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Nighthawks At The Diner (Live),Tom Waits

- Nighthawks At The Diner (Live)
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Tom Waits
Released 1975

Warm Beer And Cold Women
05:21
4,214 plays

Better Off Without A Wife
03:59
3,921 plays

Emotional Weather Report
03:47
3,802 plays

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- 1
- Opening Intro
- 02:57
- 2,902 plays

- 2
- Emotional Weather Report
- 03:47
- 3,802 plays

- 3
- Intro To On A Foggy Night
- 02:16
- 2,630 plays

- 4
- On A Foggy Night
- 03:49
- 2,746 plays

- 5
- Intro To Eggs And Sausage
- 01:53
- 3,193 plays

- 6
- Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
- 04:19
- 3,370 plays

- 7
- Intro To Better Off Without A Wife
- 03:02
- 3,236 plays

- 8
- Better Off Without A Wife
- 03:59
- 3,921 plays

- 9
- Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)
- 11:30
- 2,554 plays

- 10
- Intro To Warm Beer And Cold Women
- 00:56
- 2,119 plays

- 11
- Warm Beer And Cold Women
- 05:21
- 4,214 plays

- 12
- Intro To Putnam County
- 00:47
- 1,980 plays

- 13
- Putnam County
- 07:35
- 2,250 plays

- 14
- Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
- 06:26
- 2,876 plays

- 15
- Nobody
- 02:51
- 2,178 plays

- 16
- Intro To Big Joe And Phantom 309
- 00:41
- 2,061 plays

- 17
- Big Joe And Phantom 309
- 06:29
- 2,440 plays

- 18
- Spare Parts II And Closing
- 05:13
- 1,995 plays

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album review

For his third album, Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits set up a nightclub in the studio, invited an audience, and cut a 70-minute, two-LP set of new songs. It's an appropriate format for compositions that deal even more graphically and, for the first time, humorously with Waits' late-night world of bars and diners. The love lyrics of his debut album had long since given way to a comic lonely-guy stance glimpsed in "Emotional Weather Report" and "Better Off Without a Wife." But what really matters is the elaborate scene-setting of songs like the six-and-a-half-minute "Spare Parts," the seven-and-a-half-minute "Putnam County," and especially the 11-and-a-half-minute "Nighthawk Postcards" that are essentially poetry recitations with jazz backing. Waits is a colorful tour guide of midnight L.A., raving over a swinging rhythm section of Jim Hughart (bass) and Bill Goodwin (drums), with Pete Christlieb wailing away on tenor sax between paragraphs and Mike Melvoin trading off with Waits on piano runs. You could call it overdone, but then, this kind of material made its impact through an accumulation of miscellaneous detail, and who's to say how much is too much? ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide