Blood Money

《Blood Money》是一出德国剧作家在1837年写的舞台剧《Woyzeck》的配乐歌曲。它们都延续了Tom Waits一贯以来的舞台剧音乐风格，伤感抒情的小调和爆炸性的刺耳咆哮交替出现。和剧情情节保持一致，前者显得更加抒情，充满了失落的情绪和惆怅的音调；而后者则更加阴沉压抑，毕竟它讲述的是一个军官为了挣钱而从事医学实验，杀死自己女友后发疯的故事，因而那种Tom Waits式的死亡气息和阴森抑郁一直贯穿始终，其中也免不了Tom Waits擅长的疯狂嚎叫。这就是Tom Waits的世界：无奈，低落，感伤，迷醉，荒谬，狂乱，放纵，而又不失美感。 The album contains songs written for the play 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" featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005). This album ranked at #18 in Metacritic's Top 30 albums of 2002.