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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''The morning light has washed your face, and everything is turning blue now.'']]
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4	''Heartattack and Vine'' is the seventh studio album by American musician Music/TomWaits, released in 1980 through Asylum Records. It's best remembered for the fan favorites "Jersey Girl", "Ruby's Arms" and the title track. At the time it was his best-selling album up to that point.
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6	It would be his final album for the label ''Asylum'' and symbolically end the first period of his career, where his music mostly evoked a "drunk pianist in a jazzy nightclub atmosphere". After this album Waits moved to another label, while his music changed into a style more akin to AvantGardeMusic / AlternativeRock with the NewSoundAlbum ''Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}}'' (1983).
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8	!!Tracklist
9	[[AC:Side One]]
10	# "Heartattack and Vine" (4:50)
11	# "In Shades" (4:25)
12	# "Saving All My Love for You" (3:41)
13	# "Downtown" (4:45)
14	# "Jersey Girl" (5:11)
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16	[[AC:Side Two]]
17	[numlist:6]
18	# "Til the Money Runs Out" (4:25)
19	# "On the Nickel" (6:19)
20	# "Mr. Siegal" (5:14)
21	# "Ruby's Arms" (5:34)
22	[/numlist]
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24	!! Ruby's Tropes
25	* BreakUpSong: "Saving All My Love For You"
26	--> ''I'd come home, but I'm afraid that you won't take me back, but I'd trade off everything just to have you near.''
27	* FaceOnTheCover: Waits is seen on the album cover as a newspaper picture.
28	%%* {{Instrumental}}: "In Shades".
29	* IronicNurseryRhyme: "On The Nickel" , a pseudo lullaby about little boys who don't do what they should and grow up to be skid row homeless.
30	%%* {{Joisey}}: "Jersey Girl", of course.
31	* LampshadeHanging: In hindsight, the opening line of "Saving All My Love For You" serves as a shockingly self-aware analysis of where the album falls in his discography, coming between his "bluesy barfly" first period and carnival-barker sound of the second period.
32	--> ''It's too early for the circus; it's too late for the bars...''
33	* MoralityBallad: "On the Nickel" is actually a parody of such. Waits wrote it from the point of view of a father telling his son that he'll end up like the men on Skid Row if he doesn't do as he's told.
34	* NotStayingForBreakfast: "Ruby's Arms".
35	--> ''As I say goodbye to Ruby's arms, you'll find another soldier, and I swear to God to Christmas, there'll be someone else to hold you''
36	%%* OneManSong: "Mr. Siegal".
37	%%* OneWomanSong: "Jersey Girl", "Ruby's Arms".
38	* OneWordTitle: "Downtown".
39	* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The album cover is designed in the style of a newspaper cover. The headlines of the articles are the names of the songs.
40	* PerpetualPoverty: Not too surprisingly, "Til the Money Runs Out"
41	-->''Can't you hear the thunder someone stole my watch''\
42	''I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.''
43	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Waits wrote "Jersey Girl" for his wife and frequent collaborator Kathleen Brennan.
44	* {{Scatting}}: "Jersey Girl" has Waits scatting "sha la la la", which surprised even him
45	--> ''I never thought I would catchy myself saying "sha la la la" in a song.
46	* StockSoundEffects: Church bells are heard during "Saving All My Love For You".
47	* StopAndGo: "Til the Money Runs Out" has an instrumental intro, followed by a sudden break and a few seconds of silence. Then Waits and the instruments come in.
48	* TitleTrack: "Heartattack And Vine"
49	--> ''You'll probably see someone you know on heartattack and vine''

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