Editing Rain Dogs (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name         = Rain Dogs
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Tom Waits]]
| cover        = Tom Waits - Rain Dogs.png
| released     = September 30, 1985
| studio       = [[RCA Studios New York#6th Ave|RCA 6th Ave]], [[New York City]]
| genre        = 
* [[Experimental rock]]
* [[Americana (music)|Americana]]<ref name= "Pitchfork Staff 2018">{{cite web|last= Pitchfork Staff |title= The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s |website= [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date= September 10, 2018 |url= https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1980s/|quote= ...but on these strange industrial Americana tunes, his husky voice is less of an affectation.|accessdate= April 25, 2023}}</ref>
| length       = 53:46
| label        = [[Island Records|Island]]
| producer     = Tom Waits
| prev_title   = [[Anthology of Tom Waits]]
| prev_year    = 1985
| next_title   = [[Franks Wild Years]]
| next_year    = 1987
| misc         = {{Singles
| name         = Rain Dogs
| type         = studio
| single1      = [[Jockey Full of Bourbon]]
| single1date  = 1985
| single2      = [[Hang Down Your Head]]
| single2date  = 1985
| single3      = [[Downtown Train]]
| single3date  = 1985
}}
}}

'''''Rain Dogs''''' is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter [[Tom Waits]], released in September 1985 on [[Island Records]].<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=w-EIUI1xU8cC&pg=PA151 |title=Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters |page=151|author=Paul Maher |publisher=Chicago Review Press|date= August 1, 2011  |isbn=9781569769270 |access-date=July 3, 2012}}</ref> 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]]''.<ref>{{cite news| last=Adams| first=Tim| title='All these bulletproof songs, one after another': remembering Tom Waits' extraordinary mid-career trilogy| work=The Guardian| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/20/tom-waits-frank-trilogy-reissues-swordfishtrombones-rain-dogs-franks-wild-years}}</ref>

The album, which features guitarists [[Keith Richards]] and [[Marc Ribot]], is noted for its broad spectrum of musical styles and genres, described by Arion Berger as merging "outsider influences – socialist decadence by way of [[Kurt Weill]], pre-rock integrity from old [[dirty blues]], the elegiac melancholy of [[Jazz funeral|New Orleans funeral brass]] – into a singularly idiosyncratic American style."<ref name="Berger"/>

The album peaked at number 29 on the UK charts<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19851020/7502/ | title=Official Albums Chart Top 100: 20 October 1985&nbsp;– 26 October 1985 | publisher=[[Official Charts Company|OfficialCharts.com]]}}</ref> and number 188 on the US ''[[Billboard charts|Billboard]]'' Top 200.  [[Rod Stewart]] had success with his cover of "[[Downtown Train]]", later included on some editions of his 1991 album ''[[Vagabond Heart]]''.<ref>Hyatt, Wesley (1999). ''The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits'' (Billboard Publications), page 355.</ref> In 1989, it was ranked number 21 on the ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s." In 2012, the album was ranked number 399 on the magazine's list of "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]",<ref name=500-greatest>{{cite web | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/zz-top-eliminator-67102/ | title= 500 Greatest Albums of All Time | publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| date= May 31, 2012| access-date= August 6, 2019}}</ref> and at number 357 in 2020.<ref name="Rolling Stone">{{Cite magazine|date=2020-09-22|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/|access-date=2021-06-29|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>