Blood Money
by Tom Waits

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Blood Money by Tom Waits
Year: 2002
Release date: 2002-05-07
Overall rank: 2,523rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 198 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (40th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (412th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,523rd)

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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 11,155.

Tom Waits album bestography « Higher ranked (2,276th)
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards This album (2,523rd)
Blood Money Lower ranked (2,969th) »
Nighthawks At The Diner

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Overall rank: 2,523rd | 2000s rank: 412th | 2002 rank: 40th  Overall chart history
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From 04/23/2016 11:13 | #164337 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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 07/10/2015 02:05 | #145420 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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 04/25/2016 18:25 | #164485 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
His voice is so haunting, one of the best singers of all time. This album is a masterpiece.


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This is absolutely fantastic. The only, only, only week moment is Coney Island Baby.
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From 07/12/2013 01:29 | #81192 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Now here's a great album! Wow... the quality of it.
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