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
ReleasedMay 7, 2002 (2002-05-07)
Genre
Length42:11
LabelAnti
ProducerKathleen Brennan
Tom Waits
Tom Waits chronology
Alice
(2002)		 Blood Money
(2002)		 Real Gone
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic84/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Consumer GuideA−[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[4]
The Guardian[5]
Los Angeles Times[6]
NME7/10[7]
Pitchfork9.0/10[8]
Q[9]
Rolling Stone[10]
Spin7/10[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 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" was featured in the 2005 film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. "All the World is Green" was featured in the 2005 film The Secret Life of Words.[12] "Misery is the River of the World" was featured in The X-Files episode "Babylon", which aired on February 16, 2016. "Starving in the Belly of a Whale" was 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" (instrumental) – 2:26
  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" (instrumental) – 1:59
  13. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" – 3:57

Personnel
  • Tom Waits – vocals (tracks 1-6, 7-14), piano (tracks 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11), calliope (tracks 1, 13, 14), Chamberlin (tracks 2, 3, 9), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 8, 10), electric guitar (tracks 5 and 9), toy piano (track 12), pump organ (track 13)
  • Larry Taylor – bass (tracks 1, 3-7, 9), electric guitar (track 7), acoustic guitar (track 13)
  • Bebe Risenfors – bass clarinet (track 1, 7), accordion (track 2), saxophone (track 7), clarinet (13)
  • Gino Robair – marimba, bells and gongs (track 1), bongos and timpani (track 2), floor toms (track 9)
  • Mules Patterson – pod (track 1)
  • Matthew Sperry – bass (track 2)
  • Colin Stetson – baritone saxophone (track 2), saxophone (tracks 3 and 7), clarinet (tracks 4 and 10), bass clarinet (tracks 5 and 9), baritone horn, tenor & alto saxophone (track 6)
  • Dan Plonsey – clarinet (track 2)
  • Matt Brubeck – cello (tracks 3, 4, 8-11), bass (track 13)
  • Ara Anderson – trumpet (tracks 3, 7, 13)
  • Bent Clausen – marimba (track 4), pod (track 5), bass drums (track 7)
  • Stewart Copeland – drum set and log drums (track 5)
  • Joe Gore – electric guitar (track 5)
  • Nik Phelps – trumpet (tracks 5 and 12), baby tuba (track 5)
  • Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica (tracks 5 and 9)
  • Andrew Borger – marimba (tracks 6 and 13)
  • Myles Boisen – guitar (track 7)
  • Casey Waits – drums (track 7)
  • Dawn Harms – stroh violin (tracks 8, 11, 13), violin (8-11)

Charts

Weekly charts
Weekly chart performance for Blood Money
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

Year-end charts
2002 year-end chart performance for Blood Money
Chart (2002) Position
Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[31] 131

Certifications
Certifications for Blood Money
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Netherlands (NVPI)[32] Gold 40,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References
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  5. Costa, Maddy (May 3, 2002). "We're all mad here". The Guardian. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
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