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TOM WAITS "Real Gone" Reviews
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Release: 5 Oct 2004
Label: Epitaph / Ada
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| BBC Music |
Rating: 10.0 |
Real Gone looks like being one of Tom's best...
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 10.0 |
'Real Gone' is a walk through a wood with gnarled roots and yellow eyes peering from the gloom.
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| Plan 9 Music |
Rating: 10.0 |
The infinitely complex REAL GONE is exactly what a Tom Waits album should be - tough as nails on the outside and a sympathetic friend on the inside.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 9.0 |
Real Gone doesn't sound hackneyed, but rather ingenious.
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| UmbrellaMusic |
Rating: 9.0 |
Real Gone explores the atmosphere of being lost in the music
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| Filter Magazine |
Rating: 9.0 |
Real Gone is another smartly executed step into the strange grandeur of Mr. Waits.
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| The Onion A.V. Club |
Rating: 8.5 |
Real Gone is haunted-house music that invites listeners in for some shared uneasiness, but never lets them settle for long.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 8.5 |
So toss Real Gone on the stereo and shimmy to your own mortality.
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| Hybrid Magazine |
Rating: 8.5 |
On Real Gone, Tom Waits has crafted a rhythmic and melancholic record full of just the kind of madness that seems to bring the rest of life into sharp focus.
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| Splendidezine |
Rating: 8.5 |
Real Gone may not rock your world in the way that 2002's musical one-two punch of Blood Money and Alice did, but you'll still be glad to hear it.
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| CokeMachineGlow |
Rating: 8.2 |
It's louder than Rain Dogs; phlegmier than Swordfishtrombones; damper than Mule Variations; it glowers at Bone Machine, and is more concise than Alice or Blood Money.
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| DustedMagazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Full of songs that are destined to be memorable, Real Gone only partially succeeds as a cohesive whole.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 8.0 |
Real Gone, like most of Tom Waits' records, is teeming with all kinds of mysterious noises: clangs and spits, faceless hollers, squawks, irrational toots, not-quite-human coughs, vicious bangs, apologetic whispers.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 8.0 |
As the song and the album ends, you are left more certain than ever that Tom Waits is entirely out on his own.
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| Entertainment Ireland |
Rating: 8.0 |
It's full of characters who don't seem human, stories that don't make much sense and squawking blues music that's very close to impenetrable.
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| PasteMagazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Following him down into that strange and dazzling mineshaft.
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| TinyMixTapes |
Rating: 8.0 |
Real Gone is nevertheless a quintessential Tom Waits album.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 6.0 |
The core of Real Gone, actually, is gospel music flipped inside out -- an unholy voice, singing about the conspicuous absence of divine mercy.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 5.8 |
...A semi-bizarre and semi-wonderful example of twisted, melted country-blues-psyche-pop oddballness.
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| Drowned in sound |
Rating: 5.4 |
No amount of goodwill or repeated listens can bring this record back to life.
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