Alice (album)
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Alice is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on Epitaph Records (under the Anti sub-label).
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| Missing image Tom_Waits-Alice.jpg Album cover | ||
| Album by Tom Waits | ||
| Released | May 7, 2002 | |
| Recorded | ??? | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 48 min 25 sec | |
| Record label | Anti/Epitah | |
| Producer | Kathleen Brennan | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Pitchfork Media | 9.0 out of 10 | link (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/w/waits_tom/alice-blood-money.shtml) |
| The Onion A.V. Club | Not Rated | link (http://www.theonionavclub.com/review.php?review_id=5466) |
| AllMusic.com | 4 out of 5 | link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A2hq2g4fptv3z) |
| Tom Waits Chronology | ||
| Blood Money (2002) | Alice (2002) | Real Gone (2004) |
The album contains the majority of songs written for the play Alice, based on the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland story by Lewis Carroll. The adaption was directed by Robert Wilson, whom Waits had previously worked with at the The Black Rider play, and originally set up at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1992. The play has since been done on various theatres around the world.
The songs had been unofficially released on a bootleg called The Alice Demos many years before this official release. The source of the bootleg release is supposed to be from studio recordings made for the cast of the play, and was taken when Waits' car was broken into in late 1992 (as confirmed by Waits in interviews). Several different versions of the bootleg album were in circulation before the release of the official version.
This album was co-released with another Waits album, Blood Money, containing songs from a play adapted by Robert Wilson from Georg Büchner's Woyzeck.
Track listing
All tracks written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.
- "Alice" - 04:28
- "Everything You Can Think" - 03:10
- "Flower's Grave" - 03:28
- "No One Knows I'm Gone" - 01:42
- "Kommienezuspadt" - 03:10
- "Poor Edward" - 03:42
- "Table Top Joe" - 04:14
- "Lost In The Harbour" - 03:45
- "We're All Mad Here" - 02:31
- "Watch Her Disappear" - 02:33
- "Reeperbahn" - 04:02
- "I'm Still Here" - 01:49
- "Fish & Bird" - 03:59
- "Barcarolle" - 03:59
- "Fawn" - 01:43