Line #8 Music/TheHeartOfSaturdayNight


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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)
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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]
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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
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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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