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- Summary: The singer-songwriter releases a live CD with tracks recorded from various cities on his 2008 tour. The second disc contains 35-minutes of stories and antidotes as told by Waits.
- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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As usual, it’s worth any amount of trouble to hear Waits live.
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The best live music doesn’t attempt to just mirror the recordings, but expands upon them, highlighting a performer’s chemistry with the band and audience. When Waits does that, the illusion works; when he doesn’t it’s like seeing the cards tucked up a magician’s sleeve.
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A sophisticated gentleman does a poo.
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Glitter And Doom Live is an admirable document of yet another stage in his continually engrossing career.
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Glitter and Doom Live is not simply a souvenir of a tour most fans didn't attend but a de facto greatest hits of Waits' fourth decade of music, during which his gnarly adventurousness didn't wane but only intensified.
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the Waits of Glitter and Doom Live values theatricality as much as storytelling. As on his previous live album, 1988’s "Big Time," Waits often borders on playfulness.
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Q MagazineA live document of his wildly acclaimed 2008 tour, Glitter And Doom further amplifies that uniqueness, backed up by an entire second disc of surreal storytelling. [Jan 2010, p. 126]
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Positive: 8 out of 9
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Mixed: 1 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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alexbNov 25, 2009Essential for any Tom Waits fan, one of my favorite albums of the year.
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robertfDec 4, 2009
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IanBNov 26, 2009
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joegNov 27, 2009He work is a masterpiece he seriously kicks butt. There is no one like him. Everyone else stand back and make way for the dudest man in town.
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ChrisK.Nov 28, 2009The best album of the year no matter that these songs are previously released.
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JoshS.Nov 29, 2009The reworkings on this album show Waits isn't content resting on his laurels. One for the fans.
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MikeMDec 2, 2009
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