Tom Waits - (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night

[denjex]

thank you



[BarbecueBobFan]

This is my favorite Waits song. It is also one of the greatest albums of all time.

[Akoemak]

Saturday night is over!! (1:39AM now)

[reggiegarnett1]

cruisin' with a six

[osvie01]

I'm listening to this song because I love it and it's saturday night.

[Dramacidal1]

sittin her wit my jim beam 1L edition...feelin a failure,,,cruisin aroung the comments,,,actually feelin that wit a few thumbs up i'd feel better.dunno why...i'm kinda weak.i need addctions.i cannot live being sober.i have to be a failure.i just hope i eventually find strength...cause being tru and addicted is aight but let's just think what we lose.....

[CherylKC]

Ricky...you have my full apologies. After pokin' around I found the thing (1990) cut.

So sorry. :(

[TheRickynow]

@CherylKC Thats fine! Don't give it a second thought. You have a happy 2012!

[63DOmw]

@TheRickynow ahh its nice to see people just chillin out online instead of bein petty

[CherylKC]

Great rendition....but this is NOT Waits. His voice is inimitable.

This is a cover and I wish the person who did it would say so.

[TheRickynow]

@CherylKC Don;t be so silly!

[ThenewDelmoniaco]

@TheRickynow real estate is silly too...

[rompo420247]

@CherylKC it is jerry jeff walker singing.

[zugzug6]

@CherylKC This is the version from the album. It sounds like everything else he sang on this entire record.

[carjeron1962]

@zugzug6 1973, he was young...

[MildredGlutz]

@CherylKC Yes it is Tom Waits.

[JoeSmithAu]

@CherylKC - I haven't read all the comments yet ... so, yes this is Tom Waits

at his best. Also check out Diamonds On My Windsheild.

It ( DOMW ) reminds me of my uncle who was a well-driller in Mass.

Tom Waits for no man. Joe

[kokobutterbuns]

@CherylKC this a very young Waits, but it's genuinely him. Hard to believe, but true.

[lkuwaeoirNWEOUIAWNER]

how can you listen to this without being brought to tears?

[gta4megafan]

Does anyone else notice how much he sounds like Bruce Springsteen?

[sonners2239]

a friend introduced me to this album 24 years ago when i was 17,he was amazed that i loved it,i started collecting his albums when i got paid,one of four people i want to meet to thank him for the great times he has given me.

[davebarnett1]

Everything about it is perfect. The whole album in fact.

[cracks21229]

This is the most honest song I think I've ever heard.

[TheRickynow]

@cracks21229 Yes! Gets to me everytime...

[MTaitto]

@cracks21229

best song when you spend time with yourself,

before you meet the woman Saturday evening

[sandyman1960]

aclassic

[Popexify]

Does anybody here suffer Saturdaynightitis like me?

[GnarActually]

this song is literally, absurdly good.

[harpersgun]

just beautiful

[yssridutt]

I bloody wonder why, but whenever I hear his voice, I get a feeling of restlessness, of wanting to get out, to pick up a good whiskey, and watch the sun go down with a few old pals. What is it? his voice?

[strummeresque]

"...the magic of the melancholy tear in your eye..."

[gpb29]

@strummeresque Well, that was strange. I read your post just as Tom sang the lyric. Just beautiful!! It's a new song on an old theme for me. Whew. Good stuff.

[MarcBrewer]

Way back before Tom decided he wanted to sing like Louis Armstrong imitating Howlin' Wolf. Great Song!

[sudsboy]

I keep coming back to play this over and over. This kind of honesty in songwriting is what's missing in music today

[kumhuimusicgirl]

The best Tom Waits song!!!

[acutube50]

The first TW song I ever heard. It was accompanied by an animation based on the album cover. Has anyone seen it?

[SeSwartaan]

@acutube50 I think that it is the one that got away

[IOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIO]

Had this song on the shuffle list on the mp3 player and it played exactly while I was leaving my job on a Saturday night. MAGIC! ^^

[ThenewDelmoniaco]

Finaly...I left my new job...but I got hired at SEARS....when I will meet the big boss I will tell him something...but I cant tell you before.... so you'll have to wait...'s....

[TheRickynow]

@ThenewDelmoniaco I hope it goes well for you.

[ThenewDelmoniaco]

@TheRickynow Sears is a big familly where all the employees are kind between each other. It is an honnor to be part of the team. For now I must find a way to get to the big boss...

[glaeken14]

I love it

[MrRhovanion]

do people care if you got a job ...i dont think so... hmn.

