release date: Oct. 1974
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [4,18]
producer: Bones Howe
label: Asylum Records - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 2. "San Diego Serenade" - 4. "Shiver Me Timbers" - 5. "Diamonds on My Windshield (Looking For)" - 6. "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" (5 / 5) - 8. "Please Call Me, Baby" (4 / 5) - 9. "Depot, Depot" - 11. "The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)"
2nd studio album by Tom Waits and his first of a long series of albums with producer Bones Howe. And what a follow up to a great debut! Stylistically, the music is unchanged and the album contains only fine compositions with "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" being one of his absolute best songs.
Although the debut is really good and an instant classic, this one seems even more solid and it's just one of his very best.
Highly recommended.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5, Q Magazine, Rolling Stone Album Guide 4 / 5 stars ]
1974 Favourite releases: 1. Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night - 2. Neil Young On the Beach - 3. Mike Odfield Hergest Ridge
