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- Summary: The latest album for the singer-songwriter is the first album of all new songs since 2004's Real Gone.
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- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Top Track
Hell Broke Luce | |
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I had a good home but I left I had a good home but I left, right, left That big fucking bomb made me deaf, deaf A Humvee mechanic put his Kevlar on... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 40
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Mixed: 2 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
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Oct 25, 2011Bad as Me, his first album of new material in seven years, is a tour de force of wise ol' swagger and new-century blues.
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Oct 25, 2011Bad As Me is entry-level Waits for newcomers, and for longtime fans it's a fun reminder of Waits' ability to be a badass when necessary.
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Oct 25, 2011Bad As Me sees the performer reaching back into his bag of tricks to pull out a few favourites in a characteristically exhilarating, terrifying, heartbreaking, tear jerking, bone-rattling style.
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Oct 24, 2011For all his indulgences, Waits never lingers too long; these tracks are concise and expertly edited, and Bad as Me feels as new as it does ancient.
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Oct 26, 2011Waits has given us another brilliant album in Bad as Me, his best in a long while (maybe since 1992's Bone Machine), but he also lays down a gauntlet.
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Oct 24, 2011Bad As Me's 13 tracks fairly rip along, alerting a new generation that there are few as fine as Waits.
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Oct 20, 2011There's plenty to enjoy here, but very little to get worked up about.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Negative: 2 out of 16
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