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Track Listings
| 1. Misery Is The River Of The World |
| 2. Everything Goes to Hell |
| 3. Coney Island Baby |
| 4. All the World Is Green |
| 5. God's Away On Business |
| 6. Another Man's Vine |
| 7. Lullaby |
| 8. Starving In The Belly Of A Whale |
| 9. The Part You Throw Away |
| 10. Woe |
| 11. Calliope ( instrumental ) |
| 12. A Good Man |
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Based on director Robert Wilson's horrific tale of a 19th century Prussian soldier subjected to medical experiments after being driven insane by his cheating woman, Tom Waits' Blood Money is-contrarily--the funniest Waits album since his late 1970s drunken cabaret period. The musical landscape is painted by alternately stomping or swaying jazz rhythms and melodies, pizzicato strings, sexy mutant Latin guitars, wailing harmonicas, lyrical clarinets and drunken brass, while Waits utilises every voice--from poisoned croon to martial rant--that he's ever stumbled upon, as his metaphors and killing jokes turn horror into bleak hilarity.
Ignore those who say that Blood Money is the evil, inaccessible twin of the concurrently-released Alice--they perhaps don't appreciate the desire for redemption and the love of humanity that lies behind the ironies of all great black comedy. Blood Money is a new musical and poetic peak, and the greatest Tom Waits album yet. --Garry Mulholland
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you have liked any Tom Waits albums since Sworfishtrombones, you will love this....just a word of caution though :it is not suitable for those of a nervous disposition! The aura created by the brilliant and original inventiveness of Tom Waits may leave you with an uneasy feeling.You wont find yourself humming these songs in the shower!
There is nothing startingly different from much of his more recent work on this album,it is similiar to many of his other post Swordfishtrombones offerings. But what he does, he does brilliantly. For me he is the only genius working in the world of rock: rock music as art? In the hands of Tom Waits, most certainly yes.
If you have never bought a Tom Waits album this would be a good place to start. If you are fed up of the usual bland pap that passes for rock music these days and are looking for an album with originality, black humour, great lyrics, amazing arrangements that is more than just a little off the wall, then this is for you. Buy it!! Within 5 seconds of the start of track 1 you will know you are in the presence of genius.
There is nothing startingly different from much of his more recent work on this album,it is similiar to many of his other post Swordfishtrombones offerings. But what he does, he does brilliantly. For me he is the only genius working in the world of rock: rock music as art? In the hands of Tom Waits, most certainly yes.
If you have never bought a Tom Waits album this would be a good place to start. If you are fed up of the usual bland pap that passes for rock music these days and are looking for an album with originality, black humour, great lyrics, amazing arrangements that is more than just a little off the wall, then this is for you. Buy it!! Within 5 seconds of the start of track 1 you will know you are in the presence of genius.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is Thomas at very near his uncompromising best: a demented tango, a sliver of mississippi delta blues, some lushly orchestrated sinister instrumental passages, much staccato blurting and gurgling, a little fractured crooning, and the now familiar recourse to the pulpit ('The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand'). While not sounding quite new to aficionados of his recent work, the production and the songwriting still genuinely startle, and the reward for negotiating the mostly bumpy terrain is a meltingly tender finale, in which (one of his great talents) he breathes new life into the most insipid cliche: A Good Man is Hard to Find.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have a problem. I got to know Mr Waits years ago (around about Closing Time) when his style was far different. More poetry set to sleazy jazz than music. I loved it. Then he went weird. A bit like when Dylan went electric I suppose. I have gone out and bought most of his CDs over the years but have never really enjoyed then since about Heart Attack and Vine. Recently though I bought Alice and Blood Money. I have to admit that he has eventually won me over. The songs are painfully beautiful. The lyrics haunt you. OK I still need the occasional fix of Small Change Got Rained On or Burma Shave but I can now listen and love once more. Plus the kids have stopped rolling their eyes every time I play it. Buy it and cry!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
a very good later effort
this is a very good album by waits, with a far more eclectic collection of songs than appeared in mule variations. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Biffer Spice
Take me out to dreamland
"Every night she comes to take me out to dreamland...
She`s a rose, she`s the pearl
She`s the spin on my world
All the stars make their wishes on her eyes"... Read more
She`s a rose, she`s the pearl
She`s the spin on my world
All the stars make their wishes on her eyes"... Read more
Published 9 months ago by GlynLuke
Last Orders of Time
Tom takes to the road and casts off the encumberance of rhyme and reason to create a shambling surreal masterpiece. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
Blood Money - Tom Waits
Tom Waits is an acquired taste. He has a throaty approach and some of his songs have an almost aggressive outlook on the world. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2010 by Music Crazy
Dont Forget Kathleen.
I can go one better than the amazon review,i think this is the greatest album ever not just lyrically,but the marriage of instruments and emotions is pure genius. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2007 by Constantino Theologou
Woyzeck by any other name
The least focused of all waits' musical soundtracks, this one is from the Robert wilson play `woyzeck'. Read more
Published on 11 July 2007 by ChinaBoatMan
Best Tom Waits album?
Tom Waits takes on the persona of a demented carnival barker in the fairground from Hell singing songs of despair, (All the good in the world, You can put inside a thimble, And... Read more
Published on 28 July 2006 by K. Preston
Soundtrack to a soldier's despair.
Like the Black Rider and Alice albums before it, Blood Money was initially produced for one of avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson's conceptual literary adaptations, in... Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2006 by Jonathan James Romley
Blood Money
Great Tom Album no doubt. Fans of his earlier work may not like, or those perhaps being introduced for the first time..He does sound like he's just got out of the asylum .. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2005 by G. Jones
We've Still Got His Shoes
This album is great. It sounds for the most part like it is played by some very talented, very drunk mega-dodgies on the run from a lunatic asylum and who have an ear for oblique... Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2002
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