The Heart of Saturday Night

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The Heart of Saturday Night
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Length
11 tracks, 43:38
Release Date
1 October 1974
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… read more
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 S… read more
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… read more

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Tracklist

Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Play track New Coat of Paint
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 2:59 111,830 listeners
2 Play track San Diego Serenade
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 3:30 98,687 listeners
3 Play track Semi Suite
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 3:22 75,230 listeners
4 Play track Shiver Me Timbers
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 4:21 87,687 listeners
5 Play track Diamonds on My Windshield
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 6:26 99,864 listeners
6 Play track (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
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 3:53 129,418 listeners
7 Play track Fumblin' With the Blues
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 2:39 77,806 listeners
8 Play track Please Call Me, Baby
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 4:23 79,063 listeners
9 Play track Depot, Depot
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 3:44 59,142 listeners
10 Play track Drunk on the Moon
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 5:05 89,403 listeners
11 Play track The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)
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 3:16 51,858 listeners

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Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle Waits was unable to make a living from his music in the 70s because his classical bar music, based in… read more
Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a … read more
Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Ini… read more

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