@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ♥️
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?
..."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...
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!
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...
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
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...
"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.
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.
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!
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
There were performers like this in Europe before 1930,,,before the deluge,,,in Prague Vienna Berlin,,,,there Pierot and Harlequin danced with the Whore and the Pimp, Waits is part of a great tradition,,,,and yet wholly unique, Honour to him
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.
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..."
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
With Kerouac type lyrics and a Bukowski feel...I am not sure ANY day was Tom's day....BUT...that is exactly what makes every day...every time...every era...Tom's time. It is the music that if you are not a fan....or before you were a fan...you always knew had to be out there...that SOMEONE had to be playing it...and it has been...and always will be Tom. "Unique is not a synonym for most unusual...it means unique...and damn few things are!" - Tom Robbins
This is probably my favorite waits song. Genius. I thought he was more consistent in the 70s, but he put out some very interesting songs in the 80s like this one
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.
I saw Tom on the Raindogs tour in New York. Hardly remember it, any more. I remember I bought an illegal T-shirt with his picture on it, but it fell apart in less than a year.
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!!!
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.
Нечто большее, чем музыка. Нечто большее, чем искусство. Истинная жизнь в одном из своих наиболее привлекательных проявлений. Маэстро, нижайший Вам поклон.
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.
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.
"Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark" -Jack Kerouac
Genuine Genius:
It's a Polka, Greek Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Dark Cabaret, Vaudeville &, a smokey NY nightclub all mixed together
And some Turkish sounds also
I always thought of it as demented circus music
@@berkayadas7739 Not Turkish sound. Russian/circus sound.
@@theclash3015everything russian art belongs to ashkenazi and turkic
@@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.
Tom Waits is just one of those people that, whenever I remember he exists and listen to his music, I'm happy.
Joseph Rhinewine I know what you mean
same here, same here!
Same here. Sorry for replying 4 yrs later but..
Dude is slaying it on that clarinet.
Oh yes!
This comment cracks me up everytime I come back to this song. Which is often.
my late and wonderfully whacky SF friend Ralph Carney.
He is ozzy Osborne?
Superb
He just doesn't put on a show, he puts on an experience.
+133Nomad He sure did when we see him !
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.
+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. ;)
We all lost way...
Jelice,u pravu si 110 posto
Do you ever feel like your a rain dog in your own head?
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
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.
i was pretty sure this couldn't get any better until i saw accordian guy jamming out with his fez
In ecstasy. Notice how the musicians moved to form a ragged band behind him? Brilliant.
This is quite possibly the best live performance of all time. Just look at the way he moves!
Agreed
+1
Tom Waits is a whole other musical genre and he has it all to himself. Performance art mixed with a unique musical style.
This guy is a musical genius
fuck yeah he is
Artistic genius maybe
His interpretation of Eastern European music is astonish and incredible
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
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.
Just change your sorting order )
@@agcouper Thanks. I hadn't clocked that was what it was doing.
Pure unadulterated madness, and it's wonderful!
One of my absolute fav songs. This live version is even better!!!
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.
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 :)
Love how they huddle together like a crazy group of hobos on a street
I love this. My favorite Waits performance. Everything about it is perfect, from the demented smiling to the dancing.
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
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.
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 ♥️
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?
Excellent!! Like a cabaret scene and the whole band is performing!! True entertainment!
Excellente! Prefer this version to the cd.
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。
..."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...
to me it sounds like a mix of Russian and Balkan music. I can actually dance kolo (Balkan traditional dances) to it. :D
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!
This guy is imposible...How can you write a melody like this one? It's amazing,he's a genious!
Listen to a lot of world music like polka, salsa and a lot more.. too be creative and a have a twist mind..
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!
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...
Here is one of the BEST voices in music folks.
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
Absolutely Sublime ... if my house burns down I’m grabbing my copy of Big Time on VHS
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
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...
+IreneT1210 oh trust I believe you. I can feel it, just by watching the video.
"A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't" TW
"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.
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.
Уникальный.Неповторимый. Люблю!
Unbelievable!! How amazing, what a talent he is, and that voice, goes so deep.. Love the accordion player too :o))
This is one of his most breath taking perfomances I've seen ever! What an incredible musician!
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
The world needs more Tom. This is amazing.
TOM WAITS IS A TOTAL GENIUS ... TAXI TAXI !!! WE RATHER WALK !!
I can't believe I just found him today.. He is different.. a bit odd and I like him...
I envy you, Pamela. You've got an entire world of Waits to discover. Happy travels! (I've been a fan for 40 years.)
ok i'm just 20 ....
Enjoy Asdilan :)
i always enjoy listening to Tom !!!
