Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)

Artista: Tom Waits

Álbum: The Heart of Saturday Night
Año: 1974
Género: Folk
Duración: 41:33
Nacionalidad: EEUU

Lista de Temas:

01. New Coat of Paint   3:23
02. San Diego Serenade   3:30
03. Semi Suite   3:29
04. Shiver Me Timbers   4:26
05. Diamonds on My Windshield   3:12
06. (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night   3:53
07. Fumblin' with the Blues   3:02
08. Please Call Me, Baby   4:25
09. Depot, Depot   3:46
10. Drunk on the Moon   5:06
11. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House) 

 

Alineación:

- Tom Waits / vocals, piano, guitar
- Jim Hughart / double bass
- Pete Christlieb / tenor saxophone
- Jim Gordon / drums
- Bob Alcivar / arranger

Este es el segundo álbum de Tom Waits, lanzado en 1974 y rankeado Nro. 339 en la lista de los 500 mas grandes álbumes de la historia por la revista rolling Stone.

El arte de tapa esta basado en la tapa del disco "In the Wee Small Hours" editado en 1955 por Frank Sinatra

ALLMUSIC
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.

Review by William Ruhlmann