[pushed2theEDGE]

im sixteen and have loved mr. waits my whole life. im introducing my friends to him and they love him. thank you tom waits. i will repay you for all the music,support, and entertainment you have given me by creating a new generation of fans

[Simonkingston182]

This is such a great song. I wish more kids my age would appreciate good music.

[ThenewDelmoniaco]

things are looking good, got a job, on the second interview I brought a 3 pages document in 3 copies, 2 bosses were there we red it togheter, in a sentence I wrote '' the person in charge of the dept possesses the quality of being abble to solve all the problems." one of the boss looked at me and said softly -"all the problem""......

[TheRickynow]

@ThenewDelmoniaco I like that!

[MrBigrobmjca3]

This is almost like a lullaby for us adults. So peaceful.

[TheRickynow]

@MrBigrobmjca3 I think that is a really beautiful and astute comment!

[MrBigrobmjca3]

Was watching "The Perfect Storm" today and this was playing in the Crow's Nest bar. Watched the credits of the movie to find out what song it was. Awsome.

[mrbolovski]

...telephones ringing its your second cousin....

[ThenewDelmoniaco]

Ricky, he his my friend, he's a good guy...wish he could help me find a job.....

[ThenewDelmoniaco]

I'll give it another try....thanks for watching after me

[TheRickynow]

@ThenewDelmoniaco You're welcome!

[delmoniaco]

So long everybody.

[TheRickynow]

@delmoniaco Everything OK?

[HanginWithSnakes]

This is downtown Austin on a Saturday night...

[slcparis2]

I feel this song as well as the entire album The Heart Of Saturday Night is his best yet. I dig every album he has done, but this song is by far my favorite. Tom has way with making ALL his songs poetic. He truly is a musical genius and true poet. He is a must have in everyones music collection!!!!!!!

[s90skank]

ricky thanks :)

I got the LP ^^

[GnarActually]

Timeless. I love this now and will love this when i'm old. The slow anticipation this song exudes for the night to be is unexplainable. Waits makes me want to let go of technology and immerse myself in life at the present with the people around me

[elinofan]

Thank you to those who posted this song when I listen I imagine the New York taxi driver. A new york imaginary lost forever.

[TheRickynow]

@elinofan Yes! No one does it quite like Tom!

[elinofan]

A mouth a voice sound unique thank you Mr. Waits

[iw32]

It's Saturday night as I'm writing this.Hoping for a brighter tomorrow.

[delmoniaco]

I’m listening to Tom Waits (looking for the heart of saturday night) and I think about Catherine, Hollywood, her old crumbling husband, her getting old, time passing by, her dreams haunting her as well as her nightmares stumbling on more than just the heart of saturday night and I start thinking of all these crazy weerdos in Hollywood and all the shit it must smell down there….

[thewaronterror]

Ah -

just genius in a bottle

[pfizzbones]

Two worlds collide in your soul, with poem and music. You are blessed with words put together so eloquently, that simply describe all your emotions, yet also are painted a scene that you can yourself see. Combined then with the song, that when done correctly, puts the poem in your ear. The results are only as simple as getting everything you have ever dreamed of for a few moments.

[delmoniaco]

so long ago

[9999norton]

Such an evocative song. How can you not be moved by this?

[TheRickynow]

@9999norton Agreed absolutely!

[hebekid]

@9999norton tear up every time

[Benisgood]

The difference between artists now, and geniuses like Tom, is that, back in the day, they knew music had power. And they used it to tell stories, to grab our souls and connect them. He told us that we're no different from each other, we've all got problems. we've all been hurt. We;re all broken. Music was his way of telling us that we're only human. Music did what drugs and alcohol try to do. Soothe the pain, and make us feel alright. Thank you Mr. Waits. Thank you so much.

[TheRickynow]

@Benisgood Beautifully put!

[joeknee4767]

@TheRickynow ...I agree with your insight about Tom's music telling stories, grabbing hearts and connecting. Not so much the preaching. Let's just agree that TW is a singular songwriter and original soul...and, no one can tell a story in song better than Tom. Although, come to think of it, Bob Dylan ain't too shabby

[TheRickynow]

@joeknee4767 Yes! Honestly, i am not a Dylan hater! But i tell you something that surprises me. I can never work out what reaches people. My channel is fundamentally a reggae, dub, roots and ska channel. But i take the view that if i like something, i will upload it! As much as i get fed up with yt and its copyright constrictions, everynow and again, it works! That human connection kicks in. Oh and btw, i am 51 this year, so i am afraid i am stumbling into "The Heart Of Saturday Night"

[bdkierna]

@Benisgood wow....nicely put

[LBeeification]

@Benisgood

I gotta quote you on that.  Thank you for saying it so well.

[avo4077]

@Benisgood yes sir!!! very well said.

