Talk:Rain Dogs/Archive 1

References in popular culture
I moved this section over here to the talk page cos it's all trivia, all unreferenced, and most of it fails notability. Let's talk about what can be integrated into the body of the text, what's not relevant, and see what citations can be foud for what. The only part I think is relevant is the 2 songs used in Down By Law. What do you guys think?


 * The song "Jockey Full of Bourbon" opens the movie Down By Law. The film closes with the song "Tango 'Til They're Sore". and it has also been used in the opening titles of the movie Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.


 * In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, a mobster quotes the title track's famous line "For I am a Rain Dog too."


 * In Charlie Kaufman's original screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, there was a short conversation between Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) about the album Rain Dogs during one of the opening scenes on the train. During this conversation Joel says he remembers buying the album and liking it, but he can't remember anything about it. While the dialogue was stripped from the film, during the fast shots of Stan (Mark Ruffalo) showing Joel the items he has brought in that remind him of Clementine a copy of the CD Rain Dogs can be seen for just a moment.


 * In the same film, Kate Winslet's character uses "blue ruin" dye on her hair. The reference comes from a lyric in "9th & Hennepin." Also, shortly after the hair dye scene, Joel and Clementine are shown mixing a couple of "blue ruins".


 * In the film Knocked Up, Paul Rudd is seen wearing a t-shirt with the album art from Rain Dogs. Also later in the film, when Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen are in a record store the vinyl for "Rain Dogs" is shown.


 * In the beginning of one chapter of Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods "Tango Till They're Sore" is quoted.


 * Ryan Ross guitarist of Panic! at the Disco has the lyrics "Mad as a hatter, thin as a dime" from Diamonds and Gold tattooed across his wrists.

PeaceWarchef (talk) 07:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Cover Typography
The article claims "The cover typography is similar to that of Elvis Presley's self-titled debut." The cover of the Elvis album uses a font that's wild with no parallel lines. Looks like a comic font, colored red and green, across the left and bottom edges. The Waits album has totally different looking fonts (two of them), colored blue and yellow, across the top and right edges. How is this similar? The other linked to examples are all similar, but the Waits one is not similar by any stretch of the word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.95.233.239 (talk) 11:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Presley cover
I removed the following from the article, and bring it here for discussion:


 * The cover design is similar to that of Elvis Presley's self-titled debut. Other artists to use similar designs are k.d. lang on Reintarnation, and The Clash on London Calling.

I do not see the similarity, but that is beside the point. In the absence of a reference saying the Presley cover was the inspiration, this is just speculation that should not be in the article. The other two covers mentioned are irrelevant. ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive' 13:16, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Release date
The lede and the infobox contradict one another as far as release date is concerned. The lede says August 1985 and the infobox says September 30 1985. Can we get a source for this? ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive' 14:19, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorted.  SilkTork   ✔Tea time  21:18, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

NME Album of the Year
I know that Rain Dogs was named Album of the Year by the NME (joint winner with Psychocandy by the Jesus and Mary Chain. I will have a look for a reference and add this information to the third paragraph if I can find one. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2011 (UTC)