The Heart of Saturday Night
Tom Waits
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New Coat of Paint | Tom Waits | 3:22 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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San Diego Serenade | Tom Waits | 3:30 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Semi Suite | Tom Waits | 3:29 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Shiver Me Timbers | Tom Waits | 4:26 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Diamonds On My Windshield | Tom Waits | 3:12 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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The Heart of Saturday Night | Tom Waits | 3:53 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Fumblin' With the Blues | Tom Waits | 3:02 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Please Call Me, Baby | Tom Waits | 4:25 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Depot, Depot | Tom Waits | 3:46 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Drunk On the Moon | Tom Waits | 5:06 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House) | Tom Waits | 3:16 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
Album Review
If Closing Time, Tom Waits' debut album, consisted of love songs set in a late-night world of bars and neon signs, its follow-up, The Heart of Saturday Night, largely dispenses with the romance in favor of poetic depictions of the same setting. On "Diamonds on My Windshield" and "The Ghosts of Saturday Night," Waits doesn't even sing, instead reciting his verse rhythmically against bass and drums like a Beat hipster. Musically, the album contains the same mixture of folk, blues, and jazz as its predecessor, with producer Bones Howe occasionally bringing in an orchestra to underscore the loping melodies. Waits' songs are sometimes sketchier in addition to being more impersonal, but "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" and "Semi Suite" are the equal of anything on Closing Time. Still, with lines such as "...the clouds are like headlines/Upon a new front page sky" and references to "a 24-hour moon" and "champagne stars," Waits' imagery is beginning to get florid, and in material this stylized, the danger of self-parody is always present.
Biography
Born: 07 December 1949 in Pomona, CA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
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- Genres: Rock, Music, Arena Rock, Singer/Songwriter
- Released: 1974
- ℗ 1974 Asylum Records, Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company
