Blood Money (Tom Waits album)
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| Studio album by Tom Waits | ||||
| Released | May 7, 2002 | |||
| Genre | Jazz, cabaret | |||
| Length | 42:11 | |||
| Label | Anti | |||
| Producer |
Kathleen Brennan Tom Waits |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 84/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide | A− |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| The Guardian | |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 9.0/10 |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Spin | 7/10 |
Blood Money is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on the ANTI- label.
The album contains songs written for the play Woyzeck, based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner. The theatrical adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, with whom Waits had worked on two previous plays: The Black Rider and Alice, both of which resulted in soundtrack albums. The latter was released simultaneously in 2002 with Blood Money. The play premiered at the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen in November 2000.
The song "God's Away on Business" is featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005).
The song "Misery is the River of the World" is featured in the X-Files episode "Babylon" which aired on February 16, 2016.
This album ranked at #18 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002.
All tracks written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
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