Blood Money is etched. It’s scratched out in bold, dark lines, with marimba, trumpet, and bass clarinet and contains some songs of Tom Waits’ most memorable melodies. The songs are declarative, sardonic, unforgiving, musical dispatches, from the bottom of the heap.

“Blood Money is flesh and bone, earthbound,” said Waits. “The songs are rooted in reality: jealousy, rage, the human meat wheel...They are more carnal. I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth. I like songs to sound as though they’ve been aging in a barrel and distressed.”

Label
Anti
Genre
Pop & Rock LP - SIDE A
Misery Is The River
Everything Goes To Hell
Coney Island Baby
All The World Was Green
God's Away On Business
Another Man's Vine
LP - SIDE B
Knife Chase
Lullaby
Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
The Part You Throw Away
Woe
Calliope
A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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