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''Rain Dogs'' is the eighth album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York City, ''Rain Dogs'' is generally considered the middle album of a trilogy that includes ''Swordfishtrombones'' and ''Franks Wild Years''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Amazon ''Rain Dogs'' review )〕 The album, which includes appearances by guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot, is noted for its broad spectrum of musical styles and genres, described by ''Rolling Stone'' as merging "Kurt Weill, pre-rock integrity from old dirty blues, () the elegiac melancholy of New Orleans funeral brass, into a singularly idiosyncratic American style."〔 The album peaked at #29 on the UK charts〔http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/1985-10-26/〕 and #188 on the US ''Billboard'' Top 200. In 1989, it was ranked #21 on the ''Rolling Stone'' list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s." In 2003, the album was ranked number 397 on the magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". ==Composition and recording== Waits wrote the majority of the album in a two-month stint in the fall of 1984 in a basement room at the corner of Washington and Horatio Streets in Manhattan. According to Waits, it was:
In preparation for the album, Waits recorded street sounds and other ambient noises on a cassette recorder in order to get the sound of the city that would be the album's subject matter.〔Hoskyns 2009, p. 308〕 A wide range of instruments were employed to achieve the album's sound, including marimba, accordion, double bass, trombone, and banjo, indicating the many different musical directions spread across ''Rain Dogs''. Coming as it did in the mid 1980s—when most musicians depended on synthesizers, drum machines, and studio techniques to create their music—the album is notable for its organic sound, and the means by which it was achieved. Waits, discussing his mistrust of then fashionable studio techniques, said:
Waits also stated that "if we couldn't get the right sound out of the drum set we'd get a chest of drawers in the bathroom and bang it real hard with a two-by-four," such that "the sounds become your own."〔"The 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s," ''Rolling Stone'' issue 565, November 16, 1989.〕 ''Rain Dogs'' was the first time that Waits worked with guitarist Marc Ribot, who was impressed by Waits' unusual studio presence:
Ribot also recalls how the band would not rehearse the songs before going to record; rather, Waits would play them the songs on an acoustic guitar in the studio.
The album marks the first time Waits recorded with guitarist Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.〔Waits later contributed vocals and piano to The Rolling Stones album ''Dirty Work'', and Richards later contributed vocals and guitar to the track "That Feel" on Waits' 1992 album ''Bone Machine'', as well as several tracks on 2012's ''Bad as Me''.〕 Waits said:
According to Barney Hoskyns, the album's general theme of "the urban dispossessed" was inspired in part by Martin Bell's 1984 documentary ''Streetwise'', to which Waits had been asked to contribute music.〔Hoskyns 2009, pp. 308–309〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rain Dogs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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