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- 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.
- Record Label: Epitaph / Anti-
- Genre(s): Rock
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Top Track
Creature Feature | |
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Oh creature feature! Welcome to this world Nothing's gonna bring you... down Oh creature feature! I offer up my hands, twist them and turn them...... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 20
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Mixed: 0 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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UncutWaits 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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The sheer melodic gorgeousness of the finest songs here make Alice the pick of Waits's new matched set.
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While the rest of pop culture infantilizes itself with cussing puppets and manufactured bands who willfully dangle like marionettes, Waits is serving up vintage brittle fusion and somehow breaking the law of diminishing returns. [Review of both Alice and Blood Money]
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BlenderAfter decades, Waits's theater of musical cruelty is familiar stuff. But the old dog's tricks still have bite. [Applies to both Alice and Blood Money, Jun/Jul 2002, p.111]
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The album's songs do not attack you with bombast but rather smother you in a slow burn, like gathering frost suffocating a mournful shut-in.
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While there is nothing new on Alice, the songs he develops are well-structured, elegant and as bawl-worthy as ever.
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Its a shimmering, mournful gem.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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TomL.Oct 5, 2002One of the greatest albums ever made! Pure genius!
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ScottR.Jun 4, 2002Top-notch whiskey! What the hell does kommiezuspadt mean?
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RichardPDec 2, 2006Simply the greatest and most moving album i have ever had the pleasure to listen to.
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FEARMar 7, 2004best CD ever
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GrantDMar 18, 2006Unlike almost every other artist, this man gets better as he gets older. He is better than Jesus.
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DanielTMay 22, 2006
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JimLApr 4, 2006Too dificult to enjoy.
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