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9.0
6776
9.0 |
Blurt
...has mastered his particular brand of theater, noise and nuance; its rich despair, its decadent yet romantic espirit, its yawning Brecht-Springsteen-Partchian display; its comic belch
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9.0
6895
9.0 |
musicOMH
Print edition only
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8.0
7005
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
Glitter And Doom Live is proof that this old veteran is still at his most vital and inventive
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8.0
7113
8.0 |
No Ripcord
It’s the closest you can get to the real thing – unless, of course, you are lucky enough to live in Mobile, Alabama
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8.0
7118
8.0 |
PopMatters
As a snapshot of his increasingly rare live performances, this set is a flying success; as further proof that Tom Waits is one of America’s most treasured, consistently compelling artists, it’s a knock-out
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8.0
7409
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
There’s only one test a live album has to pass, and this one stands up to it: if you were there you’ll be prompted to bask in the memory, and if you weren’t you’ll be wishing like hell that you had been
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8.0
7500
8.0 |
Sydney Morning Herald
His delivery long ago settled into his preferred persona of gravel-on-gravel, Biblical-and-trash, from the gutter but dancing in the desert moonlight old man
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8.0
6739
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Waits leads a small but versatile band that makes these songs swing, playing up the tension without overwhelming his melodies
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8.0
6745
8.0 |
Uncut
As Tom Waits once suggested, you really should have been there. But even if you weren’t, Glitter And Doom Live is an admirable document of yet another stage in his continually engrossing career
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8.0
6769
8.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
This is one of the last true originals at the height of his powers
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8.0
6711
8.0 |
The Observer
...a master fabulist whose diabolic razzle dazzle looms particularly great and grand in front of a crowd
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7.0
6824
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
The bonus CD is a 35-minute quilt of Waits' between-song rambling... so bizarrely engaging you almost don't miss the music
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6.0
6873
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
6717
6.0 |
The Sunday Times
One dysfunctional work song segues effortlessly into the next spooky holler, as Waits and his band growl, thump and scratch their way through
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6.0
6723
6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
...the whole package reeks a little of self-congratulation, that doesn't mean the old mule hasn't got something to congratulate himself over
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6.0
6686
6.0 |
The Independent
Waits has vastly expanded his song introductions into such a flood of patter that for this record of last year's Glitter & Doom tour, they're accorded their own separate CD, which plays like a surreal stand-up routine set to the desultory, abstract tinkling of his piano
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6.0
6694
6.0 |
The Irish Times
The tracklist spans Waits' career, but the emphasis is on his ragged, bar-stomping material
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6.0
6696
6.0 |
Evening Standard
...cathartic songs from a fabled gutter that he has never inhabited. Tom Waits is a delightful fake
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6.0
6811
6.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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