Blood Money uses the same template and players as Alice (released at the same time) and first saw life as an opera production by Robert Wilson. It's Waits' treatment of Georg Buchner's 1837 socio-political play, Woyzek, which premiered in 2000 in Copenhagen. It's a dark morality play performed in a style where a barker from a medicine show is mysteriously transported to the Weimar Republic via Tin Pan Alley.

Disturbing and delirious when it's not romantic and hilarious, the songs have a much more direct emotional appeal than the surrealistic Alice.

20th Anniversary Edition pressed on 180-gram metallic silver vinyl

Selections

1. Misery Is the River of the World

2. Everything Goes to Hell

3. Coney Island Baby

4. All the World Is Green

5. God's Away on Business

6. Another Man's Vine

7. Knife Chase

8. Lullaby

9. Starving in the Belly of a Whale

10. The Part You Throw Away

11. Woe

12. Calliope

13. A Good Man Is Hard to Find