Audio CD review:
Tom Waits - Alice

Tom Waits - Alice

Band: Tom Waits Title: Alice Rating: Release Date: 2002-05-07 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Alice 2: Everything You Can Think 3: Flowers Grave 4: No One Knows I'm Gone 5: Kommienezuepadt 6: Poor Edward 7: Table Top Joe 8: Lost In The Harbor 9: We're All Mad Here 10: Watch Her Disappear 11: Reeperbahn 12: I'm Still Here 13: Fish & Bird 14: Barcarolle 15: Fawn

Alice All the rest of his material that I have hear, which I a good chunk of it, has left me puzzled as to how someone can make so many consitantly good albums one after another after another. Tom Waits-Alice **** Alice was the first Tom Waits album that didn't truly blow me away. But what is most interesting to me about Alice is that it was released at the same time as Blood Money which is one of my very favorite Waits albums and yet this is maybe my least favorite. It is my least favorite of all his work after 1990. But I am not saying this is a bad album because it isn't and much like Bob Marley, Tom Waits does not make bad records. The songwriting to the album, both lyrically and musically are in my opinion among his weakest. The lack of percussion on the album leaves the album too dry to appreciate sometimes, this puts all the emphasis on the strings which sometimes makes the album seems lush. The lyrics seem reheated. What I mean is some of the tracks seem as though Waits is parading other songs from his past and is reusing old subject matter. Especially his Bone Machine album, this seems like familiar territory like the king he traveled on that album. When he isn't doing this all is well. The album is essentially a opera, but no not a rock opera like The Who's Tommy or anything. He simply wrote and opera with his wife and turned it into an album. Which works in some places like the title track, 'Alice' but not in others like the often skippable 'Barcarolle. ' Other tracks like the albums closer 'Fawn' and 'Table Top Joe' are classic Waits, so the good really does still out weigh the other. Alice may not be Waits' best album but it is still one that deserves play every once in a short while. It's a great album just the same and one that any collection could improve from. Tom Waits never fails. Let me tell you, we are so glad to have it back in our Tom Waits collection. I just recently re-bought this album because my boyfriend had lost it, and I got it for him as a surprise. This album is fun, sad, melancholy all rolled into one. To anyone starting out in their Tom Waits expedition, it might scare them off. Sometimes I think Tom is a seriously acquired taste. But to fans already familiar with this brilliant mans work, I suggest it 100%. . No Name It kept me engaged the whole way. I think the kids review below is the best review i've ever read. Bravo. There's nothing more to say. Drift off to Dreamland... I don't know about the woman. ALICE is beautiful. . . but the album certainly is. Are you familiar with some of Salvador Dali's more surrealist paintings? ALICE is beautiful in that sense--not necessarily physical perfection as atmospheric perfection. Written and produced with wife Kathleen Brennan, ALICE tells a story--a sad, depressing, disturbing story, but a good story nonetheless. The songs are mostly somber--I don't reccommend listening to this album all the way through, at least not on your first go-round. I know, you probably think that would defeat the point, but it doesn't. In fact, it'll keep you more interested. Otherwise, you'll probably start to wonder just what the hell is going on, who is Alice, why does this man have a face in the back of his head, and how could a bird fall in love with a whale in the first place? It's all metaphorical, of course; but as in Carroll's Wonderland, nothing is what it seems. ALICE is an atmospheric delight, but I reccommend keeping a light on while listening to it. And maybe some tissues nearby. A review by Emily He took away my ipod and my playstation and said he wouldn't let me download the new Justin Timberlake album. I like to stay up at late at night and play my playstation and listen to my ipod and stuff but i've been getting bad grades and my Dad got mad. But then he came home one night and said he downloaded the new Justin Timberlake on to my ipod for me and then he told me that Justin stays up all night too and I should really listen to his new album to see what it has done to him. Well let me just say I was shocked, Justin sounded so tired and sad and his voice was all hoarse, and who is this "Alice"? I thought he was dating Cameron Diaz. But then I found out my Dad put an album by someone named Tom Waits on my ipod and said it was Justin. My Dad thinks he's funny. Well you know what, I listened to it some more and I like Tom Waits! He probably never sleeps. He probably stays up for weeks and I bet his Dad doesn't get mad when he hears the cool albums Tom makes. I bet stupid Justin Timberlake goes to bed at like 9:00 so he's all refreshed to make his fancy dancy silly music. He should stay up and be cool like Tom. ~ Bye!. You can see a complete list of all Tom Waits discography, or go back to the Tom Waits tabs