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Track Listings
| 1. Heartattack And Vine |
| 2. In Shades |
| 3. Saving All My Love For You |
| 4. Downtown |
| 5. Jersey Girl |
| 6. 'Til The Money Runs Out |
| 7. On The Nickel |
| 8. Mr. Siegal |
| 9. Ruby's Arms |
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Tom Waits's hipster persona began to evaporate at the beginning of the 1980s, but not before he released the transitional-- but eminently worthwhile--Heartattack and Vine, which contained "On the Nickel", a Dickensian tale of street life, and "Jersey Girl," a song Bruce Springsteen gave a far wider airing to on his Live 1975-1985 box set. You can hear hints of Waits's style growing more trenchant on songs like "Downtown" and the stark, bluesy title track, which contains the immortal line "Don't you know there ain't no devil / That's just God when he's drunk." Indeed. --Daniel Durchholz
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Tom Waits's hipster persona began to evaporate at the beginning of the '80s, but not before he released the transitional but eminently worthwhile Heartattack and Vine, which contained "On the Nickel," a Dickensian tale of street life, and "Jersey Girl," a song Bruce Springsteen gave a far wider airing to on his Live 1975-1985 box set. You can hear hints of Waits's style growing more trenchant on songs like "Downtown" and the stark, bluesy title track, which contains the immortal line "Don't you know there ain't no devil / That's just God when he's drunk." Indeed. --Daniel Durchholz
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Heartattack and Vine (Audio CD)
I had just about given up on trying to find any new music worth listening to. I had heard some of Tom Wait's stuff before but I hadn't really gotten into it for reasons I won't go into. I bought this CD hoping that it would have one or two songs that were worth listening to, which unfortunately is the most I've come to hope for these days. It seems like 90% of the CD's made are pure trash, and of the other 10% most of the songs are filler because the artist really doesn't have much to say.Once I started listening to this CD I was pretty much blown away. It was like I had found buried treasure, or I had been suddenly made well after a long illness. It was Glorious! I felt like falling on my knees and thanking God or whoever had made this possible. I felt like music wasn't dead after all, there are still true artists out there, making beautiful music, I think I'll be buying a lot of Tom Wait's CD's in the future. I don't think they'll all be as good as this one, but I can hope.
5.0 out of 5 stars
``Get'' Waits,
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This review is from: Heartattack and Vine (Audio CD)
If you don't have ``Small Change'' and for some unknown reason refuse to get it, then HeartAttack & Vine is the quintessential Tom Waits. It will repay the many listens it deserves. Play it, play it, and play it. Then, if you are like so many, it will become almost drug-like: you will then demand to hear it, again and again. It is not his best album (no, I won't enter that battle), but it really is one of his best, and worth the price, really. Then, get ``Small Change'', and all the others. Once you ``get'' Waits, you really have to get it all.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tom Waits turns cliche into poetry.,
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This review is from: Heartattack and Vine (Audio CD)
There is no other album, except perhaps Thunder Road which moves me as much. Tom Waits has a talent for making even the most mundane, simple, cliched words become poetic. He sings his heart into each word-just extraordinary.
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