Tracklist
| A1 | Somewhere (From "West Side Story") | |
| A2 | Red Shoes By The Drugstore | |
| A3 | Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis | |
| A4 | Romeo Is Bleeding | |
| A5 | $29.00 | |
| B1 | Wrong Side Of The Road | |
| B2 | Whistlin Past The Graveyard | |
| B3 | Kentucky Avenue | |
| B4 | A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun | |
| B5 | Blue Valentines |
Credits
- Art Direction, Design – Ron Coro
- Electric Guitar – Tom Waits (tracks: A4 to B2, B4, B5)
- Electric Piano [Electric Grand Piano] – Da Willie Gonga* (tracks: A2, A3, A5)
- Engineer – Bones Howe
- Engineer [Assistant] – Ralph Osborne*
- Guitar – Ray Crawford (tracks: A4, B1, B5)
- Mastered By – Terry Dunavan
- Photography By – Elliot Gilbert
- Piano – Tom Waits (tracks: A3, B3)
- Producer – Bones Howe
- Typography [Hand Lettering] – Bill Franks
- Vocals – Tom Waits
- Written-By – Tom Waits (tracks: A2 to B5)
Notes
UK Vinyl housed in a "Printed in U.S.A." sleeve
"Made in UK" printed on labels
"Made in UK" printed on labels
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout: K 53088 AI K WITI W-L W-2 STRAWBERRY
- Matrix / Runout: K 53088 B-2 STRAWBERRY LB FI W W2
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Blue Valentine (Cassette, Album) | Asylum Records | 453 088, K 453 088 | Europe | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold) | Asylum Records | 6E-162 | US | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, RCA Pressing, Gatefold Sleeve) | Asylum Records | 6E-162 | Canada | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | Asylum Records | K 53088 | UK | 1978 | ||
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Blue Valentine (Cassette, Album, Winchester, Dolby System) | Asylum Records | TC-5162 | US | 1978 |
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Reviews
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In the late '70s my friend Lyndon used to buy a lot of albums and then leave them 'round my house. I don't think he owned a record player at the time. He had a huge record collection for a teenager back then .... more than 1000 I would hazard. And yet no record player. Didn't seem strange at the time but seems odd now, looking back.
He had wide knowledge and broad tastes. He knew stuff in the '70s that I'm still catching up with now, 40+ years later. He bought the first two Pebbles round my house when they first came out, he knew about weird underground prog jazz, roots reggae, kosmische and avant garde electronics.
One day he bought Blue Valentine 'round and left it with me. I had never heard of Tom Waits and it wasn't the type of thing I was listening to at the time (being on more of a Pop Group, Swell Maps, Pere Ubu, Beefheart trip at the time). The album hit pretty hard. I went out and bought all his others. In May '79 we went to the London Palladium to see TW in concert. Fantastic night.
After this album it went off for me though. I didn't like Heartattack and the subsequent records didn't do anything for me either. I like the weird noir-ish stuff.... like this album and Foreign Affairs. I'm pleased he found his audience though.
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