Photo of Truman Capote in Sicily, c. 1950
I hesitated to write about this song even though it popped up at the top of my Jukebox playlist - I wrote about a Saturday Looks Good to Me song back in May. But I can't resist this song because it's (a) probably my favorite SLGTM composition, and (b) it is a rarer alternate version of the song. The structure of "When the Party Ends" is fun to me - it runs through a couple verses before an instrumental break neatly splits the song into two distinct halves. The second half of the song is a breathless extended verse with an AAAA rhyme scheme with some funny near-rhymes mixed in with some great ones ("opulent", "permanent", "insignificant", "discontent", "circumvent", etc.) This song is the "hard rock" version of the song that appeared on the vinyl release, and its completely different from the more acoustic CD version. I like the CD version better overall, but this version is better in a couple ways. First, the explosive opening is more impressive. Second, I love the echoey harmonica part that comes in during the second half of the song. Then this reverb effect starts to cut in and out on the vocal, making it sound a little trippy.
"When the Party Ends" by Saturday Looks Good to Me
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