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Closing Time is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released on March 6, 1973, on Asylum Records. Produced and arranged by former Lovin' Spoonful member Jerry Yester , Closing Time was the first of seven of Waits' major releases by Asylum.
Waits's debut release was the 1973 single "Ol' '55", which was the lead single for his debut album Closing Time (1973). He began recording in 1971, but these first sessions would not be released until the beginning of the 1990s. For most of the 1970s he recorded for Asylum Records.
"Closing Time" is a song by American rock band Semisonic. It was released on March 10, 1998, as the lead single from their second studio album, Feeling Strangely Fine , and began to receive mainstream radio airplay on April 27, 1998.
Some songs you may write and record but you never sing them again. Others you sing em every night and try and figure out what they mean. "Tom Traubert's Blues" was certainly one of those songs I continued to sing, and in fact, close my show with. [22] In 2000, Small Change was voted number 958 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. [23]
In a retrospective review for the Los Angeles Times, Buddy Seigal was more impressed by Waits' "touchingly, unashamedly sentimental" songs, calling The Heart of Saturday Night perhaps the singer's most "mature, ingenuous and fully realized" album. [16] It was ranked number 339 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
[19] The music video for Cohen's song "Closing Time" also won the Juno Award for Best Music Video in 1993. [18] In the original Rolling Stone review, Christian Wright called the album "epic", enthusing " The Future might as easily have been a book: A more troubling, more vexing image of human failure has not been written."
The set is a collection of 26 rare and 30 brand new songs (there are two hidden tracks on disc 3). Each disc is intended as a separate collection in itself; the first with roughcut rock and blues, the second melancholy tunes and ballads, and the third the more experimental songs and spoken word pieces.
Closing Time, a 1994 novel and sequel to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder , a 1977 book by Lacey Fosburgh "Closing Time", a short story by Neil Gaiman included in the 2006 collection Fragile Things