Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
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Artist: Tom WaitsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- New Coat Of Paint
- San Diego Serenade
- Semi Suite
- Shiver Me Timbers
- Diamonds On My Windshield (Looking For)
- The Heart Of Saturday Night
- Fumblin' With The Blues
- Please Call Me, Baby
- Depot, Depot
- Drunk On The Moon
- The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House
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Tom Waits-The Heart Of Saturday Night *****
If Tom Waits' 1973 debut album Closing Time was the amazing start it is often written to be (which it is) then The Heart Of Saturday Night is nothing short of a stroke of genius! Combining what made his debut so great (beat-generation lyrics and imagery and soulful vocals) with a new even slicker, cooler style, and a hint of jazz his sophomore album had all the right touches of a classic.
Long considered to be Waits' best album, or at least along side Rain Dogs, The Heart Of Saturday Night is phenomenal. Housing such felons as `New Coat Of Paint' `Shiver Me Timbers' brilliant tribute to his young days working in a pizza parlor `The Ghost Of Saturday Night' and the incestuous title track `The Heart Of Saturday Night.' Bette Midler went on to do a surprisingly decent cover of `Shiver Me Timbers' on her biggest album of the decade which created way for Midler and Waits to do a duet of their own on her next album.
The Imagery flows through Waits' lyrics like heroin into a junky's mainline. Songs like `Diamonds On My Windshield' evoke scenes of Jack Kerouack during On The Road; while the title track sends a feeling of longing and lost through your veins like electric shock. The man can write!
The instrumentation is subtle on the album but no less impressive. It serves it's role without out doing the other pieces of the album. Waits' piano work is especially impressive. Musicianship is something that Waits is always overlooked for as well as his amazing ability to write one slaying melody.
The Heart Of Saturday Night is the total package. For the best of early beat-era/crooner Waits this is the place to go, rivaled only by that of the great Rain Dogs. For a great Waits album, look no further.
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The Eagles might have covered his song "Ol' 55," but Tom Waits was cut from a different cloth than California's other singer-songwriters--he suggested a scruffy beat poet who'd walked out of a forgotten scene of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Waits's beatnik schtick could get old, and he developed into a much more musically adventurous songwriter in later years, but his second album contains some of his best early work, including the sweet romantic blues of "New Coat of Paint" ("You wear a dress baby, I'll wear a tie"), and his best hipster recitation, "Diamonds on My Windshield." Two songs are enduring classics: the doleful, dirge-like "San Diego Serenade" ("Never saw the morning till I stayed up all night") and the touchingly sweet "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" ("Stoppin' on the red, goin' on the green, `cause tonight'll be like nothin' that you've ever seen"). --John MilwardPop Music CDs
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