Tom Waits - Alice
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Artist: Tom WaitsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-05-07
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Alice
- Everything You Can Think
- Flowers Grave
- No One Knows I'm Gone
- Kommienezuepadt
- Poor Edward
- Table Top Joe
- Lost In The Harbor
- We're All Mad Here
- Watch Her Disappear
- Reeperbahn
- I'm Still Here
- Fish & Bird
- Barcarolle
- Fawn
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Free Music Review: Alice
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Tom Waits-Alice ****
Alice was the first Tom Waits album that didn't truly blow me away. All the rest of his material that I have hear, which I a good chunk of it, has left me puzzled as to how someone can make so many consitantly good albums one after another after another. But what is most interesting to me about Alice is that it was released at the same time as Blood Money which is one of my very favorite Waits albums and yet this is maybe my least favorite. It is my least favorite of all his work after 1990. But I am not saying this is a bad album because it isn't and much like Bob Marley, Tom Waits does not make bad records.
The songwriting to the album, both lyrically and musically are in my opinion among his weakest. The lack of percussion on the album leaves the album too dry to appreciate sometimes, this puts all the emphasis on the strings which sometimes makes the album seems lush. The lyrics seem reheated. What I mean is some of the tracks seem as though Waits is parading other songs from his past and is reusing old subject matter. Especially his Bone Machine album, this seems like familiar territory like the king he traveled on that album. When he isn't doing this all is well.
The album is essentially a opera, but no not a rock opera like The Who's Tommy or anything. He simply wrote and opera with his wife and turned it into an album. Which works in some places like the title track, 'Alice' but not in others like the often skippable 'Barcarolle.' Other tracks like the albums closer 'Fawn' and 'Table Top Joe' are classic Waits, so the good really does still out weigh the other.
Alice may not be Waits' best album but it is still one that deserves play every once in a short while. It's a great album just the same and one that any collection could improve from.
Alice Poster
The grizzled modern persona of Tom Waits finds new life on Alice, a slow, grave record that explores physical and moral decay with the same harrowing insight of 1992's Bone Machine. Originally written as an opera with his longtime songwriting partner, playwright Kathleen Brennan, the songs on Alice were performed live in a Hamburg theater for 18 months in 1992 and 1993, but were never committed to tape (officially, at least). This studio recording retains a sense of narrative cohesion, giving Waits a set of tormented and bizarre characters that go well with the motley crew he's assembled over the years. It is, in fact, the most consistent record of Waits's career, offering not only a stable train of thought, but a musical approach that, while featuring the same vaudevillian touches that have characterized his work since Swordfishtrombones, finds a voice all its own. Without much percussion to back them up, violins, cellos, and horns dominate the record, bathing Waits's familiar growl in a sly, slow cacophony that sounds like an underwater fugue, the notes like rust on the strings. "Watch Her Disappear," with its sparse, sad pump organ, and the twisted torch song "Reeperbahn" have the smoky caf? mystery of Edith Piaf by way of Leonard Cohen, recovered from the water-logged tapes in Cole Porter's long-lost dingy. It's a burst of dark, world-weary poetry for lonely Saturday nights, cloudy days on the beach, or long strolls through graveyards. --Matthew CookeAlice has been called Wait's long-lost masterpiece. Originally performed as an opera directed by Robert Wilson for Hamburg's Thalia Theatre in 1992, but left unrecorded until 2001. The show ran for a year and a half using an unusual orchestra designed by Waits to underpin the songs co-written with his wife Kathleen Brennen. Rather than being directly based on Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, the Waits-Brennen Alice takes inspiration from feelings remembered and dreams recalled after reading the books. Released simultaneously with Blood Money.
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