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Rain Dogs has everything that should make me adore this album; two major facets being an unconventional vocalist and absurd lyrics, yet I don’t get it like I think I should. I hope on subsequent listens I appreciate the album more because right now I love Rain Dogs much more in theory than in practice.

Billy Joel is a great balladeer but this album would have been so much better if it had the energy of You May Be Right and Sleeping With the Television On throughout the whole record. It truly deserved that.

Imagine being ‘Save a Prayer,’ this masterwork of a closing track, and getting outdone in that regard on the very same album, so much so that you don’t even get to be the last song. The Chauffeur is just too good.

This is basically just John Lennon if he went off the rails and keep going hard on psychedelia after Sgt. Pepper.