[m999kelly]

@Benisgood Flawlessly put. I've only started writing recently. The expression that I put on paper is liberating and for me long overdue. I listen to Tom and the gift he has to contain such imagery and soul in a single line of a song is truely the work of a genius.

[bigboyzac2010]

@Benisgood. Is he young or is he older than the earth? Tom Waits seems to know something we don't until he tells us. Brilliant, brilliant man.

[VernonVince]

@Benisgood Drugs and alcohol have a totally different goal than GOOD music. With drugs and alcohol you get stoned - with GOOD music and good poetry you get quite the opposite: you get more conscious about your own life... Artists who take too much drugs are unable to do anything at all. If you stay clear, you can instead produce a lot of great art. To be creative you don't need to get addicted.

[Benisgood]

@VernonVince Actually, alcohol does not get you stoned. The goal of Alcohol and Drugs is to achieve what good music does by using chemicals that slow you down, relaxing the mind and body and giving an out-of-body experience. Drugs create an artificial happiness, which lasts for only a few hours. We become addicted to the drugs because it's a quick and easy way to to achieve "happiness". Good music can do the same thing, but it's safer, and it last as long as the music plays...

[VernonVince]

@Benisgood Thank you very much for your point of view. To be honest, I've never reached happiness (not even for a minute or two) through alcohol or drugs. But it's true that I got a certain relief through them. Instead listening to good music really made me happy some times. I think we need drugs from time to time, because life sucks - from time to time or even very often... At certain points of my life, when my life was really happy, I never wanted to get drunk or stoned. Wish you all the best.

[whalestail1955]

@VernonVince Yeah, I guess Ernest Hemingway, Jim Morrison and Marilyn Monroe knew nothing about art. They were just stoned. At least they could probably write a literate sentence, with proper tense, about their experience.

[VernonVince]

@whalestail1955 Of course, you can get drunk, become addicted and at the same time write great poetry or literature... All I wanted to say is that one does not need to take drugs, to make a work of art. There's no relation between the two (drugs and art). Otherwise all the addicted people would be artists - which is not the case obviously. Ernest Hemingway was a great writer and loved alcohol. Melville was probably a much greater writer, but did not seem to be so interested in alcohol....

[shiozakitadashi]

I think this is the best best tune of Great Tom!

[itmike57]

Congrats to Tom for his induction to the R&R HOF!!!!

It's about time

[TheRickynow]

@itmike57 I couldn't agree more!

[mrninodog]

Happy B'Day Tom, 12-7-49!!! I'm 5 mo. younger than you thus I grew up w/your stuff..

If you don't mack R&R HOF this year its fixed!!

Thanx for the music and poetry !!! Steve (fish salesman from Boston!!

Hope you perform here sometime soon. Its been a long time................

[TheRickynow]

Yes! I know exactly what you mean.

[workingmansblues]

I have felt like this so many times in my life and this song has travelled with me down through the years. Tom is speaking to the heart of every guy who has ever found himself alone on a saturday night.

[wildhorses4unme]

Just want to thank Tom Waits, and all the wonderful people who appreciate this song. This song was played in the bar scene in the movie The Perfect Storm. I always wanted to be a fisherman all my life. One of the best friends I'll ever know also had the same passion for the hard life got me a job 2 years l8r after the movie. I quit my job of 4 yrs. packed my bags left for Mass. got on a tuna boat and had the best time of my life. The movie. The song. My friend. Most inspiring. TY PETE.

[TheRickynow]

@wildhorses4unme I think you have made my year with that comment Pete! I have always believed that songs can change our lives and inspire us and you have proved that point beautifully!! Thank you so much!!

[wildhorses4unme]

@TheRickynow Thank you. Thank you for listening. Those days ended 4 me about 3 years ago. And all I thought I had left was the music but u saying I made your year just may have inspired me forever and gave me new hope that it doesn't have to end with just the music. Thank U so much!

[Shad0wplay]

@wildhorses4unme Thank You Pete.

There is always hope. God Bless.

[Hellonursexx89]

@wildhorses4unme Always had the same passion if you can let me know of a few places it would be greatly appreciated..

[RIDETHESUNSHINE]

Thank You for posting this clean, and clear track... Hearing this song, is like medicine sometimes.... Will

[TheRickynow]

@RIDETHESUNSHINE Thank you for susch a fantastic comment! I know what you mean! I feel the same about this

[vespa202]

Wonderful!!

[TheRickynow]

@vespa202 Thanks Lee!!!!

[squinceyluvgoddess1]

Awwww this is a beautiful song for sure! Enjoyed it Ricky! x

[TheRickynow]

@squinceyluvgoddess1 Thanks Squince! I have always loved this x