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Blood Money
Rock · 2002 · 13 tracks

Blood Money

Tom Waits

A cynical, theatrical descent into the human condition. Marimbas clatter like bones beneath a voice that sounds like it was cured in smoke and gravel.

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It's like a carnival run by ghosts who only drink top-shelf rye.

A relentless, black-humored exploration of human misery delivered with theatrical flair.

Blood Money · vs · Tom Waits
Midnight+2.6σ

Midnight saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks
01
Misery Is the River of the World
4:25
02
Everything Goes to Hell
3:46
03
Coney Island Baby
4:03
04
All the World Is Green
4:37
05
God’s Away on Business
3:00
06
Another Man’s Vine
2:28
07
Knife Chase
2:27
08
Lullaby
2:09
09
Starving in the Belly of a Whale
3:42
10
The Part You Throw Away
4:22
11
Woe
1:20
12
Calliope
1:59
13
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
3:58
Moments Worth Waiting For
The industrial clank and rhythmic bark of the vocals on God's Away on Business creating a sense of impending doom.
The fragile, heartbreaking beauty of the cello and piano interplay on All the World Is Green.
The unsettling, carnival-esque wheeze of the calliope that closes the album's thematic arc.
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