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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 Busines |
| 6. Another Man's Vine |
| 7. Knife Chase |
| 8. Lullaby |
| 9. Starving In The Belly Of A Whale |
| 10. The Part You Throw Away |
| 11. Woe |
| 12. Calliope |
| 13. A Good Man Is Hard To Find |
Product Description
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Blood Money 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. Blood Money's 13 songs were cowritten by Tom Waits and longtime collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan for a Robert Wilson production of Georg Büchner's unfinished, protomodernist 1837 play, Woyzeck, 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 clichés 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 Alice, the ragged and rhythmic Blood Money marks the return of one of our most gifted meta-singer-songwriters to the top of his game. --Mike McGonigal
Album Description
Blood Money uses the same template and players as Alice (released at the same time) and first saw life as an opera production by Robert Wilson. It's Waits's treatment of Georg Buchner's 1837 socio-political play, Woyzek which premiered in 2000 in Copenhagen. It's a dark morality play performed in a style where a barker from a medicine show is mysteriously transported to the Weimar Republic via Tin Pan Alley. Disturbing and delirious when it's not romantic and hilarious, the songs have a much more direct emotional appeal than the surrealistic Alice.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
almost as good as alice,
By mellowgold (nobody's bizness but my own) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blood Money (Audio CD)
very much like the alice album. very good from start to finish. lots of great tracks on here. favs being All the World is Green & Another Man's Vine. some very mellow tracks on here. this is alot more low key than alice. i would say to get them both. they tie together very nicely.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Tom Waits cd since Bone Machine,
By Jonathan Royer (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blood Money (Audio CD)
I was not too impressed with the Mule Variations cd when it came out, so I was surprised that Blood Money was soo good. It definately has that haunted amusement park feel to it that I was looking for. Awesome CD.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Bizarre set of Performance Pieces,
By o dubhthaigh (north rustico, pei, canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blood Money (Audio CD)
This release has not grown on me the way ALICE has. The music is Waits at his absolute weirdest, and that's saying something. Likely that's enough to attract legions of fans. Truth to tell, these songs have not stayed with me as ALICE's compositions have. I find myself fast forwarding or skipping through pieces like "Calliope", and thematically, the whole project just comes off as soundtrack music for Charles Bukowski nightmares. A worthy project, but certainly niche music for art students.Again, the music is meant to accompany some sort of theatrical piece by Robert Wilson. Maybe in context, this would rivet me more, but on its own, a couple of times through this now over the course of the past year and I doubt that I'll listen to it again.
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