Length 42:11 Artist Tom Waits Label Anti- | Blood Money
(2002) Alice
(2002) Release date 7 May 2002 | |
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Released May 7, 2002 (2002-05-07) Genres Rock music, Alternative rock, Cabaret Producers Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits Similar Tom Waits albums, Rock music albums | ||
Tomwaits misery is the river of the world
Blood Money is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on the ANTI- label.
Contents
The album contains songs written for the play Woyzeck, based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner. The theatrical adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, with whom Waits had worked on two previous plays: The Black Rider and Alice, both of which resulted in soundtrack albums. The latter was released simultaneously in 2002 with Blood Money. The play premiered at the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in November 2000.
The song "God's Away on Business" is featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005).
The song "Misery is the River of the World" is featured in the X-Files episode "Babylon" which aired on the 16th of February 2016
This album ranked at #18 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002.
Track listing
All tracks written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
- "Misery Is the River of the World" – 4:25
- "Everything Goes to Hell" – 3:45
- "Coney Island Baby" – 4:02
- "All the World Is Green" – 4:36
- "God's Away on Business" – 2:59
- "Another Man's Vine" – 2:28
- "Knife Chase" – 2:26 (Instrumental)
- "Lullaby" – 2:09
- "Starving in the Belly of a Whale" – 3:41
- "The Part You Throw Away" – 4:22
- "Woe" – 1:20
- "Calliope" – 1:59 (Instrumental)
- "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" – 3:57
Songs
1Misery Is the River of the World4:25
2Everything Goes to Hell3:46
3Coney Island Baby4:03