Blood Money (Tom Waits album)

Blood Money is the fifteenth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on the ANTI- label.

Blood Money
Studio album by Tom Waits
Released	May 7, 2002
Genre	Jazz, cabaret
Length	42:11
Label	Anti
Producer	Kathleen Brennan Tom Waits
Tom Waits chronology
Alice (2002) Blood Money (2002) Real Gone (2004)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	84/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	A−[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[4]
The Guardian	[5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
NME	7/10[7]
Pitchfork	9.0/10[8]
Q	[9]
Rolling Stone	[10]
Spin	7/10[11]

The album contains songs written for the musical 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 2005 film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

The song "All the World is Green" is featured in the 2005 film The Secret Life of Words.[12]

The song "Misery is the River of the World" is featured in The X-Files episode "Babylon", which aired on February 16, 2016.

The song " Starving in the Belly of a Whale" is featured in the film "Buster's Mal Heart" (2016) as the opening song.

The album ranked at #18 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002.[13]

As of 2003, Blood Money has sold 143,000 copies in the US, according to Nielsen Soundscan.[14]

Track listing

All tracks written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

1. "Misery Is the River of the World" – 4:25
2. "Everything Goes to Hell" – 3:45
3. "Coney Island Baby" – 4:02
4. "All the World Is Green" – 4:36
5. "God's Away on Business" – 2:59
6. "Another Man's Vine" – 2:28
7. "Knife Chase" – 2:26 (Instrumental)
8. "Lullaby" – 2:09
9. "Starving in the Belly of a Whale" – 3:41
10. "The Part You Throw Away" – 4:22
11. "Woe" – 1:20
12. "Calliope" – 1:59 (Instrumental)
13. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" – 3:57

Chart positions

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart[15]	25
Austrian Top 40[16]	5
Belgian Albums Chart (Vl)[17]	8
Belgian Albums Chart (Wa)[18]	33
Danish Albums Chart[19]	2
Dutch Top 100[20]	21
Finnish Albums Chart[21]	35
French SNEP Albums Chart[22]	36
German Albums Chart[23]	9
Irish Albums Chart[24]	4
Italian FIMI Albums Chart[25]	6
Norwegian Albums Chart[26]	4
Swedish Albums Chart[27]	12
Swiss Hitparade Albums Chart[28]	25
UK Albums Chart[29]	21
US Billboard 200[30]	32
US Billboard Independent Albums[30]	2
US Billboard Internet Albums[30]	32

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Netherlands (NVPI)[31]	Gold	40,000^^
^^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

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4. Sinclair, Tom (May 10, 2002). "Blood Money / Alice". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
5. Costa, Maddy (May 3, 2002). "We're all mad here". The Guardian. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
6. Cromelin, Richard (May 5, 2002). "The Rasp Man Goes Operatic". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
7. McNamee, Paul (May 18, 2002). "Waits, Tom : Blood Money". NME. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
8. Bowers, William (May 13, 2002). "Tom Waits: Alice / Blood Money". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
9. "Tom Waits: Blood Money". Q (190): 114. May 2002.
10. Fricke, David (April 25, 2002). "Blood Money". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
11. Milner, Greg (June 2002). "Nowhere Men". Spin. 18 (6): 109. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
12. The Secret Life of Words (2005) - IMDb, retrieved 2019-12-29
13. The 30 Best-Reviewed Albums of the Year
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