Tom Waits

Editor's Review:

While it isn't necessarily an inferior album, I don't really have much to say about Blood Money that wasn't said in the review of Alice. It has amazing orchestration of primarily woodwinds, guitars, and strange vibraphone things, hit and miss lyrical content, and a truckload of formulaic ballads that I don't tend to listen to. Like Alice, it does have three or four gems that make me wish Tom Waits would turn himself loose on a symphony, such as the beautiful chaos on the instrumental, "Calliope." What is the explanation? Well, I can't make any meaningful distinction between the style and instrumentation of the two albums, so I am forced to ask: did Tom pull the double release move (cut two CDs and mix quality with b-sides)?
- Trent Yarosevich



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Record Label Anti Released May 2002

Tracks Misery Is The River Of The World Everything Goes To Hell Coney Island Baby All The World Is Green God's Away On Business 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