The Heart Of Saturday Night
by Tom Waits

From poppmusic TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/11/2017 10:06 | #185273 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

These songs stay with you. Later in his career Waits would tell stories about dashed dreamers, but here you feel that he's really one of them. A very moving experience.

From 9999 TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/01/2015 21:21 | #140666 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This record transports me to a shitty bar from a shitty neighborhood from the outskirts of an American metropolis in the 1940s, and I like it. One of the most atmospheric albums I've ever heard.

Tom waits'second album was much more in line with the sound that waits' would be associated with in the seventies. It's a solid, jazz/pop album. Opener, new coat of paint, sets the scene, this is, as the title suggests, a Saturday night record. San Diego serenade, is lovely, as is, shiver me timbers, and, please call me baby. Diamonds on my windshield, hints at the later sounds waits' would employ. The title track is the nearest the record gets to the folkiness of, closing time, and closing track, the ghosts of Saturday night, wraps up the album perfectly. It's more consistent than, closing time, but it's still not a great album, and Waits would make better ones, but it does capture a slightly immature Waits who has yet to really find his true voice. So, another step in the right direction, just not quite there yet.

From covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/15/2011 00:20 | #23119 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Beautiful and melancholic, Waits sensibility makes this an album for the ages, I have to agree with both earler coments, although I've always been a fan of the free style in composition and structure of Waits later work, this is the album that works for me the best it just leaves you sighing while you light a new cigarette

Of course artistically, Waits' better stuff was soon to come. But I happen to prefer the sound of his non drunken obnoxious, singing voice/ This makes me wish I could be in a jazz club everything I listen to it/ It's fantastic.