History Music / BlueValentine

* "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" namedrops the vocal group Little Anthony and the Imperials.

''Blue Valentine'' is a 1978 album by Music/TomWaits, the sixth in his catalogue. The album is best known for the audience favorites "Blue Valentines", "Kentucky Avenue", "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis", and his cover of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'''s "Somewhere".

* LongTitle: "A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun".

* OutDamnedSpot: "Blue Valentines":
-->''I can never get these blood stains off my hands!''

''Blue Valentine'' is a 1978 album by Music/TomWaits, the sixth in his catalogue. The album is best known for the audience favorites "Blue Valentines", "Kentucky Avenue", "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis", and his cover of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' 's "Somewhere".

** "Red Shoes by the Drugstore"
-->''And SantaClaus is drunk in the ski room\\

** "Wrong Side of the Road"
--> ''Strangle all the Christmas Carols''

** "A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun"
--> ''I'd rather die before I wake''

--> ''But he ain't no good samaritan''
* BadassBoast: "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard"
--> ''I'm callin' out my bloodhounds''
--> ''Chase the devil through the corn''
--> ''Last night I chugged the Mississippi''
--> ''Now that sucker is dry as a bone''
--> ''Born in a taxi cab''
--> ''I'm never comin' home''

* CallingTheOldManOut: "Wrong Side Of The Road"
--> ''Tell your mama and your papa''
--> ''They can kiss your ass''

** In "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard" Waits says: "What you think is the sunshine is just a twinkle in my eye/ that ring around my fingers just the 4th of july'', while in "Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun" Waits mentions "no that ain't no cherry bomb, 4th of July's all done'. In "Wrong Side Of The Road" he also announces: "We'll celebrate the 4th of July".
** Waits spots "a little bluejay in a red dress, on a sad night" in "Red Shoes By The Drugstore". In "$29.00" Waits warns a little black girl in a red dress for someone he calls "that vulture in the fleetwood".

* CradleOfLoneliness: "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard"
--> ''When I get a little bit lonesome''
--> ''And a tear falls from my cheek''
--> ''There's gonna be an ocean in the middle of the week''
* CycleOfRevenge: "Romeo Is Bleeding"
--> ''And they all jump when they hear the sirens''
--> ''But Romeo just laughs and says''
--> ''All the racket in the world ain't never gonna''
--> ''Save that coppers ass''
--> ''He'll never see another summertime for gunnin' down my brother''
--> ''And leavin' him like a dog beneath a car without his knife''
* DareToBeBadass: "Romeo Is Bleeding"
--> ''And they all know they could be just like Romeo''
--> ''If they only had the guts''
* DrowningMySorrows: "Blue Valentines"
--> ''And it takes a lot of whiskey''
--> ''To make these nightmares go away''
* EpicRocking: The 8:15 "$29.00"

* GratuitousSpanish: "Romeo Is Bleeding"
--> ''Dáme esa pistola, hombre'' ("Give me that pistol, man")
--> ''Hijo de la chingada madre'' ("You son of a fucking whore")
--> ''Vamos a dormir, hombre'' ("Let's go to sleep, man")

* LongTitle: "A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun"
* MeaningfulRename: "Blue Valentines"
--> ''And it feels just like there's''
--> ''A warrant out for my arrest''
--> ''Got me checkin' in my rearview mirror''
--> ''And I'm always on the run''
--> ''That's why I change my name''
--> ''And I didn't think you'd ever find me here''
* MurderArsonAndJaywalking: "Kentucky Avenue"
--> ''Then go down to the hobo jungle and kill some rattle snakes with a trowel''
--> ''We'll break all the windows in the ole Anderson place''
--> ''And steal a bunch of boysenberries''
--> ''And smear em on our face''
* MurderBallad: "Romeo Is Bleeding"
--> ''But Romeo is bleeding but nobody can tell''
--> ''And he sings along with the radio''
--> ''With a bullet in his chest''
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: "Wrong Side Of The Road"
--> ''And hang all them scarecrows from a sycamore tree''

* OutDamnedSpot: "Blue Valentines"
--> ''I can never get these blood stains off my hands!''
* OutlawCouple: "Wrong Side of the Road"

''Spendin' someone else's dough.''
* PepTalkSong: "Somewhere"
--> ''There's a place for us''
--> ''A time and a place for us''
--> ''Hold my hand and we're halfway there''
--> ''Hold my hand and I'll take you there''
--> ''Somehow...''
--> ''Someday...''
--> ''Somewhere...''
* PoliceAreUseless: "$29:00"
--> ''Cops here try so hard, to look just like movie stars...''
--> ''They couldn't catch a cold, baby don't waste your dime''
* ProductPlacement: "Kentucky Avenue"
--> ''I got a half pack of Lucky Strikes, man, come along with me''

--> ''Romeo is bleeding but nobody can tell''
--> ''And he sings along with the radio''
--> ''With a bullet in his chest''
* SelfProclaimedLiar: "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard"
--> ''I never told the truth, so I can never tell a lie''

** "A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun"
--> ''I'd rather die before I wake like Creator/MarilynMonroe''
* [[spoiler: UnreliableNarrator: "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis". The prostitute tells a lot of good news at the start of the letter. She is pregnant, has a stable relationship with a partner who promises to raise her arriving baby. But in the end it turns out she's in jail, doesn't have a husband and all this casts doubt on all the things she mentioned earlier.]]
* TitleTrack: "Blue Valentines"
--> ''She sends me... blue valentines''
* TrainSong: "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard"
--> ''Well I come in on a night train''
--> ''With an arm full of box cars''
* WheelchairWoobie: The subject of "Kentucky Ave" is revealed to be one in the last verse.

''Blue Valentine'' is a 1978 album by Music/TomWaits, the sixth in his catalogue. The album is best known for the audience favorites "Blue Valentine", "Kentucky Avenue", "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis" and his cover of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' 's "Somewhere".

!! ''Christmas Card From A Troper In Minneapolis''

** "Red Shoes By The Drugstore"
--> ''And SantaClaus is drunk in the ski room''
--> ''And it's Christmas Eve in a sad cafe''
** "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis". An unnamed woman tells the reader of the card, Charlie, how she's turned her life around by getting married and quit using drugs and that's she's finally happy. However, at the end of the card, she reveals she was lying about having a husband (and presumably everything else) and needs money to pay a lawyer since she's in jail.
** "Wrong Side Of The Road"

'''Blue Valentine''' is a 1978 album by Music/TomWaits, the sixth in his catalogue. The album is best known for the audience favorites "Blue Valentine", "Kentucky Avenue", "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis" and his cover of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' 's "Somewhere".

'''Tracklist'''

# "Red Shoes By The Drugstore" (3:14)

# "Wrong Side Of The Road" (5:14)
# "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard" (3:17)

* CoverSong: Waits' astonishing cover of "Somewhere" from Music/LeonardBernstein's ''Music/WestSideStory''.

Side 1

Side 2

* AlbumTitleDrop: "Blue Valentines"

** The film ''Film/RomeoIsBleeding''(1993) lend its title from the song of the same name on this album.

* [[spoiler: UnreliableNarrator: "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis". The prostitue tells a lot of good news at the start of the letter. She is pregnant, has a stable relationship with a partner who promises to raise her arriving baby. But in the end it turns out she's in jail, doesn't have a husband and all this casts doubt on all the things she mentioned earlier.]]