Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

[@JosephRhinewine]

Tom Waits is just one of those people that, whenever I remember he exists and listen to his music, I'm happy.

[@hazycosmicjive7]

Joseph Rhinewine I know what you mean

[@FontediCalore]

same here, same here!

[@haviskam]

Same here. Sorry for replying 4 yrs later but..

[@IcarusMelting4]

Dude is slaying it on that clarinet.

[@a.ma.6334]

Oh yes!

[@niitrotik]

This comment cracks me up everytime I come back to this song. Which is often.

[@CharlieCanfield]

my late and wonderfully whacky SF friend Ralph Carney.

[@grdcftfree6720]

He is ozzy Osborne?

[@Ericcartman666]

Superb

[@NihilCBR]

This man always manages to send chills down my spine. Tom Waits remains, in my opinion, on of the greatest artists ever to have walked the Earth.

[@mejustme6944]

Genuine Genius: It's a Polka, Greek Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Dark Cabaret, Vaudeville &, a smokey NY nightclub all mixed together

[@berkayadas7739]

And some Turkish sounds also

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

I always thought of it as demented circus music

[@theclash3015]

@@berkayadas7739 Not Turkish sound. Russian/circus sound.

[@Ben_Dover312]

​@@theclash3015everything russian art belongs to ashkenazi and turkic

[@theclash3015]

@@Ben_Dover312 Russia is the largest country in the world. It has about 150 mil. inhabitants. And you write such a nonsenscial comnent that Russian art is reduced Ashkenazis and Turks. I haven't heard such a culturally-racist and stupid comnent in a long time. You must be a classic Russophobic Englishman. Russophobia is an old discipline in England, at least two centuries old.

[@133Nomad]

He just doesn't put on a show, he puts on an experience.

[@nunesverse]

+133Nomad He sure did when we see him !

[@jelicatrifunovic8267]

btw, the song is about people who lost their way, just like dogs get lost when the rain washes their scent and they can^t get back home. that^s one of the best comparisons i^ve ever heard.

[@jdavis417]

+Jelica Trifunovic Oh... thanks for sharing that! I could say that, "It all makes sense to me now.", but I'd be a liar if I did. ;)

[@39miljac]

We all lost way...

[@alasdairmacfearnua630]

Jelice,u pravu si 110 posto

[@cade6897]

Do you ever feel like your a rain dog in your own head?

[@thepopgroup3366]

i thought its about leaving/forgetting your homeland and become a free spirited person and in the process you meet others whom also just like you

[@struwwelman]

This is quite possibly the best live performance of all time. Just look at the way he moves!

[@Ericcartman666]

Agreed

[@borispopov6342]

+1

[@thegoodfaery]

This guy is a musical genius

[@bhomic7181]

fuck yeah he is

[@JimmyBags69]

Artistic genius maybe

[@marianacoelho8746]

i was pretty sure this couldn't get any better until i saw accordian guy jamming out with his fez

[@itabrennan7420]

In ecstasy. Notice how the musicians moved to form a ragged band behind him? Brilliant.

[@barriehomeboy]

Tom Waits is a whole other musical genre and he has it all to himself. Performance art mixed with a unique musical style.

[@evigklytteren]

I can't stop myself from coming back to this video. It's driving my family nuts... But there's something magical about this performance

[@Sir-Cordyceps]

Inside a broken clock Splashing the wine With all the rain dogs Taxi, we'd rather walk Huddle a doorway with the Rain Dogs For I am a Rain Dog, too Oh, how we danced and we swallowed the night For it was all ripe for dreaming Oh, how we danced away All of the lights We've always been out of our minds The rum pours strong and thin Beat out the dustman With the rain dogs Aboard a shipwreck train Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs For I am a Rain Dog too Oh, how we danced with the Rose of Tralee Her long hair black as a raven Oh, how we danced and you Whispered to me You'll never be going back home You'll never be going back home Oh, how we danced and we swallowed the night For it was all ripe for dreaming Oh, how we danced away All of the lights We've always been out of our minds

[@A-Disappointed-Horse]

Pure unadulterated madness, and it's wonderful!

[@VegansFromMars]

One of my absolute fav songs. This live version is even better!!!

[@ladasta]

What a wonderful version. He is a real showman that man. Never a dull moment. I love his musicians too. The man with the accordion owns :)

[@astav]

His interpretation of Eastern European music is astonish and incredible

[@TheScribeofLight]

How can it be 6 years since someone last commented on this video? Tom Waits is one of those performers who elevated themselves into a different category. When the Pogues were on tour in America, they listened to 'Rain Dogs' on repeat. That is the sort of artist he is. Commercial? Fuck no. An exceptional talent? Fuck yes.

