "rain dogs' was somewhat of a concet album about urband life in the rundown depressed sections of new york city. The whole album has a very natural, almost organic sound, when at the time most artists were using synthesizers and whatever other synth machines they could get there hands on. This was the first album of Waits that I took notice of as a teenager, prior to it's release, I had only ever really listened to a few of his songs and found him to be a somewhat, dragging lounge act, but with "rain dogs" I saw Waits take a step out of the lounge and really let in a bit of the 80's sounds. I was one of lie 7 people that bought this album, and now all these years later, it is consider one of the best albums ever recorded...........

Here below is my favorite song from the album.......it is ....."downtown train".....Waits was the origninal artist on this one..........it would be just four years later that Rod Stewart would cover the song and make it a major hit........I never cared for stewarts version........it always, at least to me, lacked the passion of Waits honest and simplistic style..........enjoy

London's Brilliant Parade

Normally I talk about indy music groups on this blog, but tonight i want to share an Elvis Costello song that I have always like. London's Brillint Parade was from his Brutal Youth Album from around 1994,it was an album where he got back together with The Attractions and Nick Lowe to produce an album that shelves the sweeping ambition that marred other albums like Spike and Mighty Like The Rose, and lets his songs breathe in minimal, cleverly detailed musical settings of real genius.

Please watch the live perfroamce below, but pay attention to the lyrics, they are clever, and really quite striking in their simplistic realism.