The Heart of Saturday Night - Tom Waits

7.8	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Elektra / Wea
Release date : 25 October 1990
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0075596059725
UPC : 075596059725

Lounge (1), Cd (1), Chris (1), 1974 (1), Music Mecca 6 (1), 07 (1), (vinyl) (1), *saipal (1), Rock (1), Jazz (1)

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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 songwrit ... (more)

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Track listing

1. New coat of paint
2. San Diego serenade
3. Semi suite
4. ,Shiver me timbers
5. Diamonds on my windshield
6. Looking for the heart of Saturday night
7. Fumblin' with the blues
8. Please call me baby
9. Depot depot
10. Drunk on the moon
11. Ghosts of Saturday night

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	6 votes Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Part IV 301-400 (101 items) by Vix Published 1 year, 3 months ago 1 votes Tom Waits Discography (21 items) by saipal Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago View all lists*

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The Heart of Saturday Night

Posted : 3 months, 1 week ago at Sep 13 15:14

Before Tom Waits created albums full of percussive instruments that sounded like plastic tubs and trash cans, he was Beat poet giving his jagged croon to jazz-like numbers. The Heart of Saturday Night is a fantastic album for a rained out, slightly depressing Saturday night, preferably if it’s in the middle of the night. These songs might not all be depressing, but they sound subdued and melancholic. “Drunk On the Moon” is one of the many fantastic songs on the album. It features the Jack Kerouackian lyrics that pervade the album and has the soft jazz-like percussion throughout. And no Waits album is complete without one spoken-word piece. This album has two: “Diamonds On My Windshield” and the closing “Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleon’s Pizza House).” ...Read more

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