[@agcouper]

Just change your sorting order )

[@TheScribeofLight]

@@agcouper Thanks. I hadn't clocked that was what it was doing.

[@mylulac]

I never get enough of Tom, he is pure genious! I have traveled very far to see him live, twice, he is sooooo worth it.......the best!

[@TheKylePhractor]

I love this. My favorite Waits performance. Everything about it is perfect, from the demented smiling to the dancing.

[@MrPernell27]

This is from the live album Big Time. When I was I high school I rented the vhs tape from I Luv Video. There was only 3 copies in the entire city. Probably rented it 50 times, so eventually they just let me keep it.

[@georgeclarke3678]

Excellente! Prefer this version to the cd.

[@piroskaracz3621]

Love it and him too. I'm Romani (Gypsy) singer /dancer performed with with Eugene Hutz Gogol Bordello.... and this music reminds me of ours especially near end. Love ya Tom. Tom if ya come to NYC and do this number invite me in stage. I still perform. I have this full show on VHS ♥️

[@Doug_Narby]

I don't see how a Tom Waits fan can NOT love this. It's pure eccentricity, obviously fun for the performers, and vastly entertaining...what do you want him to act like - Coldplay?

[@和代塚田-w3w]

親愛なるトムウェイツさま😂いつも、素敵な曲聞かせてくれてありがとうございます。

[@Davett53]

this was a rare time to see Tom do his thing, live. the studio recorded version on CD is more refined, & tweaked. This is like theater. A performance piece. Really fantastic. Striped to the bone, purer,gutsy, raw.

[@sunshine52512]

Unbelievable!! How amazing, what a talent he is, and that voice, goes so deep.. Love the accordion player too :o))

[@rings4ever]

This guy is imposible...How can you write a melody like this one? It's amazing,he's a genious!

[@bacht4799]

Listen to a lot of world music like polka, salsa and a lot more.. too be creative and a have a twist mind..

[@cureuilpourpre]

I've seen him in Paris in 1987 (or 86), and made lot of photos, it was an amazing incredible wonderfull show... I remember when he open an umbrella and lot of silver paper fall around all stage... like rain, "rain's dog" of course!. Great great man!

[@CreatioNNoitcurtseD]

Here is one of the BEST voices in music folks.

[@honrodgers9472]

Love how they huddle together like a crazy group of hobos on a street

[@magneteye]

The world needs more Tom. This is amazing.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

Rain Dogs is the greatest beginning to end musical experience in the history of music! I swear it is! I bought this record when it first came out without knowing who Tom Waits was and I have listened to it a minimum of a 1,000 times. I still don't know all the lyrics because he swallows a lot of his words, and the print is so tiny in the cd insert that you need a magnifying glass to read it.I never tire of this record! It's like he stole the soundtrack of my thoughts when I was napping.

[@davidschmidt6013]

..."Is this kezmer music?"...better to ask "is there any genre he hasn't touched, visited, seduced, twisted, chewed-up and spit out morphed?"....an acid nightmare chameleon....simply unbelievable...

[@IreneT1210]

to me it sounds like a mix of Russian and Balkan music. I can actually dance kolo (Balkan traditional dances) to it. :D

[@lingitgirl]

Excellent!! Like a cabaret scene and the whole band is performing!! True entertainment!

[@pamelawalker5644]

I can't believe I just found him today.. He is different.. a bit odd and I like him...

[@steveterrell]

I envy you, Pamela. You've got an entire world of Waits to discover. Happy travels! (I've been a fan for 40 years.)

[@asdilaalisda4202]

ok i'm just 20 ....

[@pamelawalker5644]

Enjoy Asdilan :)

[@asdilaalisda4202]

i always enjoy listening to Tom !!!

[@pamelawalker5644]

I really enjoy him :)

[@AlexDavis1]

Absolutely Sublime ... if my house burns down I’m grabbing my copy of Big Time on VHS

[@gaarias8]

This is one of his most breath taking perfomances I've seen ever! What an incredible musician!

[@rosanemascarello5646]

Totaly fantastic! He's amazing! Thanks for sharing it for the whole world. Greetings from Brasil.

[@1Delly]

Thanks for posting this. It is a song with so much cacophony that makes for the right blend to make you a little disturbed but in a good way. Love tom and he never ceases to amaze me. Again, thanks for posting this! Peace out!

[@Belkaletjaga]

Уникальный.Неповторимый. Люблю!

[@yagotoo7999]

Played this for people who actually care about fashion, pop music and the latest IPhone (you know; people who never had an original thought) and most of them either hated it, or could not handle it. I was so thankful...

[@jelicatrifunovic8267]

2.47 music is a lot like old serbian and bosnian folk music, so cleverly used by no smoking orchestra. how did it get to waits in mid 80s is a mystery to me.

