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Tom Waits – Blood Money

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  • "Blood Money" is based on the socio-political play "Woyzeck," originally written by the young German poet Georg Buchner in 1837 as a spare, cinematic piece inspired by the true story of a German soldier driven mad by bizarre army medical experiments and infidelity, which led him to murder his lover

    With his wife and collaborator Kathleen Brennan, Waits wrote songs for an avant-garde production of "Woyzeck" directed by Robert Wilson that premiered at the Betty Nansen Theater in Copenhagen in November 2000 and won the Danish version of the Tony for Best Musical. The album oscillates between brutality and tenderness, between stormy rhythms and romantic melodies

    It's a dark musical treatise on the human condition, a dark mortality play where Tin Pan Alley meets the Weimar Republic. "'Blood Money' is flesh and blood, earthy," Waits says. "The songs are rooted in reality: jealousy, anger, the human wheel of flesh...They're more carnal. I like beautiful songs that tell you terrible things. We all like bad news from a beautiful mouth. I like songs that sound like they've been barrel-aged and desperate."

  • Artist: Tom Waits
    Label: Anti-
    Format: LP
    Units: 1
    Country: Europe
    Genre: Pop & Rock
  • A1 Misery Is The River Of The World
    A2 Everything Goes To Hell
    A3 Coney Island Baby
    A4 All The World Is Green
    A5 God'S Away On Business
    A6 Another Man'S Vine
    B1 Knife Chase
    B2 Lullaby
    B3 Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
    B4 The Part You Throw Away
    B5 Woe
    B6 Calliope
    B7 A Good Man Is Hard To Find