Blood Money: Tom Waits
"The album's manifesto is to be found in the title tune, as Waits spits out the words "If there's one thing you can say about mankind / There's nothing kind about man / You can drive out nature with a pitch fork / But it always comes roaring back again.
"Blood Money's 13 songs were cowritten by Tom Waits and longtime collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan for a Robert Wilson production of Georg Büchner's unfinished, protomodernist 1837 play, Woyzeck, about a Kafkaesque German soldier who goes crazy after doing medical experiments for money and kills his girlfriend after witnessing a perceived infidelity."
02 Everything goes to hell.mp3
03 Coney Island Baby.mp3
04 All The World Is Green.mp3
05 God's away on business.mp3
06 Another Man's Vine.mp3
07 Knife chase.mp3
08 Lullaby.mp3
09 Starving in the belly of a whale.mp3
10 The Part You Throw Away.mp3
11 Woe.mp3
12 Calliope.mp3
13 A Good Man Is Hard To Find.mp3
God's Away On Business
What a record: stolen elections, corporate greed, fraud and corruption, unlimited spending, wealth redistribution (to the top), no checks and balances, rampant militarization, the destruction of Iraq, permanent war, and unquantifiable, unrepayable national debt. Not many world emperors are able to create a vast wasteland, call it a government, and then retire.
Another musical tribute to Bush.
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