The 1985 album Shane MacGowan biblically adored: “The songs are like hymns”Microsoft may have launched Windows, and Live Aid grabbed headlines, but the romantics of this world will remember 1985 as a good year for music with booze on its breath. With Elvis Costello behind the mixing desk, making the album was an exercise in herding drunken cats. “You can hear this on Rain Dogs. Every cobbled stone is touched upon in Rain Dogs, perhaps the greatest album of the 1980s, and it results in a masterful album that plays more like a book than a usual twelve-inch. As a literary scholar of Westminster School, it’s little wonder that MacGowan adored it.