Tom Waits - Blood Money
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Artist: Tom WaitsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-05-07
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- 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
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Tom Waits-Blood Money *****
To say that Blood Money is a better album than SwordFishTrombones is not false, to say that it can contend with Rain Dogs would simply be an understatement. Blood Money can contend with the best of Waits' material, and that is why it is so nerving that this is one of his most forgotten albums. Based on a play about a man who kills his wife after he catches her in what he presumes to be infidelity after he has gone crazy due to the high level of medical experiments he has undergone. It may seem like a stretch for the premise of a concept album but with such great songwriters like Waits and his wife Kathy on the job it seems less challenged.
'Starving In The Belly Of The Whale' is brilliant, as is the delicate croaking of 'Coney Island Baby' and 'The Part You Throw Away.' The infidelity of 'Another Mans Vine' is chilling while 'Woe' and 'Misery Is The River Of The World' are just plain heart-wrenching. But what makes Blood Money a must have is the albums closer. 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find' is, well perfect. Possibly Waits' absolute best recording, that may seem like a stretch to some, but I truly believe it.
Blood Money is among the elite albums in Waits' collection of music along with the like of Rain Dogs, Bone Machine, Heartattack And Vine, and Mule Variations. Highly Recommended.
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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 B?chner'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 clich?s 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 McGonigalBlood 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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