Blood Money
Blood Money
0 is up there with Waits's best albums from the mid-'80s, veering as it does from sexy insomniac circus music to gorgeously heart-tugging lullabies to woozy zigzag bluesy romps to what can only be described as Oscar the Grouch singing out of tune on top of the soundtrack to an old French film.
f0i Blood Money
0 's 13 songs were cowritten by Tom Waits and longtime collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan for a Robert Wilson production of Georg B'9fchner's unfinished, protomodernist 1837 play,
f0i Woyzeck
0 , about a Kafkaesque German soldier who goes crazy after doing medical experiments for money and kills his girlfriend after witnessing a perceived infidelity. The album's worldview is, necessarily, bleak. The lyrics are hilariously misanthropic, occasionally hallucinatory, and ring with the truth of Tin Pan Alley clich'8es turned inside out. "Coney Island Baby," in particular, is a grand statement, with Waits delicately croaking the lines "She's a rose, she's the pearl / She's the spin on my world / All the stars make their wishes on her eyes." The album's manifesto, however, is to be found in the title tune, as Waits spits out the words "If there's one thing you can say about mankind / There's nothing kind about man / You can drive out nature with a pitch fork / But it always comes roaring back again." Released at the same time as the lyrical, lovely
f0i Alice
0 , the ragged and rhythmic
f0i Blood Money
0 marks the return of one of our most gifted meta-singer-songwriters to the top of his game.
f0i --Mike McGonigal
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| upc: |
0045778662920 |
| tracklisting: |
Misery Is The River of the World
Everything Goes to Hell
Coney Island Baby
All The World Is Green
God's Away On Busines
Another Man's Vine
Knife Chase
Lullaby
Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
The Part You Throw Away
Woe
Calliope
A Good Man Is Hard To Find |
| title: |
Blood Money |
| purchase date: |
22-02-2006 |
| publisher: |
Epitaph / Ada |
| published: |
07-05-2002 |
| price: |
$13.98 |
| net Rating: |
4.5 |
| last lookup time: |
162172960 |
| genre: |
Singer-Songwriters
Experimental Rock |
| fullTitle: |
Blood Money |
| currentValue: |
$8.25 |
| created: |
162172960 |
| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
Audio CD |
| asin: |
B00005YX3K |
| artist: |
Tom Waits
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