I really enjoy him :)
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
Man, i really want an entire album that sounds like that ending from 2:45
Mittel Europa plus Balkans plus guy with the fez plus Jewish wedding plus Tom Waits plus Hungarian Romani Music and I luv it
Still raining dogs in 2023 and Tom Waits is still and forever will be a national treasure
Waits is a genius! The musicians are effing awesome too btw!
This is the music to listen to, while walking inebriated in the streets of Paris..
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!
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!!!!
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
English *is* my mother tongue and I don't understand the words at first listen
@@user-deevt English is your mother tongue and you don't understand how to use tenses properly? Yeesh!
Nobody will understand all of Tom's words. Just let yourself be swept away by the flotsam filled current that is his music.
Totaly fantastic! He's amazing! Thanks for sharing it for the whole world. Greetings from Brasil.
All Hail Tom, and gosh I'm so stoned. It's lovely.
Lol. I don't remember this at all.
There were performers like this in Europe before 1930,,,before the deluge,,,in Prague Vienna Berlin,,,,there Pierot and Harlequin danced with the Whore and the Pimp, Waits is part of a great tradition,,,,and yet wholly unique, Honour to him
Dude on accordion having the time of his life
67 ans de BeuGleurie so bienveillante .... merci Tom... Jazz-Rock-Kurt Weil magnificience Guy !!!! encore.... encore.... ENCORE !!!!!!
even for tom waits, that was a very tom waitsy performance
There's a lot of things I love my husband for, but him introducing me to Tom Waits' music is in the top 10....... maybe top 5.
Rain dogs +swordfish trombones are his two masterpieces in my opinion.
Wow. Just, wow.
I must see him live some day.
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.
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..."
he's tuned into the great music unconsciousness..........
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.
magical, l thought l had lost this video..Tom is unique in the best ways...
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
With Kerouac type lyrics and a Bukowski feel...I am not sure ANY day was Tom's day....BUT...that is exactly what makes every day...every time...every era...Tom's time. It is the music that if you are not a fan....or before you were a fan...you always knew had to be out there...that SOMEONE had to be playing it...and it has been...and always will be Tom. "Unique is not a synonym for most unusual...it means unique...and damn few things are!" - Tom Robbins
This crushes the studio version.
This is probably my favorite waits song. Genius. I thought he was more consistent in the 70s, but he put out some very interesting songs in the 80s like this one
Wow, this is the first I've heard of him. He's actually pretty good. And I usually close my mind to unfamiliar music.
keep at it Brendan, you never know what you might find!
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.
a nomad traversing an acoustical plane of delirium tremens
I'm 58. My favourite artist of all time.
Wait. My head, my legs moving and my arms uncontrolled. Is Tom Waits?
I saw Tom on the Raindogs tour in New York. Hardly remember it, any more. I remember I bought an illegal T-shirt with his picture on it, but it fell apart in less than a year.
look at him dance!
now i need to go listen to "russian dance" from his black rider album
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!!!
Brilliant. The smile on my face almost hurts. Oh Tom, you'll give me wrinkles...
I really wanna hang out with that dude playing the accordion lol. I mean tom as well, but that's obvious lol
greatest actor among singers, greatest singer among actors
Fuckin' genious !
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.
Taxi! Taxi! Taxi! ~~ We'd rather walk!
Out of this universe... amazingly
how does he even have a voice after doing this for so many yrs
That's his voice
He talks that way too.
He talked like that in the 80s already.
I am so captivated! Can't look away. Amazing!
0:36 When Ozzy Osbourne wants to get away from Sharon.
Нечто большее, чем музыка. Нечто большее, чем искусство. Истинная жизнь в одном из своих наиболее привлекательных проявлений. Маэстро, нижайший Вам поклон.
i need to find the rest of this concert
found it?
Please?
not yet :(
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.
@@bronzeager1298 thank you
Fantastic perfomance . Tom is a genius. I love this guy
2:50 onwards. Jagger wishes he had the moves like Waits.
tom waits
man he just gets the mood going for anything!!!!!
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.
Tom Waits is truly the most complete musician that I know of. The finest person in the history of the Western Hemisphere.
Are Tom Waits and Ron Pearlman related?
twins
No, but rumour has it Pearlman is playing Waits in an upcoming biopic directed by David Lynch!
@@Gabez9 Please be true.
A work of total genius!
Tom Waits - The musician version of George Carlin.
+Rany Albeg Wein not even close
Or Charles Bukowski
I went to this show, it is by far the best I have ever been to, time goes by.
Is this Klezmer music?
I had the same thought, Lisa O. Davis.
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
"Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark"
-Jack Kerouac
Why isn't this guy in a metal band?
He's too complicated for that.
I like metal but I also like this. Rather have Tom doing something that no else really does and listen to metal another time.