Title: Melodic Masterpiece
Product review: In Alice, Waits melodies "impose continuity upon the disjointed" (Menuhin). Most of the collection focuses on melody and it here that Waits excels and offers contrasts to both his earlier and later work.Alice (the title song), Lost in the Harbor, Fish and Bird are good examples of genius in melody. Without goint quant on you, if you take a one-octave chromatic scale (12 notes) and look at the possible combinations of notes in an eight note bar -- well, think around 20 million.Waits has done a beautiful job of extracting continuity from the disjointed in his choices of melody in "Alice" - melodies that are familiar without being known, and superb.
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