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Alice (Tom Waits album)

Alice
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Soundtrack album by Tom Waits
Released May 7, 2002 (2002-05-07)
Genre Rock, experimental
Length 48:23
Label ANTI-
Producer Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits
Tom Waits chronology
Blood Money
(2002)
Alice
(2002)
Real Gone
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 90/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly B+
The Guardian 3/5 stars
Los Angeles Times 4/4 stars
NME 8/10
Pitchfork Media 9.0/10
Q 4/5 stars
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
Spin 7/10
Uncut 5/5 stars

Alice is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on Epitaph Records (under the Anti sub-label). The album contains the majority of songs written for the play Alice. The adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, whom Waits had previously worked with on the play The Black Rider, and originally set up at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1992. The play has since been performed in various theatres around the world.

The album was co-released with Blood Money, containing songs from a play adapted by Robert Wilson from Georg Büchner's Woyzeck.

It was ranked #2 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002.

The songs had been released as a bootleg in several different versions called The Alice Demos many years before its official release. The source is believed to be studio recordings taken when Waits' car was broken into in late 1992.

The song "Poor Edward" is about Edward Mordake.

All tracks written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.


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