Alice
by Tom Waits

Album
Alice by Tom Waits
Year: 2002
Release date: 2002-05-06
Overall rank: 2,087th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 212 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (32nd)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (343rd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,087th)

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Tom Waits bestography

Alice is ranked 12th best out of 27 albums by Tom Waits on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tom Waits is Rain Dogs which is ranked number 113 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,169.

Tom Waits album bestography « Higher ranked (1,836th)
Blue Valentine This album (2,087th)
Alice Lower ranked (2,277th) »
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Alice track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Alice
Average Rating: 84 (45 votes)Comments: View 0
2.
Everything You Can Think
Average Rating: 80 (32 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Flowers Grave
Average Rating: 79 (31 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
No One Knows I'm Gone
Average Rating: 80 (33 votes)Comments: View 0
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Kommienezuepadt
Average Rating: 78 (30 votes)Comments: View 0
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Poor Edward
Average Rating: 78 (31 votes)Comments: View 0
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Table Top Joe
Average Rating: 79 (30 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Lost In The Harbor
Average Rating: 81 (32 votes)Comments: View 1
9.
We're All Mad Here
Average Rating: 77 (29 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Watch Her Disappear
Average Rating: 77 (30 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
Reeperbahn
Average Rating: 78 (30 votes)Comments: View 0
12.
I'm Still Here
Average Rating: 79 (29 votes)Comments: View 0
13.
Fish & Bird
Average Rating: 81 (30 votes)Comments: View 0
14.
Barcarolle
Average Rating: 78 (31 votes)Comments: View 0
15.
Fawn
Average Rating: 76 (31 votes)Comments: View 1

Alice rankings

Alice rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,087th | 2000s rank: 343rd | 2002 rank: 32nd  Overall chart history
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Alice ratings

Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 212 votes)
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 !		09/13/2026 13:19 Tamthebam  Ratings distribution  23,29069/100
 
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 !		08/18/2026 22:05 PapaShiz86  Ratings distribution  11,73179/100
 
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 !		08/10/2026 16:46 covecove  Ratings distribution  6,70074/100

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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 74.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.


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Alice forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 08/03/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5393): By videoheadcleaner
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s by ) 1. (2001) 2. by by (2002) 5. by by by (2004) 8. by by (2004) 10. by by (2006) 12. by (2004) 13. by by (2005) 15. by (2003) 17. by (2007) 19. by (2000) 21. by by (2001) 23. by (2001) 25. by (2005) 26. by by by by (2005) 31. by (2006)…”
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From Mercury 11/26/2014 14:50 in Chart talk
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Alice comments

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From 12/01/2021 11:17 | #276943 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I think that "Fawn" is one of my fav Tom Waits track..It almost has a sacred feeling. like a Chinese folk song....beautiful
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From 11/27/2020 00:00 | #261465 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I think Alice is the best song Waits ever wrote. (or San Diego Serenade)
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From 12/31/2019 16:44 | #246219
Great stuff!
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From 02/20/2018 21:34 | #209000
Abbondanza creativa dopo diversi anni di silenzio; due album in un anno, entrambi validi. Questo per me è il migliore...
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From 04/22/2016 14:48 | #164273 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Released on the same day as, blood money, Alice, is another of Tom Waits' musical collobarations, this time inspired by the books of Lewis Carroll. It's a more orchestral affair than Waits had previously released, with even nods back to his seventies recordings. The title track is just that, a smoky, jazzy, three o'clock in the morning number, it's lovely. Other standouts on the album are, reeperbahn, fish & bird, and my favourite, lost in the harbour, absolutely beautiful. Kommienezuspadt, is gloriously insane, and, I'm still here, and, barcarolle, are excellent too. There is a bit of filler, I suppose, but hey, Tom Waits filler is better than most people's highlights. Another very good LP from Waits.
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