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Underground, Big Time, Tom Waits [146]
Philippa Spanos, our first guest from Swordfishtrombones, takes another look at Underground on Big Time, which seems to be her preferred upbeat bouncy party version. Back in the Song by Song bunker, S...
5 Sep 20187min
Red Shoes, Big Time, Tom Waits [145]
From her discussion with us back on Blue Valentine, we welcome back special correspondent Elizabeth Sankey to discuss the process of reinterpretation and translation of songs from studio-to-live setti...
3 Sep 20188min
16 Shells From a 30.6, Big Time, Tom Waits [144]
Roving reporter Jo Neary returns to Song by Song to revisit this track from Swordfishtrombones… and to apologise for her own presence. Meanwhile back in the studio Sam and Martin look at the similarit...
29 Aug 20186min
Big Time (Introduction), Tom Waits [143a]
Thanks for coming everyone - you all got a coffee, great, there's plenty more chairs up here at the front, don't be shy. Ok, welcome to Song by Song season twelve, Big Time album and film, parish noti...
22 Aug 20184min
Innocent When You Dream (78), Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [143]
After seventeen tracks, we reach the end of Franks Wild Years with this scratchy demo-style version of Innocent When You Dream. We discuss the album as a whole, some of the recording techniques and th...
1 Aug 201819min
Train Song, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [142]
Sam and Martin return for the penultimate track of Franks Wild Years, to debate the refining of the Tom-Waits-Saying-Goodbye-And-Catching-A-Train song. We talk about the sense of conclusion to Frank's...
25 Jul 201816min
Cold, Cold Ground, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [141]
Waits begins to step away from Frank and the relationship of the songs to the play, as Martin and Sam discuss the tense nature of the music on this album, the simplicity of this song compared to the a...
18 Jul 201816min
Telephone Call From Istanbul, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [140]
Heading into the closing tracks of Franks Wild Years, Sam and Martin debate the change of locations in Waits's songwriting from this era, scrunchy chords in relation to atonality, and the relationship...
11 Jul 201815min
