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2 | [[caption-width-right:350: Found the heart of Saturday Night yet, Tom?]] |
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4 | ''The Heart of Saturday Night'' is the second album by Music/TomWaits, released through Asylum Records in 1974. It's best known for the audience favorites "Diamonds On My Windshield", "(Looking for) The Heart Of Saturday Night" and "The Ghost Of Saturday Night". |
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6 | !!Tracklist |
7 | [[AC:Side One]] |
8 | # "New Coat of Paint" (3:23) |
9 | # "San Diego Serenade" (3:30) |
10 | # "Semi Suite" (3:29) |
11 | # "Shiver Me Timbers" (4:26) |
12 | # "Diamonds on My Windshield" (3:12) |
13 | # "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" (3:53) |
14 | |
15 | [[AC:Side Two]] |
16 | [numlist:7] |
17 | # "Fumblin' with the Blues" (3:02) |
18 | # "Please Call Me, Baby" (4:25) |
19 | # "Depot, Depot" (3:47) |
20 | # "Drunk on the Moon" (5:06) |
21 | # "The Ghost of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)" (3:16) |
22 | [/numlist] |
23 | |
24 | !! Personnel |
25 | * Music/TomWaits: vocals, piano, guitar |
26 | * Jim Hughart: double bass |
27 | * Pete Christlieb: tenor saxophone |
28 | * Jim Gordon: drums |
29 | * Bob Alcivar: arranger |
30 | |
31 | !! Looking For The Tropes Of Saturday Night... |
32 | * AlliterativeName: '''C'''igar '''C'''hewing '''C'''harlie in "Drunk On The Moon". |
33 | * AlliterativeTitle: "'''S'''emi '''S'''uite". |
34 | * AlbumTitleDrop: "The Heart Of Saturday Night" |
35 | --> ''Looking for the heart of saturday night''. |
36 | * AlwaysNight: All tracks have a midnight atmosphere. |
37 | * ArcWords: The word "I never..." in "San Diego Serenade". |
38 | * BreakUpSong: "San Diego Serenade" |
39 | --> ''I never saw your heart until someone tried to steal it, tried to steal it away'' |
40 | --> ''I never saw your tears until they rolled down your face'' |
41 | * CarSong: "Diamonds On My Windshield", where Waits describes all the things he sees while he is driving around in his car. |
42 | * CatchYourDeathOfCold: "Please Call Me, Baby" |
43 | -->''Wherever you are'' |
44 | -->''It's too cold to be out walking in the streets'' |
45 | -->''We do crazy things when we're wounded'' |
46 | -->''Everyone's a bit insane'' |
47 | -->''I don't want you catching your death of cold'' |
48 | -->''Out walking in the rain'' |
49 | -->''So please call me, baby'' |
50 | * ConceptAlbum: The songs are all about the bar life on a Saturday night. The first track is about the anticipations of a swell time, the final track is about how Sunday morning cracks dawn and Saturday effectively becomes "a ghost". |
51 | * ContinuityNod: The final song "The Ghosts of Saturday Night" already anticipates Waits' next album ''Music/SmallChange'': |
52 | --> ''And a solitary sailor'' |
53 | --> ''Who spends the facts of his life like '''small change''' on strangers'' |
54 | --> ''Paws his inside P-coat pocket for a welcome twenty-five cents'' |
55 | * CradleOfLoneliness: Loneliness is a major theme. Especially in "Fumblin' With The Blues". |
56 | --> ''You know, the ladies I've been seeing off and on'' |
57 | --> ''Well they spend your love and then they're gone'' |
58 | --> ''You can't be lovin' someone who is savage and cruel'' |
59 | --> ''Take your love and then they leave on out of town, no they do'' |
60 | * CountingToThree: Waits counts off to four at the start of "Semi Suite". |
61 | * DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover, under art direction of Cal Schenkel, but made by Lyn Lascaro shows Waits in a stylized evening scene, paying tribute to Music/FrankSinatra's album cover for ''Music/InTheWeeSmallHours''. |
62 | * DrunkenSong: "Drunk On The Moon", where Waits sings about someone who is wandering around drunk at night, while the moon is out. |
63 | * FaceOnTheCover: Tom Waits shown in close-up, in a nightlife street scene. |
64 | * IfIHadANickel: "Semi Suite" |
65 | --> ''You wish you had a dollar'' |
66 | --> ''For every time he hollered that he's leavin' '' |
67 | --> ''And he's never comin' back'' |
68 | * {{Lampshading}}: "San Diego Serenade" |
69 | --> ''I never heard the melody until I needed the song.'' |
70 | * LonelyPianoPiece: Pretty much every track. |
71 | * TheMasochismTango: "Semi Suite" and "Call Me Baby" are both about relationships were the couples argue a lot, but just keep coming back to each other. |
72 | * MelancholyMoon: "Drunk On The Moon", where a man walks around drunk in the street and watches the moon. |
73 | * OdeToSobriety: The protagonist in many of the songs is habitually wasted. |
74 | * PepTalkSong: "New Coat Of Paint" |
75 | --> ''All our scribbled love dreams, lost or thrown away'' |
76 | --> ''Here amidst the shuffle of an overflowin' day'' |
77 | --> ''Our love needs a transfusion, so let's shoot it full of wine'' |
78 | --> ''Fishin' for a good time starts with throwin' in your line'' |
79 | * ProductPlacement: "The Ghosts Of Saturday Night" |
80 | --> ''And the last bent butt from a package of "Kents"'' |
81 | * ShoutOut: |
82 | ** The album cover is a {{Homage}} to the album cover of Music/FrankSinatra's ''Music/InTheWeeSmallHours''. The title is a tribute to writer Creator/JackKerouac. |
83 | ** "Shiver Me Timbers" namedrops Captain Ahab from ''Literature/MobyDick''. |
84 | --> ''Ol' Captain Ahab, he got nothing on me''. |
85 | * SiameseTwinSongs: "Diamonds On My Windshield" and "The Heart Of Saturday Night" which [[FadingIntoTheNextSong fade into each other]] and are about the same topic. "The Ghost Of Saturday Night" also ties in with "The Heart Of Saturday Night". |
86 | * SlapSlapKiss: "Please Call Me, Baby". |
87 | --> ''And we're always at each other's throats'' |
88 | --> ''You know it drives me up the wall'' |
89 | --> ''But most of the time I'm just blowing off steam'' |
90 | --> ''And I wish to God you'd leave me'' |
91 | --> ''Baby I wish to God you'd stay'' |
92 | --> ''Life's so different than it is in your dreams'' |
93 | * SmokingIsCool: Waits on the album cover. Also during "Diamonds On My Windshield". |
94 | --> ''And you remember the fumble, as you stumble for a cigarette'' |
95 | * SomethingBlues: "Fumblin' with the Blues". |
96 | * StockSoundEffects: Car traffic can be heard at the start of "The Heart Of Saturday Night." |
97 | * TalkLikeAPirate: "Shiver Me Timbers", in which Waits decides to sail away and start a new life at sea. |
98 | * WalkTheEarth: Or better said ''sail'' the Earth in "Shiver Me Timbers". |
99 | * WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: "Fumblin' With The Blues" |
100 | --> ''You know the bartenders, all know my name.'' |
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