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Alice

by Tom Waits

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All Time

of 455,477

641
2000's

of 265,750

42
2002

of 42,286

9

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.4282 Alice is ranked overall as 3.4282 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.4554 Alice has an avg. critic score of 3.4554 out of 4 stars

Alice Album Reviews

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PopMatters

Tom Waits has never made an album quite like Alice before. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

You'd be hard-pressed to find sounds this spookily evocative anywhere outside the grooves of scratchy old 78s

Rolling Stone

Waits' ravaged voice surrendered all pretensions to melody ages ago; his throat is now pure theater, a weapon of pictorial emphasis and raw honesty. ...more

All Music Guide

The melodies on Alice are easily the most direct Waits has written since Blue Valentine, but are more elegant than even those found on Foreign Affairs or Black Rider. ...more

PopMatters

Arguably the only living legend for whom all four cylinders are still firing, Waits' career stretches back to 1973's Closing Time , an album of after-hours laments and jazz-tinged country, all filtered through a haze of cigarette smoke, whiskey and broken hearts. ...more

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The Daily Vault Album Reviews

This album is beautiful, and restrained, and brilliantly executed. It is a masterwork of melodies that are haunting, dark, self-consciously perverse and above all else, moving. Ostensibly it is about the love between Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis...read the complete review at The Daily Vault Album Reviews

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ShakingThrough.net

Alice and Blood Money , Tom Waits' two new albums (both co-written with wife Kathleen Brennan), were born in the theater. Alice 's origins go back to 1992, when avant-garde director Robert Wilson commissioned Waits to compose songs for his production...read the complete review at ShakingThrough.net

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The A.V. Club

Tom Waits' music has always had a strong element of theater to it, so it's no surprise that his work in the field never seems like a sideline venture. The simultaneously released Alice and Blood Money collect Waits' recordings of music written, in...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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