[@IreneT1210]

A Russian dance... je l' si slušala? čak na srpskom broji "je'n, dva, tri, i onda na ruskom četireee". :)))) Je'n nije na ruskom . oni kažu "raz, dva, tri..."

[@ritamaugetban6975]

he's tuned into the great music unconsciousness..........

[@ALEXX-MUSIC-VIDEO]

Rain Dogs - восьмой студийный альбом автора-исполнителя Тома Уэйтса, изданный в 1985 году. Концепция альбома - Нью-Йоркские городские обездоленные. Исполнитель: Том Уэйтс Дата выпуска: 30 сентября 1985 г. Продюсер: Том Уэйтс

[@leovillanueva1989]

Fucking guy with the accordion is jamming the fuck out! Lol if there's anyone feeling the music more than tom waits, it's that man! Lol

[@IreneT1210]

Visit Serbia or Russia - you'll hear this kind of music everywhere and see how most of the people even thou they're not musicians feel this kind of rhythm...

[@leovillanueva1989]

+IreneT1210 oh trust I believe you. I can feel it, just by watching the video.

[@a.n.a.e.l]

"A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't" TW

[@phantomchronicles7184]

Waits is a genius! The musicians are effing awesome too btw!

[@alasdairmacfearnua630]

Mittel Europa plus Balkans plus guy with the fez plus Jewish wedding plus Tom Waits plus Hungarian Romani Music and I luv it

[@VNRose3]

"Oh How We Danced" is the opener of the Anniversary Waltz which they used to play at Jewish weddings before they played hip-hop. It's a gorgeous waltz and Tom makes good use of the quote here.

[@pamelawalker5644]

Back with Tom Waits again this evening.. I so deserve this reprieve from the elections.. Just listened to Chocolate Jesus :) I'm on my Way!!!!

[@szymonbochenek9026]

Man, i really want an entire album that sounds like that ending from 2:45

[@Feathermoon53]

Top of the Tops! I first heard Tom Waits at a dinner party Saturday night. I loved him and where have I been? lol I admire talent in all aspects such as Cirque du Soleil,too. Toms singing and music reminds me of Cirque, which is a great thing!!! I put both in the ten best ever!!!

[@jeffw2004]

All Hail Tom, and gosh I'm so stoned. It's lovely.

[@jeffw2004]

Lol. I don't remember this at all.

[@neojilo2493]

67 ans de BeuGleurie so bienveillante .... merci Tom... Jazz-Rock-Kurt Weil magnificience Guy !!!! encore.... encore.... ENCORE !!!!!!

[@MarkMaysey]

I'd love to hang out with this guy, Tom you're the coolest cat I've ever met. Totally dig this guy man!!!! Thanks for posting all these great videos!!! Mark

[@copernicusbarnhouse]

Still raining dogs in 2023 and Tom Waits is still and forever will be a national treasure

[@disclose_beauty]

Im not english mother tongue so I don't understand the words at first listen . When I first heard this song 5 years ago, it sounded to me like a villain song from a Tim Burton movie lol I fell in love

[@user-deevt]

English *is* my mother tongue and I don't understand the words at first listen

[@sacredgeometry]

@@user-deevt English is your mother tongue and you don't understand how to use tenses properly? Yeesh!

[@littleghostfilms3012]

Nobody will understand all of Tom's words. Just let yourself be swept away by the flotsam filled current that is his music.

[@perrydear]

magical, l thought l had lost this video..Tom is unique in the best ways...

[@graciebeaty11]

words can't explain what this does to me! i'm so goddam in love. man, waits is the coolest guy ever to walk this earth.

[@ThereminArkuton]

Brilliant. The smile on my face almost hurts. Oh Tom, you'll give me wrinkles...

[@garmojo]

Wait. My head, my legs moving and my arms uncontrolled. Is Tom Waits?

[@coollary1]

I am so captivated! Can't look away. Amazing!

[@eurobubble7068]

even for tom waits, that was a very tom waitsy performance

[@Ericcartman666]

I'm 58. My favourite artist of all time.

[@withoutleaders]

This crushes the studio version.

[@thestranger4812]

Tom Waits is truly the most complete musician that I know of. The finest person in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

[@lcorinth]

Wow. Just, wow. I must see him live some day.

[@2ndnickthegreek992]

Tom Waits trolling taxis before trolling was cool!

[@cundalini5092]

Dude on accordion having the time of his life

[@AndyMossMetta]

Tom at his enigmatic best. With a voice like granite. A Yiddish dance of splendour. The band play their instruments playfully to create sound just the right side of madcap.

[@chuckyeager997]

Fuckin' genious !

