"Heart Attack and Vine" is still dominated by jazzy and bluesy tones, and belongs in retrospect to Waits' most accessible plates. Much more important: The title song "Heart Attack and Vine", the instrumental "In Shades" and "Downtown" are his coolest songs with her massive Laidback feeling. In addition, consistent with "Saving All My Love For You" and "Ruby's Arms" confessing schmaltz, former rather kitsch, temptation lyrically congenial: the metaphor opened frequently with the actual and figurative meaning two readings that are interwoven with each other in the Geamtstimmung, about if the lyric I at dawn "out through your blinds" looking his way: "Everything is turning blue now". That "Jersey Girl" as Springsteen Cover became known suggests to boast the original; the piece does not belong, however, to Tom Waits' brilliant achievements, but still has its charm, is also in the Schmachtfetzenabteilung Album. The instrumentation for the same goes for "On The Nickel"; the violins are here but so out of place as a pith helmet in Alaska - today would Waits' take the number differently. On a rusty exhaust perhaps blown.
