Alice is a Alt/Indie album by Tom Waits, originally released in 2002. On Gatefold: 31 pressings tracked, owned by 16 collectors.
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- sparse
- mournful
- theatrical
About
It's been long time since Tom Waits recorded an album as saturated with tenderness as this one. The carny-barker noise merchant who has immersed himself in brokenness and reportage from life's seamy, even hideous underbelly for decades has created, along with songwriting and life partner Kathleen Brennan, a love song cycle so moving and poetic that it's almost unbearable to take in one sitting. Alice is alleged to be the "great lost Waits masterpiece." Waits and Brennan collaborated with Robert Wilson on a stage production loosely based on Alice Liddell, the young girl who was the obsession and muse of .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Alice
- A2Everything You Can Think
- A3Flower's Grave
- A4No One Knows I'm Gone
- A5Kommienezuspadt
- A6Poor Edward
- A7Table Top Joe
- A8Lost In The Harbour
Side B
- B1We're All Mad Here
- B2Watch Her Disappear
- B3Reeperbahn
- B4I'm Still Here
- B5Fish & Bird
- B6Barcarolle
- B7Fawn
Credits
Performers
- Eric PerneyBASS
- Gino RobairDRUMS PERCUSSION MARIMBA
- Tom WaitsPIANO VOCALS VIBRAPHONE
- Colin StetsonSAXOPHONE BARITONE SAXOPHONE BASS CLARINET
- Ara AndersonTRUMPET HORN BARITONE HORN
- Larry TaylorBASS ELECTRIC GUITAR PERCUSSION
- Matthew BrubeckCELLO BASS
- Nick PhelpsFRENCH HORN TRUMPET
- Bebe RisenforsVIOLIN VIOLA CLARINET
- Dawn HarmsVIOLIN STROH VIOLIN
- Andrew BorgerDRUMS FRAME DRUM PERCUSSION
- Joe GoreELECTRIC GUITAR
- Stewart CopelandPERCUSSION
- Bent ClausenPIANO
- Carla KihlstedtVIOLIN
- Matthew SperryBASS
- Myles BoisenBANJO
- Tim AllenPERCUSSION
16 collectors on Gatefold own this · 31 pressings tracked on Gatefold