[@papaya4481]

I went to this show, it is by far the best I have ever been to, time goes by.

[@billfisher9829]

a nomad traversing an acoustical plane of delirium tremens

[@zootchannel380]

TOM WAITS IS A TOTAL GENIUS ... TAXI TAXI !!! WE RATHER WALK !!

[@mr.timjohnston546]

how does he even have a voice after doing this for so many yrs

[@pitparra1924]

That's his voice

[@VegansFromMars]

He talks that way too.

[@raskolnikov7049]

He talked like that in the 80s already.

[@karolecampesine]

greatest actor among singers, greatest singer among actors

[@leovillanueva1989]

I really wanna hang out with that dude playing the accordion lol. I mean tom as well, but that's obvious lol

[@SpinyNorman2]

A truly unique and inimitable talent. There will never be another like him. Navvy51 said "music to get drunk by", oh yes, and what fun! Happy 60th, Tom.

[@jessiepartin5788]

Why isn't this guy in a metal band?

[@jeffw2004]

He's too complicated for that.

[@austinhaynes6420]

I like metal but I also like this. Rather have Tom doing something that no else really does and listen to metal another time.

[@jamesbueker11]

I saw him in Austin. Came out with one spot light 1/2 a 57 Chevy and a street light. Around the time of small change. It was simply magical

[@Activistami]

Wow, this is the first I've heard of him. He's actually pretty good. And I usually close my mind to unfamiliar music.

[@perrydear6306]

keep at it Brendan, you never know what you might find!

[@ulissesbarros526]

Essa é das melhores por ode anda esse cara?

[@ineedmorenaruto]

look at him dance! now i need to go listen to "russian dance" from his black rider album

[@Eireate]

Indeed. One of the best poets today in my opinion. Tom Waits just wins on so many levels.

[@somedude2319]

Are Tom Waits and Ron Pearlman related?

[@Thumperoo]

twins

[@Gabez9]

No, but rumour has it Pearlman is playing Waits in an upcoming biopic directed by David Lynch!

[@booshank2327]

@@Gabez9 Please be true.

[@JonahJojoTheMan]

Fantastic perfomance . Tom is a genius. I love this guy

[@Parried]

Taxi! Taxi! Taxi! ~~ We'd rather walk!

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

I always pictured a creepy neo noir circus when I listen to this, and tom waits is the freaky but eccentric ringleader Behind it all

[@Telatheus]

His music is influenced by blues, jazz, even a little vaudeville and rock; he played in an R&B band in his early years, and he's won a few awards for Best Folk Album. Like others have said, it's very difficult to categorize him. He pretty much defines his own genre of music, and has remained true to it for years.

[@FretboardToAsh]

This is just awesome, showman, he really is. And the huge varying styles in music he can do is amazing.

[@StrongmanJoe89]

2:50 onwards. Jagger wishes he had the moves like Waits.

[@stevehill8657]

A work of total genius!

[@MetalPersonJ]

0:36 When Ozzy Osbourne wants to get away from Sharon.

[@Hameleon1994]

Нечто большее, чем музыка. Нечто большее, чем искусство. Истинная жизнь в одном из своих наиболее привлекательных проявлений. Маэстро, нижайший Вам поклон.

[@GuildF40]

cirq de solie meets music and music wins

[@PabloRodriguez-su4gp]

holy crap. studio version is awesome. this is something else!

[@RepentInReprise]

Exactly... and Studio is from 1985! If this was uploaded when recorded, from 2007 -- such an insane time difference! The melodies, structure, and the instrumentation are all vastly different.

[@LisaODavis]

Is this Klezmer music?

[@coreycox2345]

I had the same thought, Lisa O. Davis.

[@seamushawks2190]

Lisa O. Davis influenced by klezmir at least, but Tom waits really does whatever he wants- I don’t think it fits into a genre box

[@MrBishop79]

This is originality, this is integrity, this is art, as pure it gets...

[@adamixa953]

i need to find the rest of this concert

[@trondarntzen]

found it?

[@tigertutt]

Please?

[@adamixa953]

not yet :(

[@bronzeager1298]

It's from the Big Time movie, which I guess is out of print. So either have to track down a VHS copy or find a torrent somewhere. A lot of it is on YT though in parts.

[@Lucas-bd9nd]

@@bronzeager1298 thank you

[@sustainedXnoise]

This is the music to listen to, while walking inebriated in the streets of Paris..

[@ranyalbegwein7470]

Tom Waits - The musician version of George Carlin.

[@RedaniaKnight-Elect]

+Rany Albeg Wein not even close

[@willyandersonmoraes6825]

Or Charles Bukowski

[@filopaa1990]

the best, simply the best.. IL MIGLIORE! TI AMO!