Blood Money (studio album) by Tom Waits

Blood Money by Tom Waits
Year: 2002
Overall rank: 2,418th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 189 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2002 (38th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (406th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,418th)
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Tom Waits bestography

Blood Money is ranked 14th 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 11,933.

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.

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From 12/31/2019 16:45
Great stuff.
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From 02/21/2018 21:17
E' precisamente da "Blood money" che a me Tom Waits dà l'impressione di imitare se stesso, pur offrendo di se un'ottima imitazione; da qui in avanti ogni suo disco magari mi piacerà ma lasciandomi sempre quel senso di parziale insoddisfazione.
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From 04/25/2016 18:25
His voice is so haunting, one of the best singers of all time. This album is a masterpiece.


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From 04/23/2016 11:13
Released on the same day as, Alice, blood money, is the least accessible of the two(for casual fans, if indeed, there are any?), and is probably the more consistent and successful of the two. It features some of Waits' best latter day songs. Misery is the river of the world, God's away on business, everything goes to hell, and, starving in the belly of the whale, are all excellent tracks, Tom Waits at his mad best. There's some beautiful tracks here too with, Coney island baby, and, all the world is Green, both lovely. Another man's vine, is a great bluesy soul track, and, a good man is hard to find, is a great ending to the album. I have to admit that, lullaby, and, the part you throw away, are usual Tom Waits filler, songs he could probably write in his sleep. At least three quarters of this album is classic Waits.
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From 07/14/2015 21:43
This is absolutely fantastic. The only, only, only week moment is Coney Island Baby.
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From 07/10/2015 02:05
I love the atmosphere of this album. Although Rain Dogs has better songs, this here is my favourite Waits album. I really can not explain why, but in total it's the best
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From 07/12/2013 01:29
Now here's a great album! Wow... the quality of it.
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