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The Heart Of Saturday Night | 
| Artist: Tom Waits
Label: Warner
Category: Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1550
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1015
UPC: 075596059725
EAN: 0075596059725
ASIN: B000002GXS
Release Date: October 1, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 | | • | Ghosts of Saturday night |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Milward
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More like it July 16, 2008
Its hard to believe that this album comes from the same artist who performed on "Small Change"; this is more like it. In contradistinction to the desperately awful vocals on that album, Waits is here a mellow-voiced, yet bluesy edged vocalist entirely in tune with some fine piano work and the rest of the musicians, elements largely lost on the earlier album. The songs are finely crafted, elegantly phrased and perhaps ultimately timeless. Comparisons with later Joni Mitchell are not out of place here - think "Hejira" - and in places even Dylan and the Eagles more world weary stuff, but then they all draw from the same well, so perhaps it's not so surprising. Thoroughly recommended to almost anyone with a taste for the eclectic. So I look forward to more like it.
What can I say?? June 19, 2008
This Album has haunted me since 1985. An old girlfriend used to play it around the time when Rain Dogs came out. This album is beautiful!! And Tom! Well no one has made it through 35 years of producing pure music genius!
 Closing Time with more jazz and more attitude October 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Closing Time, Waits' debut, was a fine record, mixing jazz, country, and old, 40s-influenced rolling melodies, and fine for late-night lovers. This follow-up sees Waits switch to a producer he had a better rapport with, Bones Howe, & together they made this equally enjoyable album.
Here, though, the more devil-may-care jazz that was understated on the debut is more in evidence, with a more trenchant tone to the lyrics ( see the opening number ) and even spoken-word recitals ( Diamonds On My Windshield ) that Waits would develop further. That said, there's some nicely understated moments too, such as the closing "Ghosts Of Saturday Night", the title track, and the beautiful 'going away' ballad, "Shiver Me Timbers".
Good stuff.
Probably my favourite album of all time September 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I went to New York a couple of years back and for some reason everytime I hear this album it takes me back there- even though I'd never heard it at the time. I absolutely adore this album- so much so that my wife and I had it playing in the hospital when my wife gave birth to our first son. She wasn't paying too much attention to it at the time, but it's an album that has become a huge part of my life. Please Call Me Baby, Shiver My Timbers and the title track are probably the standout tracks, but there is not a weak song on the album. Beautiful and sublime melodies with lyrics to match. The instrumentation is second to none. Want to get into Tom Waits' but don't know where to start? This is as good a place as any. Trust me- you will fall in love with this album.
Unbelievably Good September 1, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album is a real find. Absolutely fantastic. It's pretty much in a class and genre of its own - probably not revisited until Nick Cave's 'Boatman's Call' in the 90s. Lyrically it's kind of somewhere between Bob Dylan and Springsteen, filtered through the literary influences of Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski. Probably the best way to describe it is with some kind of scenario. Imagine you're out in New York late at night, drunk as you've ever been, and you stumble into an underground jazz cafe at 2am. Through the haze of cigarette smoke you can just about see this dishevelled guy sitting at a piano who is playing surprisingly intricate and moving music while singing in a rasping blues voice about love and loss in the back alleys of America. That pretty much sums it up.
'New Coat of Paint' sounds like Dylan covering a Nina Simone track. 'Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night' is a bit more mainstream - maybe Jackson Browne if he was ever feeling a bit suicidal. 'Please Call me Baby' is just beautiful. And my favourite, surprisingly, is 'Diamonds on my Windshield' which is more performance poetry than a song, but is so original it's difficult not to love it. "There's fifteen feet of snow in the East and it's colder than a well-digger's ass". When was the last time you heard a line THAT good on a cd?
Without being too pretentious, let's be honest about life for a minute. Most of us aren't supermodels, most of us don't feel happy and fantastic all the time, most of us can't sing like angels. And yet we all find happiness and beauty in the world on a pretty regular basis. This album is the sound of someone who is probably even less of a supermodel than you or I, who is less happy and more screwed up than we are, who sings like a drunk who's just woken up in a dumpster, and yet he finds beauty and poignancy all around him. There's something pretty life affirming about that. I haven't listened to this album once without being moved like I've never been moved before.
I know Waits went on to create some pretty innovative, and pretty out-there music after this. But this is as honest and heart-rending as it gets. If you want something to listen to over a glass of whisky or a bottle of wine late at night, seriously, you should look no further than this. It doesn't get any better.
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