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 w...(展开全部) 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 café 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 Cooke
0 有用 ★ 2011-08-11 20:03:06
柔情似水
0 有用 Serotonin 2012-01-28 21:23:17
动人。
0 有用 孔孔惟 2010-06-27 20:47:49
太棒了
3 有用 气急败坏女疯子 2012-09-10 12:59:42
听这个老疯子嘶吼,我都走火入魔。他唱得真特么哀怨。还有那有气无力的淡雅忧伤,勾起我撕心裂肺般的伤痛。
0 有用 Sophie 2010-08-25 02:35:33
苍老
0 有用 山中人芳杜若 2023-08-15 13:17:07 北京
脑残粉补标
0 有用 Olympia 2022-10-27 15:42:18 上海
我对美国酒吧里那些醉汉们讲的故事不感兴趣,我对布鲁斯也不感兴趣,但我就是喜欢听Tom Waits用布鲁斯唱他在美国酒吧里听来的故事
0 有用 那我觉得不中 2024-01-14 05:04:11 北京
四星半
0 有用 带鱼 2023-10-24 21:13:13 浙江
小鹿
0 有用 spark 2022-12-06 10:04:19 加拿大
封面惹火, just passed my road test and share this moment with Mr. J, the best/上一首让人微笑下一首就令你流泪