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 collabora...(展开全部) 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 Büchner'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 clichés 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 McGonigal
I fell into the ocean When you became my wife I risked it all against the sea To have a better life Marie you’re the wild blue sky And men do foolish things You turn kings into beggars And beggars into kings Pretend that you owe me nothing And all the wor...
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0 有用 FiΙTн 2012-02-07 14:35:43
4.5】
5 有用 Eiðsgrandi 2009-10-06 20:50:19
大灰狼在唱Lullaby
0 有用 思阳 2009-07-08 06:05:15
最初就是因为那首god's away on business才喜欢上tom的。听他的歌和歌词才真切的体会到世事的黑暗与艰辛啊。我要把我的签名从jefferson airplane改成他的歌词
0 有用 やま 2014-05-26 13:45:17
time is memory mixed with desire
0 有用 James 2014-02-14 15:33:43
4.5
0 有用 Poinçonneur 2024-08-15 21:43:14 广西
Waits发布的两部2002年的姊妹篇都是为Robert Wilson的改编戏剧而配写的音乐,《血钞》的对应剧本是《Woyzeck》,歌剧爱好者尤其Alban Berg粉丝应该都懂,《爱丽丝》则同名,前一次Waits和R. Wilson合作项目是他的专辑《黑色骑侠》。合伙人依旧是妻子Kathleen Brennan,后期Waits写了很多婚姻纯爱歌,包括这张的Coney Island Baby,这... Waits发布的两部2002年的姊妹篇都是为Robert Wilson的改编戏剧而配写的音乐,《血钞》的对应剧本是《Woyzeck》,歌剧爱好者尤其Alban Berg粉丝应该都懂,《爱丽丝》则同名,前一次Waits和R. Wilson合作项目是他的专辑《黑色骑侠》。合伙人依旧是妻子Kathleen Brennan,后期Waits写了很多婚姻纯爱歌,包括这张的Coney Island Baby,这太感人怀旧了。黑卡巴莱、声乐爵士和Brass Band都是这些Waits玩透天了的重磅好戏。 (展开)
0 有用 小狗说 2021-11-05 22:42:47
诗人唱歌
1 有用 洲1013 2024-02-02 20:29:01 福建
也是很惊艳的
0 有用 赵小跑. 2022-04-12 18:23:32
Coney Island Baby ※/All The World Is Green ※※/God's Away On Business ※/Knife Chase ※/Lullaby ※※/A Good Man Is Hard To Find ※※
0 有用 月司 2022-10-08 07:35:33 中国台湾
3.7。烟熏的程度不足以形容汤姆叔叔的嗓音,简直是烟灰丧❤️2. Everything Goes To Hell