Alice - Tom Waits
Alice Image
  • Summary: One of two Waits releases in May 2002 ('Blood Money' is the other), 'Alice' was originally written as an opera and actually performed live during an 18-month engagement in Hamburg in the early 1990s. However, this is the first recording of these 15 tracks, culled from recent studio sessions.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. 100
    I defy you to find a more elegantly shambolic, soulfully homespun and, indeed, heartfelt album than this.
  2. The sheer melodic gorgeousness of the finest songs here make Alice the pick of Waits's new matched set.
  3. 100
    Waits does nothing predictable here, and the structure of even the most forlorn tear-jerker is ambitious and avant-something-or-other. [Co-Album Of The Month, June 2002, p.106]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 23
  3. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. RichardP
    10
    Simply the greatest and most moving album i have ever had the pleasure to listen to.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. mark
    10
    there is no finer album in its genre, whatever that genre might be. waits is a little like psychoanalysis or lsd - until you have "experienced" it, there is no understanding it. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. JimL
    2
    Too dificult to enjoy.
    • 0 of 2 users said yes

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