Album
The Heart Of Saturday Night
1974 · Jazz, Pop
58 collectors on Gatefold own this
The Heart Of Saturday Night is a Jazz album by Tom Waits, originally released in 1974. On Gatefold: 137 pressings tracked, owned by 58 collectors.
About
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.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1New Coat Of Paint3:20
- A2San Diego Serenade3:25
- A3Semi Suite3:22
- A4Shiver Me Timbers4:21
- A5Diamonds On My Windshield3:10
- A6(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night3:50
Side B
- B1Fumblin' With The Blues2:59
- B2Please Call Me, Baby4:23
- B3Depot, Depot3:42
- B4Drunk On The Moon5:05
- B5The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)3:17
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Post-Bop & Modal
- warm
- nostalgic
- smoky
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Jim GordonDRUMS BODY PERCUSSION BODY PERCUSSION , PERFORMER
- Jim HughartACOUSTIC BASS BASS DOUBLE BASS
- Mike MelvoinARRANGED BY ARRANGED BY , ORCHESTRATED BY ARRANGED BY , ARRANGED BY , DIRECTED BY
- Pete ChristliebTENOR SAXOPHONE
- Tom WaitsACOUSTIC GUITAR ELECTRIC PIANO MUSIC BY, LYRICS BY, VOCALS
- Arthur RichardsACOUSTIC GUITAR ELECTRIC GUITAR GUITAR
- Bones HowePERCUSSION
- Oscar BrashearTRUMPET
- Tom ScottACOUSTIC GUITAR CLARINET TENOR SAXOPHONE
58 collectors on Gatefold own this · 137 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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