Track Listing

1. New coat of paint
2. San Diego serenade
3. Semi suite
4. ,Shiver me timbers
5. Diamonds on my windshield
6. Looking for the heart of Saturday night
7. Fumblin' with the blues
8. Please call me baby
9. Depot depot
10. Drunk on the moon
11. Ghosts of Saturday night

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2640 in Music
• Released on: 1989-07-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
The Eagles might have covered his song "Ol' 55" but Tom Waits was cut from a different cloth than California's other singer-songwriters--he suggested a scruffy beat poet who'd walked out of a forgotten scene of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Waits's beatnik schtick could get old and he developed into a much more musically adventurous songwriter in later years, but his second album contains some of his best early work, including the sweet romantic blues of "New Coat of Paint" ("You wear a dress baby, I'll wear a tie"), and his best hipster recitation, "Diamonds on My Windshield". Two songs are enduring classics: the doleful, dirge-like "San Diego Serenade" ("Never saw the morning till I stayed up all night") and the touchingly sweet "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" ("Stoppin' on the red, goin' on the green, 'cause tonight'll be like nothin' that you've ever seen"). --John Milward

Album Description
European only vinyl pressing. Warner.