In 1985, Tom Waits released 'Rain Dogs.'
A record that dragged blues, theatre, junkyard percussion and street poetry into a battered, ecstatic vision of New York after midnight.
In 1969, Isaac Hayes released 'Hot Buttered Soul.' A record that broke soul music out of the three-minute single and rebuilt it as something cinematic, slow-burning and expansive.
In 1966,The Mothers of Invention released 'Freak Out!' A debut album that treated American pop culture as something to be cut open, examined and laughed at.
