General Article name: Heart of Saturday Night
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: RHINO Number of tracks: 16 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Tom Waits - New Coat of Paint 2. Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade 3. Tom Waits - Semi Suite 4. Tom Waits - Shiver Me Timbers 5. Tom Waits - Diamonds On My Windshield 6. Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night 7. Tom Waits - Fumblin' With the Blues 8. Tom Waits - Please Call Me, Baby 9. Tom Waits - Depot, Depot 10. Tom Waits - Drunk On the Moon 11. Tom Waits - The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)   Tracklist - 2 Waits, Tom - Fumblin' with the blues Waits, Tom - Please call me, baby Waits, Tom - Depot, depot Waits, Tom - Drunk on the moon Waits, Tom - The ghosts of Saturday night (after hours at Napoleone's pizza house)   Description Description

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. ~ William Ruhlmann

William Ruhlmann

Contributors Artist: Tom Waits Record Label: Elektra